Padel in Northern Ireland 2026: Every Club from Belfast to Derry
By Gary, founder of RacketRise. Glasgow-based, covering padel across the UK — including regular conversations with Northern Irish players and operators.
Last Updated: July 2026.
Quick Summary
- Northern Ireland has roughly 17 padel venues as of July 2026 — 8 tracked in our directory plus the ~9-site Let's Go Padel network. In 2022 there were effectively none.
- Biggest dedicated sites: Let's Go Padel Derry (10 courts, opened December 2025), Padel 54 Moira (8 indoor courts), Powerhouse Padel Coleraine (5 courts), Padel Society Antrim (4 outdoor).
- Belfast: Belfast Boat Club and Windsor LTC are the club options; Let's Go Padel opened 7 courts at Shorts in East Belfast in July 2026; FEAT4's Boucher Road club is scheduled for August 2026.
- Typical cost: £15–£36 per court per hour across the venues whose rates we track.
- Governance: Tennis Ireland covers all-island competition; LTA Padel events are open to NI entries.
- Find every tracked NI venue via the RacketRise Court Finder for Belfast.
Northern Ireland deserves its own padel guide because almost no other UK directory covers it properly — and because the scene is moving faster than anywhere else in the UK per head. A July 2026 refresh of this guide removed several venues we could no longer evidence and added the wave of 2025–26 openings, so what follows is the honest picture rather than the biggest number we could print.
Table of Contents
Padel in Northern Ireland: The Current Picture
The NI scene now has three shapes of venue:
- Dedicated padel-first operators: Padel 54 (Moira), Powerhouse Padel (Coleraine) and Padel Society (Muckamore, Antrim). Purpose-built, and home to most of the serious club-level play.
- The Let's Go Padel network: the biggest single force in NI padel growth. Founded by Northern Irish entrepreneur Pete Boyle, it runs around nine sites — Derry (10 courts), Carryduff, Ballyclare, Crumlin Road Belfast, Newry, Omagh, Ballymoney (opened March 2026), Lurgan (opened March 2026) and Shorts Recreation & Sports Club in East Belfast (7 courts, opened July 2026) — with more than £3m invested and further sites planned.
- Established clubs and complexes adding courts: Windsor Lawn Tennis Club, Belfast Boat Club, Galgorm Castle, Eddie Irvine Sports, Skill School HQ. Usually 1–3 courts added to an existing sports footprint.
One correction from earlier versions of this guide: the "dual-sport padel + pickleball" model is much rarer in NI than we previously reported. A venue-by-venue evidence check in July 2026 found most of those dual-sport listings were import errors, and they've been removed from our directory. NI padel venues are, overwhelmingly, padel venues.
Belfast Padel Courts
- Belfast Boat Club Padel — 12 Lockview Road. 3 courts (2 covered) at this classic Belfast rowing/sports club. Non-members welcome.
- Windsor Lawn Tennis Club — 37 Windsor Avenue. 1 outdoor court integrated with the tennis club.
- Let's Go Padel — Shorts Recreation & Sports Club (East Belfast) — 7 courts (five doubles, two singles) on the club's former bowling green, opened July 2026 and bookable on Playtomic.
- Let's Go Padel — Crumlin Road — part of the same network's Belfast footprint.
- FEAT4 — 39 Boucher Road. A £1.5m five-indoor-court club with café, gym and recovery studio, scheduled to open in August 2026 on the former Ulster Tatler site (FEAT4 is currently best known as a padel apparel brand).
Lisburn, Moira and County Antrim
- Padel 54 — 20 Lisnabilla Road, Moira. 8 indoor courts (six doubles, two singles) — the biggest club in our NI directory and the first dedicated padel club in Northern Ireland.
- Padel Society — Muckamore Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club, Antrim. 4 panoramic outdoor courts.
- Galgorm Castle — 200 Galgorm Road, near Ballymena. 2 indoor courts at the hotel/golf resort.
Note for anyone using an older version of this guide: Lisburn Racquets Club appears in our pickleball guide — our July 2026 evidence check confirmed pickleball there, not padel.
Coleraine and the North Coast
- Powerhouse Padel — 52 Hanover Place, Coleraine. 5 indoor courts; the major north-coast dedicated facility.
- Let's Go Padel Ballymoney — 10A Riada Avenue. 2 courts, opened 7 March 2026, with a second phase planned.
Powerhouse covers Coleraine, Portrush and Ballymena; Ballymoney fills the gap towards the Causeway Coast.
Derry / Londonderry Padel
- Let's Go Padel Derry — Springtown Industrial Estate, 6 Springtown Drive. 10 courts, opened December 2025 with a £2m investment — billed as Ireland's largest indoor padel venue.
- Skill School HQ — Campsie. Padel courts alongside the indoor football pitches at this football-and-padel centre.
Earlier versions of this guide listed Brooke Park and the Racecourse Road Playtrail as padel venues; our evidence check found no padel at either and they've been removed.
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Bangor, Ards and North Down
- Eddie Irvine Sports — Balloo Road, Bangor. Home of Northern Ireland's first two indoor padel courts, at the F1 driver's karting and multi-sport complex.
North Down otherwise leans towards pickleball — see the pickleball guide for the Bangor venues.
Costs and Booking
- Court hire: £15–£36 per court per hour across the NI venues whose rates we track — roughly £4–£9 per person for four players. The spread is off-peak-to-peak; NI pricing sits broadly in line with Scotland and Wales and noticeably below central London.
- Membership: varies by venue — the dedicated clubs offer member rates and league access; traditional racquet clubs bundle padel into existing memberships.
- Booking: Playtomic dominates among dedicated padel venues; some clubs take direct bookings via their own sites or phone.
Governance, Coaching and Competition
- Tennis Ireland covers all-island padel competition. Northern Irish players follow the Tennis Ireland pathway; cross-border tournaments run across the island.
- LTA Padel events in England are open to NI entries, and many competitive NI players hold both memberships.
- Coaching: the dedicated clubs (Padel 54, Powerhouse, Padel Society, Let's Go Padel sites) are where most coaching happens — check each venue for current rates.
What's Opening Next
All of the below are announced projects, not open venues — dates are the operators' own targets:
- FEAT4, Boucher Road, Belfast — five indoor courts, scheduled to open August 2026.
- Let's Go Padel has submitted planning for 8 courts at Holywood Road in East Belfast, has a 5-court Magherafelt site in the pipeline plus an Armagh venue listed as coming soon, and has announced a Belfast city-centre venue with a retractable roof.
- Padel100 lists Armagh and Strabane among its first announced venues.
If you run an NI padel venue not listed above, email hello@racketrise.co.uk — venues go into the directory once we can verify them against the operator's own site or booking page.
Pickleball in Northern Ireland
For the pickleball-specific guide, see Pickleball in Northern Ireland.
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