Can a five-a-side football pitch be converted into multiple padel courts? How many can fit?

Today the five-a-side football market is definitely in decline, but it is not only this passing trend that makes more convenient to transform a five-a-side football pitch into several padel courts, thus ensuring greater economic gain and better use of space.

Let's start from the basics ...

What kind of terrain is needed for a padel court?

To build a padel court, it is advisable to have a surface of commercial or sporting use, but it is also possible to exploit a farmland, unless it has particular dimensions or volume.

To understand if the land at your disposal is suitable for the construction of a padel court It is always advisable to contact the municipal office where you intend to start your business.

However, if you wish to open a full-fledged sports club, using the land not only for a padel court but also for storage and changing rooms, you will need a specific permit.

Before construction, you need to focus on the bottom or floor of the playing field: the padel court in fact requires a perimeter kerb, in line with the characteristics required by the technical project.

At this point you can move on to choosing the type of "carpet” (AmarantoIdea recommends the use of synthetic grass – 100% polyethylene fibre – with supply and installation of 15 kg/m2 silica sand), its colour and then move on to all the other technical and aesthetic measures related to the type of padel court that you intend to install: standard, panoramic or superpanoramic.

In any case, the padel court must be fixed to a reinforced concrete base or to a kerb "with collaborating slab" in reinforced concrete; even in the case of padel courts that can be dismantled for exhibitions.

Once we have become aware of the technical bases for the construction of a padel court, let's then focus on the specific choice of convert a five-a-side football pitch into several padel courts.

How many padel courts are there in a five-a-side football pitch?

As we have already done when talking about How to transform a tennis court into a padel court, let's start with the dimensions: a five-a-side football pitch measures 20x40 metres, while a padel court measures 10x20 metres.

It is clear that padel requires less space not only than five-a-side football, but also than tennis.

Each five-a-side football pitch can therefore be converted into three padel courts: a significant increase in revenue, the result of space optimization.

Furthermore, compared to building a new field from scratch, choosing to create a padel court on an existing court It allows you to follow a much more streamlined bureaucratic process in terms of permits.

Taking care to carry out a correct maintenance, the padel court guarantees an extremely long life and requires minimal expenses, guaranteeing, on the other hand, to triple the profits.

This is why replacing a five-a-side football pitch with three padel courts can be a winning choice for those who manage a sports centre:

• a sport that is constantly growing and increasingly loved and requested;
• an easier to organize game (no need to organize a team of friends)
• 3 shares instead of one for the same field space.

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