Rules

Padel Tour (Romania Padel Tour, RPT) is a circuit of padel tournaments in Romania. The partner clubs organise tournaments, leagues and Americano events on the platform, and players register online and collect points in a ranking by division.

• The rules apply to players, clubs, organisers, referees, officials and any other person involved in the competitions on the platform: official tournaments, club tournaments, leagues and Americano events, regardless of level, category or form of organisation.
• They apply equally to Romanian citizens and to foreign citizens taking part in the circuit’s competitions, under the conditions of the law.
• Chapter 11 concerns clubs and organisers: the licensing of sports venues and tournaments, the tournament director and the organiser’s obligations.
• For brevity, the masculine form used in the text (“player”, “organiser”) applies equally to the feminine. Terms in the singular also include the plural, and vice versa, unless the text requires otherwise.
• The rules are interpreted according to their purpose, in line with the statute and internal regulations of the Romanian Padel Federation.

• The circuit’s competitions are held according to the principles of fair play, sporting integrity, competitive merit and participant safety.
• The purpose of the rules is a transparent, coherent, fair and predictable framework, applied in the same way across the whole country.
• The Romanian Padel Federation and Padel Tour apply the rules with respect for legality, equal treatment, transparency, impartiality, confidentiality and good faith, as well as for the legislation on personal data protection.

• A player account is created on the site with an email and password or with “Continue with Google”.
• When registering with email, the following are mandatory: first name, last name, email, phone, country, county (for Romania), gender, date of birth, playing side (left / right / both), affiliated club or the “No club / Not affiliated” box, and a password of at least 8 characters.
• You must accept the Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy. The consent includes the publication of photos and videos from tournaments in which you appear; you can withdraw your image consent at any time (Terms, sections 4.6–4.7).
• After registering with email you receive a confirmation link. The account becomes active once you click the link. If the link is lost, a resend button appears at sign-in.
• Anyone signing in with Google for the first time fills in a profile form: full name, phone, gender, date of birth, playing side and county (for Romania).
• A phone number is mandatory for all player accounts. An older account without a phone number is sent to complete the profile on the next visit.
• When registering you can enter an invitation code (optional). If you came via a friend’s link, the code is filled in automatically.
• The platform is intended for people aged at least 16. Between 16 and 18, the account is used with the consent of a parent or guardian.

• You sign in with your email and password or with Google. The club account is separate from the player account.
• For a forgotten password you receive a 6-digit code by email, valid for 60 minutes.
• If a code no longer works or has expired, request a new one from the same screen.
• The new password must have at least 8 characters.

• On your profile you fill in: your name, a username (3–30 characters: lowercase letters, digits, “_”, “-”, “.”), phone, email, country, county, affiliated club, gender, date of birth, playing side, a description of at most 300 characters, a profile photo (max. 5 MB, cropped square) and a cover photo (max. 8 MB).
• If you have a username, your profile also has the short address padeltour.ro/<username>.
• Gender and date of birth have special rules for changes, because divisions depend on them: see 4.8.
• The date of birth is used for the automatic age check in divisions with an age limit (see 4.7). Without it, registration for such a division is refused until you add it to your profile.

• Many players already have a profile with results and points, created by organisers or imported from older tournaments. This profile can be claimed, that is, linked to your account, so that the history and points become yours.
• A claim starts from the profile page, with the claim button. The form asks for your email, phone, date of birth, gender, playing side, country and county. You can add written proof, for example “I played at tournament X in February 2026”.
• You can send the request from your account or without an account. Without an account, after approval you receive the sign-in instructions by email.
• Every request is checked before approval. On screen you see either “The profile is yours”, if the request was approved, or “Request sent!”, if a check by the Padel Tour team follows.
• A profile already linked to an account can no longer be claimed. If you cannot send the request or your profile has been claimed by someone else, write to the Padel Tour team.
• On approval, the new profile created at registration is merged with the historical one: your history, points and contact details remain.
• A club account cannot claim a player profile. The claim is made with your personal email.

• A player must have a single profile. If you have two, they can be merged by the Padel Tour team.
• On merging, points, registrations, results and payments are moved to the profile that is kept. A merge cannot be undone.
• A merge is only made after verification. Two people with similar names are not merged on the basis of the name alone.

• Points history: a chart of points over time.
• PT points by tournament: each result, with the club, the tournament, the division, the position (e.g. “Winners (1st place)”, “Quarter-finalists (places 5-8)”, “3rd in group”), the date, the validity label and the points. At the top you see how many results are still active.
• Historical results imported into the circuit appear alongside those from the platform and count in the same way, as long as they have not expired.
• Titles: the 🥇 🥈 🥉 trophies for places 1, 2 and 3 in each division, regardless of the tournament format (knockout, groups or mixed).
• Statistics: tournaments, wins, losses, match history and, separately, the Americano tab.

Each official tournament has a category. The category sets how many points the winner of each division receives (the maximum score); all other positions receive a percentage of this maximum (see 7.1). The name of an official tournament takes the form “[Club] - [Category]”, for example “Padel Palace - Major”.

• The maximum score is the same in all divisions of a tournament: at an Open, the winners of Men’s 1 receive 500 points, just like the winners of Men’s 5 or Women’s 2. The difference is made by the ranking the points go into.
• The number of days is indicative. The organiser sets the exact dates, shown on the tournament page; a Padel Day or a Regional can also last a single day.
• The Champions Trophy is the end-of-season tournament.

• Besides official tournaments there are club tournaments (local cups, junior tournaments, “in-house” tournaments). They do not give points in the Padel Tour ranking.
• At club tournaments, places are usually filled in order of registration.

• Each division has a maximum number of pairs (cap), shown in the Info tab: with admission by ranking in the form “14+2 Wildcards”, with admission in order of registration in the form “Max 16 pairs”.
• The standard number of pairs per division (8, 16 or 32) is a starting point. The organiser can move places from one division to another, in steps of 2 pairs; that is why one division may have 24 or 32 places and another only 6.
• A division’s cap is always an even number and cannot fall below the number of reserved wildcards.
• How many divisions a tournament can have depends on how many courts the club makes available; below the category’s minimum number of courts, the tournament cannot be held in that category.
• If the organiser reduces a division below the number of confirmed pairs, the excess pairs are removed in this order: first those who would not have entered the draw anyway because of payment, then (with admission by ranking) those with the fewest points, or (in order of registration) those who registered last. Wildcards are removed last.

• A tournament in preparation (draft) is not publicly visible.
• The organiser opens and closes registration manually; there is no automatic closing time.
• At each status change (registration closed, draw generated, in progress, finished), confirmed players receive a notification.
• When registration opens, a “New Tournament” announcement is sent to those subscribed to notifications.
• A tournament that has been played but left unclosed by the club moves to the finished ones as soon as its end date has passed.

• The Tournaments page first shows active and upcoming tournaments, starting with the nearest, then finished ones, starting with the most recent. Tournaments starting on the same day are ordered by the number of registered players. Major tournaments not yet played are pinned at the top of the list.
• Status filters: All, Registration open, In progress, Finished; plus filters by month, by club and by tournament type.
• Search finds by tournament name, club, city and location, without diacritics (“brasov” finds “Brașov”). Every word searched must appear somewhere.
• The card shows the tournament category and the maximum points it gives (e.g. “up to 1000 pts”).
• The number of players shown counts distinct people: anyone playing in two divisions is counted once, and those still looking for a partner are counted.
• The Padel Calendar 2026 page shows the tournaments planned in the season. It is an indicative calendar; registration is done only on the pages of tournaments created on the site.

