The problem
The good games are behind closed doors.
Padel is one of the fastest-growing sports in the world, but the competition around it hasn't caught up. There's no trusted way to know who's at your level, so players stick to the crews they already have and the best games stay locked away.
Closed groups
Players find their crew and lock it shut. Move to a new city and there's no way in but knowing someone.
No real level
You're not a 4.5. You're not a 5.2. Self-reported ratings and word-of-mouth reputation mean nobody really knows who's better, so everyone plays it safe and stops being tested.
Nothing carries over
Weekend tournaments are occasional and shallow. Three matches and it's done. No rivalry, no progression, no record.
Every other sport fixed this with a league. Padel never did. So we built it.
Crave Padel is the permanent competitive league padel never had: built on real courts, with results that are earned on the map, not self-reported.
The game
Padel, turned into a turf war.
Play as you
Your rank, division, courts and streak follow you, not a fixed team. Grab a partner for each match and register as Men's, Women's or Mixed.
Challenge real clubs
Every verified court near you is in play. Take on whoever's holding the division you want.
Capture your division
Play in Bronze, Silver or Gold. Win the match, take the tier, and put it on the map in your colour.
Hold your territory
Once it's yours, defend it. Answer every challenger, stack up courts, and own a slice of the city.
How it works
The capture loop.
Claim or challenge
Tap an open division to claim it, or challenge the team holding the one you want. The clock starts.
Accept the match
The other pair has 48 hours to accept and play, or forfeit the division to you.
Play it out
Meet at the court and play. Standard padel scoring, best of three sets, winner takes the tier.
Confirm the score
One side logs the result, the other confirms it. The win is on the record for good.
Capture & defend
The tier turns your colour on the map. Now defend it, bank league points, and climb.
See it in action
The whole city, in your pocket.
Find courts near you, size up who holds what, and fire off a challenge in a couple of taps.
Representative screens. Final app UI may vary.
Live territory
See who owns your city.
Every captured court paints the map in its holder's colour. Watch the city shift in real time as players take ground, lose it, and fight to take it back.
Divisions & seasons
Climb the ranks.
You sit in one division at a time. A season runs two months; finish near the top and you move up, near the bottom and you drop. Gold is the live ceiling for now.
Platinum
ComingThe summit. Earned, never entered, and switching on down the line.
Gold
LiveThe top of the live game, where the city's best collide.
Silver
LiveThe grind. Consistency starts to separate the players.
Bronze
LiveWhere everyone starts. Win, capture, earn your way up.
Promotion and relegation scale with league size. Points reset each season.
What you play for
Win, and it actually counts.
Casual games disappear. Here, every result leaves a mark you can point to.
A permanent record
Every match you play is logged and confirmed. Wins, captures and defends: your history is on the books, not forgotten by Monday.
A rank worth climbing
Season points push you up the division ladder, and it's your rank, not a team's. Finish high enough and you're promoted toward Gold, the live ceiling.
Territory on the map
Hold a court and it wears your colour on the map for everyone to see. Defend it and it stays yours; lose and it flips to whoever beat you.
Levels, badges, bragging rights
Every game earns XP that levels you up, and milestones, streaks and standout captures unlock badges: the receipts you bring to the group chat.
Nomad
Play anywhere. Conquer everywhere.
Your home city is your base, but the game follows you. Away for work or a weekend, or just without a partner, the nomad system keeps you competing and collecting ground wherever you land.
Win away, bank a bonus
Travelling? Drop into any city's courts and play. Every away win pays a +15% nomad bonus and plants a flag on the court you took, building a map of the ground you've conquered. You can knock a holder off, but you can't hold an away court, that's the trade for playing on the move.
Go solo, stay in the game
No fixed partner? You're a free agent. Get pulled into other players' matches, compete, and keep earning points and XP without waiting to pair up. The game never stops just because your usual teammate is busy.
Where you can play
Your city's already on the map.
Crave Padel works at any verified court, in any city. Wherever you play, those courts are contested ground the day you join. Can't find your local club? Tell us and we'll get it added.
From the community
Players are hooked.
I was holding courts in three neighbourhoods by the end of week one. Now everyone's gunning for me.
The live map is addictive. Seeing someone capture a court I hold sends me straight back to defend it that night.
We went from casual Sunday games to chasing promotion every season. Logging the score finally means something.
Illustrative early feedback. Real reviews coming as cities go live.
Questions
The popular ones.
Tap an open division to claim it. An opponent has 48 hours to accept and play. Win, and the tier is yours. If no one accepts in time, the court is awarded to you.
You have 48 hours to respond. Accept and play, decline and keep the court, or ignore it and forfeit the division. Only teams in the top half of their division can issue a formal challenge; the bottom half play non-capturing matches to climb into contention.
One player logs the score, the other confirms it. Standard padel scoring, best of three sets. Either side can dispute a result, so the ladder stays honest.
Padel is two a side, so every match is a pair, but you're an individual player: your rank, division and courts follow you, not a fixed team. Grab any partner for a match, or go solo as a nomad and get pulled into other players' games.
Verified courts, sourced and checked by us. If your local court is missing, tell us and we'll look at adding it.
Free to play. The map, the ranked ladder and capturing courts cost nothing. Crave+ is an optional membership that unlocks private Groups and events, and helps keep the app independent and ad-free.
Think you're the best? Prove it.
Crave Padel is coming to the App Store. If you think you're the best in your area, this is where you find out. Drop your email and you'll be first in.