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| Full name | Paris Saint-Germain Football Club | ||
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| Nicknames | Les Parisiennes (The Parisians) Les Rouge-et-Bleu (The Red and Blues) | ||
| Short name | PSG, Paris, Paris SG | ||
| Founded | 1971; 54 years ago (1971) | ||
| Ground | Campus PSG | ||
| Capacity | 1,100 | ||
| Owner(s) | Qatar Sports Investments (87.5%) Arctos Partners (12.5%) | ||
| President | Nasser Al-Khelaifi | ||
| Coach | Paulo César | ||
| League | Première Ligue | ||
| 2024–25 | Première Ligue, 2nd of 12 | ||
| Website | PSG.FR | ||
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Paris Saint-Germain Football Club (French pronunciation:[paʁisɛ̃ʒɛʁmɛ̃]), commonly referred to asParis Saint-Germain or simplyPSG, are aFrench professionalwomen's footballclub based inParis. It is the women's football department of parent clubParis Saint-Germain FC. Founded in 1971, they compete in thePremière Ligue, thetop division ofFrench football. Their home ground is theCampus PSG.
PSG have played in the top flight since 2001, when they won theSeconde Ligue title. The Parisians won their first major honour, theCoupe de France, in 2010. This trophy, coupled with the club's takeover, signalled the start of a new era. PSG went from being a mid-table side to becoming one of the best teams in European football. The Red and Blues have since been crowned Première Ligue champions for the first time in 2021, won two more cup titles in 2018 and 2022, and reached theUEFA Women's Champions League final twice.
The club's home kit colours are red, blue, and white. PSG's crest features theEiffel Tower and afleur de lys. PSG have an intense rivalry withOlympique Lyonnais. The duo contest French football's most notorious match, known asLe Classique. They also have a strong rivalry withParis FC, a fixture referred to as the Parisian Derby.
Since 2011, Paris Saint-Germain have been majority-owned by Qatari government-backed investment fundQatar Sports Investments, which currently holds 87.5% of the shares. American investment firm Arctos Partners owns the remaining 12.5%. QSI took control of the women's team in 2012. PSG are the richest club in France and one of the wealthiest in the world.
A year after the foundation of the club,Paris Saint-Germain created their women's section in the summer of 1971 after theFrench Football Federation (FFF) gave the green light to female football.[1][2] PSG signed 33 women for the 1971–72 season and the newly formed team began life in theLigue de Paris Île-de-France, the lowest level of the football pyramid.[1][2][3] They finished second that campaign, their best result ever, and continued life in the Parisian championship for seven more years, albeit with less success.[3]
Ahead of the 1979–80 season, PSG were promoted to the top flight of French football, thePremière Ligue, after it went from 20 to 48 teams.[1][2] Their inaugural stint, however, only lasted three seasons, and PSG were relegated back toSeconde Ligue in 1982.[2] The Red and Blues bounced between the two top divisions over the next 19 years. Following a dramatic 1999–2000 season in which they missed promotion to the elite by losing their last match against promotion contendersSchiltigheim, PSG finally steadied the ship in 2001.[3] Led by coach Sébastien Thierry and young defenderLaura Georges, the team won 16 out of 18 games played in Group A to claim back their place amongst the best in France. PSG would then clinch the2000–01 Seconde Ligue title by defeating Group C leaderTours in the final. Since then, Paris SG have never been relegated from the Première Ligue.[2][3]
Under incoming manager Cyril Combettes, Paris Saint-Germain remained without major problems in the Première Ligue but nowhere near the top teams.[1] In the summer of 2005, starletsSabrina Delannoy andLaure Boulleau signed fromCNFE Clairefontaine. Together, they played more than 400 matches with PSG, being their two most capped players. The defending duo experienced everything with the capital side: relegation battles, mid-table finishes, title races and the club's first major trophy.[3] Men and women confounded, Delannoy is PSG's sixth most capped player ever, only behind male counterpartsJean-Marc Pilorget,Sylvain Armand,Safet Sušić,Paul Le Guen, andMarco Verratti.[2][4]