• The organiser can keep the groups, the draw or the schedule hidden while preparing them. You then see “… is being prepared”, and matches appear as “to be scheduled”, without a time.
• Each tab has its own address (for example ?tab=program), so a link that is passed on opens exactly that tab.
• The page has the tournament chat and a sponsors strip.

• The organiser can display the benefits included: prize money, equipment prizes, vouchers, party included, food provided by the club, sponsor prizes, physiotherapist on site, competition and raffle.
• Prize money is displayed for each division, for places 1, 2 and 3, exactly as the organiser wrote it.
• If the tournament has the 2-division promo, the second division at the same tournament is paid at the reduced price shown (see 5.7).
• Once the tournament is finished and the points are published, the podium of each division appears on the tournament page; the top three pairs have the 🥇 🥈 🥉 medals.

• Level divisions are organised in three series: Men’s (Men’s 1 – Men’s 5), Women’s (Women’s 1 – Women’s 3) and Mixed (Mixed 1, Mixed 2, sometimes Mixed 3). Number 1 is the highest level.
• Men’s 5 is the former “Beginners” division and follows the same rules as Men’s 1–4.
• A tournament may also have divisions without a level: Open (Open, Open 2, Open 3, Open 4), the 40+ Division and age categories (Under 12, Under 14, Under 16). They are not part of any series.
• The organiser decides which divisions a tournament has.
• Each division has a gender rule: men’s, women’s, mixed or open.

• Two players of the same gender cannot form a pair in Mixed.
• At club tournaments, the men’s division is defined by the organiser; the women’s division remains for women players only.

• Until 31.12.2026 inclusive, women players may take part in Men’s 3, Men’s 4 and Men’s 5.
• The exception applies only at Padel Day, Challenger, Regional and Open tournaments. At Grand Open, Grand Prix, Major and the Champions Trophy, all men’s divisions remain exclusively male.
• Men’s 1 and Men’s 2 remain exclusively male at any type of tournament.
• What counts is the tournament start date, not the day of registration. At a tournament starting on 15.01.2027, the strict rule already applies.
• During the transition, Men’s 3–5 at an eligible tournament may include man+man, man+woman or woman+woman pairs.
• From 1 January 2027, the men’s divisions are exclusively male, at every tournament in the circuit.

If you play at the same tournament both in a level division and in Mixed, the two must match:

• The rule works both ways and the order of registration does not matter: if you are already in Mixed 2, you can no longer register for Men’s 2 at the same tournament.
• Only registrations at the same tournament are considered, not your division in the ranking.
• If you have several level divisions at the same tournament, the highest one decides.
• The rule also applies to the partner; on an invitation, a mismatch is refused with the partner’s name.

• When registering from your account, you can be in at most 2 divisions at the same tournament (level, Mixed, Open, 40+). The limit is also checked for the invited partner.
• You cannot be in two divisions of the same series at the same tournament (e.g. Men’s 2 + Men’s 3, Mixed 1 + Mixed 2), because they are usually played in parallel.
• Combinations between different series or with divisions without a level are allowed, if they respect the Mixed-by-level rule: Men’s 3 + Mixed 2, Women’s 2 + Mixed 2, Men’s 3 + 40+ Division.
• You cannot appear twice in the same division (e.g. solo and in a pair).
• Only active registrations count; a withdrawn or rejected registration no longer blocks anything.

• The default rule: a player cannot be in two divisions of the same series at the same tournament.
• The organiser may allow, at a given tournament, entry into two level divisions – usually when the divisions are played one after the other, not in parallel.
• Padel Tour may grant a club this permission for all its tournaments.
• Even with an exemption, the second division of the same series is added for you by the organiser; registration from your account refuses it.
• The exemption concerns only the series rule. The gender, age and Mixed-by-level rules remain in force.

• A division may have a minimum age (e.g. 40+) or a maximum age (Under 12, 14, 16).
• Age is calculated at the tournament start date.
• For a division with an age limit, you need your date of birth in your profile; without it, registration is refused with a message.
• The organiser may admit someone beyond the age limit.

• You choose your gender only once in your profile. After that, it can be corrected only by the Padel Tour team, on request.
• You can fill in or correct your date of birth until you have a history (a registration at a tournament, Americano or league, or points in the ranking). After that, it can only be changed through the Padel Tour team.

• You register only with your own account and only yourself. A partner cannot be added directly: you invite them, and they accept.
• Two options: without a partner (you appear under “Looking for a partner”, and the organiser or other players can pair up with you) or with a partner (you search for them by name, with your friends shown first, and send them an invitation).
• If your partner does not have an account, register on your own; the organiser will contact you both.
• Your registration takes effect immediately. Until your partner replies, you are registered alone in the division.
• You can register only while the tournament’s registration is open.
• If the tournament has weekdays in its schedule, you choose your availability for each such day (see 6.8).
• The registration page says in advance how entry works: for “by ranking” – “Registration does not guarantee participation – admission is based on the ranking at closing.”; for “first come” – “Registration is confirmed automatically.”

• The invited player receives a notification and a private message with the tournament link. They can accept or decline from their notifications or from the tournament page.
• On acceptance, the pair is confirmed immediately; both players’ solo registrations in the division are closed, and the other pending invitations involving them in the same division are cancelled.
• The pair’s registration time is the moment of acceptance, not the moment the first player registered. It counts in the event of equal points and for “first come”.
• If the invitation is declined, the player who sent it is notified, remains registered alone and can invite someone else.
• If two players invite each other in the same division, the second invitation counts as an acceptance.
• The player who sent the invitation can withdraw it while it is pending. If they leave the division, their invitations there are cancelled.
• An invitation can only be accepted while registration is open; after closing, only the organiser can form the pair. Invitations do not expire after a number of hours.
• At tournaments with online-only payment, the player who accepts is taken straight to payment.

• Each division has one of two admission rules, chosen by the organiser: by ranking (the default rule at official tournaments) or in order of registration (“first come”).
• By ranking: pairs are ordered by the sum of the two players’ points in the ranking of that division (in Men’s 3, only Men’s 3 points count). In the event of a tie, including at 0 points, the pair that registered earlier gets in.
• Qualification points – from 1 January 2027, at circuit tournaments, the order by ranking is based on the pair’s qualification points: each player’s active points from all divisions, each at a conversion rate. From the chosen division and those above it, 100% counts; from the division below, 80% (64% from two levels down); between families (Men’s/Women’s and Mixed, Men’s and Women’s, towards 40+ and Open), 50%, then the same rate per level. Mixed points count only for Mixed, and 40+ points only for 40+. Points are not transferred: each division’s ranking keeps only the points won there. Until then, qualification points are shown for information only, next to the pairs.
• In order of registration: points do not count; the first pairs registered get in, up to the cap.
• Wildcards: places given by the organiser, guaranteed regardless of points, marked with the “Wildcard” label (“Guaranteed by the organiser”). There can be at most 4 per division, and they take up places in the division. A wildcard that is not awarded does not hold an empty place: the place is given by ranking.
• Only complete pairs hold a place. A solo player or an unaccepted invitation does not take a place.
• At tournaments with online-only payment, a pair holds a place only after both players have paid; until then, it appears in the “Awaiting payment” block. When both have paid, it enters in order according to its points, not at the end of the list.
• While registration is open, the “In the draw” list is provisional: a pair with more points that registers later can push another pair onto the waiting list. The list becomes final when registration closes.

