Know-how, behind-the-scenes and club history — written for everyone who loves polo, or is about to.
The myth: out of reach. The truth: getting started costs less than a season of golf. We do the maths — from your first lesson to a horse of your own.
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5.45 a.m., Georgshof: Luna gets her breakfast. How our twelve school horses live and train — and why Mondays are sacred.
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Founded in 1902, revived in 1992, the school since 2025: the third era of Frankfurt polo — and what Lord Mayor Mike Josef has to do with it.
Read on →Few sports carry as much myth as this one. “Polo? Only sheikhs can afford that.” The numbers tell a rather different story: your first lesson with us currently costs €50 — less than a concert ticket. The semester course for students is €299, and the full eight-week programme that takes you to your first chukka is €1,290.
Polo only turns expensive once you keep horses of your own — and even then, horse leasing (from €590 a month including stabling, groom and two chukkas) offers a middle way the best schools in the world established long ago. For comparison: the average golf membership in the Rhine-Main region costs more — and nobody gallops.
Our verdict: getting into polo has never been as affordable as it is today. What it really costs you? Sixty minutes of nerve.
5.45 a.m. at the Georgshof. While Frankfurt is still asleep, the feed buckets are already rattling in the yard. Luna, twelve years old, an Argentine Criollo cross, gets her oats and hay — she has two sessions today: a first lesson at 10 a.m. and a private lesson at 4.30 p.m. Nothing beyond that, and that is an iron rule.
Between sessions it is the paddock, not the stable. Our grooms check legs, hooves and mood — yes, mood: a polo pony that doesn't fancy working doesn't work here. Mondays are entirely off, and in winter we scale back to arena sessions.
Why are we telling you this? Because a polo school is only ever as good as its horses. Learn with us and you sit on seasoned teachers — level-headed, patient and rather better trained than some of their riders.
In 1902 Carl von Weinberg founded the Frankfurter Polo Club in Niederrad — right beside the golf club that still stands there today. Dark years followed: under National Socialism the club and its patrons were persecuted and play was shut down. Not until 1992 did polo return, to the Niddawiesen in Frankfurt-Nied.
Today the grounds are living through their third era: tournaments under the patronage of Lord Mayor Mike Josef, the German Polo Tour stopping by, partnerships with the Frankfurt International School, EBS and the Frankfurt School of Finance — and, since 2025, a polo school that opens the sport up to everyone.
The ambition is anything but modest: Frankfurt is to become once more what it was in 1902 — the polo capital of Germany. The start has been made. Get in the saddle.