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. 49 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.
49 ranked players · Highest ranked Swedish players: Adam Axelsson #109 · Carolina Navarro Björk #136
Swedish Padel Players Competing This Week
Upcoming Matches for Swedish Players
Latest Results for Swedish Padel Players
Luciano Capra
#78
Maxi Sanchez
#79Thijs Roper
#124Willy Släryd
#174Dubai P1 2026
Raquel Piltcher
#76Alessandra Abbud De Barros
#314Juni Sjöland
#419Amanda Girdo
#755Padel World Cup 2026
Fernanda Abarzua Branchi
#314Ana Julia Acunha De Oliveira
#562Hanna Borjeson
#1244Lisa Andersson
#1244Padel World Cup 2026
Simon Yitbarek
#448Linus Frost
#1196Matthias Wunner
#607Jonas Trumpler
#948Padel World Cup 2026
Simon Vasquez
#215
Daniel Windahl
#220Johannes Lindmeyer
#569Nick Merten
#1264Padel World Cup 2026
Marcella Koek
#88
Bo Luttikhuis
#98Linnea Björk
#755Ajla Behram
#1002Padel World Cup 2026
Tess De Vocht
#160Puck Bernard
#194Juni Sjöland
#419Amanda Girdo
#755Padel World Cup 2026
Liza Groenveld
#139
Maaike Betz
#148Silje Kjaergaard
#511Zoe Andersson
#637Padel World Cup 2026
Martina Calvo Santamaria
#8
Marta Ortega Gallego
#11Zoe Andersson
#637Amanda Girdo
#755Padel World Cup 2026
Ariana Sanchez Fallada
#4
Andrea Ustero Prieto
#6Silje Kjaergaard
#511Linnea Björk
#755Padel World Cup 2026
The Swedish national team
FIP World Cup 2026
Doha · Nov 2026
- Men Final position: 5
- Women Final position: 8
Squad, results and schedule
FIP Euro Padel Cup 2025 - Final 8
La Línea de La Concepción · Oct 2025
- Men Group A: 4 of 4
Squad, results and schedule
FIP World Padel Championships Qatar 2024
Doha · Oct 2024
- Men Final position: 9
- Women Final position: 6
Squad, results and schedule
Swedish Professional Padel Rankings
Ranking page →| SE | Men | World | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adam Axelsson |
▼1
#109
|
553 |
| 2 | Albin Olsson |
▲1
#153
|
379 |
| 3 | Willy Släryd |
▲2
#174
|
324 |
| 4 | Douglas Rutgersson |
▲1
#183
|
298 |
| 5 | Simon Vasquez |
▲2
#215
|
223 |
| 6 | Daniel Windahl |
▲2
#220
|
213 |
| 7 | Daniel Appelgren |
▲2
#251
|
166 |
| 8 | Max Bjorkman |
▲20
#262
|
157 |
| 9 | Simon Yitbarek |
▲4
#448
|
66 |
| 10 | Isak William Bäckman |
▲4
#454
|
64 |
| SE | Women | World | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carolina Navarro Björk |
▼19
#136
|
299 |
| 2 | Biljana Billie Gajic |
▼3
#400
|
44 |
| 3 | Juni Sjöland |
▼4
#419
|
40 |
| 4 | Filippa Vial |
▼4
#501
|
29 |
| 5 | Silje Kjaergaard |
▼3
#511
|
28 |
| 6 | Sofia Arvidsson |
▼1
#550
|
25 |
| 7 | Baharak Soleymani |
▼2
#588
|
22 |
| 8 | Zoe Andersson |
▲2
#637
|
19 |
| 9 | Eliza Bosson |
▼2
#697
|
16 |
| 10 | Amanda Girdo |
▼2
#755
|
14 |
Leading Padel Pairs 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 49 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 #109, and Carolina Navarro Björk is the highest-ranked Swedish woman, at world #136. 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?
1 Swedish player is in a tournament draw this week, at FIP Silver Mediolanum Padel Cup Como. 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?
The professional tour has not staged an event in Sweden in the last three months. Swedish players compete on the international circuit, and their matches are listed above wherever they are played.
Tournament details →How many Swedish players are included in the world padel rankings?
49 Swedish players hold a world padel ranking — 30 men and 19 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.