The World Pickleball Federation (GPF) has introduced it’s formally becoming a member of forces with the Pickleball World Cup in a multi-year partnership. The GPF is the world governing physique for pickleball, whereas the Pickleball World Cup is the game’s premier worldwide occasion.
This Pickleball World Cup will likely be held at The FORT, a brand new world-class pickleball venue in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from 27 October to 2 November 2025. Final yr’s Pickleball World Cup was held in Lima, Peru, with groups competing from 33 nations. This yr, entries have grown exponentially to over 3,000 members from greater than 60 nations internationally.
The Pickleball World Cup’s alignment with GPF represents a visionary step ahead within the improvement of pickleball’s world competitors, growing consciousness whereas supporting a world framework for honest and constant competitors in each nook of the world. Groups will compete for nationwide satisfaction, whereas celebrating a mixture of cultures, heritage, and a common love for the game of pickleball.
“Beneath this groundbreaking GPF and Pickleball World Cup alignment, worldwide gamers of all ages, gender, and skill will unite in individual, to expertise and have fun our nice sport of pickleball,” stated Hercilio Cabieses, Director of the Pickleball World Cup.
A Shared Imaginative and prescient for World Development and Unity
The primary Pickleball World Cup was hosted in Lima in 2023 by Hercilio and Miranda Cabieses, a younger and dynamic sibling duo that has labored tirelessly to develop pickleball of their native nation of Peru since 2021.
“Pickleball Peru is a proud member of the GPF,” stated Hercilio Cabieses, Founding father of the Cabieses Basis. “As founding father of Peru’s governing physique for pickleball, and the Cabieses Basis, and Director of the Pickleball World Cup, we share frequent targets with the GPF, to advertise alternatives for all classes of gamers, and encourage the expansion of pickleball globally.”
A Step Nearer to Olympic Recognition
This alignment with the Pickleball World Cup helps GPF’s long-term mission to instil finest practices and requirements, finally reaching Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) recognition for pickleball, and future inclusion within the 2032 Brisbane Olympics. In June 2025, a GPF delegation formally entered its software for IOC recognition in Lausanne, Switzerland.
“Pickleball is likely one of the quickest rising sports activities on the earth. To convey that dynamic to life, the worldwide pickleball neighborhood will converge at The FORT for the Pickleball World Cup, probably the most thrilling and entertaining pickleball competitors I’ve ever skilled in individual,” added Chandler Carney, a GPF Board Member, who competed within the 2024 match in Peru.
“The GPF is worked up to align with the Pickleball World Cup, as we work to raise and unify pickleball worldwide,” added GPF Board Member Justin Maloof. “Watching a file variety of worldwide groups collect within the U.S. from each continent to compete, particularly in the course of the sixtieth Anniversary yr of pickleball, represents a historic second for our sport.”
