Team Americano: the complete guide
Team Americano is Americano played in fixed pairs. You arrive with a partner, you stay with that partner, and the table ranks partnerships rather than individuals.
What is Team Americano?
In a Team Americano every pair plays every other pair once, in a straight round robin. Each meeting is a single game to a fixed pot of points — 24 is the usual figure, 32 for longer sessions.
Points are banked by the pair, so the leaderboard is a list of teams. With six pairs you play five rounds; with four pairs, three rounds.
How many pairs and courts?
- 4 pairs (8 players): 2 courts, 3 rounds — every pair meets every other pair.
- 6 pairs (12 players): 3 courts, 5 rounds.
- 8 pairs (16 players): 4 courts, 7 rounds.
- With an odd number of pairs, one pair rests each round and the rest rotate.
Scoring
Every game runs to the same fixed total, so both scores always add up to the pot: 15–9, 13–11, 12–12, 24–0. There is no advantage scoring and no tie-break.
Rank pairs on total points won, then point difference, then games won. Some clubs prefer 3 points for a win and 1 for a draw — either works, just decide before round one.
Team Americano vs Americano
- Americano mixes partners every round; Team Americano keeps them fixed, so results reward the partnership rather than the individual.
- Team Americano is easier to organise when people book as pairs, and it is the natural format for a club pairs night.
- Americano is fairer across mixed abilities, because a weak-strong pairing evens out over the session.
- If you want the competitive tension of a re-seeded draw instead, play Mexicano.
Running one in this app
Log the session as an Americano with your pairs entered as fixed partners, or record each game as a standard padel match if you are playing sets. Either way the results feed the league table, player profiles and the shareable end-of-session cards.