Best Padel Booking Systems in the UK (Full Comparison 2026)

Finding a padel court in the UK shouldn’t be harder than winning a tie-break.

Yet most players still find themselves juggling multiple booking apps, venues, and websites just to secure a slot. In the UK alone, most padel clubs run on one of a handful of booking systems:

• Playtomic
• MATCHi
• Padel Mates
• ClubSpark
• MyCourts
• Courtside

This guide compares these padel booking systems from a UK player and club perspective — and shows where Playskan fits in as the “Skyscanner for padel courts”, aggregating availability from several of these providers into one simple search.

Summary – Padel Booking Systems in the UK

Booking system	Number of padel clubs	Focus	Player experience	Open matches?	Split payments?	Strengths
Playtomic	230	Global racket sports app and player network	Strong social features, rankings, levels, match-making	Yes	Yes	Largest club and player network
MATCHi	59	Racket sports booking + memberships	Clean interface, easy booking	Yes	Yes	Multi-sport venues
Padel Mates	23	Multi-sport social booking app	Flexible payments, social play, events	Yes	Yes	Modern app and club management
Clubspark	10	Club management (LTA-linked)	Simple web booking, integrated with club websites	No	No	Website integration, LTA linked
Nettla	8	White label apps, custom features	Modern app with innvative features	Yes	Yes	Focus on community and events
MyCourts	5	Long-standing club booking platform	Member-centric login & booking	No	No	Used at members clubs
Courtside	2	Community-focused sports and events	Pay-and-play at local parks, join community events	No	No	Focus on community and events

Playskan sits on top of these, bringing availability from all booking providers into one search, so UK players can focus on when and where they want to play — not which app a club is using.

Why Booking Systems Matter for UK Padel Players

Most UK padel clubs don’t take bookings directly on their own website. Instead, they plug into one of these booking providers:

• Players download the app or use the web booking page
• Search for a venue, choose a time, and pay
• Clubs manage pricing, rules, and memberships behind the scenes

The problem comes when different clubs use different systems. One venue might be on Playtomic, another on MATCHi, another on Clubspark or MyCourts. If you want to compare prices and times across a city like London, you’ll often need three or four apps installed.

That’s the gap Playskan is designed to solve — not by replacing booking systems, but by aggregating their availability into a single view so players can discover courts and then click through to book on the underlying system.

Playtomic

Playtomic is often described as the world's leading app for racket sports, with a huge global footprint in padel. It lets players find clubs, book courts, join matches, and track their progress in one app.

Key strengths

• Massive community – Large user base across Europe, including the UK
• Ratings & levels – Player level, rankings and match stats help you track your progress
• Social features – Join open matches, find partners, and build a regular playing group
• Club management – Playtomic Manager gives venues tools for bookings, pricing and analytics

UK presence

Many UK venues launched with Playtomic because of its global brand and strong app experience, and most clubs still use Playtomic. However, the market is evolving: some major operators have recently switched their booking from Playtomic to Padel Mates, citing reasons such as better access to member data and operational efficiency.

MATCHi

MATCHi is a complete booking system for racket sports, offering online court bookings, activities, memberships, and more.

Key strengths

• Multi-sport focus – Padel, tennis, badminton, pickleball, squash and more
• Memberships & activities – Venues can sell memberships, run leagues, and offer coaching or group activities through the platform
• Venue support – Positioned as a partner for clubs, not just a booking calendar

UK presence

MATCHi is a Swedish company that has entered the UK padel market through partnerships with larger operators, helping it gain a footprint in venues that are serious about structured programmes, memberships and long-term padel growth.

Padel Mates

Padel Mates is a multi-sport app for padel and other racket sports, focused on booking, social play, and community.

You’ll increasingly see the Padel Mates logo across UK venues — particularly at modern padel clubs and large indoor centres (like Padium and Rocket Padel).

Key strengths

• All-in-one player app – Book courts, find players, join matches, and discover facilities nearby
• Flexible payments – Many venues allow you to split court fees between players directly in the app, so one person doesn’t have to front the entire booking
• Events & social focus – The app makes it easy to join social matches and events

UK presence

Padel Mates has seen notable growth in the UK, with several high-profile clubs moving to Padel Mates from other platforms. This includes Padium Canary Wharf and Rocket Padel. Operators often highlight member data access, operational efficiency, and user experience as key drivers for the switch.

Clubspark

Clubspark is a club management and booking platform widely used across UK tennis and multi-sport venues, with strong links to the LTA (Lawn Tennis Association).

