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Printable Padel Score Sheet — pen and paper, done right

Set the date, the venue and how many matches you are playing; print one A4 sheet with the set boxes, the golden-point column and the winner line already drawn. Nothing to charge, nothing to unlock, and it still works when the last phone dies — but paper cannot tell you who is ahead this season.

The sheet
Matches on the sheet

One to six. Six still fits on a single page — the rows tighten instead of spilling over.

Golden-point column

A box per match for the games that went to a single golden point.

Player names

Four names get printed into the matches with the pairs rotated, so every player partners every other player before anyone repeats.

What prints
RIVALS
Padel score sheet
Date
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Settle it properly: getrivals.app Golden point at 40–40

The card above is the sheet, at the proportions it prints. Everything else on this page — the court, the panels, the questions — is left off the paper.

Method

How the sheet is laid out

The sheet is one A4 page and the layout is decided by what padel scoring actually needs to record. Each match block gets four name slots — a padel match is 2v2 and a sheet that assumes singles is useless — then three set columns, because a best-of-three is the longest match a club night sells, then a box for the games that went to a single golden point, then a winner line. Ask for one to six matches and the rows tighten rather than spilling onto a second page; six is the point at which a legible row and a single sheet stop being compatible.

The golden-point box is there because the FIP rules make the deciding point an option rather than a fixture: a pair can play advantage or the golden point, and a night's sheet is worth more if it records which. The three set columns and the two-clear-games rule come from the same rulebook.

Printing four names is where the only arithmetic on this page lives. The pairs rotate through the three ways four players can be split — 1 and 2 against 3 and 4, then 1 and 3 against 2 and 4, then 1 and 4 against 2 and 3 — cycling by match number. Three matches therefore give every player every partner exactly once and every opponent twice, which is the complete rotation for four people; a fourth match repeats the first pairing, because there is no fourth split to print.

The preview you see is drawn in your browser and the print stylesheet strips the site to the sheet: black on white, no glass, no page furniture, A4 margins at 14mm. Nothing about the sheet is uploaded, and the paper keeps working when the last phone in the group dies — which is the honest case for it, and also its limit, because paper cannot tell you who is ahead this season.

Where this comes from

  1. Rules of Padel (score in a game, the deciding point, score in a set) International Padel Federation (FIP), December 2025 edition

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.

When paper beats a phone

Paper wins in three situations, and they are all familiar. The phone that was keeping score is on 3% and doubling as the speaker. There are four of you and none of you wants to be the one holding a device between rallies. Or the court sits in a cage with no signal and nobody fancies finding out whether the tab survives a reload. A printed sheet has no battery, no notifications, and no argument about who tapped what.

What it cannot do is compare. One sheet tells you tonight. A stack of sheets tells you nothing, because nobody adds them up — which is why the honest use of a score sheet is as a scorecard, not as an archive.

Two details make a sheet worth printing. Print more matches than you expect to play, because a spare row costs nothing and a missing one gets scribbled in a margin. And keep the golden-point box filled in: a night where six games went to a single rally was a close night, whatever the final scores looked like.

Questions

How do you keep score in padel on paper?
Write the four names, one pair per row, and give each set its own column. Most crews only write the games score once the set is over — 6 and 4 in the Set 1 column — rather than tracking every game as it lands. Then fill the winner line before you leave the court, because five minutes later nobody agrees. Say the score out loud before every serve and the sheet stays honest.

What should a padel scorecard include?
The date and the court, four name slots per match, three set columns and a line for the winner. That is the whole job. A golden-point box is worth adding if your crew settles 40–40 with one rally: knowing that six games went to sudden death tells you more about the night than the set scores do. Anything beyond that is decoration nobody fills in.

Can I keep the results long term?
Not on paper, honestly. A sheet records one night, lives in a kit bag until it goes soft, and nobody types six weeks of them into a spreadsheet. That is the trade: pen and paper is the most reliable way to record a night and the least likely record to survive the month. Rivals is the other half — log the match once and the result stays, with the ratings and head-to-head records worked out for you.

Is there a PDF version?
There is no separate download, because printing to PDF gives you a better file than any fixed template. On a Mac, press Cmd+P and choose PDF at the bottom left of the print dialog. On Windows, press Ctrl+P and pick “Microsoft Print to PDF” as the printer. On iPhone or iPad, tap Share, then Print, then pinch the preview open and share it as a PDF. On Android, open the browser menu, choose Print, and pick “Save as PDF”.

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Paper works. Rivals keeps the record.

Score courtside in the app, offline, and every set is kept for good: ratings, head-to-head records and a season board that fills itself in while the sheet in your bag goes soft.

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