Padel Level Converter — every scale, one table

Pick the system your number came from, set the value, and see where the same player sits on the 0–7 scale booking apps use, MATCHi’s self-assessed 1–10, the UK’s LTA-style 1.0–7.0 rating and the letters clubs paint on a team sheet. No official conversion exists between any of them, so every row here is an approximation and says so.

Your number

Which system is it from

Level on the 0–7 scale

3.0

0 · never played7 · professional

The same player, four scales

0–7 scale

3.0

MATCHi 1–10

4–5

LTA-style

3.0–3.5

Club letters

C/B

Club regular

What each number is actually worth

0–7 scale

Seeded from a questionnaire when you sign up, then moved by results with the level of everyone in the match taken into account. It describes you against strangers, which is what it is for — and why it feels blunt inside a group that knows each other.

MATCHi 1–10

Declared by the player, not calculated: you pick the step whose description matches how you play, and nothing ever corrects it. Ten rungs do not make it more precise than a seven-rung scale — they make it longer. It drifts up after a good night and never back down, so read anyone’s level as a claim rather than a measurement. The scale runs 1–10 for every sport and market, with padel in Denmark the one exception on 1–7.

LTA-style 1.0–7.0

The UK’s published rating scale, with a written description for every half point, used as the reference for amateur and professional play and for competition entry. It is the closest thing here to an official number — and it is national, not global. Read the offset above as deliberate: the statement at each LTA-style value describes a higher standard than the same figure on a 0–7 platform level, so the same player lands about half a point up the scale.

Club letters

Whatever your club decided, usually to sort its internal teams and sessions. A B team at one club is a C at the club down the road, so a letter only travels as far as the people who agreed on it.

Read this before you quote a number

There is no official conversion between padel level systems, and nothing here is endorsed by any platform or federation. These are working approximations assembled from each system’s own published scale and the band descriptions clubs use — good to about half a level, which is also roughly how much any single rating can be wrong about you.

Method

How the conversion is done

There is one table behind this page and everything else is a lookup into it. Six bands cover the 0–7 scale — 0.5–1.5, 1.5–2.5, 2.5–3.5, 3.5–4.5, 4.5–5.5 and 5.5–7.0 — and each band carries a name, a MATCHi range, an LTA-style range and a club letter pair. Give a number on any one of the four systems and the tool finds its band, then reads the other three columns out of that same row.

The inverses are where the judgement lives, and each one has a rule you can check. A MATCHi step maps 1 and 2 to the first band, 3 to the second, 4 and 5 to the third, 6 and 7 to the fourth, 8 to the fifth and 9 and 10 to the sixth; where a step appears in two bands it resolves to the LOWER one, because a self-declared number reads high and the modest reading is the honest one. An LTA-style rating cuts at 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5, because those are the values the published statements sit at — the cut points are the statements, not arithmetic. A club letter takes the band it leads (E, D, C, B, A, A+ to bands one through six) and is read at that band's midpoint when a number is needed.

The one thing this page will not pretend: no official conversion exists between any of these systems. MATCHi levels are self-assessed and run 1–10 for every sport and market, with padel in Denmark the single exception on 1–7. An LTA-style number sits roughly half a point above a 0–7 platform level for the same game, on purpose, because its written statements describe a higher standard at the same digit. Club letters are local to the club that paints them. Every row here is an approximation built from each operator's own descriptions, and the page says so on the result rather than in the small print.

Where this comes from

What is my padel rating? — the 1.0 to 7.0 self-assessment statements Lawn Tennis Association (LTA)
Levels for players — the self-assessed 1 to 10 level scale MATCHi player help centre
How the Playtomic level system works Playtomic player help centre

Rivals is not affiliated with any padel federation and nothing here is coached, reviewed or official. Where a number is our own judgement rather than a published figure, the note above says so and cites nothing. Method last checked 21 August 2026.

