Joma
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Joma questions
Why is Joma better known for padel shoes than for padel rackets?
Because it came to the sport as a footwear company. Joma had been making football boots and running shoes for decades before padel existed as a professional circuit, and it entered the game through official footwear deals with the tours and the International Padel Federation. The rackets were added later, so the brand's authority on court sits with what players wear rather than with what they swing.
What kind of player is a Joma racket aimed at?
Club and improving players rather than the professional elite. Joma builds around durable carbon faces and forgiving cores at mid-market prices, and its sponsorships reflect that: steady relationships with respected tour professionals rather than contracts with the highest-ranked pairs. A player who wants a dependable racket from an established sports company is the target.
How does a football brand end up supplying the International Padel Federation?
Through the same route it took into football and athletics — technical kit. Joma has built its business on supplying teams, federations and circuits with footwear and apparel, and padel's governing bodies needed exactly that as the sport professionalised. The federation agreement, signed in 2021, gave Joma tour-level visibility long before its rackets were competitive at that level.
Is Joma a padel specialist?
No, and it does not claim to be. Founded in Toledo province in 1965, Joma built its business on football boots, running shoes and team kit, and padel is one category among many. That breadth is why its court shoes and apparel are trusted, and why its rackets sit in the middle of the market rather than at the top of it. Players wanting a dedicated padel house have other options; players wanting a proven shoemaker do not.
About Joma
Joma was founded in Portillo de Toledo in 1965 by Fructuoso López, who named it after his first son, José Manuel. The company moved into sports footwear in 1968 and spent the following decades building a reputation in football and athletics: by 1992 it led the Spanish football boot market, and Fermín Cacho took Olympic middle-distance gold in Barcelona that summer in Joma shoes. That inheritance — a shoemaker first, an apparel house second — is what explains its position in padel.
Where most padel brands arrived as racket makers looking for a court to sell into, Joma arrived through the feet. It became the official footwear of the World Padel Tour and, in 2021, the official apparel and footwear supplier of the International Padel Federation, before its racket line had any comparable standing. It has since taken technical footwear roles with the A1 Padel circuit and the Asia Pacific Padel Tour, and supplied footwear and rackets at individual Premier Padel events.
The rackets follow the same logic as the rest of the catalogue: carbon faces and EVA cores at accessible prices, aimed at club players rather than at the top of the professional game. Joma's player relationships lean the same way — long associations with professionals such as Carolina Navarro and Juanlu Esbrí, rather than headline contracts with the sport's biggest names. For a player already wearing the brand's shoes, the racket is a natural extension; for anyone else, it is a solid mid-market option from a company with deeper roots in sport than most of the padel-only labels it sits beside.