18/04/2026
It’s been a while since we wrote about Polo in general but someone recently asked us the question - hey the number of clubs seems go be growing that’s good right ?
Well at first glance it would seem good for the sport of Polo but is it really ?
Like most things it depends - does the number of players increase substantially too ?
In most cases NO that does NOT happen - you get more clubs than players 🤦🏽♂️ you get fragmentation and dilution but worst of all you don’t even get enough players at one club to make 2 or 3 or 4 teams.
Never mind the case of the Czech Republic with clubs that started popping up all over the place between 2012-2019 and dying but claiming to be the ‘one’ and simply some outright lying about their age 😂
Let’s look at data - in the US if I got my facts right
USPA membership trend:
* 2010: ~4,000–4,500 members
* 2022: 5,342
* 2023: 5,419 members
That tells you something very important:
Growth over ~13 years = +20–30% total
That is ~1.5–2% CAGR at best
This is not growth. This is maintenance with slight drift upward.
Even worse:
Spread across 227 clubs
→ that’s ~24 players per club on average
That’s not scale. That’s fragmentation.
So NO more clubs is NOT sadly good news.
We need more players and for that too happen we desperately need to change the model.
To all the people out there who I know understand this then 🫡💪🏽👆
