State of Padel Rackets 2026

1. The catalog

The Padelful catalog has 1,773 rackets from 43 brands. The 5 largest brands hold 37.7% of the catalog. The most common shape is teardrop, with 38.6% of the rackets.

Weight

1,723 rackets have a known weight. The weight of a racket is the middle of its weight range.

2. The 2026 season

The catalog has 389 rackets of the 2026 season.

Admitted to Padelful in 2026

The date that Padelful adds a racket page measures the growth of the Padelful catalog. It does not measure when a brand launched the racket on the market. A brand can launch a racket long before Padelful adds it.

Padelful added 438 racket pages from January to October 2026, of all seasons. The admission date is the date of the git commit that added the English racket page.

The 2027 season is already here

In October 2026 the catalog already has 74 rackets of the 2027 season. 32 of them have a price at a store. The first store price of a 2027 racket is from 15 September 2026.

3. Prices

Coverage

897 of 1,773 rackets (50.6%) have a live price: the last known price of an active price link at a store that we track. A racket has no live price when no store that we track has an active price link for it.

Many live prices are old. Median freshness of a live price: 66 days (p90 933 days). 46% of live price links have a price from the last 7 days, 48.06% from the last 30 days and 57.78% from the last 90 days (2,572 live price links). 470 live price links (18.3%) are at stores with no recent crawl: PadelMarket ES, Amazon ES, Padelman, and PadelSportswear (419 together) and Amazon US (51). These links still count as live prices. CortaPadel UK has had a parking page since 18 October, and its last price is from 17 October. We disabled the store on 31 October and delisted its 39 price links, so they are not live prices at the cut-off. A live price is the last known price, not the price of today.

What a racket costs

The median best price of a priced racket is €149.95 (n = 897). 10% of rackets cost less than €71.95, and 10% cost more than €249.95. The best price is the lowest live price of a racket across the stores.

Price against the first price that we saw

For each racket of a season, we compare the best price at the cut-off with the best price in the first 30 days that we saw the racket at a store. For the median 2026 racket, the best price is 16.58% lower (n = 202). For the median 2025 racket, the best price is the same (n = 132). For the median 2024 racket, the best price is 9.26% lower (n = 158).

Read these ratios with care. Our price history has a gap before February 2026, and our coverage before that is thin. The first date that we saw a racket can be after the date that the brand launched it, so the first price that we saw is often not the launch price. This pushes the ratios toward 1.0, most of all for the 2025 season. A ratio of 1.0 means no change. The panel has only the rackets that we saw from 1 July of the year before their season.

The same racket, different prices

For a racket with a live price in two or more stores, the median gap between the most expensive and the cheapest store is €40.05 (n = 413). The median ratio of the highest to the lowest price is 1.28.

This spread uses all stores, so it mixes countries, currencies and tax. EUR stores in Spain only: median €39.43 (n = 230).

Price by shape, balance and game

Median best price of the priced rackets, by specification. A specification has no value when no source confirms it.

Price by brand

Median best price for brands with 10 or more priced rackets.

Street price against PVP

For rackets with a known PVP (the price that the brand recommends), the median discount of the best price is 36.13% (n = 856).

4. Stores and listings

We track many stores, but this report names no store. It has no store ranking and no cheapest store.

Price links that came and went in 2026

A new price link is a price link with its first price in that month. In February 2026 there are 516 new price links. Most of them are the start of the price scraper (the bootstrap), not new listings at the stores.

At the cut-off, 1,301 price links have a delisted date in October 2026. The delisted date is current state: a price link that comes back loses its delisted date, and the query has no history of earlier dates. So this number is a floor, not the full count of the price links that went in 2026, and we do not show delisted links per month.

What stores sell that Padelful does not have

At the cut-off, 45 racket requests are open: rackets that a store sells and the Padelful catalog does not have yet. 18 of them are 2026 rackets and 7 are 2027 rackets. Star Vie has 30 of the 45. This is a coverage gap of this report.

