Manzasport Awards launched: Valencia to host the first edition of the world’s best padel club awards

  • February 12, 2026

Valencia will host the first edition of the Manzasport Awards, created to recognize excellence, innovation, and quality in the management and facilities of padel clubs worldwide. The inaugural edition will take place in twenty twenty-five and represents a new milestone for the international padel sector.

The Manzasport Awards 2025 will feature two main categories:

  • Popular Vote, open to the global padel community.

  • Professional Jury Vote, composed of leading figures from the sports, institutional, and industrial sectors.

The professional jury will include prominent personalities from padel and the industry, such as Francisco Navarro Compán (Paquito Navarro), Premier Padel player and brand ambassador since twenty nineteen; Alfonso Monferrer, President of the Padel Federation of the Valencian Community; and Javier Sánchez, Sports Director of the FPCV, among others.

In this first edition, the nominated clubs represent the international forefront of padel and feature top-level facilities in their respective countries:

  • PadelHaus (United States)

  • Major Padel Club (Portugal)

  • Padel Ludwigsfelde (Germany)

  • Simons Padel (Denmark)

The awards ceremony will take place in Valencia on December nineteenth, a city established as one of Europe’s main padel hubs and currently a global reference in padel court construction. Several of the sector’s most influential companies originate from Valencia, and Manzasport, as a pioneering and internationally recognized company, has played a key role in this development by promoting facility innovation and raising global padel standards.

With this first edition, the Manzasport Awards aim to become an annual benchmark recognition, encouraging continuous improvement among clubs and highlighting those who raise padel standards worldwide.

The professional jury will also include Nacho Redondo (MONDO), Juan Antonio Perez (LEDProjects), Iván Raso (Turfgrass), Juan Carlos Chulià (Filux), Fernando Manzanares (Bullpadel), Pepe Sanz (Allinyou Agency), Marcos Robles (Al Reves Padel), Nacho Daronz (Matchpoint), and Javier Corbalán (Glascor).

Media interested in attending and covering the Manzasport Awards 2025 gala and dinner can request prior access via:
r.gallastegui@allinyoumkt.com
juan@manzasport.co


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