Pickleball Stats 2026 by Branded Pickleball

Pickleball Statistics Archive

Past editions of the Branded Pickleball annual US pickleball statistics report, preserved for citation by journalists and researchers. Each year-snapshot page is a frozen record of the figures we published at that time — useful if you're fact-checking historical coverage or tracking growth over time.

2024 Pickleball Statistics

19.8M annual players · 47,000+ courts · MLP franchise sales pass $50M valuations.

2023 Pickleball Statistics

13.6M annual players · 38,500 courts · MLP merges with Premier Pickleball League; LeBron, Tom Brady invest.

2022 Pickleball Statistics

8.9M annual players · 28,900 courts · Pickleball named fastest-growing US sport for second year running.

2021 Pickleball Statistics

4.8M annual players · 21,400 courts · Pickleball emerges as America's pandemic-era outdoor sport.

2026 (Current Edition)

30M+ projected annual players, 51,000+ courts. The live edition, updated weekly.

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Citing these numbers? Please reference “Branded Pickleball — Pickleball Statistics Archive” and link to https://brandedpickleball.com/stats/pickleball/archive. Individual figures are sourced in the note above.

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