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JOIN THE GPF
Membership in the Global Pickleball Federation is the single path to ensure your country's recognized National and/or Leading pickleball organizations. As the GPF-recognized National Governing Body for your country, you will be aligned with the international governing body for pickleball and the opportunity for Olympic participation for your country. The GPF is a non-profit entity with 501c3 status.
Developing players and building communities
With pickleball’s potential to become an exemplary sport that welcomes and includes players from all walks of life, the GPF will work with its countries, allies, and partners:
Discovering Pickleball
To ensure players, coaches, and other leaders have the opportunity and support to acquire the fundamental skills and abilities to participate in organized pickleball.
Recreational Pickleball
To ensure players, coaches, and other leaders have the opportunity and support to participate in and instruct pickleball for fun, health and fitness, social and community development, and competition.
Competitive Pickleball
To ensure players can develop the skills to compete in safe and ethical environments, and coaches and officials have the training + competencies to prepare players and to officiate at competitions respectively.
High-Performance Pickleball
To ensure that players and officials widely participate in national, continental, and international competitions.
Pickleball for Development
To ensure pickleball as a sport for all/for life is positioned as a resource for social and economic development, the promotion of positive values and the building of healthy, active communities across the globe.
Officiating
Equipment Standards
Facility Construction
Ambassadors
Junior Development
Rules
Tournaments
Equipment
Path to Membership
The preferred path for GPF membership is through your associated Continental Federation (CF) & first meeting their requirements for membership. After providing your basic contact details, please select the appropriate Continental Federation and proceed to that organization’s membership application. Upon completion, your application will be evaluated for membership in both your Continental Federation and the GPF. Following this evaluation, you will be notified of your membership status.
Continental Federations
Africa
The Confederation of African Pickleball (CAP) aims to represent, promote and encourage African pickleball players across the world - our confederation is unaffiliated with any international federation or player association.
AMERICAS
The Pickleball Federation of the Americas (PFA) is a non-profit corporation organized and operated exclusively for educational, scientific and charitable purposes. The PFA serves its member countries by promoting and supporting pickleball growth and development throughout South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and North America.
ASIA
Asian PickleBall Association
APA hopes to introduce Pickleball to all Asia nations. We adopt the official rulebook and worldwide code of conduct for pickleball athletes established by USA Pickleball. Our main activities will be in Asia.
EUROPE
European countries wishing to join the Global Pickleball Federation must apply directly to the GPF for membership.
OCEANIA
We’re on a mission to bring Pickleball to Oceania through the development, promotion, and governance of the sport across the Oceania region including Australia, New Zealand, Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
Global Pickleball Federation
