Premier Padel is the top professional padel tour in the world, and its only stop on US soil is the Miami P1, held in Miami every spring. If you have followed padel for a while you may remember a rival circuit called the World Padel Tour. That split is over: since 2024 the professional game runs on a single unified tour, now titled the Qatar Airways Premier Padel Tour. Here is how the tour is structured, the full 2026 calendar, what the Miami event actually is, and how to watch it from the United States.
What is Premier Padel?
Premier Padel is the global professional circuit for the sport, sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de Padel (FIP) and owned by Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), the group behind major investments across world sport. For 2026 it runs as the Qatar Airways Premier Padel Tour, a 28-event global season where the best players on the planet, names like Arturo Coello, Agustín Tapia, Alejandro Galán and Ariana Sánchez, compete for ranking points and prize money. New to the sport? Start with what padel is, then come back for the pro game.
What happened to the World Padel Tour?
For years professional padel was split between two competing circuits, Premier Padel and the older World Padel Tour (WPT), which forced players and fans to choose sides. That ended in 2024. QSI acquired the World Padel Tour and folded it into Premier Padel, unifying the sport under one tour with one world ranking. So if you are searching for the World Padel Tour today, you are really looking for Premier Padel: it is the same top-level professional padel, just under one banner.
How Premier Padel is structured: Majors, P1s and P2s
The 2026 Qatar Airways Premier Padel Tour is made up of 28 events, organised into tiers. Majors sit at the top, followed by P1 events, then P2 events, with ranking points and prize money scaling accordingly. The season also includes a few special dates, the Mediterranean Games, the FIP World Cup, and the season-ending Barcelona Finals. Getting the tiers right matters, because the US event is often mislabelled.
| Tier | What it is | 2026 events |
|---|---|---|
| Major | The top tier, biggest points and prize money | Qatar, Italy, Paris, Mexico |
| P1 | High-tier events, one rung below a Major | Miami, Madrid, London, Dubai, Buenos Aires and more |
| P2 | Standard tour events | Gijón, Cancún, Rotterdam, Germany and more |
| Special | One-off and season-ending events | Mediterranean Games, FIP World Cup, Barcelona Finals |
The nearest Major to the United States is in Mexico (Acapulco). The US itself hosts a P1, not a Major, and that event is the Miami P1.
The 2026 Premier Padel calendar
Here is the full 2026 Qatar Airways Premier Padel Tour calendar. The Miami P1 (event 4) is the one stop on US soil. These are main-draw dates and the calendar is subject to change.
| # | Dates | Event | Country | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 09-14 Feb | Riyadh Season | Saudi Arabia | P1 |
| 2 | 02-08 Mar | Gijón | Spain | P2 |
| 3 | 16-22 Mar | Cancún | Mexico | P2 |
| 4 | 23-29 Mar | Miami | USA | P1 |
| 5 | 06-11 Apr | Qatar | Qatar | Major |
| 6 | 13-18 Apr | NewGiza | Egypt | P2 |
| 7 | 20-26 Apr | Brussels | Belgium | P2 |
| 8 | 11-17 May | Buenos Aires | Argentina | P1 |
| 9 | 18-24 May | Asunción | Paraguay | P2 |
| 10 | 01-07 Jun | Italy | Italy | Major |
| 11 | 08-14 Jun | Valencia | Spain | P1 |
| 12 | 22-28 Jun | Valladolid | Spain | P2 |
| 13 | 29 Jun-05 Jul | Bordeaux | France | P2 |
| 14 | 13-19 Jul | Malaga | Spain | P1 |
| 15 | 27 Jul-02 Aug | Pretoria | South Africa | P2 |
| 16 | 03-09 Aug | London | UK | P1 |
| 17 | 24-30 Aug | Mediterranean Games | Special | – |
| 18 | 31 Aug-06 Sep | Madrid | Spain | P1 |
| 19 | 07-13 Sep | Paris | France | Major |
| 20 | 14-20 Sep | Europe (TBC) | Europe | P2 |
| 21 | 28 Sep-04 Oct | Rotterdam | Netherlands | P2 |
| 22 | 05-11 Oct | Germany | Germany | P2 |
| 23 | 12-18 Oct | Milano | Italy | P1 |
| 24 | 26-31 Oct | Kuwait | Kuwait | P1 |
| 25 | 01-07 Nov | FIP World Cup | Special | – |
| 26 | 09-15 Nov | Dubai | UAE | P1 |
| 27 | 23-29 Nov | Mexico (Acapulco) | Mexico | Major |
| 28 | 07-13 Dec | Barcelona Finals | Spain | Finals |
The Miami P1: Premier Padel’s only US stop
The Miami P1 is the single biggest professional padel event on American soil. The 2026 edition ran March 23 to 29 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, played indoors, with qualifying beginning March 22 and a total prize fund of €479,068. The men’s draw featured 40 pairs and the women’s draw 28, bringing the world’s top players to Florida.