• Before you register with a chosen partner, you see the place the pair would get with the current points, for example “place 22 of 24”.
• The place is calculated by position: if you have as many points as the last pair in the draw, you lose the tie, because you are registering after it.
• Three situations: in the draw (no message), close to the limit (the last 15% of places, but at least 2: the last 2 of 8 or 16, the last 4 of 24, the last 5 of 32) and outside the draw.
• If you would fall outside the draw, you can register only after ticking “I understand and I am joining the waiting list”.
• Without a chosen partner, in a full division you only see how many points the last place in the draw has.
• With “first come” you always join at the end of the list, however many points you have.

• You can also register in a full division; the pair goes onto the waiting list, and registration does not guarantee participation.
• The waiting list is public in the Entries tab, in order. While registration is open it says “provisional ranking”; after closing, “gets in if an accepted pair withdraws”.
• At the draw, the pairs left above the cap receive the “Waiting list” notification, with their place on the list. They get in only if an accepted pair withdraws.
• Pairs left out because both players had not paid receive the notification “You did not make the draw”.
• If the organiser enlarges the division after closing, the pairs that get in this way can pay and play.

• The fee is set by the organiser for each division. Each player pays their own share; the player who invites does not pay for the partner.
• The fee is owed from the moment of registration, including for a solo registration.
• The organiser chooses the payment method: cash only at the club (default), online by card only or both.
• Money paid online goes directly to the organising club’s account. The club issues the tax documents and is responsible for refunds. Padel Tour takes no commission and does not store card data.
• Online only: registering and accepting an invitation take you straight to payment. The pair does not enter the draw until both players have paid.
• Card or cash: you choose “I’ll pay by card” or “I’ll pay cash at the club”. With cash, the pair is not kept out of the draw; you pay at reception on the day of the tournament.
• Cash means paid on the day of the tournament. If you do not end up playing (you withdrew, you did not make the draw), you owe the club nothing.
• The payment deadline is 48 hours from registration by default and can be changed by the organiser. After the deadline, the registration is not cancelled automatically, but the organiser may give the place to someone else.
• After registration closes, you can pay only if your pair gets a place in the draw.
• You cannot pay twice for the same division; a duplicate charge made in error is refunded in full.
• The organiser may admit to the draw a pair that has paid by other means (for example by bank transfer).

• If the organiser has set a price for a second division, one of your divisions is paid in full and the other at the reduced price. At registration you see “2-division promo applied!”.
• Which division is paid in full, in order: (1) the division already paid in full; (2) the division in which you are in a pair, ahead of the one in which you are solo; (3) the one you registered for earlier.
• If you withdraw from the division paid in full and remain only in the discounted one, the discount is lost: the full fee applies to the division you play in. With online payment, the difference is withheld from the refund; otherwise it remains payable to the club.
• Without a price for a second division, each division costs its full price.

• When the pair is formed, each player who has to pay receives the notification “You have X lei to pay”. At online-only tournaments, this is added: “The pair enters the draw after you have both paid.”
• While you have something unpaid, the app shows you a reminder, with the deadline and your partner’s status.
• The organiser can send a payment demand to those who have not paid.
• After registration closes, reminders go only to those who get a place in the draw. Anyone on the waiting list is no longer asked to pay.
• Payment notifications cannot be turned off.

• While registration is open, you can withdraw yourself from your account, with the “Withdraw” button.
• After registration closes, a pair can no longer withdraw from its account: write to the organiser or call the club; they remove you from the tournament and notify the opponents.
• Exception: a solo player can withdraw at any time, including after closing.
• Withdrawing a pair removes the whole pair from the division. The partner’s payment remains valid if they re-register in the same division with another teammate. If the partner does not re-register, their money is not returned automatically and they do not appear on the refund list at closing: they ask the organiser for it.
• Withdrawal cancels the invitations you had sent in that division.
• After a withdrawal you cannot reactivate yourself: you register again while registration is open, or you ask the organiser.
• A no-show is not a withdrawal. The fee paid stays with the organiser and is not refunded.

The rules below concern the fee paid online. Fees paid in cash are returned, where applicable, directly by the organiser.

• The card processing commission is not recovered. The basic rule: the commission is borne by whoever causes the entry not to be played.
• Your own withdrawal, while registration is open: the refund starts automatically. You receive the fee minus the actual commission on your payment. The estimated commission shown before payment is 1.5% + 1 leu for European cards; for cards from outside Europe it may be higher.
• If the refund cannot be made immediately, the withdrawal remains valid, and the organiser sends you the money.
• A withdrawal after registration closes (through the organiser) is not refunded automatically: the organiser returns the money.
• Full refund (the commission is borne by the club): tournament or division cancelled; places reduced after you paid; you paid, had a partner, but did not make the draw; you were left without a partner at closing; your partner did not pay and the pair did not get in; a significant change of date, venue or format that you do not accept; a double charge or a technical error.
• When registration closes, the organiser receives the list of those who paid and remained on the waiting list, alone or with an unpaid partner, and orders their full refund. Anyone in the draw does not appear on the list.
• Each refund comes with a notification showing the amount returned and the commission withheld. The money usually arrives within 5–10 working days.
• The statutory 14-day right of withdrawal does not apply to tournament registrations (leisure services with a fixed date).

• You can move your solo registration yourself to another division of the same tournament, with “Change division”, if: registration is open, the new division has the same fee, you meet the gender, age, series and Mixed rules, and the organiser has not rejected you there.
• If the fee is different, the move is made by the organiser, who settles the difference. The organiser also moves pairs.
• The payment made moves together with the registration.
• A move made by you gives you the current registration time in the new division. When the organiser moves you, your place is kept.
• There is no button for changing partner. While you are solo, you invite someone else; otherwise you ask the organiser, or you withdraw and re-register (note: withdrawal triggers a refund with commission).

• The organiser may reject a registration; the players receive the “Registration rejected” notification.
• A rejection is final for that division: you can no longer register there on your own, by invitation or by a move. For a new registration, write to the organiser.
• You can still register in other divisions of the same tournament, within the limit of 2.
• Money paid online for a registration removed by the organiser is refunded by the organiser.

• At tournaments that provide shirts, each player receives a single shirt per tournament, regardless of how many divisions they play in.
• Sizes: XS, S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL. You choose the size at registration or later, until the deadline set by the organiser.
• If the tournament allows personalisation, you can have a text of up to 25 characters printed on the back, until the personalisation deadline.
• Your partner chooses their own size when accepting. If they have not got round to it, you can fill it in for them; they are notified and can change it until the deadline. You cannot change a choice they have made.

• Only complete pairs, with a confirmed registration and within the cap, go into the draw. Awarded wildcards go in regardless. At tournaments with online payment, only pairs in which both players have paid.
• The seed (order of strength) is the sum of the two players’ points in the division they registered for. From 1 January 2027, at circuit tournaments, it is the sum of their qualification points (see 5.3). In the event of a tie, the pair that registered earlier is ranked higher.
• The seed is not fixed at registration: it is recalculated from the ranking at the time of the draw.
• A wildcard is not automatically a seeded pair: it receives the seed given by its points, like any pair. A wildcard without points is at the bottom of the order.

• By default, the number of groups is the number of pairs divided by 4, rounded up: 7–8 pairs → 2 groups, 13–16 → 4, 21–24 → 6, 29–32 → 8. The organiser may choose a different number of groups or make them manually.
• Groups are named A, B, C… Allocation is done “snake” style by seed: row 1 goes A→D, row 2 D→A, row 3 again A→D, so that the sum of the values comes out close in every group.
• When the pairs do not divide exactly, the larger groups come first: with 7 pairs, A has 4 and B 3; with 14 pairs, A and B have 4 each, and C and D 3 each. The last row of the snake skips the groups that are already full.
• In a group, everyone plays everyone once. A group of 4 has 6 matches; each pair plays 3.
• If the draw is redone, the division’s matches, results and schedule are deleted. Once the tournament is finished or the division’s points have been published, the draw can no longer be redone.