At the end of March 2007, Cyril Combettes resigned due to relationship problems with the players. He was replaced by Eric Leroy for the 2007–08 season.[1][3] Despite a difficult start, including a heavy defeat toMontpellier in the first match, the season was a success.[3] Under Leroy's direction, the team finished in fifth place and reached their maidenChallenge de France final.[1][3] Having crashed out at the same stage in 2005, the Red and Blues learned their lesson and defeatedParisian Derby rivalsParis FC (at the time called Juvisy) in the semi-finals.[2][5][6][7]Olympique Lyonnais, however, proved too strong for PSG in the title-decider at theStade de France, easily taking home the cup with three unanswered strikes.[1][2][3]
Following a disappointing 2008–09 season,Camillo Vaz replaced Éric Leroy in June 2009. PSG recruited French internationalsÉlise Bussaglia,Julie Soyer, andJessica Houara during that summer.[1] The women's team then celebrated their 38th birthday by making their debut at theParc des Princes. Usually reserved for the men's side, PSG hosted city rivals Paris FC at the stadium on October 18, 2009. In front of 5,892 spectators, they defeated their guests thanks to an early goal fromCamille Abily. The 2009–10 campaign ended with a third place, a first for them on the podium.[3] Better yet, the Parisians also reached theirsecond Challenge de France final after eliminating juggernauts Lyon in the semi-finals.[2]
Noilhan had left the club shortly before the final, leaving Vaz as the sole coach.[8][9] This, however, did not stop PSG from crushing defending champions Montpellier at theStade Robert Bobin to claim their first major title as well as their second trophy ever and their first since 2001.[2] Emblematic club strikerIngrid Boyeldieu, who would retire at the end of the season, opened the scoring in the first half. After the break, PSG added four more goals for a brutal 5–0 scoreline, the largest victory in the history of cup finals.[1][3]
The 2010–11 season marked a turning point for Paris. In the summer, Brazilian starKátia joined on a free signing from Lyon. PSG finished league runners-up behind heavyweightsOlympique Lyonnais and qualified to theUEFA Women's Champions League for the first time in their history. The Parisians dramatically defeated second-placed Montpellier in the final game of the season, with team captain Sabrina Delannoy scoring the winning penalty in stoppage time.Élise Bussaglia was namedPremière Ligue Féminine Player of the Season.[1]
Exempted from the group stage, PSG made their European debut by comfortably eliminating Irish sidePeamount in the Round of 16, before being themselves ousted by German giants and future finalists1. FFC Frankfurt.[2] The rest of the 2011–12 campaign, however, was not as successful. Undermined by the injuries of key playersLéa Rubio,Laure Lepailleur, andCaroline Pizzala, the team lost its grip and finished in fourth place after suffering a heavy defeat at home toÎle-de-France rivalsParis FC. As a result, coachCamillo Vaz left the club at the end of the season.[1]
PSG bounced back immediately with the professionalisation of the team by new club ownersQatar Sports Investments (QSI) ahead of the 2012–13 campaign. They spent big to build a team capable of competing with the best clubs in France and Europe, including Lyon, and signed its 21 players to a federal contract, something unprecedented in women's football.[2][3] Renowned international playersShirley Cruz,Kosovare Asllani,Annike Krahn, andLinda Bresonik were the first to arrive, as well asFarid Benstiti, the coach who guided Lyon to four consecutive league titles.[3] A season later, PSG recruitedMarie-Laure Delie, the first women's football transfer in France, for €50k.[1] As part of this revolution, PSG also moved to theStade Sébastien Charléty in 2012 and then to theStade Jean-Bouin in 2018, abandoning the smallerStade Georges Lefèvre, which had been their home stadium since 1971.[1][10]
These investments allowed PSG to challengeOlympique Lyonnais, with the duo developing a heated rivalry dubbed asLe Classique.[11][12][13] Lyon still kept a head start over Paris during the 2010s, clinching a record 14 consecutive league titles between 2007 and 2020.[3][14][15] PSG managed a few important victories during that time, though. League and cup runners-up behind Lyon in 2013–14, they recorded their first ever win over the champions in January 2014, with a solitary goal fromLaura Georges at theStade de Gerland. It was Lyon's first league defeat at home since March 2010, an unbeaten streak spanning 87 matches.[1][3]
