PadelLoop: one tool for the whole tournament
Written by
Kjetil Sande
Founder of PadelLoop
Every padel night runs on something different. One club has an app somebody bought on the App Store, another keeps it all in a spreadsheet, a third uses software that almost does the job. PadelLoop exists because I kept watching the same night get solved five different ways, and wanted to bring it together into one tool.
I started playing in 2019, after a few years of squash. I was at the founding meeting of Haugaland Padelklubb and was later voted onto the board as vice chair, and I have helped run numerous tournaments for the club: some in Excel, some in software that got in the way more than it helped. I should be honest about the level, though. I play for exercise, not for ranking points, and in a padel country as young as Norway that makes me a perfectly decent player at best.
So I built the tool myself. The core is free, with no account and no app to download, because the point is to start playing, not to sign up. Formats and features are shaped by what actually goes wrong on a padel night, so the feedback button comes straight to me.
What is PadelLoop?
PadelLoop is a free padel tournament app that runs in the browser. It draws the rounds for nine formats, Americano, Mexicano, Mixicano, Team Mexicano, Round robin, King/Queen of the Court, Monrad, Team Americano and Knockout, rotates the players fairly, keeps the standings live on the organizer’s phone and, in the formats with a share link, puts them on a big screen in the hall. There is nothing to install, and you need no account to run a tournament.
Around the tournament generator sit two smaller padel tools: a planner that tells you whether an evening fits the courts you have booked, and a padel scoreboard that counts a single match point by point. The tool and the rules pages are in English, Norwegian, Spanish, Danish and Swedish; the guides are in English. For padel centers there is Club: a tournament page with the center’s logo and a photo of the hall, plus two tools in beta, Tournament for classes and playoffs and Ladder for a ranking that runs all season.
How is PadelLoop tested?
PadelLoop is tested with a suite of automated checks on the tournament engine. They generate tournaments in every format across many player and court counts, and fail if a player ends up in two matches in the same round, if the number of matches played differs by more than one between players in an Americano, if a round robin team misses an opponent or meets one twice, or if a scored match can end without the right winner.
A second set of checks reads the website itself. It fails if a page promises a feature the code does not have, gives the wrong number of formats, calls a finished format “coming”, or links to a page that does not exist. That is why the format lists on this site are worked out from the same list the tool uses, rather than typed by hand.
Where do the rules come from?
The scoring follows rule 1 of the FIP Rules of Padel, 2026 edition: points go 15, 30, 40, sets are won with six games and a two-game lead, and at 40–40 you choose between golden point, star point and advantage. The padel rules page sets out the rest. The formats themselves, from the Americano to the Monrad, are club traditions rather than federation rules, so each format page explains how PadelLoop runs it and where the tool makes a choice.
What PadelLoop does not do
PadelLoop does not book courts or take payments for them, and it is not a ranking for professional players: for the world ranking, the ranking page links to StudyPadel. Inside a tournament you enter each match’s result; point-by-point scoring is in the separate scoreboard for now. Groups → playoff, Multi-class and Beat the Box are shown in the tool as coming, and the pricing page marks everything else that is planned but not built yet.
How to reach PadelLoop
The feedback button under each tool comes straight to Kjetil, and so does email to hi@padelloop.app. If you have run an evening with PadelLoop, you can leave a review; approved reviews appear on the site. What the tool stores, and why, is in the privacy policy, and the terms of service set out what you can expect from the service.