• A win counts as 1 win in the standings (the points column shows 2 per win and 0 for a loss).
• Order in the group: 1) number of wins; 2) set difference; 3) game difference.
• If exactly two pairs are level on all three criteria, the head-to-head match between them decides.
• If three or more pairs are level on all three criteria, a table is drawn up only from the matches played between them (results against the other pairs in the group do not count): wins, then set difference, then game difference. If two remain level, the head-to-head match between them decides; if they still cannot be separated, lots are drawn.
• The super tie-break (deciding set to 10) counts as a set won, but its points are not added to the games: 6-4 4-6 10-8 gives 2-1 in sets and 10-10 in games.
• A group match won by walkover or retirement gives the winner +1 win, with no sets and no games for anyone.
• A group is complete when all its matches have been played or removed from the schedule; only then do its positions pass automatically into the draw.

With 4, 6 or 8 groups, the Romania Padel Tour rule applies: exactly 8 pairs enter the draw, directly into the quarter-finals.

• Semi-finals: the winner of QF1 against the winner of QF3, and the winner of QF2 against the winner of QF4. The final is played by the semi-final winners.
• With 6 groups, the runners-up are compared across groups by wins, set difference and game difference (no head-to-head). With unequal groups, the comparison is per match: win percentage, then the differences per match. The runners-up are determined only after all the groups have finished.
• With 6 groups, a runner-up cannot meet the winner of its own group in the quarter-finals; if that were to happen, the two qualified runners-up swap opponents.
• With 2 groups, the semi-finals are played directly: A1–B2 and B1–A2.
• With a single group, the final is A1–A2.
• With other numbers of groups, the draw is set by the organiser.
• The winner of a draw match advances automatically to the next round.

• The third-place match (places 3–4) is played by the semi-final losers.
• Pairs that do not enter the draw can play classification matches between the same positions in neighbouring groups: A3–B3, C3–D3, then A4–B4, C4–D4. The winner takes the better of the two places contested. With 4 groups of 4: A3/B3 for places 9–10, C3/D3 for 11–12, A4/B4 for 13–14, C4/D4 for 15–16.
• If a position has no pair in the neighbouring group, the pair takes the place automatically, without a match.
• The consolation draw separates the pairs eliminated in the main draw: places 5–8 (quarter-final losers), 9–16 (from the round of 16), 17–32. It is played only if the organiser activates it; otherwise the pairs in that group of places receive the average of the points.
• The organiser can remove any classification match from the schedule.
• The division is considered finished when the main draw and the third-place match have ended.

• The draw can have 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 or 64 places; the organiser places the pairs.
• If a pair has no opponent in the first round or the opponent does not show up, the organiser marks a W.O. and the pair advances.
• Whoever loses leaves the draw. The semi-final losers play the third-place match; the others can play the consolation draw, if it is activated.
• Rounds are named by their distance from the final: Final, Semi-finals, Quarter-finals, Round of 16, Round of 32.

• There are two formats: CLASSIC – two sets, and at 1-1 a super tie-break to 10 is played; SUPERSET – a single set to 9 games; at 8-8 a tie-break to 10 is played.
• The format belongs to the stage of the division: all the matches in a group are played in the same format. The draw may have a different format from the groups; unless the organiser chooses otherwise, the group format remains.
• A set at 6-6 is decided by a tie-break and is recorded as 7-6, with the tie-break score in brackets, e.g. 7-6(5).
• A set cannot end level, and the match must have a winner in sets.
• In a superset, the winner has 9 games. The tie-break at 8-8 is recorded as 9-8.

• The planned duration starts from the tournament category (see 3.1: 40 min at Padel Day, 60 at Challenger–Grand Prix and the Champions Trophy, 90 at Major). When a division switches to superset, 45 minutes is proposed. The organiser can set a duration per tournament, per division or per match; the most specific one counts.
• The duration is used only for the schedule; the match is played to the end, however long it lasts.

• The schedule (the time and court of each match) is made by the organiser. The times shown are Romanian time.
• If the tournament has weekdays (e.g. Thursday or Friday), at registration you choose for each of them: “From the start time”, “From 20:00” or “I can’t”. The choice can be changed while registration is open, and your partner can see it too.
• Local players are not asked and are considered available. Local means a player from the same county as the organising club or with a home club nearby.
• The organiser may declare a day “mandatory”, on which everyone plays; availability is then no longer requested.
• At weekends there is no availability question: everyone is available from the day’s start time.
• For a match, the stricter choice of the two pairs counts. If the organiser nonetheless schedules a match outside availability, they receive a warning, but the final decision is theirs.

• At classic tournaments, results are entered by the organiser or by a circuit referee. Players do not enter the score themselves.
• After the score is saved, the group standings are recalculated immediately; when the group is complete, the qualifiers appear automatically in the draw.
• The winner of a draw match moves automatically to the next round; the semi-final loser moves to the third-place match.
• An incorrect score can be corrected, but not if the winner’s next match has already been played.
• Results are public on the tournament page.

• W.O. (no-show): the match is not played, and the organiser designates the winner. The score appears as “W.O.”.
• Retirement: the match started, but a pair could not finish it. The organiser enters the score played up to that point and chooses the winner.
• In a group, with a W.O. or a retirement the winner gets +1 win, with no sets and no games for anyone. No fictitious score such as 6-0 6-0 is awarded.
• The effect on ranking points is described in 7.7.
• A match whose score has simply not been entered is not considered a W.O.

• Places 1–16 receive a fixed percentage of the winner’s score: 100%, 70%, 50%, 30%, 29%, 28%, 27%, 26%, 25%, 24%, 23%, 22%, 21%, 20%, 18%, 15%.
• From place 17 down, each place gets 1 point less than the place above, starting from the value of place 16, but never below 0.
• Points are rounded to the nearest whole number.

• Final: the winners take 1st place, the losers 2nd place.
• Semi-finals: with a third-place match, its winners take 3rd place and the losers 4th place. Without a third-place match, both pairs beaten in the semi-finals share places 3–4 and each receives their average (at an Open: (250 + 150) / 2 = 200).
• Quarter-finals: the losers share places 5–8 and receive their average (at an Open: 138), if no classification matches are played.
• Round of 16 and earlier rounds: whoever loses in the round of 16 shares places 9–16; whoever loses in the round of 32 shares places 17–32.
• The average of a range of places is rounded up (117.5 becomes 118).
• Pairs eliminated in the groups are placed after the draw, in tiers: first the non-qualified runners-up, then all the third-placed pairs, then all the fourth-placed pairs. Each tier shares the places it occupies and receives their average.
• If classification (consolation) matches are played, each pair receives the exact points of the place won; otherwise, the average of the range remains.
• In a division with a single group and no draw, the group standings are the final standings, and each pair receives the exact points for its place.

• Each of the two players in the pair receives the full score for the place. Points are not split in two: the winners of an Open receive 500 each.
• With a solo registration, only the registered player receives the points.
• A player has a single result in a division of a tournament.
• The result also records who your partner was; the result appears on each player’s profile.

