Who runs padel in South Africa

Every operator with two or more clubs, grouped by the booking account the clubs sell through. The counts are free to anyone. How well each chain runs is part of Research.

Multi-club operators: 34
Clubs in chains: 13931% of the country's clubs
Courts in chains: 489
Average chain: 4.1clubs
Biggest chain: 17clubs
Courts per club: 3.5
Indoor courts: 19%of the courts with a known roof

Indoor or outdoor

91 indoor 378 outdoor

The portfolios

#	Operator	Clubs	Cities	Courts	Occupancy	Takings per court and month	Takings per year	Court hire
1	Africa Padel	17	13	71	Part of Research
2	Virgin Active Padel	16	10	65	Part of Research

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32 more chains in South Africa. A free account shows every name and size.

Which clubs form a chain comes from the operators' own booking accounts. A free account shows the names and sizes. Research adds how each one runs.

Price against occupancy

Each dot is one chain, sized by its clubs. Top right charges more and still fills. Bottom left does neither.

The chart puts every chain's court hire against how full it runs, so you can see who charges more and still fills.

See pricing

How the grouping works

A chain is the set of clubs that sell through one operator account on their booking platform, or a chain we verified by hand. It says who runs the clubs, not who owns them. Takings are each club's average priced day over the last 30 days, times thirty, summed within the chain's currency and divided by the courts it was measured on.