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About Padel 100

One hundred clubs. Woven into the fabric of every town.

Sport shouldn't only belong to the cities.

Padel is one of the world’s fastest-growing sports but in Ireland, until now, it’s been a city game. Most facilities have been concentrated in urban centres, leaving the rest of the country watching from the sidelines. Premium pricing. Members-only feel. Hard to find, and harder to try.

That is the problem we set out to fix. Not by building a different kind of court, the courts are the same world-class facilities you would find anywhere but by building them somewhere different, in partnership with people who already know their towns.

Every Padel 100 club offers Free Hours on weekday mornings and every club is run with one ambition: that padel becomes part of community life in the town we are in, not separate from it.

How we do it

Three things that make it
work.

The same three principles run through every partnership, every club, and every community offer we build.

Built with communities, not around them.

Every Padel 100 club is developed in partnership with organisations already part of local life. Rather than starting from scratch, we work with trusted local partners to bring world-class padel to places people already know and use. We provide the courts and the operational expertise; our partners provide the location and the local connection. The result is a faster, more sustainable model that makes padel part of the community from day one.

Free Hours, every weekday, every club.

Every Padel 100 club offers Free Hours from 11am to 3pm, Monday to Friday. During these hours, schools can use the courts for PE, community groups can get active, and local residents can discover the sport without cost being a barrier. By generating revenue during peak evening and weekend periods, we build accessibility right into the model. The result is a club that serves the whole community — not just those who can afford to play.

Local energy, national infrastructure.

Each club is run with local ownership and feel. Behind it is a national platform, Playtomic booking, NXPadel court technology, brand and operational support, so every club has the backing of a serious national operation.

The Team

The people behind Padel 100

Founded by people with deep operational experience and a shared belief that sport should belong to the communities that play it.

Ben Keohane

Co-founder & CEO

Sets the strategy, leads the team, owns the rollout. Background in sports and hospitality operations, with deep experience scaling distributed venue networks. Believes the best businesses are built where people already are.

Ryan Hennessy

Co-founder & Head of Partnerships

Leads partner relationships across schools, sports clubs, hotels, and commercial venues. 
Builds the partnerships that make the model work.

Board & Advisors

Michael Mulcahy

Non-Executive Chairman

Frankie Sheahan

Investor & Advisor

Acenta Group

Strategic Capital Partner

Strategic Partners

Venue Partners Across Ireland.

Where We’ve Come and Where We’re Going

From idea to 100 courts in build.

From your first social night to national-level competition. There's something happening every week.

2023

The idea takes shape.

Founders Ben Keohane and Ryan Hennessy identify the gap, a fast-growing sport, no national operator, and rural Ireland left out of the conversation.

2024

First courts in build.

First Padel 100 partnerships signed, Borrisoleigh Town Park, Longford Rugby Club, Charleville GAA Grounds. The model proves out: courts go in fast, partners are pleased, players are showing up.

2025

Acenta Group invests €5M.

Strategic partnership with Acenta Group of Sweden, listed on Nasdaq First North. Capital secured to fund the next phase of the rollout. Twenty-four locations confirmed in build or operational.

2026

National rollout accelerates.

Partnership pipeline expands across schools, GAA clubs, hotels and commercial sites. EIIS investor raise opens to fund the path to 100 clubs. Forecast 800,000+ player sessions across the network in 2026.

2027

100 clubs across Ireland.

The target. Padel 100 as Ireland's national padel network, woven into the fabric of every community we land in.

Find a court

A movement in motion.

Thirty four clubs open or in build today. Sites confirmed across nine counties. One hundred across Ireland by 2027. If we are not in your town yet, we will be.