Printable Padel score sheet (free PDF)
Padel keeps tennis's 15-30-40 rhythm, but adds glass walls, a doubles partner, and the golden point that settles a deuce in one rally. Tap the score on your phone between points while your partner covers the back glass. Share the live board by QR code or link, and anyone at the club follows along — free to watch, no account, no ads.
Prefer paper? The sheet below follows how Padel is really scored. Print it and fill it in with a pen — or start a live scoreboard and let everyone follow on their phones.
Your teams on the sheet
Padel score sheet
| Team A | Team B | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Venue | ||
| Referee | Scorekeeper | ||
| Competition | Match no. | ||
| Category |
| Set | Team A | Team B |
|---|---|---|
| Set 1 | ||
| Set 2 | ||
| Set 3 | ||
| Final score |
| Captain A | Captain B | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Referee | Scorekeeper |
Point values : +1
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How to fill in this sheet
Padel is doubles, so each header box takes two names: the Team A cell holds one pair, the Team B cell the other, partners written side by side. Around them go the date, venue, competition, match number, category, referee and scorekeeper, and at the foot two signature lines wait for one player from each pair. The grid itself is three set rows — two sets take the match, so the third often stays blank and should be struck through. You'll see no target score printed beside them, unlike a volleyball sheet: a padel row doesn't collect points, it collects games.
What gives this sheet its rhythm is the way games end. At 40-40, modern official padel drops both deuce and advantage: one golden point hands the game over, so you write it down the instant the rally dies, with nothing left to confirm. A row closes when a pair reaches 6 games while standing two ahead of the other; until that margin exists the row runs on, which is why 7-5 turns up so often. At 6-6 a tie-break settles it, first to 7 with two points clear, and the row reads 7-6 with the tie-break count tucked into the same cell — 7-6 (7-5).
Plenty of clubs swap the third set for a 10-point super tie-break. Give it the last row and write "super tie-break" beside the figures — without that word, a 10-7 sitting under two rows of games will read as nonsense to whoever files the sheet later. Nothing else is asked of you: no bandejas, no off-the-glass returns, no rally-by-rally detail. Games, sets, and the bottom line. When one pair holds two of them, "Final score" reads 2-0 or 2-1 — in sets, never in games, even when a super tie-break ended it.
What the scorekeeper watches
The golden point is what keeps a padel scorer alert: at 40-40 there is no safety net, the next rally settles the game, and the pen needs to be moving before the ball comes down. Watch the serve as well. It rotates through all four players and has to be hit underhand, after a bounce on the ground, at or below waist height — struck any higher it's a fault, and the server gets two attempts just as in tennis. This sheet carries no penalty counters and no clock: the match lasts however long one pair needs to bank two sets.
Common questions
What exactly is the golden point, and when do I write the game down?
At 40-40, official padel (FIP, Premier Padel) plays no advantage and no repeated deuce: the next rally takes the game outright. So you record it the moment the ball drops, with nothing to wait for. The classic two-point advantage survives as an amateur variant — if your group plays it, settle that before the first serve and keep it all match.
How do I write down a super tie-break instead of a third set?
Put the figures in the third row — 10-7, say — and label the row "super tie-break" in the margin. That label matters: without it, a reader will take those numbers for games. Whichever pair wins the 10-point super tie-break wins the match, since it is only ever reached at one set all, so the final line still reads 2-1 in sets.
Can our club tournament use this sheet?
It carries no official standing and doesn't need any: for an internal tournament, a training block or an evening between pairs, it does the job. Padel clubs shift formats anyway — golden point or advantage, a full third set or a super tie-break — and a flexible sheet absorbs that better than a fixed form. Federation-sanctioned events hand out their own documents on the day.
On a glass court the scorer is usually one of the four players — and a golden point slips past easily when you've just chased one off the back glass. In ScoreZen the games and sets add themselves up, while whoever couldn't come follows the rally live through a QR code, free, no app and no account. Print the full recap afterwards: point by point, streaks, match points — even with no signal at the club.
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