The Alborán.

The Alborán is a new monthly publication and a private club, made entirely by people who play. The publication is the practice of it; the club is the people who keep showing up.

There is no English-language padel publication of consequence. The sport has grown faster than any racquet sport in European history, and the writing around it has not kept up: equipment reviews, match reports, coaching notes. The Alborán is the publication for everything else: the architecture of the court, the bar after, the road to the next club, the people who built the game and the people who quietly kept it.

We publish monthly. Six standing sections: The Court, The Coastline, The Terrace, The Archive, The Body and The Sessions, plus a quarterly Almanac that gathers the season's best work into a single considered edition. Every section is free, always. Membership asks only for an email.

The Alborán is named for the sea between Marbella and the Rif, the westernmost reach of the Mediterranean, where Europe and Africa come closest without touching. We work from there and from Bristol. Issue One is out now 2026.

The court was twenty by ten in 1974. The publication began in 2026.