Padel World Cup 2026 in Doha: format, groups, where to watch

From Monday 2 to Saturday 7 November 2026, national teams meet in Doha for padel's world title: the FIP World Cup. Sixteen men's teams and sixteen women's teams take part, including a Great Britain women's team. Play is at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex. The International Padel Federation (FIP) splits €1.2 million in prize money equally between the men's and women's events. The defending champions are Argentina in the men's event (winners in 2022 and 2024) and Spain in the women's.

Below are the format, the groups, where to watch, and the rackets that brands link to the stars. We've left results out on purpose: they're updated daily on the FIP's event page.

The format

• Group stage, Monday 2 to Wednesday 4 November. The men and the women each play in four groups of four countries. Every country plays each of the other three in its group once.
• A tie is three matches. The first country to win two takes the tie.
• Quarter-finals, Thursday 5 November. The top two in each group go through. The other countries play for 9th to 16th place.
• Semi-finals, Friday 6 November.
• Finals day, Saturday 7 November. The third-place play-offs are in the morning, followed by the finals.

The schedule with start times is on the FIP's event page. In November, Doha is three hours ahead of the UK.

The groups

This is the FIP's draw of 1 November. Great Britain's women share group A with the defending champions, Spain.

Where to watch the Padel World Cup

• Red Bull TV. According to the FIP, Red Bull TV broadcasts the World Cup worldwide, except where a local broadcaster holds the rights.
• YouTube. The FIP's YouTube channel streams the ties in the markets the streaming platform doesn't cover, according to the FIP. Recordings of ties already played are on the channel too.
• Local broadcasters named by the FIP: Movistar (Spain and Andorra), SuperTennis (Italy), Sport TV (Portugal), beIN Sports (France, the United States and Canada, the Middle East and North Africa, Türkiye, and parts of Asia and Oceania including Australia) and ESPN (South and Central America and the Caribbean).
• UK and Ireland. The FIP's list names no local broadcaster for the UK or Ireland. By the FIP's description that leaves Red Bull TV, with the FIP's YouTube channel as the fallback.

The stars' rackets

Lots of players want to know which racket the pros use. We only repeat what the brand itself says: on its own product page, each brand links the racket to the player. Seven of those players are named in the Argentina or Spain squads in the FIP's preview of 28 October. Here are their rackets, with the lowest price we found on 2 November 2026 at a shop that had the racket in stock.

What stands out. Four of the seven rackets are Bullpadels, and four are diamond-shaped. Five are 2027 models. The most expensive is Tapia's Nox: at €389.91 it costs almost twice as much as Coello's Head (€199.95). The cheapest is Stupaczuk's Siux, a 2025 model, at €139.95, but on 2 November only 2 of the 5 shops where we found it had it in stock.

How we know:

• The racket. Each brand links the racket to the player on its own product page: Nox (Tapia), Head (Coello), Siux (Stupaczuk) and Bullpadel for Di Nenno, Navarro, González and Brea. Siux calls the Electra Stupa Pro ST4 Stupaczuk's new racket for 2025. We read these pages between 19 and 21 October 2026.
• The squads. The FIP named these players in its preview of 28 October. Each national coach decides who plays which tie, and we don't know which version of the racket a player uses in Doha.
• The shape comes from our catalogue. For these seven rackets we checked the specs by hand against the brand's own site.
• The price is a snapshot. The current price per shop and the price history are on each racket page.

A signature racket tells you about the pro, not about you. Whether it suits your game depends on your level, your playing style and your arm. If you're not sure, ask our racket coach or compare all rackets yourself.

Sources

• FIP, The world's Padel elite in Doha from 2 to 7 November: 32 national teams set for the sport's most eagerly awaited event (23 October 2026)
• FIP, From Tapia and Brea to Coello and Triay: Padel stars in Doha for a dream World Cup (28 October 2026)
• FIP, Group stage drawn as the race for the world title begins in Doha on Monday (1 November 2026)
• FIP, The global show: where to watch the FIP World Cup on TV and via streaming (2 November 2026)