- When: late March (March 23 to 29 in 2026)
- Where: Miami Beach Convention Center, played indoors
- Prize fund: €479,068
- Tier: a P1 (one rung below a Major)
- Who: the world’s top men’s and women’s pairs
Tickets to the Miami P1 are noticeably cheaper than equivalent events in Spain, which makes it the most accessible way for US fans to see elite padel live. If you are heading to the event, our guide to where to play padel in Miami will help you get on court while you are there.
How to watch Premier Padel in the US
You do not need an expensive subscription to follow Premier Padel from the United States. Coverage is split across a few free and low-cost options:
- Red Bull TV: streams the latter stages (quarter-finals through the final) of the Miami P1 and other events, free to watch
- Premier Padel’s official YouTube channel: live streams of selected centre-court matches in the earlier rounds, plus full replays within about 24 hours and highlights
- Official Premier Padel app: schedules, results and on-demand content
Premier Padel vs the Pro Padel League
It is easy to mix these up, but they are different things. Premier Padel is the global tour of individual pairs chasing a world ranking. The Pro Padel League (PPL) is a North American, city-based franchise league with mixed-gender teams and its own season and champion. Premier Padel’s US footprint is the single Miami P1; the PPL runs a five-event season across the US, Canada and Mexico.
For the full league explainer see our Pro Padel League guide, and for the complete picture of the sport stateside, our hub on padel in the US and our guide to padel tournaments and how to compete.
The bottom line
Professional padel is now one unified tour, and the United States has a genuine seat at the table through the Miami P1 each spring. It is a P1 rather than a Major, but it still brings the best players in the world to Florida, and you can watch most of it for free. For a sport that barely existed in the US five years ago, having a stop on the 28-event global circuit is a milestone, and the Miami event has quickly become the highlight of the American padel calendar.
Premier Padel is the top professional padel tour in the world, sanctioned by the FIP and owned by Qatar Sports Investments. In 2026 it runs as the Qatar Airways Premier Padel Tour, a 28-event global season across tiers (Majors, P1s and P2s) where the world’s best players compete for the global ranking.
No. Qatar Sports Investments acquired the World Padel Tour and merged it into Premier Padel in 2024. Professional padel now runs on a single unified tour with one world ranking, under the Premier Padel name.
The 2026 Miami P1 ran March 23 to 29 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, with qualifying from March 22 and a prize fund of €479,068.
No. Miami is a P1, one rung below a Major. The 2026 Majors are Qatar, Italy, Paris and Mexico; the Mexico Major (Acapulco) is the nearest to the US.
Red Bull TV streams the quarter-finals through the final for free, while Premier Padel’s official YouTube channel carries selected earlier-round matches plus replays and highlights. The official Premier Padel app has schedules and on-demand content.
Lucas Sánchez is the founder of SimplePadel. Born and raised in Spain, Lucas has been living in the US and UK for the last 20 years and currently calls Miami his home. While he’s never played professionally, the dream is still alive.
Lucas loves nothing more than playing (and talking) about padel, and he considers himself lucky to have a wife and family that share his love for the game.