Profitability calculator for padel venues

Investment, financing, operations and revenue of a padel venue, worked through over 10 years. Every assumption open, every origin labeled.

Observed data

The free calculator uses industry assumptions. With full access it works from market data for your location.

Drop a pin on your planned location. The free calculator works with industry assumptions; with full access, the decisive inputs come from observed booking data of comparable clubs nearby.

Click the map and drop a pin on your planned location.

This is what full access shows here:

Peak utilizationObserved
Off-peak utilizationObserved
Realized price per hourObserved

With full access, the calculator finds comparable clubs around your pin and uses their observed values, with the number of clubs behind each figure. Thin data is flagged as thin.

Where values come from:

Build

Switching the construction type resets type-specific values (build costs, rent, energy, usable days) to their defaults.

courts (1 to 20)
€ per court= €108,000
€ per court= €180,000
€ per court= €32,000
€ one-off
€ one-off
€ per court
% of investment
Total investment€332,000

Financing

% of investment after funding
% per year
years
Debt service per year€29,370Equity €99,600, loan €232,400

Operations

Enter monthly costs net of VAT (input-tax deduction assumed); indexed at 2% per year from year 2.

€ per month
€ per court per month
€ per court per month
€ per month
€ per month
€ per month
Operating costs per month€8,360

Your operating costs equal 51% of expected revenue (the industry norm is around 45%).

Revenue

Prices are gross including 19% VAT. The model computes net values: net = gross / 1.19.

hours per day
days per year
% of open hours
€ per court-hour (gross)
€ per court-hour (gross)
%
%
€ per month
Revenue year 1 (expected)€147,659net, including the ramp-up (75% in year 1)

Break-even utilization

26.3%

Uniform utilization that covers operating costs and debt service in a normal year (net, excluding extra revenue).

Your expected utilization: 37.3% (bar). The tick marks break-even.

Payback

3y 10m

Project: pre-financing cash flow covers the investment after funding.

Equity payback (after debt service): 2y 2m

Conservative6y 4mOptimistic3y 0m

Net ROI 10 years

194%

(cumulative pre-financing cash flow - investment) / investment of €332,000. Pre-tax.

Annualized return (geometric): 11.4%

Conservative67%Optimistic289%

Cumulative cash flow

Equity view: year 0 carries the equity stake, then post-debt cash flow cumulates.

PotentialRiskExpected (assumptions)
-25002505007501,0000246810kEURYear
Year 10Expected (assumptions): €582,768Range €161,458 to €898,750

The band shows how far your utilization and price assumptions can shift the outcome in either direction. Without observed data it stays this wide.

What the result rests on

0 of 24 inputs are observed market values, 21 are industry assumptions and 3 are your own.

10-year overview

YearRevenue net (€)Operating costs (€)EBITDA (€)Debt service (€)Cash flow (€)Cumulative (€)
1€147,659€100,320€47,339€29,370€17,969-€81,631
2€200,816€102,326€98,490€29,370€69,120-€12,512
3€204,833€104,373€100,460€29,370€71,089€58,578
4€208,929€106,460€102,469€29,370€73,099€131,676
5€213,108€108,590€104,518€29,370€75,148€206,824
6€217,370€110,761€106,609€29,370€77,238€284,062
7€221,718€112,977€108,741€29,370€47,370€331,433
8€226,152€115,236€110,916€29,370€81,545€412,978
9€230,675€117,541€113,134€29,370€83,764€496,742
10€235,288€119,892€115,397€29,370€86,026€582,768

* Year 7 includes the carpet and net renewal (€32,000). Cumulative starts at minus equity (€99,600). All figures pre-tax.

Every row of this table rests on your utilization and price assumptions. The band from the chart applies to every value accordingly; with observed data from comparable clubs it is computed from measurements.

Assumptions and limits

Fixed assumptions

  • Ramp-up: year 1 assumes 75% of steady-state revenue.
  • Prices and operating costs rise nominally by 2% per year from year 2; the debt service stays fixed.
  • Prices are gross including 19% VAT; the model computes net (gross / 1.19).
  • The horizon is fixed at 10 years.
  • Year 7 books the carpet and net renewal as capital expenditure.
  • Observed utilization values from comparable clubs are a floor: courses, memberships and hours not sold online are not part of the booking signal.

Deliberately not modeled

  • Taxes and depreciation: all results are pre-tax; your tax burden depends on the legal structure.
  • NPV and IRR: we show recoveries and a geometric return, not a discounted value.
  • Land purchase: the model assumes rent or lease, not buying the plot.
  • Membership models: subscriptions are not modeled; the model prices per booked hour.
How is this calculated?

What the free calculator cannot know.

This calculator runs on your own utilization assumptions, the input that moves the result most. With full access, Padelscout Analytics fills in observed values from comparable clubs instead.