Pickleball clubs in Italy

Pickleball in Italy is governed by the Federazione Italiana Tennis e Padel (FITP), the CONI-recognised national federation for tennis and padel, which extended its activity to pickleball (initially as an experimental, non-exclusive discipline) from January 2023. Since 2023 FITP has an agreement with the Associazione Italiana Pickleball (AIP, the original national association, founded 2018 in Tocco da Casauria, Pescara province) to bring pickleball into the federation's structure: pickleball modules were added to tennis-instructor courses, pickleball to schools programmes ('racchette in classe'), a regional tournament circuit, and a player classification method. FITP organises the Italian Pickleball Championships (individual - first edition 2026 - and by-team, in their 2nd edition in 2026) with regional qualifying phases and national finals, run through its MyFITP/SGAT registration platforms, and is building this out alongside its much larger existing tennis and padel structure (FITP overall has roughly 4,000 affiliated clubs across all disciplines).

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Address

Via della Camilluccia 589 A, Roma 00135

Contact

+39 06 9837 2205

Other bodies: Associazione Italiana Pickleball (AIP).

From the federation’s own website and its international federation, checked in September 2026.