• Points go into the ranking of the division you played in at that tournament. Men’s 3 points count only for Men’s 3; Mixed 2 points only for Mixed 2.
• If you play in two divisions at the same tournament, you receive points separately in each.
• Senior divisions shown: Men’s 1–5, Women’s 1–3, Mixed 1–3, 40+ Division, Women’s 40+, Open 1–4. The Juniors tab has the U23, U18, U16, U14 and U12 divisions.
• National Ranking: the sum of active points from the senior divisions; junior points count only in the junior ranking. Next to each player is shown the division in which they have the most points. In the number of tournaments, a tournament played in two divisions is counted only once; the points from both divisions are added together.
• County Ranking and By Club: the National Ranking filtered by the county and by the home club in the profile, respectively.
• Padel Day Ranking: only active points from Padel Day tournaments. These points also go, at the same time, into the division ranking and the National Ranking.
• At the end of the year, the top 16 players in the Padel Day Ranking are invited to the Major Padel Day.
• The Clubs tab orders clubs by the number of finished tournaments, then by the total number of tournaments.
• Your place is always calculated from the full ranking; searching or the “Friends only” filter does not change it.

• Points do not appear automatically at the end of the tournament. The organiser publishes them, separately for each division.
• Until publication, the tournament page shows the calculated final standings and the estimated points, but the general ranking remains unchanged.
• On publication, the division ranking is updated immediately.
• If a score is corrected after publication, the organiser can republish the division; the new points replace the old ones.
• The date of the result is the last day of the tournament, not the day of publication.
• A division with fewer than two pairs has no matches, and therefore no points.

• WO = 0 points. A match won or lost by WO is not considered played.
• To receive points, the pair must have played at least one real match: one that it won or in which it took at least one game.
• Advancing to the next round without an opponent (bye) is not a match played.
• A pair with no match played keeps its position in the division, so the places and points of the others do not change. It appears with the note “Did not play – no points” and does not appear in the public final results.
• For historical results imported with final positions only, points are awarded according to position.

• A tournament’s points expire on the Monday of the same week (ISO numbering) of the following year. A tournament in week 42 of 2026 loses its points on the Monday of week 42 of 2027.
• The week is taken from the last day of the tournament. The rule applies in the same way to imported historical results.
• If the tournament falls in week 53 and the following year has no week 53, the points expire on the Monday of week 52.
• Old points disappear on the very Monday of the week in which the same tournament is usually played again: in practice, you “defend” last year’s points.
• Expired points disappear from the ranking on the day of expiry.
• Ranking = the sum of all active points. There is no cap, and it is not just the best N results that are kept.
• On the profile, each result has a label: “Expires [date]” (green, more than 90 days), “Expires in Nd” (yellow under 90 days, orange under 30) and “Expired” (grey). Expired results remain visible in the history, faded.

• In a division ranking: more points = a better place. With equal points, the player with more tournaments in that division is ranked higher.
• Each player has a unique place; there are no shared places in the general rankings.

• For a pair, what counts is the sum of the two players’ points in the ranking of the division they are registering for, not in the National Ranking. From 1 January 2027, at circuit tournaments, the sum of their qualification points counts (see 5.3).
• Selection (with admission by ranking) and seeding follow this sum; in the event of a tie, the pair that registered earlier. See 5.3 and 6.1.

• The RPT ranking (the division rankings and the National Ranking) is the official ranking of the circuit. It is managed and published by Padel Tour, on padeltour.ro, from the published results of official tournaments.
• It is the reference for admission by ranking and for seeding (7.10).
• The County Ranking and the By Club ranking, the league standings and the Americano ranking are informative or internal to their competition: they are not used for selection and seeding at official tournaments and do not confer sporting rights outside their competition.
• If such a ranking differs from the official ranking, the official ranking prevails.
• Only official tournaments give points (3.1). Unofficial tournaments are not prohibited, but they do not give points (3.2).
• A technical, calculation or administrative error in the ranking is corrected urgently, and the ranking is recalculated. You can report it to the tournament organiser or to the Padel Tour team.
• Changes to the points table are published in these rules before they apply and have no retroactive effect, except in situations expressly decided otherwise.

• A league is a pairs competition played over weeks or months. Each team plays every other team in its group, and the standings are made from all the matches.
• Two types: the Padel Tour League, with fixed rules at any club (series, phases, promotion/relegation, Overall Standings, playoff), and the Club league, whose rules (format, scoring, tie-breaks, fee, registration) are chosen by the club.
• Each league has its own page with the sections Home, Matches, Standings, Teams, Rules, Chat and, where applicable, Playoff.
• Each league has its own rules, on the league page. The details (prizes, series, playoff, fee, format) can be read there. All leagues: padeltour.ro/liga.
• League results do not give points in the Padel Tour national ranking.

• The league is organised by division (e.g. Men’s, Women’s, Mixed). Each team plays in a single division.
• A division may be split into series, from Series 1 (the strongest level) down to the last series.
• The initial placement in series is made by the organiser, according to the players’ level.
• The league is played in phases (Phase I, II, III), each with a date range. In each phase, the teams in the same series play each other once.
• At the end of a phase, promotions and relegations are applied. Series statistics start from 0 in each phase; the points collected remain in the Overall Standings.
• There is no online registration for the Padel Tour League: the organiser forms the teams from the profiles existing on the platform.
• A team keeps the same line-up for the whole league. Partner change: one per season, only between phases, with the organisers’ approval.

• Matches are played best of 3 sets. A set is played to 6 games; at 6–6 a tie-break to 7 is played (with a 2-point margin).
• At 40–40, a deciding point (Golden Point) is played, with no advantage.
• Interruption (injury, etc.): a break of at most 10 minutes; if the match does not resume, the organiser decides.
• Teams set the time of their matches themselves, by mutual agreement, within the phase or round window.
• The exact format of each league is the one in its rules.

• A win is a win: 2–0 or 2–1 brings the same number of points. A loss brings 0.
• The points per win depend on the series in which the match is played; a win is worth at least 1 point.
• A win by no-show brings the normal points of the series; the match is recorded as 6–0, 6–0 for the team present and counts in the set and game differences.

• With equal points in the same series, in order: (1) head-to-head (mini-table between the tied teams); (2) set difference in the matches between them; (3) game difference in the matches between them; (4) set difference over the whole phase; (5) game difference over the whole phase; (6) drawing of lots.
• The criteria are reapplied to subgroups: if a criterion splits a group of 3 into 1 + 2, for the remaining 2 the calculation is redone only from the match between them.
• During the phase, the head-to-head criteria apply only once all the matches between the tied teams have been played; until then, the overall differences count.
• Withdrawn teams appear at the bottom of the series standings.

• At the end of each phase, in each series, the top 2 teams go up a series and the bottom 2 go down.
• In a series with 2–3 teams, 1 goes up and 1 goes down.
• The top teams in Series 1 and the bottom teams in the last series stay where they are.
• If a series has been left without active teams, it is skipped: teams go up or down directly into the neighbouring active series.

• The division’s Overall Standings add up all of a team’s points from all the phases and series in which it played. Playoff matches are not included.
• Only active teams appear. With equal points, the number of wins counts.
• A team that starts at the bottom and is promoted may have fewer points than one in Series 1, but it can qualify for the playoff and win it.

