How to Manage Your Club Sanction Requests

If your Pickleball Clubs (PC) club is a governing body, you can review and respond to sanction requests from tournament and team league organizers all in one place. Go to your organization menu and select Sanctioning and Ratings to see every pending, approved, and declined request together.

From there, you can approve, decline, or leave a request pending — with comments — without hunting through individual events.

Before You Begin

What Sanctioning Is

Organizers running Team Leagues, Tournaments, and other events can request sanctioning approval from official governing bodies — like DUPR, Minor League Pickleball, LIFE TIME Pickleball, or your Club — directly from their event's own Sanction & Ratings tab. If your Club is set up as a governing body, those requests land in your Sanctioning and Ratings dashboard for you to review.

Note

Sanctioning is turned on per Club by Pickleball.com — it isn't a setting you can enable yourself. Reach out to support if you'd like your Club considered as a sanctioning body.

Access your Club's Sanctioning and Ratings tab

  1. Log in to Pickleball.com and click Manage in the upper right corner.
  2. Select Organizations and open your Club.
  3. In your organization menu, scroll down to Sanctioning and Ratings.
  4. This opens the Sanctioned & Approved view of all requests submitted to your Club.

Review sanction requests

The Sanctioned & Approved view lets you browse every request submitted to your Club as a governing body:

Approve, decline, or comment on a request

  1. From the Pending tab, click View next to the event you want to review.
  2. You'll be brought right to the tournament or league page where you can approve or deny.
  3. In the Sanction / Approval status window, select a Status: Approved, Pending, or Declined.
  4. Add any notes in Comments.
  5. Click Save.

The event moves to the matching tab (Approved or Declined) once you save your decision.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I get my Club set up as a sanctioning body?

Email support@pickleball.com. This is enabled per Club by a Pickleball.com admin — it isn't a self-service setting.

How do organizers request sanctioning from my Club?

From their own event's Sanction & Ratings tab, organizers check a box for each governing body they want to request — including your Club, if you're set up as one — alongside options like DUPR VERIFIED, Minor League Pickleball, and LIFE TIME Pickleball.

Can I change my decision after approving or declining a request?

Yes. Open the request from the Approved or Declined tab, click View, and update the Status.

What does "Show test events?" do?

It controls whether test events appear in your list. It's set to No by default so test events don't clutter your real sanction requests.

Why do some event types show a Completed tab and others don't?

Tabs vary slightly by event type. Tournaments, for example, add a Completed tab and a Level column, since tournaments have levels and a defined end date that team leagues don't track the same way.

Questions about sanctioning for your Club? Email support@pickleball.com.