You’ll often see Clubspark on traditional club websites where padel has been added alongside tennis.

Key strengths

• Deep integration with club websites – Booking pages often sit directly on a club’s own domain, with simple “Book by date” experiences for tennis and padel
• Membership & coaching management – Tools for handling member lists, payments and coaching programmes
• Multi-sport support – Clubs can manage padel, tennis, pickleball, and more in the same system

UK presence

Clubspark has been adopted by many established UK sports clubs that added padel after already using Clubspark for tennis, such as multi-sport venues and parks.

MyCourts

MyCourts is a long-standing online booking and club management platform popular with UK racquet clubs. It supports tennis, squash, and increasingly padel.

Key strengths

• Member-centric design – Many clubs use MyCourts as their primary booking portal, with members required to log in to book courts
• Booking rules & policies – Detailed control over booking windows, cancellations, guest fees and floodlight rules
• Integrated with club operations – Often used alongside club membership billing and internal policies

UK presence

A number of members’ clubs and sports venues in the UK rely on MyCourts for day-to-day racket sports booking, including padel courts where they are available.

Courtside

Courtside is a UK-based community interest company and booking system focused on transforming local parks into multi-activity sports hubs. Courtside partners with councils across more than 50 parks from Sheffield to Southampton, serving around 90,000 active customers and generating over 1.5 million hours of community participation.

At many hubs, players can book padel courts, tennis courts, activities, coaching and camps online, often on a simple pay-and-play basis with no long-term membership needed.

Courtside isn’t just a booking engine – it’s designed as a community platform. The team works with local residents on activity planning, hosts community events and invests in facilities to make parks feel welcoming and active, whether that’s for a competitive padel match, casual tennis, mini golf or simply grabbing a coffee on a dog walk.

Best for

• Public parks and local authorities looking to modernise court and pitch booking
• Operators who want to combine padel with broader park activities (tennis, mini golf, multi-use games areas, cafés, etc.)
• Players who prefer affordable, pay-and-play outdoor venues in local parks rather than private clubs

Where Playskan Fits In

All of these booking systems have their strengths. The problem in the UK is fragmentation:

• Your favourite club might be on Padel Mates
• The nearest indoor venue could be on Playtomic
• A local tennis club with a single padel court might use Clubspark or MyCourts
• Larger operators may be switching booking providers as they grow

From a player’s perspective, that means:

• Multiple app downloads
• Separate logins and wallets
• No easy way to compare availability, price or travel time across all venues

Playskan solves this by acting as a neutral search layer:

• Aggregates padel court availability from major booking providers like Playtomic, MATCHi and Padel Mates into a single calendar view
• Lets you filter by city, time, club and court type
• When you find a suitable slot, you click through to the underlying booking system (e.g. Playtomic or Padel Mates) to complete the booking with your existing account

In other words: you keep using the booking systems you already know — but you discover and compare courts through Playskan first.

How to Choose the Right Booking System (If You’re a Club)

If you’re a club or operator deciding which padel booking system to use in the UK, here are some practical questions to ask:

1. Who are your players?

   • Tech-savvy padel addicts might prefer Playtomic or Padel Mates with rankings and social features.
   • Traditional club members may be more comfortable with ClubSpark or MyCourts, integrated into your existing website and membership structure.

2. Do you run multiple racket sports?

   • If you offer tennis, padel, squash and more, MATCHi, ClubSpark or MyCourts can provide multi-sport booking in one place.

3. How important is data access?

   • Some operators have moved from one booking platform to another to gain better access to member and booking data and to streamline operations.

4. What’s your growth plan?

   • If you’re opening multiple venues with ambitious expansion plans, you may want a system with strong analytics, dynamic pricing and membership tools like MATCHi or Playtomic.

Regardless of which system you choose, listing your courts on Playskan can help more players discover your venue and compare you fairly against nearby clubs.

Final Thoughts

The UK padel booking landscape is changing quickly:

• Playtomic remains a powerful global player with deep community features
• MATCHi is growing via strong partnerships and multi-sport capabilities
• Padel Mates is winning UK operators who want better data, flexibility and a modern player experience
• Clubspark and MyCourts continue to serve traditional clubs with integrated membership management
• Courtside shows how padel-specific apps are evolving in other markets

For players, the best approach is simple:

Use Playskan to discover and compare padel courts across all these booking systems — then book via your preferred app in a couple of taps.

For clubs, the choice of booking system should match your **members, operations and growth plans **. But whichever platform you run on, making your courts visible on Playskan helps UK players find you, compare you, and most importantly… get out and play more padel.