World Cup

Play like the world cup, with groups and knockout stages. The best team wins the tournament.

Rules in World Cup

These are the following rules of World Cup

  • The tournament will be started with groups of 4 teams with manually paired teams.
  • The winning team continues to the next round while the losing team is knockout out of their group.
  • A match can not end in a draw, Golden Point is usually used to decide a winner.
  • When the group stage is over, the winning team continues to the next group stage. Groups are merged and the tournament continues until only one team remains.
  • The last team remaining wins.

How do you score?

In World cup you score as you like. You could go for the standard 15, 30, 40 and game or receive a point for each won ball.

  • Each match is played for a certain number of points. Usually 16, 24 or 32. The matches can also be played for a predetermined time period of 10-20 minutes.
  • Each team serves 2 times. The serve is then passed to the opponent.
  • Each ball won gives one point to the winning team

How to organize a World cup tournament?

To play World cup you need at least 16 participants. Each group consists of 4 teams. The amount of groups needed is at least 2.

  • The number of padel courts needed for a World cup tournament depends on the number of participants. Usually 4 players per court.
  • It is required that the number of courts corresponds to the number of players.
  • The normal playing time for a World cup tournament is about 1 - 2 hours depending on the amount of groups.
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