• At the end of the phases, the qualified teams play a knockout Final Tournament. In the Padel Tour League, all the matches are played on the same day, with no rescheduling.
• The qualification rule is set for each division: one or more draws of 4, 8, 16 or 32 teams and how many teams go in from each series, directly or via a play-in, according to the standings of the last phase. Each league’s rule appears in its rules.
• The notation “1S2” means 1st place in Series 2.
• The play-in: some of the places do not go directly into the draw but play a play-in match. The winner enters the draw, the loser leaves the competition. The play-in goes to the places immediately after those qualified directly from the same series (for example, Series 1: places 1–4 directly, place 5 to the play-in). Each play-in match gives one place in the draw.
• Play-in matches are numbered separately (Play-in 1, Play-in 2…), and the draw starts from Match 1.
• The pairings, in the play-in, in the first round and in the following rounds, are set by the organiser and appear in the league rules.
• Unless the organiser sets them otherwise: in the play-in, the highest-ranked plays the lowest-ranked, without two teams from the same series; the play-in winners take the last places in the draw, so the first seed plays the winner of the last play-in; the first round pairs the standard seeds (with 4 teams 1–4, 2–3; with 8 teams 1–8, 4–5, 3–6, 2–7), and further on the winners of neighbouring matches meet.
• A third-place match may also be played. The winner of each match advances automatically.

• The Club league has one or more separate standings (“level leagues”, e.g. Men’s 2, Mixed, Beginners). Each team plays in one.
• Each team plays every other team once (single round-robin) or twice (double round-robin). With N teams, single round-robin = N×(N−1)/2 matches.
• The club chooses the format: 2 sets + super tie-break at 1–1; 3 full sets; one set to 9; one set to 6; or timed.
• Gender restrictions, if set: Women’s = women players only; Mixed = one male player and one female player; Men’s = a woman player can register by ticking that she accepts playing in the men’s category; Open = anyone.
• Level leagues can be open only to certain divisions of the ranking, as a recommendation or as a strict restriction.
• Teams schedule their matches themselves; the result is reported to the organiser, who enters it on the platform.

• Simple scoring (default): win = 3, loss = 0.
• Optionally, the club gives points based on the exact set score (2–0, 2–1, 1–2, 0–2). A worse result cannot be worth more than a better one.
• No-show: the winner receives the points for a win by the maximum score, the absent team 0 (or the penalty written in the league rules). The score is recorded as 6–0 in each set needed.
• In the game difference, the deciding super tie-break counts as a single game (1–0).
• Default tie-breaks: (1) head-to-head; (2) set difference; (3) game difference; (4) drawing of lots organised by the club. The order chosen by the club appears in the league rules.

• Registration is online, with an account, while the league is published and within the club’s registration window.
• The type of registration is chosen by the club: as a pair (the partner accepts the invitation), individually (the pairs are formed by the organiser) or both.
• You cannot register twice in the same level league.
• Limited places: confirmed registrations and those in progress take up places. Above the limit, registrations go onto the waiting list, in order of arrival. When a place becomes free, the next complete registration moves up automatically.
• The fee is per player, paid online, at the club or both. Anyone registering with a partner can also pay the partner’s share. Without a fee, registration is confirmed directly.
• While the online fee is unpaid, the player receives a daily payment notification.
• The fee refund policy is chosen by the club and appears in the league rules; the refund is made by the organiser.

• The organiser can split the matches into rounds: a range of days (7 by default) plus the matches to be played within it. The exact time is set by the players.
• Each team plays at most one match per round. With N teams (even) there are N−1 rounds; with N odd there are N rounds, and in each round one team sits out.
• A match not played after its round has ended is marked “Past deadline”; what happens to it is decided by the organiser.
• Rounds apply to any type of league.

• A team that does not show up for a scheduled match loses by no-show: 0 points for it, the win for the opponent.
• Padel Tour League: a no-show without notice at least 24 hours in advance = a 6–0, 6–0 loss. A team with 2 no-shows in the same phase may be disqualified, at the organiser’s decision.
• Rescheduling is possible with the agreement of both teams, within the allotted window. In a documented case of force majeure, the organiser may decide on rescheduling or cancellation without penalty.
• In club leagues, matches not played by the end of the league bring no points to anyone.
• A withdrawn team loses its remaining matches by no-show; the results already played stand. If it has not played any match, its matches are cancelled and bring no points to anyone. Club leagues may choose another rule, written in their rules.
• A player can withdraw on their own only before the start (team with no matches, registration open); after that, the withdrawal is made by the organiser.

• Fair play is mandatory; aggressive behaviour towards opponents, partners or referees is prohibited.
• After each match, the result is reported to the organiser. Score disputes are resolved on court, before the next set.
• Intentionally reporting an incorrect score may lead to disqualification. Result manipulation may be investigated and penalised.
• Sanctions, in order of severity: verbal warning, official warning, loss of the match, exclusion from the competition.
• The platform accepts only scores that are possible in the league’s format.
• Each league has a private chat, for the players in the active teams and the organising club.
• Prizes are written by the organising club, in the league rules.

• Americano has its own ranking; Americano points are not added to the tournament ranking, and vice versa.
• Four formats: Americano, Mexicano, Team (fixed pairs) and King of the Court.
• The level of the event is chosen by the club: Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced or Mixed levels. The level is not checked automatically; the club can remove from the list someone registered at an unsuitable level.
• The type of event: Open to all, Ladies only or Mixed (half of the places for men, half for women). For Ladies and Mixed, you must have your gender filled in on your profile.
• The club chooses the number of courts (2–8) and the booking duration (1–3 hours).

• In Americano, Mexicano and Team, play is to a fixed total of points (usually 24 or 16). The two teams share exactly the total: at 24, 13-11 or 16-8, never 24-22.
• In King of the Court: first to X games, fixed time or hybrid.
• Position in Americano and Mexicano: average points per match played, then total points won, then fewest points conceded. Players who withdrew during the event are ranked after those who stayed.
• In the event of a perfect tie, the players share the place and receive the same points.

• Level multiplier: Beginners ×1, Intermediate ×1.5, Advanced ×2, Mixed levels ×1.
• Americano and Mexicano: points = (N − place + 1) × 5 × multiplier, minimum 5. N = the players who actually played at least one match.
• Team: each player in the pair receives 2 × (N pairs − place + 1) × 5 × multiplier, minimum 5.
• King of the Court: each match brings (courts − your court + 1) × 2 points for a win, half for a loss; the sum × multiplier, and the pair that wins the last match on court 1 (“the King”) receives +15%.
• Anyone who played receives at least 5 points. Points are awarded when the event is finalised.
• Americano ranking = the sum of the points from finished events, with views for the last 12 months and all-time. In the event of a tie, whoever has more events is ahead.

• You register while the event has “Registration open”. For Team and King of the Court, you invite your partner; the pair is registered once they accept.
• If there is no place left, you go onto the waiting list, in order of registration (for Mixed, separately by gender). In Americano and Mexicano, the first on the list automatically receives the freed place and is notified.
• Payment: at the club, online or both, as chosen by the club. With mandatory online payment, your place is held for 10 minutes; if you get a place from the waiting list, you have 2 hours to pay.
• You can withdraw yourself until the start. For pairs, the partner remains registered alone and is notified.
• Private events do not appear in the lists; you register only with the link received from the organiser.

• If fewer players come than fit on the courts, play takes place on as many courts as can be filled.
• The organiser can add rounds during play; the rotation continues from where it left off.
• The event can be ended at any time; the standings and points are calculated from what was actually played.
• Scores are entered on a phone, with a 6-digit code or a QR code received from the organiser, at padeltour.ro/scoring.
• The club can organise a raffle; the winners are chosen at random only from the players in the event, at most one prize per person.
• Events can be recurring (weekly or every 2 weeks); the next edition appears by itself, with registration open.

• Each notification appears in the bell and on the Notifications page. Separately, it can arrive as a push on your phone or in your browser.
• Push is set across 8 categories, all on by default. If you turn off a category, its notifications still appear in the list.
• Quiet hours: you choose a time window (e.g. 22:00–08:00, Romanian time) without push. The following still come through: payments, match reminders, the call to court, the tournament start and “the time has changed” when the match is on that very day.
• Invitations that require an answer are not marked as read automatically, so that the Accept / Decline buttons remain.