PSG repeated the feat in 2014–15, this time in the Champions League, asFatmire Alushi scored the only goal at Gerland to eliminate Lyon in the last 16.[1] Nonetheless, the season ended in disappointment; Paris finished second to Lyon and lost the2015 UEFA Women's Champions League final to Frankfurt at the last second.[1][2][16] Lyon retaliated in 2015–16 by claiming the championship and then crushing PSG in the Champions League semi-finals. They scored seven times without response, inflicting PSG's biggest defeat in the continental competition and one of their biggest ever.[8][17] Even worse, Paris finished third in the league and missed qualification to the Champions League.[8][9] The club did not renewFarid Benstiti's contract and was replaced byPatrice Lair, another former Lyon coach.[8][9][13]
The two sides were back at it again in 2016–17. PSG first beat their rivals, also by a 1–0 margin, in December 2016 despite Lyon still managing to retain the league title.[14][15] Then, they crossed paths in theFrench Cup final, won by Lyon after an endless penalty shoot-out, and in the2017 UEFA Women's Champions League final, which also had to be decided on penalties. The teams could not be separated after seven kicks each until PSG goalkeeperKatarzyna Kiedrzynek stepped up and missed. Her counterpartSarah Bouhaddi converted her effort and handed Lyon the European victory.[2][18] WithBernard Mendy on the bench, filling in after the surprise departure of Lair,[8][9][19] the capital outfit exacted revenge on Lyon in the 2017–18 season by defeating them in the French Cup final in May 2018, with a solitary goal from French international strikerMarie-Antoinette Katoto.[14][15]
Olivier Echouafni was named manager in June 2018, while Mendy stayed on as his assistant.[20] Paris finished league runners-up in 2018–19 and 2019–20, while losing the French Cup andFrench Super Cup titles to Lyon as well. In Echouafni's third season in charge, PSG ended Lyon's 80-game unbeaten league streak in November 2020 to leapfrog them andgo top of the table. Once more, Katoto scored the lone goal of a game played behind closed doors at theParc des Princes.[14][15] The Parisians then held on for a crucial goalless draw away at Lyon and beatDijon in the final match to win the Première Ligue crown for the first time, ending their rivals' run of 14 consecutive league titles.[21] They also ended Lyon's stranglehold on the Champions League with astunning comeback to prevent their rivals from a sixth consecutive European title.[22] PSG were, however, eliminated byBarcelona in the semifinals.[23]
In the 2021–22 season, featuring yet another face-off with Lyon, the capital side failed to defend their crown, losing both league ties by an aggregate score of 7–1.[24][25] PSG hit back in the French Cup, ousting Lyon at the last-16 stage (3–0) and then cruising to their third cup title with an 8–0 win over second-tier sideYzeure in the final.[26][27] Lyon had the last word, though, eliminating Paris from the Champions League semi-finals 5–3 on aggregate on their way to another continental triumph.[28]
Parent clubParis Saint-Germain represent both the city ofParis and the nearby royal town ofSaint-Germain-en-Laye.[29] As a result, red, blue, and white are the club's traditional colours.[30] The red and blue are Parisian colours, a nod to revolutionary figuresLafayette andJean Sylvain Bailly, and the white is a symbol ofFrench royalty and Saint-Germain-en-Laye.[30][31]
On the club's crest, theEiffel Tower in red and the blue background represent Paris, while thefleur de lys in white is a hint to thecoat of arms of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.[31][30] The fleur de lys is a royal symbol as well and recalls that French KingLouis XIV was born in the town.[30] Throughout its history, PSG have brandished several different crests, but all of them have featured the club's three historical colours.[32] Likewise, PSG's most iconic shirts have been predominantly red, blue or white, with the remaining two colours included as well.[33] The club's official mascot, Germain theLynx, also sports PSG's traditional colours.[31]