Why the level scales disagree

The scales disagree because they answer different questions. An algorithmic 0–7 level answers “who should I be matched with tonight”, and is seeded by a sign-up questionnaire before results start correcting it. A self-assessed level — the step MATCHi asks you to pick from its own descriptions, on a 1–10 scale for every sport and market except padel in Denmark, which stayed on 1–7 — answers “what do you think you are”, a different question with a well-documented bias. The LTA’s 1.0–7.0 rating answers “what standard of competition are you eligible for” and is written out level by level on the LTA’s padel rating page. Club letters answer “which internal team are you in”, and travel about as far as the car park.

Since the questions differ, the answers cannot line up exactly, and a table claiming otherwise is guessing with confidence. Approximate mapping is still useful — it is how you read a stranger’s number before you play them — so everything here is assembled from each system’s own published bands and is good to about half a level. That happens to be the same margin of error any single rating carries about any single player. Two consequences worth knowing before you quote a row: an LTA-style figure describes a higher standard than the same figure on a 0–7 platform level, so the same player sits about half a point up that scale; and any conversion chart written before 2026 is mapping MATCHi’s old, shorter scale rather than today’s 1–10.

If your number matters to you because of how it feels rather than what it books, a better conversion is not the fix. A smaller population is: inside a fixed group of eight or ten regulars, a rating stops being a claim about the world and becomes a record of what happened between you.

Questions

Is there an official conversion between padel level systems?

No. No federation, platform or governing body publishes a mapping between the scales, and none of them agree to be mapped. Every conversion table on the internet, including this one, is an approximation assembled from the published band descriptions of each system. Treat any exact-looking equivalence — "a 3.2 there is a 4 here" — as a rough band, not a fact. The whole table this tool uses, band by band: 0.5–1.5 on the 0–7 scale is around a MATCHi 1–2, an LTA-style 1.0–2.0 and a club E or D; 1.5–2.5 is MATCHi 2–3, LTA-style 2.0–2.5, D or C; 2.5–3.5 is MATCHi 4–5, LTA-style 3.0–3.5, C or B; 3.5–4.5 is MATCHi 6–7, LTA-style 4.0–4.5, B or A; 4.5–5.5 is MATCHi 8, LTA-style 5.0, A; and 5.5–7.0 is MATCHi 9–10, LTA-style 5.5–7.0, A+.

How does a MATCHi level compare with the 0–7 scale?

They are different kinds of number. A MATCHi level is a claim you typed about yourself, chosen from a written description of each step, and it runs 1 to 10 for every sport and market — padel in Denmark is the single exception, on 1 to 7. A 0–7 level is an estimate a system maintains, seeded from a questionnaire and then corrected by results against the levels of everyone in the match. A self-assessed number drifts upward after a good night and rarely comes back down, so it usually reads high for the same player, and ten rungs make the scale longer rather than more precise. Read a stranger’s self-assessed level as an intention and a results-driven one as evidence.

What rating do UK padel tournaments ask for?

UK competition works off the LTA’s own padel rating on a 1.0–7.0 scale, which has a written description for every half point and is used as the standard reference for amateur and professional play. Entry requirements are set per event and per grade, so check the specific competition rather than assuming your number qualifies you. Nothing on this page is an LTA rating: converting into that scale gives you the band you would expect to be graded near, not an official figure.

Why do two systems disagree about my level?

Because they are reading different evidence with different arithmetic. One has your questionnaire answers and a few dozen results against known levels; another has one number you chose yourself; a third has tournament grades. They also measure at different resolutions — a half-point band against a two-decimal estimate — so agreement to within half a level is the best any pair of them can do. When two of your numbers disagree, the one built from results is usually closer.

Which number should a friend group use?

Its own. A global level exists to match you with strangers, and it pays for that reach with vagueness: it has to place you against thousands of people you will never meet. Eight regulars playing each other every week generate far better evidence about themselves than any public scale can hold, and a rating scoped to that group settles the only argument that actually gets had — who is best out of us.

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