• Any signed-in player can write to another player, from that player’s profile.
• Messages containing offensive or vulgar words are not sent.
• The community chat and each tournament’s chat can be read by anyone; logged-in users can write in them. A league’s chat is only for the league members and the organising club.
• In chats you can react to messages and create polls.
• You can delete your messages at any time. The tournament organiser can delete and pin messages in the tournament chat.

• You can block any other user, except the official Padel Tour account.
• After blocking, private messages no longer go in either direction. The blocked person is not notified. In group chats, their messages are hidden only for you.
• You can unblock at any time, from the same place.
• You can report a message, a user, a Marketplace listing, a photo or a comment, giving the reason: Spam, Harassment or threats, Offensive language, Scam, Fake account or Other.
• The Padel Tour team reviews the report and closes it as “Resolved” or “Rejected”.

• You follow someone from their profile, with the “Follow” button. No approval is needed. The person gets a notification, at most one a week from the same person.
• A profile shows how many followers someone has and how many people they follow. The lists are public.
• “Friends” means two players who follow each other. They appear under the “Friends only” filter, in chat and first when choosing a partner.
• If you have played at least 3 matches together or against each other, the profile suggests following them.
• Separately, you can make a list of followed players in a tournament’s schedule, used for filtering. That list is private: the followed player is not notified.
• “My matches” shows your schedule and that of the players you follow, in order of time, at the tournament in progress.

• In the Marketplace, only padel equipment is sold: rackets, footwear, bags, balls, sportswear, accessories.
• Each new listing is checked before publication. If it is not padel equipment, it is not published, and you see the reason and can edit it.
• Items unrelated to padel, photos that do not match the text, and offensive or illegal content are not accepted.
• An edited listing may be checked again.
• Buyers contact you through Padel Tour messaging; optionally, you can add a WhatsApp button (the number becomes public on the listing).
• Listings can be marked “reserved” or “sold” and can be reported.

• Each player has an invitation code and link (padeltour.ro/r/<code>). You can personalise the code: 3–30 characters, lowercase letters, digits, “_”, “-”, “.”.
• An invitation counts only for a new account, created with your code or link. You cannot invite yourself.
• An invitation becomes completed when the friend plays their first finished match (not won by no-show) at a tournament for which they are registered and confirmed, or when they receive points in the Padel Tour ranking (including historical results linked to their profile). Registration alone is not enough.
• Rewards are unlocked automatically and are claimed from the Ambassador page, where you can also find the current conditions and the “Top ambassadors” ranking.

• Each tournament has a gallery. The organiser’s photos appear immediately, in the “Official gallery”.
• Any signed-in player can upload photos (JPG, PNG, WEBP, HEIC). They appear publicly only after the organiser’s approval; until then, the author can delete them.
• On upload, photos are resized and receive a discreet “padeltour.ro” watermark.
• You can like photos, comment on them (1–1,000 characters) and mention someone with @; the person mentioned receives a notification.
• Photos can be downloaded and reported.

• Padel Tour can be installed on your home screen: on iPhone from Safari (“Add to Home Screen”), on Android and desktop from Chrome. The steps are at padeltour.ro/app.
• Push notifications arrive on the device on which you allowed them; you adjust them in Notifications → Settings.

Licensing certifies that a sports venue can host official competitions and that an official tournament meets the circuit’s conditions.

• The licensor is the Romanian Padel Federation (FRP), through the Romania Padel Tour circuit. The Federation is responsible for the licensing system: it sets the procedure, assesses the files and decides whether a licence is granted.
• There are two licences: the sports venue licence (the courts and facilities) and the tournament licence (for each individual official tournament). An official tournament is played only at a licensed venue.
• The Federation examines the file for form and content and checks, as far as possible, the accuracy and relevance of the data. It may request additional documents or information, with a reasonable deadline for completion.
• A licence may be granted, refused or made conditional on meeting additional requirements.
• All applicants receive the same treatment, for the type of licence requested. The information in the file is confidential and is processed in accordance with the legislation on personal data protection.
• Applications are submitted throughout the season, between 1 January and 31 December. The licence is issued in digital format, to the applicant’s email address.
• The provisions of this chapter apply from the date announced by the Federation to the partner clubs.

• The licence may be requested by any natural or legal person (sports club, association, commercial company) that owns a padel venue in Romania, rents it or uses it under a partnership or collaboration agreement.
• The licence is the act by which the Federation certifies that the venue meets the conditions of its category (11.3). It gives the right to host official circuit tournaments, within the limits of the category.
• The venue must: comply with the FRP regulations and the FIP rules for courts; comply with the legislation on sport and public safety; have the right of use for sporting activities; not be involved in a dispute that prevents sporting activity.
• The purpose of the licence: an accurate register of the venues hosting official competitions and safe conditions for players, the public and the press.
• The licence certificate is displayed in plain view at the venue, and the venue allows the Federation’s inspections.
• The licence is valid for the season in which it was issued and expires by right on 31 December, at 24:00, without notice. It cannot be transferred to another holder.

• The category is set according to the venue’s courts, at the inspection recorded in the technical sheet (11.5).
• A category III venue cannot host Men’s 1 and Women’s 1, at any type of tournament, nor Major tournaments or the Champions Trophy.

• The venue licensing application includes: the category requested (I, II or III); the applicant’s tax identification code (CUI) (the personal numeric code, CNP, for natural persons); the registered office; the venue address; phone and email; the administrator’s name; the name of the person responsible for padel; any licence previously held, and its year; other remarks.
• The following are attached to the application:
  • a copy of the administrator’s identity document;
  • the legal entity’s registration document, up to date (certificate of registered details from the Trade Register or an extract from the Register of Associations and Foundations);
  • copies of previous licences, if any;
  • proof of the right to use the venue: title deed, lease agreement, building permit or partnership agreement;
  • the sanitary operating authorisation (DSP), up to date, where the law requires it;
  • the fire safety authorisation or approval (ISU), where the law requires it.
• The Federation may request any other document needed for its decision.

When the venue is inspected, the technical licensing committee, made up of three members, completes and signs the technical sheet. The sheet records:

• The tournament licence may be requested by a sports club, whether or not affiliated to the FRP, an association or a commercial company that wishes to organise an official circuit tournament.
• The licence is granted for the tournament category (3.1) and certifies that the organiser meets its conditions. It gives the right to organise the tournament as an official tournament: the results go into the RPT ranking, and the points are calculated according to the circuit’s points table (7.1).
• The conditions, for any category: the venue is licensed and its category allows the tournament (11.3); the club provides at least the category’s minimum number of courts (3.1); the organiser appoints a tournament director (11.8) and complies with the visibility obligations (11.10).
• No licences are issued for two Major or Champions Trophy tournaments on the same days, regardless of location.
• The organiser cooperates with the Federation throughout the licensing, preparation and running of the tournament.
• The licence is personal and non-transferable: it cannot be assigned, delegated or used by another organiser. It expires by right at the end of the season, on 31 December, at 24:00.

• The application includes: the category; the dates; the tournament name (in the form “[Club] - [Category]”, see 3.1); the venue; the applicant’s CUI or CNP; the registered office or address; phone and email; the name of the administrator or applicant; the name of the person responsible for padel; how many tournaments they organised in the previous year and how many they plan in the licensing year; any licence previously held, and its year; other remarks.
• The following are attached to the application:
  • a copy of the identity document of the administrator or applicant;
  • a copy of the identity document of the person responsible for padel or of the tournament director;
  • the legal entity’s registration document, within its validity period;
  • a copy of the licence of the sports venue where the tournament is played;
  • proof of the right to use the venue for the tournament: ownership, lease, management or provision for use;
  • copies of previous licences, if any.
• The Federation may request any other document needed for its decision.

