Sète Padel Club seeks competition coach as it expands to 12 courts

Sète Padel Club has opened applications for a competition coach as it prepared to grow from six courts to 12, including four covered courts, a step that pushed the club’s sporting structure into the spotlight as much as its bricks-and-mortar expansion.

The role was built around the 2026 school year and went well beyond filling coaching hours. The club said the new hire would help run and develop its competition school, lead adult classes, organise year-round training camps and contribute to the club’s overall sporting development. That brief signaled a shift from simply adding courts to building a pathway, one that links recreational play, junior development and serious competition under the same roof.

That pathway already had an audience. Sète Padel Club’s competition school included young players in the U10, U12 and U14 categories, with children already taking part in national youth tournaments. The profile the club sought was correspondingly demanding: high-level experience, coaching or playing credentials, and the ability to pass knowledge on to players. In a French padel market that is filling up fast, the coach is no longer just a teacher of technique. The club needs someone who can shape identity, continuity and a route from first lessons to tournament play.

The timing matters because Sète has already shown it can turn interest into traction. The club’s Ten’Up and FFT listing showed six padel courts at its current Sète site, at Parc Aquatechnique, 9 rue de Dublin, so the planned move to 12 courts would double capacity. The Ville de Sète said the club had gained 170 licensed players in 18 months and welcomed nearly 1,000 participants since opening, numbers that help explain why a formal competition structure became the next piece of the project.

Results on court also gave the hiring move weight. Sète Padel Club became vice-champion of France in Nationale 1 in February 2024, then went one better a year later when the men’s team won the French Nationale 1 title. Those performances placed the club among the country’s sharper competitive programs and made the case for a coach who can turn short-term success into something lasting.

The broader federation framework points the same way. The FFT runs national padel competitions each season, including P1500, P2000, youth national tournaments and French championships, while its padel school guidance targets children aged 6 to 12. In Occitanie, U12 team competition is open to players born between 2014 and 2017 and mixed teams are encouraged. For Sète, the message was clear: once a club starts adding courts and formalizing juniors, the next measure of ambition is not just space. It is staffing.