Canada PADEL Federation
3524 45 street s.w. Calgary, AB, Canada

STAMILE PADEL FOUNDERS TOURNAMENT 2020- A GREAT SUCCESS!!! The Canada Padel Federation on behalf of all Padel Players across Canada is proud to have officially sanctioned this wonderful event in recognition of the founders of Padel in our country. A note from the founders: On behalf of my brother Angelo and I, we want sincerely thank everyone who supported the event as a player, volunteer and spectator, it was truly a special weekend for us. The Official results were: - Jun...Continue reading

The Canada Padel Federation is happy to officially sanction the third Annual "Stamile Padel Founders Cup". Honoring the founders of our sport in Canada since 1992. Good luck to all participants from Montreal. Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary!!! This will be the most widely played event in Canadian Padel History involving Canada's four largest cities.

Mexico hosted their second biggest Padel event the "Internacional De Padel" event in Acapulco. That was Canada's second showing at a world sanctioned event- A fun fact: The president of the International Padel Federation Mr. Julio Alegria and Bill Stamile, President and founder of Padel Canada teamed up to win the Over 40 event.

First Tri-National event between Mexico-USA-Canada. Our boys did very well ending with a hard fought and exciting third place match win by Peter Smythe and Steve Kirk.

Padel in the early 90's was well covered by a range of Padel Magazines... below are copies of a few of them... featuring some legend Padel athletes as well.

Bill Stamile graduated from the Prac-Paddle Academy run by the worlds top teacher and coach Mr. Jorge Nicolini. Jorge has taught and trained most of the worlds top players and most successful coaches and instructors in our sport. Very proud and fortunate to have received a diploma from him... our graduating class from 28 years ago!

CANADA-FIRST WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP-1994-MENDOZA-ARGENTINA The first world event that Canada took part in was held in Argentina in October of 1994- the first team Canada was made up of Left to Right- Ralph Mcniven, Steve Shannon, Gary Davidge, Bill Stamile and Chris Yee.

Copa Corcuera-93 Canada participated in its first international Padel event in 1993 at Copa Corcuera, in honor of the inventor of the sport of Padel. It was held in Acapulco Mexico where the sport of Padel was born an first played. The photo below shows from left to right- Bill Stamile- the Canadian Padel President, Mr. Enrique Corcuera- Padel Inventor and Lic.Ignacio Soto Borja , President of the Mexican Padel federation and event organizer.

THE START OF PADEL IN CANADA. The first padel court in Canada was completed in Calgary-Canada in July of 1992 and built by Angelo and Bill Stamile- The first group of players to enjoy our sport includes, Frank Kovacs, Gary Koroluk, Steve Foote, Larry Novak, Derek Armstrong and the Stamile's... the true pioneers of our sport in our early days.

The History of Padel in Canada The sport of padel in Canada had its beginnings in Calgary, Alberta. The sport was founded in Canada by Bill Stamile, who first saw the game played while on vacation in Argentina in 1992. He established the National Padel Association in February 1992, as a federally incorporated Canadian Registered Amateur Athletic Association. The first Padel court was built in mid-1992 by Bill and his brother, Angelo inside a Calgary warehouse, which operated... for nearly one year. The court was used to attract some of Calgary’s top tennis and squash players, many of whom still play the game today. In May 1993, the first Padel team representing Canada internationally played the Corcuera Cup in Acapulco, Mexico. During this high-profile event, Canada was invited to join the International Padel Federation. Over the last 28 years, Bill was instrumental in planning, organizing and training adult and junior team Canada players that participated in over a dozen International Padel Federation sanctioned events. Our most successful placing was during the 2009 World Junior Padel Championships in Seville Spain where the junior boys placed an incredible third in the world. Bill has been actively involved in promoting the sport of Padel to Canadians through a series of clinics, orientations, tournaments and special events. Recently Bill was invited to join the board of the Canadian Pad-L Sport Federation (CPSF) and is fully involved in the Canada-wide initiative to re-start the work of growing and promoting Padel. He has attracted interested parties in our country’s 4 largest cities (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal) to establish and expand our sport. The CPSF is now in the process of working through the formal petition process for official affiliation into the International Padel Federation. See more