Major League Pickleball Announces 2026 Season Schedule

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The schedule has been condensed to 14 weeks and once again features several The Dink MiLP events.

Major League Pickleball (MLP) has announced the 2026 season schedule, starting May 22nd and ending August 30th.

The season kicks off in Dallas, at Pickler Universe, which will also host the first round of the playoffs.

Other stops on the 2026 calendar that were also 2025 stops include Pickle & Chill, in Columbus, Chaifetz Arena, in St. Louis, Austin Pickle Ranch, and Sportime Randall's Island in New York.

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The Mid-Season Tournament will also be held in conjunction with the Beer City Open again, at Belknap Park.

New venues to the MLP circuit are St. Pete Athletic, the Newport Beach Tennis and Pickleball Club, and ESPN Wide World of Sports.

The venue for the eighth regular season stop of July 23-26 is still TBA.

A look at the full published schedule:

2026 Event

Event Dates

Location

Host Venue

MiLP

Jr. MLP

Regular Season #1

Fri-Mon, May 22-25

Dallas, TX

Pickler Universe

*


Regular Season #2

Thu-Sun, May 28-31

Columbus, OH

Pickle & Chill 

*


Regular Season #3

Thu-Sun, June 4-7

St. Louis, MO

Chaifetz Arena



Regular Season #4

Thu-Sun, June 11-14

Austin, TX

Austin Pickle Ranch

*

*

Regular Season #5

Thu-Sun, June 18-21

St. Petersburg, FL

St. Pete Athletic



Regular Season #6

Thu-Sun, June 25-28

New York, NY

Sportime Randall's Island

*

*

Mid-Season Tournament

Wed-Sun, July 8-12

Grand Rapids, MI

Belknap Park



Regular Season #7

Thu-Sun, July 16-19

Newport Beach, CA

Tennis and Pickleball Club

*

*

Regular Season #8

Thu-Sun, July 23-26

TBA

TBA

TBA

TBA

Regular Season #9

Thu-Sun, July 30-Aug. 2

Walt Disney World

ESPN Wide World of Sports



Playoffs #1

Thu-Sun, August 6-9

Dallas, TX

Pickler Universe

*

*

Playoffs #2

Thu-Sun, August 13-16

San Diego, CA

Barnes Tennis Center

*

*

Playoffs #3 - Finals

Fri-Sun, August 28-30

New York, NY

CityPickle at Wollman Rink


Adding another weekend of playoffs is interesting. The playoffs will still end the same exact way as they did in 2025, with San Diego and then the finals at CityPickle at Wollman Rink.

Additionally, both The Dink MiLP and Junior MLP events will be taking place throughout the schedule, as noted above.

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