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
3.0
0 · never played7 · professional
Why this matters

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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