Pickleball World Cup 2026 schedule: eight days in Da Nang

The Heineken Pickleball World Cup 2026 runs in Da Nang from 30 August to 6 September. The published programme combines two parallel competitions: the individual tournament starts first, while the national-team event begins on 3 September.

Individual events continue on 2 September before the opening ceremony scheduled for 18:00–20:00. All published times use Vietnam time (GMT+7), and the organisers state that the running order may change.

Opening ceremony

2 Sep · 18:00–20:00

Individual event

30 Aug–6 Sep

National teams

3–6 Sep

Two competitions across one week

The individual tournament is the open-entry branch, divided by DUPR ratings from 3.0 to 5.0 alongside Pro, Junior and wheelchair categories. It opens on 30 August with men's singles and women's doubles, followed by men's doubles, Pro singles, mixed doubles, Pro doubles and the remaining divisions.

The national-team competition is for federation-selected teams. The Pickle Hub counts 152 teams in the drawn brackets, while earlier announcements reported 156 registered teams. The discrepancy is material and should be retained rather than collapsed into one figure.

The national-team route

• 3 September: Open and Seniors group play, with Open pools A–L in the morning and M–P in the afternoon.
• 4 September: Kids, Masters, Seniors and Juniors group play, followed by selected round-of-32 and round-of-16 matches.
• 5 September: quarter-finals, semi-finals and several medal matches across the age divisions.
• 6 September: the published schedule includes the Seniors and Juniors finals; the Open final is not assigned a clear slot in the source schedule.

Vietnam starts on 3 September

According to the compiled brackets, Vietnam is the top seed in Group A in Open, Masters, Juniors and Kids, with no Seniors entry. The Open team is scheduled to begin against Colombia on 3 September, while the other three divisions start group play on 4 September.

Recheck before travelling

The event uses Tien Son Sports Palace, Tuyen Son Sports Village and several club venues. The source schedule does not publish an individual start time or court number for every matchup, so visitors should recheck the division, venue cluster and same-day notices before travelling.