Hexagon World Series goes global in 2027: four countries, three continents, new format

Three years ago, Hexagon Cup was a single-venue team event held in Madrid. By 2027, it will span four countries across three continents. That kind of growth trajectory is rare in any sport, and padel's team circuit format is clearly finding an audience willing to travel for it.

The Hexagon World Series officially unveiled its 2027 plans at a media and sponsor event held at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, confirming three new host cities, a revamped competition format, and the addition of the United Arab Emirates as a host nation. Founder Enrique Buenaventura was on hand to lay out the vision, and the setting alone said something about where the series sees its future.

What's actually changing in 2027

The headline numbers: four host cities, eight competing teams, and stops across three continents. The UAE joins the circuit as a new market, making Abu Dhabi one of the confirmed venues alongside existing and expanded European locations. That gives the series genuine international footprint rather than just continental reach.

The format overhaul is arguably the more significant change from a competitive standpoint. According to coverage from Padel Addict, the 2027 edition will introduce a new scoring system that removes traditional games and sets entirely. It's a bold call. Team formats have always had more freedom to experiment with match structure than the main tours, but ditching sets wholesale is a statement of intent: this circuit wants its own identity, not just a repackaged version of standard padel.

"In Hexagon, we wanted a format that was built for the team competition context, not borrowed from somewhere else."
Enrique Buenaventura, Hexagon World Series founder

The logic behind a points-only system is easy to follow if you think about broadcast and live event pacing. Sets can drag or compress unpredictably. A purpose-built points structure gives organisers more control over match duration, which matters enormously when you're running a multi-match event day across different time zones and venues.

Why the UAE expansion matters

Adding the Emirates is not just a geography tick. The Gulf region has become one of the fastest-growing padel markets in the world, with significant investment going into courts, academies, and professional events across Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Hosting a leg of the World Series in Abu Dhabi puts Hexagon directly in front of that money and that audience.

It also signals something about the series' commercial strategy. Madrid was the proof of concept. Europe validated the format. Now the circuit is using international venues to attract sponsors and broadcast partners who need global reach to justify serious investment. The Emirates Palace launch event was not accidental: it was a pitch dressed as a presentation.

From a competitive perspective, the eight-team structure keeps the field tight enough to maintain quality. Padel's team formats have sometimes struggled with diluted fields when expanding too fast. Keeping it to eight while growing the geographic spread is a reasonable balance, at least for now.

What remains to be confirmed is the full list of competing teams and exactly how the new scoring system will work in practice. The points-only concept sounds clean in theory, but the details of how rallies, matches, and tiebreaks convert into a final standings model will determine whether players and fans actually buy into it. That information is still to come ahead of the 2027 season.

For now, Hexagon World Series has done what it needed to do at this stage: signal ambition, back it with a credible location for the announcement, and give the padel world something concrete to talk about. Whether the format gamble pays off will depend on execution, but the direction of travel is clear. Full details via Marca Pádel.