Between 1971 and 2012, Paris Saint-Germain played their home matches at theStade Georges Lefèvre, the main stadium ofCamp des Loges, the club'straining ground.[8][9] PSG relocated to theStade Sébastien Charléty in 2012, when the team turned professional.[1][2][3] They returned to the Georges Lefèvre in 2017, before moving to theStade Jean-Bouin in 2018.[10][34] PSG continued to use the Georges Lefèvre whenever the Jean-Bouin wasn't available until January 2024, when they moved toCampus PSG, the club's new training facility inPoissy.[35][36] The main stadium of Campus PSG, with a capacity of 1,100 spectators, is now their home ground as well, except for matches relocated to theParc des Princes or Jean-Bouin.[37][38] They played their first game at Campus PSG on January 9, 2024, cruising to a 6–0 win overLille OSC inPremière Ligue.[39] This was also the very first official match played there.[36]
Usually reserved for the men's side, the Parc des Princes serves as the women's home ground for big domestic and European matches. After 38 years of existence, PSG made their debut at the stadium in a league game against Parisian rivalsParis FC on October 18, 2009.Camille Abily scored the only goal of the match to hand PSG the win. Their European debut, and second game overall, came on March 28, 2015, againstGlasgow City for the quarterfinals of the2014–15 UEFA Women's Champions League. PSG won 5–0.[3][40] Another big night at the arena was the club's 1–0 league victory – courtesy ofMarie-Antoinette Katoto's lone goal – over arch-rivalsOlympique Lyonnais in November 2020.[14][15][40] PSG also broke the national home attendance record when they hosted Lyon at the Parc des Princes on April 30, 2022. TheUEFA Champions League clash attracted 43,254 spectators, who saw the Parisians fell to a 1–2 defeat.[41]
Campus PSG, located inPoissy, has been the club'straining ground since January 2024.[35][42]Camp des Loges was previously the club's training facility from 1971 until 2012, when it moved to Bougival.[8][9][43] PSG briefly returned to Camp des Loges in June 2023, before definitely moving into Campus PSG.[35][44] Owned and funded by the club, it houses themen's football team, the women's football team, and thefootball academy, as well as thehandball andjudo teams and their academies.[45][46][47] Campus PSG will feature a stadium that will complement the club's stadium, theParc des Princes, which will be built during the second phase of the project, after 2024.[45][48] With a capacity of 5,000 spectators, including more than 3,000 seats, the stadium will host PSG'sacademy and women's team matches in theUEFA Youth League and theUEFA Women's Champions League.[49]
Since their inception, Paris Saint-Germain have played 52 seasons, all of them within the top three levels of theFrench football league system:Première Ligue,Seconde Ligue andLigue de Paris Île-de-France.[1][50][51] PSG began life in the Ligue de Paris in 1971–72, playing regional league football during eight seasons.[1] They were promoted to the Première Ligue for the first time ahead of the 1979–80 campaign and have now played 32 seasons in the top flight.[1][3][8] PSG have been relegated to the Seconde Ligue three times, playing a total of twelve seasons in the second tier. They returned to the Première Ligue in 2001–02 and have never looked back since. The club's worst D1 finish to date is 12th, its placing at the end of the 1994–95 season.[1][3][8][9]
PSG have won six titles. Domestically, the capital side have clinched one Première Ligue championship, fourFrench Cups, and one Seconde Ligue title.[52] In international club football, PSG have reached theUEFA Champions League final twice (2015 and2017).[8] Additionally, PSG have won one unofficial title.[53] Influential officials and players in the club's history include most decorated presidentNasser Al-Khelaifi,[54][55] trophy-winning managers Sébastien Thierry,Camillo Vaz,Bernard Mendy,Olivier Echouafni,Didier Ollé-Nicolle, andJocelyn Prêcheur,[8][9][56] record appearance maker and longest-serving captainSabrina Delannoy,[9][57][58] and all-time top scorerMarie-Antoinette Katoto.[59]
Between 2010 and 2016, with the impossibility of supporting themen's team at home or away, the ultras turned to the women's team, and to a lesser extent to theParis Saint-Germain FC Youth Academy sides, being the very rare case of fan groups attending games of their club's women's team. Liberté Pour les Abonnés and Nautecia, which were among several groups that reunited Boulogne and Auteuil supporters, were behind this initiative.[60] PSG ultras have also occasionally attended big matches ofParis Saint-Germain Handball, the club's handball team.[61][62][63]