• For each licensed tournament, the organiser appoints a tournament director. The director coordinates the running of the tournament and maintains operational contact with the circuit.
• The director is responsible for compliance with the sporting, administrative and technical regulations throughout the preparation, running and conclusion of the tournament.
• The director holds at least one of the qualifications recognised by the FRP: a tournament director, referee, padel coach or padel instructor licence.
• If the organiser does not appoint a separate person, the role may be held by one of its representatives (administrator, sports coordinator, person responsible for padel), provided they hold one of these qualifications.
• The director’s duties: applies the regulations and official decisions during the tournament; coordinates the schedule, the draws and the order of play; works with the referees, officials and technical team; handles unforeseen situations; is responsible for the correctness of the results and for submitting them; signs and sends the tournament report on time (11.9).

• Within at most 3 calendar days of the end of the tournament, the organiser sends the tournament report.
• The report includes: the complete results of the tournament; each player’s points, according to the circuit’s points table; the data needed to validate the tournament: photos, videos, appeals, decisions taken on the spot and incidents.
• On the platform, results are entered as the matches are played (6.10), and the points are published by the organiser, for each division (7.6). Appeals, decisions taken on the spot and incidents are sent to the Padel Tour team.

• The tournament’s promotional materials carry the emblems of the FRP, Romania Padel Tour and the tournament. The organising club’s emblem is optional.
• The nets of the playing courts are customised with the FRP emblem, the Romania Padel Tour emblem and the tournament emblem.
• The FRP and Romania Padel Tour emblems appear on the tournament’s invitations, tickets, posters, banners and electronic materials.
• The organiser offers the circuit’s official partners a physical advertising space of at least 1 m² and space in the electronic materials (posters, photos, diplomas, announcements).

• The licensing committee may suspend or withdraw a licence, upon referral, if: one of the criteria on the basis of which it was granted is no longer met; the holder breaches its obligations under these rules; the regulations are seriously breached; the safety of the players is endangered.
• If the organiser can no longer hold a licensed tournament, it notifies the Federation urgently. Depending on the time remaining and the interest, the Federation may reopen the tournament’s licensing for another eligible organiser.
• The absence of a tournament director or the appointment of a person without the required qualification may lead to: a written warning; suspension or withdrawal of the tournament licence; refusal to license future tournaments of the same organiser.

The Romanian Padel Federation (FRP), together with Romania Padel Tour, is building a permanent national network for the identification, selection and development of players, organised in 8 sporting regions: 8 regions, one national team. The project is for the 2026-2027 season.

• The aim is to move from one-off selections to a system that follows players throughout the year.
• The international objectives for 2027: the European Championship Qualifiers (Netherlands, March 2027) and the European Games (Istanbul, June 2027).
• Players are chosen by the selectors (12.7). Padel Tour keeps the region declared by each player and publishes the regional rankings (12.6).

• Your region is the one in which you have the domicile on your ID card (identity document) or your temporary residence registration.
• It does not matter where you were born, where you live or where you play now. You cannot play for a region just because you were born there if your ID card and your home are in another city. Nor does a recent move to another city automatically put you in that city’s region.
• The county and club in your profile show where you play now. They do not determine the region.
• You declare your region yourself. After logging in, a window appears with the map of the regions and their list. If you close it without choosing, it appears again the next time the page loads.
• You can see and change it in Profile, the “Personal details” tab, the Region section. Every change remains recorded, with its date.
• If you do not have a domicile in Romania, choose “Nu am domiciliu în România”. You then do not represent any region.
• Until you declare your region, the regional ranking places you according to the county in your profile, with the note “unconfirmed”. Once you declare it, the note becomes “confirmed” (12.6).
• The region does not change your registrations, divisions or points and has nothing to do with the Regional tournament category (3.1).

• Players must have played at least 3 Romania Padel Tour tournaments in 2026.
• Each athlete represents the region of their official domicile according to their identity document, not the one in which they live or play (12.3).
• Sporting conduct, interest in performance and long-term availability also count.
• On the platform, tournaments are counted from the published results: RPT points, including those imported from Rankedin. A tournament played in two divisions counts once.
• In the regional rankings, only the top level counts: Masculin 1 and Masculin 2, and Feminin 1 and Feminin 2 respectively (12.6). The threshold of 3 tournaments, however, is counted across all tournaments, in any division.

• Each region sends a men’s squad and a women’s squad to the national activities, of 6-8 players each.
• Together, the 8 regions form a selection base of 96-128 senior athletes, to which U18, U16 and U14 junior teams may be added.
• For the two stages in Brașov, the region proposes the men’s squad and the women’s squad, 6-8 athletes each, plus a maximum of 3 junior teams.
• The first line-up of the regional squad has at least 6 male players and 6 female players and a maximum of 3 junior teams (12.9).
• The proposals go to the national selectors, with the technical arguments.

• On the Regions page, each region has a ranking of the top 50 players, separately for men and women. Anyone with exactly the points of place 50 also appears, so that no one is left out in the event of a tie.
• The region’s men’s ranking is the sum of active points from Masculin 1 and Masculin 2. The women’s ranking is the sum of active points from Feminin 1 and Feminin 2 (7.8).
• Points from all the other divisions (Men’s 3–5, Women’s 3 and below, Mixed, Open, 40+ Division, Women’s 40+, juniors) do not count for the regions: points collected in the lower divisions do not show national-team level.
• Anyone without points in these divisions does not appear in the region’s ranking.
• The regional selectors start from these rankings when they propose the region’s squads, and the national squads are formed from the regional squads. A place in the ranking does not automatically give a place in the squad: the selectors decide who represents the region (12.8).
• The player appears in the region they declared (12.3), with the note “confirmed”. The note “unconfirmed” indicates a player who has not yet declared their region: they are placed according to the county in their profile.
• Not shown: those who chose “Nu am domiciliu în România” and those who have not declared their region and have no Romanian county in their profile.
• The column with the tournaments in 2026 shows who meets the threshold of 3 tournaments (12.4).

Each region has its own management team: a regional Team Manager and two regional selectors. The regional teams work directly with the national technical structure.

• The position of national Technical Director is being confirmed.
• The role of the regional selectors is a technical one: they decide who deserves to represent the region. The Team Manager handles organisation, documents and logistics.

The figures are calculated from the platform’s data, in the same way as the regional rankings.

• The public profile shows: name, photo, cover photo, age, nationality, county, playing side, affiliated club, statistics, trophies, points, rankings and match history.
• The age shown is “how old you turn this year”. The full date of birth is not public.
• Phone and email appear on the public profile only if you tick the box to display them. By default, they are hidden.
• The organiser of a tournament or Americano sees your phone and email only if you registered for their event yourself. If they added you, they see only what you have made public.
• Your estimated city is shown to other signed-in users, under “Active users”. The location display box is ticked by default; you can untick it at any time in Profile.
• Your birthday is seen only by the people you follow each other with.
• The list of players you follow in tournament schedules is private. Profile followers and following are public.

• From the Profile page you can download a copy of your data (JSON file) at any time.
• The account is deleted from Profile, with the “Delete account” button; you confirm by typing the account’s email. This action cannot be undone.
• What data is processed, how long it is kept and what rights you have: Privacy Policy. The rules for using the platform: Terms and Conditions.