Scoreboards for padel clubs: every court, no remotes, no building work
See prices and buy the club pack →From 2 to 8 courts · from €369 · free shipping within Spain
A four-court club can have a scoreboard on every court for €689 with the club pack. Once, with no building work, no wiring, no licences and no annual fee.
That figure rarely comes up when you look into equipping a club, because the people writing about it sell courts, turf or lighting, and those numbers are in a different league. The scoreboard is one of the smallest lines in the budget and one of the few that everyone who walks in can see.
The price, per court
A Kronoset costs €189 per unit. One scoreboard per court:
| Courts | Bought singly | Club pack | You save |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | €378 | €369 | €9 |
| 3 | €567 | €529 | €38 |
| 4 | €756 | €689 | €67 |
| 6 | €1,134 | €1,009 | €125 |
| 8 | €1,512 | €1,319 | €193 |
The club pack is the same €189 unit, bought together and cheaper. It also comes in PRO, with a built-in battery: €479, €689, €909, €1,319 and €1,729 for 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 courts.
No hidden tiers, no per-court licence, no software subscription. International shipping is a €40 flat rate. More than eight courts? Write to info@kronoset.com.
What this is being compared against
There are two ways to put scoreboards in a club, and it's worth telling them apart, because they don't cost the same or solve the same problem.
The installed system. Some companies fit out the whole club: router, Android TV, a cloud dashboard and tournament management. They are sold as a project, with a quote and an installer. It's a different product from ours and we'd rather say so: if your club runs streamed tournaments and wants every court's score on one screen at reception, we don't do that.
The portable scoreboard. This is where we are, and the closest thing to us is WeScore: it also sticks to the glass with a suction cup, and you also score by holding your racket in front of the sensor, with no remote. They sell it at €999 per unit, excluding VAT. Four courts with WeScore is €3,996 excluding VAT; four with Kronoset is €689 with the club pack. (The comparison is at published unit price, which is the only verifiable one; theirs is published without VAT.)
The question that settles it is simple: does the club want a tournament system, or does it want the score to be visible on all four courts? If it's the second, there's more than €3,000 standing between you and the same outcome.
No remote to hand out, lose or charge
This is the point that matters most in a club and the one most often misread.
A Kronoset is operated by holding your racket near the sensor: one second scores a point, three seconds takes one back. No remote, no wristband, nothing to hand over at reception.
Other scoreboards also claim you don't have to walk to the panel, and that's true, but how they do it has consequences for whoever runs the club. The usual answer is a remote or wristbands, and every one of those accessories carries its own battery: AAA cells in the remotes, a CR2032 coin cell in each wristband. Multiply that by the number of courts you have and what you get is a small inventory: remotes lent out, wristbands that don't come back, coin cells to buy and change, and a call to reception when one of them dies mid-match.
A player's racket has no battery in it and is always on court.
One minute to fit, and nothing drilled
It attaches two ways, depending on the court: suction cups on the glass, or hooks on the mesh fence. No drilling, no tools, no cables. Nobody needs to be called out and no court needs closing: you put it up, check it reads from the baseline, and move on to the next one.
There's no power to run out to the court either. The base model runs on any USB-C power bank (about 20 hours on a 10,000 mAh one), and the PRO has its battery built in, with more than 20 matches per charge.
And if they ever have to come down — building work, a glass panel replaced, a court being refurbished — they come down just as fast and go back up somewhere else. It isn't an installation; it's equipment that moves.
Readable from 30 metres. A court is 20 metres long, so the score stays legible from behind the back glass. None of the rival scoreboards publishes a distance.
Making money from a court you already have: renting it out
Some clubs, rather than including the scoreboard as part of the court, rent it by the match, the same way they rent rackets. It's the most interesting idea we've seen in this category and it's worth working through slowly, with every assumption in plain sight.
Say €2 per match. A scoreboard costs €189. How long it takes to pay for itself depends only on how many matches a day it goes out:
| Rentals per day | Per day | Per month (30 days) | €189 back in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | €2 | €60 | about three months |
| 2 | €4 | €120 | about seven weeks |
| 4 | €8 | €240 | about 24 days |
With all four courts renting out four matches a day, the €689 club pack comes back in about three weeks, and after that it's roughly €960 a month from a piece of equipment that's already paid for.
Now the small print, which matters as much as the maths. Those numbers happen if the club actually sets the rental up and if players actually pay it. Four rentals a day per court, every day of the month, is the good scenario, not the one to budget with. We have no way of knowing the take-up rate at your club: it depends on your members, your court pricing and how easy it is to ask for at reception. That's why there are three rows and not just the top one. At a single rental a day the scoreboard pays for itself within a quarter, and that's the sensible floor.
Plenty of clubs will prefer not to charge for it and use it as an argument for the membership fee instead. That's a fair call too — in which case the scoreboard is a €189-per-court cost (less with the club pack), not an investment that comes back.
Tournaments, leagues and americanos
A scoreboard on every court takes work off your hands on event day. Players keep the score themselves with their racket, it's readable from outside the court without going in to ask, and results stop being argued over at reception half an hour later.
The formats are configurable: traditional advantage, golden point, super tie-break and americano, among others. So it covers both the Thursday internal league and the Saturday americano, without changing kit.
The version with a built-in battery
The Kronoset PRO (€249) does everything the base model does and also has the battery built in, with apps for iOS, Android and Apple Watch.
A pattern that works well in clubs: the base model on every court and the PRO on one or two.
What happens when something breaks
That's the right question when you're buying eight units rather than one. Every scoreboard comes with a 3-year warranty. The mount, which is the part that gets handled most, costs €8 as a spare, so a club can keep a couple in a drawer and never be stuck.
Full shipping, customs and warranty terms are on this page.
How to order
For a single unit, the shop handles it. For a club, it's better to write to us:
info@kronoset.com
- Multi-unit orders, with price and lead time agreed before you pay
- An invoice in the club's name, with VAT itemised
- Free shipping throughout Spain; €40 flat rate to the rest of the world
- Orders leave the warehouse in 2 to 7 working days with a tracking number
Tell us how many courts you have, whether they're indoor or outdoor, and whether the surround is glass or mesh, and we'll tell you which mounting suits you and what the whole thing costs.
Links, to see it up close
- Kronoset, the model for equipping every court
- Kronoset PRO, the one with the battery built in
- Five reasons a club is better off with a digital scoreboard