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Unlike some fans who switched allegiance to other Parisian clubs such asParis FC orCréteil, Liberté Pour les Abonnés and Nautecia chose to stay with PSG by supporting the women in France and abroad, from league clashes against rivalsLyon to the2014–15 UEFA Women's Champions League semifinals versusWolfsburg and thegrand finale inBerlin, where they narrowly lost toEintracht Frankfurt (2–1).[60]
A marriage of convenience at first, the ultras began to really enjoy supporting the women for three main reasons: their proximity compared to the men, being able to easily approach female players; their appreciation for the fans, always thanking them after every match; and their solidarity with the ultra movement, publicly supporting a return to theParc des Princes for men's team games in interviews and social media, in contrast to male players whose communication was more controlled by the club.[60]
The ultras have also continued to support the women's team since their return to the stadium under the banner of the Collectif Ultras Paris (CUP).[60] During the club's2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League campaign, they were at the Parc des Princes for the quarterfinals and semifinals versusBayern Munich andBarcelona respectively.[60][64] 300 ultras then travelled toCardiff in June 2017 to cheer the team at thefinal, which PSG lost toLyon in the penalty shootout (0–0; 7–6 on penalties).[65]
Despite their protests against the management and the attitude of male players in 2022, the CUP were still behind the "exemplary" women's team.[66] They went en masse to theParc des Princes for the2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League quarterfinals againstBayern Munich in March, and then for the semifinals versusLyon in April.[67][68] In the latter match, the ultras were part of theclub record 43,254 spectators in attendance.[68] Before kick-off, they unfurled a banner reading: "Proud of our colors and proud of our female players."[69]
Paris Saint-Germain shares an intense rivalry withOlympique Lyonnais; matches between the two teams are referred to asLe Classique.[11][12][13] It is the female version of the rivalry between parent clubParis Saint-Germain andOlympique de Marseille in men's football, also calledLe Classique.[13] Lyon have been the dominant force in French and European football ever since their foundation in 2004, being champions of thePremière Ligue in 14 consecutive seasons between 2007 and 2020 as well as winning theUEFA Women's Champions League seven times, five of which were in a row.[13][14][15] On the other hand, PSG only began to challenge Lyon's hegemony after 2012, whenQatar Sports Investments (QSI) took over the team. Now with serious financial backing, Paris became a team capable of competing with the best clubs in the world, including Lyon, and thus a fierce rivalry emerged between the two sides in the 2010s.[1][2][3]
The Red and Blues also have a strong rivalry with fellowÎle-de-France outfitParis FC (called Juvisy until 2017). Known as theParisian Derby, the duo compete for recognition as the capital's top team. Prior to the appearance of Lyon in the 2000s and the rise of PSG into an elite club in the 2010s, Paris FC were the biggest team in the land and usually had the upper hand against their city rivals. They were the last side to win the league title, aside from Lyon in 2006, before PSG claimed their first crown in 2021.[5][6][7][21] Nowadays, PSG dominate the derby thanks to the huge gulf created between them by the investment of their Qatari owners, while Paris FC are trying to establish themselves as France's third team.[5][6][7]
Qatari government-backed investment fundQatar Sports Investments (QSI) have been the majority owners of PSG since 2011, currently holding 87.5% of the shares.[70] PSG are therefore a state-owned club, which makes them one of the wealthiest teams in the world.[71][72][73][74] Arctos Partners owns the remaining 12.5%.[75] QSI took control of the women's team in 2012.[2][3] In 2019, the club announced a long-term contract extension with kit manufacturerNike, which is now one of European football's most lucrative and the biggest sponsorship agreement in its history.[76] PSG are now tied to Nike until 2032 with an annual figure of €80 million.[76][77] The new deal covers the women's and men's football teams as well as their handball outfit.[76] PSG's women's team currently have theseventh-highest revenue in the footballing world with an annual revenue of €3.7m according toDeloitte, a slight increase from the €3.6m they made in 2023.[78][79]
| Type | Competitions | