What Are the Premier Padel Finals? Format, Qualification and the 2026 Race to Barcelona
What the Premier Padel Finals are, who qualifies through the FIP Race, and how the 2026 edition in Barcelona works, dates, format and prize money included.
Quick Answer
The Premier Padel Finals are the season-ending tournament of the Premier Padel circuit, played at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. The 2026 edition runs 10–13 December and brings together the top 16 men and top 16 women in the FIP Race — eight pairs per gender. It is a straight knockout with no group stage. Quarter-finals run on Thursday 10 and Friday 11, semi-finals follow on Saturday 12, and Sunday 13 brings the final and the third/fourth-place match.
Last updated: September 2026 · Dates, format, ranking points and prize money verified at time of writing.
What the Finals Are
Every padel season ends in the same room. The Palau Sant Jordi has hosted the season finale since 2024, and the 2026 edition is the third under the Premier Padel banner.
The event inherits a longer tradition. The World Padel Tour closed each year with its Master Final, known across Spain as the Maestros. When Premier Padel took over as the sport's main circuit, it kept the idea, the city and the nickname.
One title per gender is on the line, and it carries a specific weight. Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia had won everything else before they finally took the 2025 Finals. The eight pairs who qualify have all won plenty. This is the one that settles the season. For how the rest of the circuit fits together, see our guide to the Premier Padel tour format.
Who Gets There: How the FIP Race Works
Qualification is individual, not by pair. The FIP Race takes the top 16 men and the top 16 women, and those 32 players then compete as eight partnerships per gender.
The Race is a calendar-year ranking. It starts from zero each January and counts each player's best 22 results across Premier Padel and the CUPRA FIP Tour. That second part matters: strong runs at FIP Platinum and FIP Gold events bank points too.
Do not confuse the Race with the FIP Ranking. The FIP Ranking rolls across 52 weeks. The Race decides who reaches Barcelona and who ends the year as world number one.
Because the slot belongs to the player rather than the partnership, the Finals can produce pairings nobody has seen all season. In 2025 every qualifier played alongside their regular partner. In other years, players have teamed up just for the week.
How the Week Works
The Finals are the shortest event on the calendar. Eight pairs per gender, three knockout rounds, and one court for the whole tournament.
Thursday and Friday hold the four quarter-finals in each draw. Saturday brings the semi-finals. Sunday closes with the third/fourth-place match and the final. That is 16 matches across the week, eight per gender.
The third/fourth-place playoff is unusual for padel. Premier Padel introduced it at the 2024 Finals and it has stayed on the schedule. The players have not hidden their feelings: several have said the match does not appeal to them.
Ticketing reflects the demand. General sale for 2026 opened on 29 April, with Thursday afternoon seats from around €16.50 and premium hospitality up to €475. In 2025 both the semi-finals and the final sold out, and more than 30,000 spectators passed through the venue across that weekend alone.
What's at Stake
The Finals pay more per player than any other event on the tour, and in 2025 the men's and women's draws were paid equally. The pool came to roughly €600,000.
| Round | Prize money (per player) | Ranking points |
|---|---|---|
| Champions | €52,500 | 1,500 |
| Finalists | €30,000 | 900 |
| Third place | €21,000 | 600 |
| Fourth place | €13,500 | 400 |
| Quarter-finalists | €7,688 | 270 |
Premier Padel has not published the 2026 breakdown yet, so those remain the most recent confirmed figures. Points won in Barcelona close out the season's Race and feed into the following year's ranking.
Where the 2026 Race Stands
The Paris Major settled the first places. Thirteen players have already secured their spot in Barcelona: six men and seven women.
Men: Arturo Coello, Agustín Tapia, Federico Chingotto, Alejandro Galán, Juan Lebrón and Leo Augsburger.
Women: Gemma Triay, Delfi Brea, Bea González, Paula Josemaría, Andrea Ustero, Ari Sánchez and Claudia Fernández.
Coello and Tapia lead the men's Race on 12,620 points each, 1,270 clear of Chingotto and Galán on 11,350. Augsburger and Lebrón sit on 5,655. Mike Yanguas holds seventh on 4,005, with Franco Stupaczuk eighth on 3,735.
In the women's Race, Triay and Brea lead on 11,300. González and Josemaría have 8,480, with Sánchez and Ustero only 400 behind on 8,080.
Six Premier Padel events remain before Barcelona, with 7,200 points on offer to the champion pairs. Two Majors pay 2,000 points each, the two P1 events 1,000 and the two P2 events 600. The CUPRA FIP Tour adds two FIP Platinum events worth 300 points and five FIP Gold events worth 150.
The run-in: Rotterdam P2 (28 September–4 October), Düsseldorf P2, Milano P1, the Kuwait Major (26–31 October), Dubai P1 and the Acapulco Major (23–29 November).
Barcelona and the Stage
The Palau Sant Jordi stands on Montjuïc and holds around 16,159 spectators in its padel setup. The venue has become the tournament's permanent home: 2024, 2025 and 2026.
The 2025 finals produced two close matches. Coello and Tapia beat Galán and Chingotto 6-7, 6-3, 7-6 for their first Finals title together. González and Fernández beat Triay and Brea 6-4, 0-6, 6-3 in the women's final.
A year earlier, Coki Nieto and Jon Sanz delivered the upset of the decade. They beat Coello and Tapia 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 and ended a 47-match unbeaten run. Ari Sánchez and Paula Josemaría took the women's title.
The 2026 field will fill out as the last events play. Expect the final places to go down to the Kuwait and Acapulco Majors, and the eighth spot in each draw to be the last one decided. For broadcast details, see how to watch Premier Padel.
Sources
- FIP — Road to the Finals: the FIP Race explained — https://www.padelfip.com/2026/09/road-to-the-finals-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-fip-race-to-barcelona-13-players-already-qualified-but-the-race-remains-wide-open-across-premier-padel-and-cupra-fip-tour/
- FIP — scoring system and Race rules — https://www.padelfip.com/es/sistema-tabla-de-puntuacion/
- Premier Padel — Finals event page — https://premierpadel.com/en/tourfinals
- Mundo Deportivo — 2026 Finals schedule and ticket details — https://www.mundodeportivo.com/padel/premier-padel/20260429/1004176862/venta-entradas-premier-padel-finals-barcelona-asi-puedes-ver-mejores-mundo-palau-sant-jordi.html
- MARCA — how the Tour Finals works, prize money and past winners — https://www.marca.com/padel/2025/12/08/asi-funciona-tour-finals-premier-padel-dinero-quienes-juegan-anteriores-ganadores.html
- AS — 2025 Finals bracket and round-by-round schedule — https://as.com/masdeporte/polideportivo/premier-padel-finals-2025-cuadro-cruces-y-calendario-del-torneo-f202512-n/
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