The project has been approved by the Oeiras City Council and will move forward, according to the Portuguese Padel Federation.
It’s a trendy sport and, if you’re not a fan of Padel, you certainly have a friend or colleague who postpones meetings because they can’t miss scheduled training sessions and matches. Padel has been on the rise in recent years, not only conquering new spaces in sports clubs and gyms but also being the preference of amateur athletes.
Padel fever, which could be part of the Olympic Games in 2032, also touched Oeiras a few years ago, with the opening of spaces dedicated to this sport. In 2017, courts for the sport were created at the Oeiras Tennis School Club Sports Complex. In 2021, the Oeiras Padel Academy was opened in Porto Salvo, which promoted annual charity tournaments. More recently, at the beginning of 2024, the new Solinca in Linda-a-Velha included two padel courts. And these are just a few examples.
However, the presence of paddle tennis in the municipality of Oeiras is going up a level. After the famous City of Football, Jamor will also be home to the City of Padel. The project is going ahead, after having been approved by the Oeiras City Council, as the Portuguese Padel Federation announced last Thursday, July 18.
“The Portuguese Padel Federation is pleased to be able to inform its affiliates of the approval of the architectural project for the City of Padel. After a long journey to ensure that the project, presented to the Oeiras City Council, complied with all the requirements demanded by the legislation and by the Municipality, this is another step towards the materialization of a dream that, once fulfilled, will provide national paddle tennis with a complex without parallel in the world,” shared the Federation.
This news follows the signing of the operating contract for Cidade do Padel, formalized in September 2023, by the Mayor of Oeiras, Isaltino Morais, the Chairman of the Board of the Oeiras Valley Investment Agency – OVIA, António Martins da Cruz, the Portuguese Padel Federation, and Smooth Odissey, Lda, a company owned by Filipe de Botton and Cristiano Ronaldo.
“At stake is the most important infrastructure dedicated to Portuguese padel in the history of the sport, with the construction and creation of a complex that will be the target of an investment of more than five million euros, and which should be completed in the first half of 2025,” said the Federation at the time of the agreement.
Padel City will thus be built in the Jamor Valley, next to the National Stadium. The project proposes a very ambitious infrastructure. Let’s look at the numbers: there will be 17 padel courts, 11 of which will be covered, in a 15,000 square meter complex.
The space will have a central court with the capacity to set up removable benches for more than two thousand spectators and a central area where removable benches with 500 seats can be set up. The aim is for it to be able to host events such as European and world championships in the sport in the future. In addition to the pitches, various support facilities will be built there, such as a restaurant, a gym, and physiotherapy rooms, among others.
The new facility will also house the headquarters of the Portuguese Padel Federation, which will consequently have “infrastructures capable of promoting training and development activities at all levels of the sport, as well as providing the municipality of Oeiras with a structure open to the entire padel community, including the young population of Oeiras, the school padel of Oeiras, or all those who want to do sport and live a healthy life”, says the Federation.
