Photo credit: NPL
LADER is NPL’s tournament, league and club-session platform – born inside the league to run its professional competition, is now live for organizations, worldwide. Tournaments, leagues and social sessions in one modern system, built for every racquet sport with a focus on pickleball.
NPL built its own competition platform because nothing else could run the sport properly. Today that platform – LADER – powers leagues, tournaments and clubs around the world.
“LADER is a really, really interesting one,” said NPL Chief Operating Officer, Ron Shell. “We are essentially aiming to be the No. 1 racquet sports platform in the world—sooner rather than later—and already believe that the LADER product is best in market. It’s built by the end user for the end user, with meticulous end-to-end testing that has been done for last 24 months.”
The newly released app features a wealth of features straight out of the gate.
- Tournaments – any format, any size, drag-and-drop control
- Leagues – standings, stats and season management
- Club sessions – from 4 players to 500, launched in minutes
- Live scoring – paperless referee app, live scores on any device
- Registration & payments – players register and pay in one flow
- DUPR integrated – results flow to players’ official ratings automatically
Organizations running on LADER:
- ahm NPL Pro Tour & Division 2 (Australia)
- Pickleball Australia
- Canadian National Pickleball League (CNPL)
- Global Sports (India)
- AO Pickleball Slam ’26 – full event technology: live scoring, event management and broadcast screens
- PARK Racquet Club (Queensland)
- Clubs and events across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA and Europe
Learn More