The draw for the group stage of the Padel World Cup Qatar 2026, which was drawn today, Sunday, at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, placed the Qatar men’s team in the third group, along with the teams of Portugal, Chile, and Germany.
The World Padel Cup “Qatar 2026” begins tomorrow, Monday, and continues until next Saturday, with the participation of 16 teams in the men’s and women’s categories. Qatar will host the tournament for the third time in its history, after 2021 and 2024.
The draw resulted in determining the path of the teams participating in the men’s and women’s competitions, amid anticipation of strong confrontations in the tournament hosted by Doha, with the participation of a group of the most prominent international teams.
The men’s groups were balanced in some matches, and strong in others, as the first group included the teams of Argentina, France, Australia and the Netherlands, while the second group brought together Spain, the Emirates, Sweden and Paraguay.
The third group included Qatar, Portugal, Chile, and Germany, while the fourth group included Italy, Brazil, the United States, and Mexico.
In the women’s competition, the draw resulted in the Spanish team being in the first group alongside Brazil, Germany and Britain, while the second group included Argentina, France, Chile and Belgium.
Italy, Sweden, Egypt and Indonesia came in the third group, while the fourth group included Portugal, the Netherlands, the United States and Paraguay.
Tomorrow, the Qatari men’s national team will face its Portuguese counterpart in its first match in the group stage.
The Qatari padel team has completed its technical and physical preparations to compete in the tournament, as Al-A’dam enters the competition ranked ninth in the world, relying on a distinguished group of players combining experience and youth to achieve honorable results on home soil and among its fans.
Al-Adam is preparing to compete in the World Cup with high morale and great confidence, supported by the recent historic achievement achieved by the team in winning the gold medal in the Asian Games held in Japan, amid great aspirations to present honorable levels worthy of the Qatari padel.
The Qatari team also relies on great historical support and global infrastructure in the courts of the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, after having previously participated in the 2021 and 2024 World Cup editions that were held in Doha.
The Qatari team participates in the finals directly as the tournament’s host country.
The team enters the World Cup with ambitions of skipping the group stage and reaching the advanced elimination rounds (the quarter-finals), benefiting from the ground staff and the audience to break the Latin and European hegemony.