The rackets with the most stores

The 20 rackets with a live price at the most stores: 5 to 6 stores each. "Most stores" is not "most sold". Ties at 5 stores are cut in the alphabetical order of the racket. Each line shows the lowest, the median and the highest live price across the stores.

5. Method and limits

Sources

The Padelful racket catalog, the price links of the stores, the daily prices, and the git history of the racket pages. We run read-only queries. The page reads a frozen data file and does not query the database. Data as of 31 October 2026.

Live price

A live price is the last known price in euros of an active price link that is not delisted, on or before the cut-off date, with no time window. A last price can be old, so we give its freshness: the days between the price date and the cut-off date. We give the median, the p90, and the share of live price links with a price from the last 7, 30 and 90 days.

Spreads

The primary spread uses all stores, so it mixes countries, currencies and tax. A footnote gives the spread of EUR stores in Spain. EUR stores in Spain only: median €39.43 (n = 230).

Catalog growth is not market launch

"Admitted in 2026" is the date that Padelful added the racket page, from the git history. A brand can launch a racket long before Padelful adds it.

Price against the first price that we saw

The first price is the lowest price in the first 30 days that we saw the racket at a store. Our price history has a gap before February 2026, so the first price that we saw can be later than the launch. The ratios lean toward 1.0, most of all for 2025.

Price links per month

A new price link is a price link with its first price in that month. The February 2026 count is mostly the start of the price scraper. The delisted count holds only the current delisted date, so it is a floor and has no monthly history.

Price through 2026

We do not give a monthly price index for 2026. We have no prices for January 2026 and prices on only 10 days of February 2026, so a full-year panel is not possible.

Stores

We track stores, but this report names no store, in a table or in a chart.

Price facts

A price is the sale price that the store page shows at 10:00 UTC, with tax, with no shipping and with no coupon. We convert non-EUR prices with the daily ECB rate of the crawl day. A pack or an accessory is never a racket price.

Bad prices

A price below €25 is bad data, for example the price of a grip or an accessory on a racket page. No real padel racket costs that little: the limit is about a third of the p10, and the lowest real best price of a brand is €29.95. The price queries drop every store price below €25 before they find the live price, so a racket with a bad price at one store keeps the real prices of its other stores. A check then drops any best price below €25 from the best price count and from the price bands (0 at this cut-off). The queries of the first price that we saw do not use this filter.

Offers with no conversion to euros

We exclude 5 offers approved by hand without EUR conversion and 34 older offers from 3 stores without conversion. Because of the 5 offers, one racket (Varlion Maxima CUBE Elbowcare W 2025) has no price, and another racket (Bullpadel Vertex 04 Comfort 2024) goes from 4 to 3 stores with the same best price.

Identity

Each price link goes to one racket of one season. A listing with no year gets no price link.

What we do not measure

Sales volume, market share, popularity with players, return rates, quality, durability, the prices of stores that we do not crawl, shipping costs and second-hand prices. This report never names a best-selling or most popular racket.

Known biases

The catalog is the Padelful catalog, not a census of the market. The stores lean to the countries that we crawl. A specification has no value when no source confirms it, so each specification number has its own n.

Independence

No brand or store paid for this report or saw it before publication. Padelful earns affiliate commission on some links in the catalog. This report has no affiliate links.

Final data as of 31 October 2026. It replaces the provisional data of 26 October 2026.

Download the data

CSV files of the aggregates on this page. They hold no raw prices and no per-racket prices.

• W1-03-specs-by-season.csv
• W1-04-weight-hist.csv
• W1-05-brands.csv
• W1-07-coverage-last.csv
• W1-08-best-last.csv
• W1-09-spread-last.csv
• W1-10-country-currency.csv
• W2-01-median-by-brand.csv
• W2-02-median-by-shape-balance-game.csv
• W2-03-price-drop-vs-launch.csv
• W2-04-street-vs-pvp.csv
• W2-05-season-2027.csv
• W2-06-links-churn-2026.csv
• W2-08-open-requests.csv