Professional Padel in Sweden
Sweden has one of the highest padel participation rates per head in Europe and one of its shortest professional lists — a gap that follows from how compressed its boom was rather than from the standard of play. 46 Swedish players hold a world ranking, competing largely on the FIP circuit, and the women's team finished among the top eight nations at the 2024 World Championships in Doha. Adam Axelsson, born in 2005, has won FIP titles on three continents with Simon Vasquez — Gold in Dubai, Silver in Roeselare, Bronze at home in Gothenburg, where Sweden stages its own stop on the calendar.
46 ranked players · Highest ranked Swedish players: Adam Axelsson #117 · Carolina Navarro Björk #88
Swedish Padel Players Competing This Week
Latest Results for Swedish Padel Players
Clement Geens
#68
Dylan Guichard
#75Sten Richters
#127Albin Olsson
#172FIP Silver Budapest Open II
Federico Mouriño
#60
Marc Quilez
#62Thijs Roper
#134Willy Släryd
#156FIP Silver Budapest Open II
Sten Richters
#127Albin Olsson
#172Julien Seurin
#169
Johan Bergeron
#187FIP Silver Budapest Open II
Thijs Roper
#134Willy Släryd
#156Nathan Lambrechts
#345Maxime De Roose
#566FIP Silver Budapest Open II
Javier Barahona
#34
Marc Sintes Villalonga
#48Max Bjorkman
#254Simon Yitbarek
#457FIP Silver Budapest Open II
Alberto Garcia Jimenez
#137
Christian Medina Murphy
#150Arya Roghani
#390Hami Golestan
#672FIP Silver High Velocity Bangkok
Sten Richters
#127Albin Olsson
#172Guillaume Ledrap
#414Alexis Coulombeau
#721FIP Silver Budapest Open II
Thijs Roper
#134Willy Släryd
#156Andre Biro
Jesuan Alexis Gonzalez Dalbene
FIP Silver Budapest Open II
Max Bjorkman
#254Simon Yitbarek
#457Nicolas Peña Ruiz
#290Alejandro Correa
#560FIP Silver Budapest Open II
Arya Roghani
#390Hami Golestan
#672Kwan Lam Vincent Chau
#402Lok Pui Lawrence Lo
#775FIP Silver High Velocity Bangkok
Swedish Professional Padel Rankings
Ranking page →| SE | Men | World | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adam Axelsson |
▼2
#117
|
528 |
| 2 | Willy Släryd |
▼1
#156
|
361 |
| 3 | Douglas Rutgersson |
▲3
#171
|
334 |
| 4 | Albin Olsson |
▲3
#172
|
333 |
| 5 | Daniel Appelgren |
▼1
#205
|
246 |
| 6 | Simon Vasquez |
▼13
#214
|
235 |
| 7 | Daniel Windahl |
▼5
#231
|
211 |
| 8 | Max Bjorkman |
▼2
#254
|
170 |
| 9 | Victor Forsberg |
▲9
#420
|
76 |
| 10 | Isak William Bäckman |
▲28
#452
|
68 |
| SE | Women | World | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carolina Navarro Björk |
▼6
#88
|
586 |
| 2 | Juni Sjöland |
▲6
#440
|
35 |
| 3 | Filippa Vial |
▲4
#453
|
34 |
| 4 | Biljana Billie Gajic |
▲1
#460
|
33 |
| 5 | Baharak Soleymani |
▲1
#519
|
27 |
| 6 | Sofia Arvidsson |
▼1
#541
|
25 |
| 7 | Silje Kjaergaard |
▲2
#654
|
18 |
| 8 | Elsa Blom |
▲2
#654
|
18 |
| 9 | Cornelia Lister Haglind |
▼3
#697
|
16 |
| 10 | Amanda Girdo |
▼2
#767
|
14 |
Leading Padel Pairs Sweden
Padel Tournaments in Sweden
History of padel in Sweden
No country has lived through padel's commercial cycle as completely as Sweden. Courts went from a few hundred to more than four thousand in three years, then a hundred facilities closed and ninety companies failed. What did not collapse was the playing: participation held, and 46 Swedish players hold a world ranking.
Read the full historySwedish Padel — Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the highest-ranked Swedish padel player?
Adam Axelsson is the highest-ranked Swedish man, at world #117, and Carolina Navarro Björk is the highest-ranked Swedish woman, at world #88. Both positions update every week with the official tour rankings.
See the full Sweden ranking →What have Swedish padel players won?
Carolina Navarro Björk is the most decorated Swedish player in our records, with 35 titles. In all, 3 Swedish players have won 36 professional titles, the biggest of them Master Final PPT Madrid in 2012. (women)
Carolina Navarro Björk’s profile →Which Swedish padel players are competing this week?
6 Swedish players are in a tournament draw this week, at FIP Silver Nairobi B-active and FIP Silver High Velocity Bangkok and FIP Silver Budapest Open II. Every name is listed further up this page, with each player’s world ranking.
Swedish players competing this week →Where can I see the latest results for Swedish padel players?
On this page. It tracks completed matches involving ranked Swedish players across the professional tour — the tournament, the round, the opponents and the set scores — and updates as results come in.
Latest results →Are there professional padel tournaments in Sweden?
Yes. The next professional tournament staged in Sweden is FIP Silver Sweden II (16–22 Nov, Skurup).
Tournament details →How many Swedish players are included in the world padel rankings?
46 Swedish players hold a world padel ranking — 29 men and 17 women. All of them are listed on this page, with their world rank, points and weekly movement.
Every ranked Swedish player →What happened to padel in Sweden?
Sweden built more courts than any country outside Spain between 2019 and 2022, passing 4,200, then experienced a sharp correction. By the end of 2024 more than a hundred facilities had closed and around ninety padel companies had gone bankrupt, with capital losses estimated near €500 million.
Did Swedes stop playing padel?
No, and this is the most misunderstood part of the story. More than 600,000 people were still playing in early 2024, a participation rate higher per head than any European country except Spain. The collapse was in supply, not demand.
Why did so many Swedish padel businesses fail?
Indoor padel centres are property businesses as much as sports businesses. They were built at scale on debt, financed on the assumption that participation growth would continue indefinitely, and when interest rates rose that debt repriced against facilities that were never going to fill at the rates required.
How many padel courts does Sweden have?
Sweden passed 4,200 courts at the peak of its construction boom. The number in active operation is lower following the closures of 2023 and 2024, with some failed facilities reopened under new operators with lower costs.
When did padel arrive in Sweden?
Swedes encountered the game on holiday in Spain from the early 1980s, but the first Swedish courts date to the late 1990s. Growth was slow for two decades, with roughly forty courts by 2013 and ninety by 2015, before the boom years.
Is Swedish padel recovering?
The market that remains is smaller and better matched to actual demand. Failed facilities have often been bought out of bankruptcy and reopened with lower cost bases, and court hire prices have fallen from boom-era levels.
Compare Sweden with
Matches won, titles and year-by-year results for Sweden beside each of these, with their top players side by side.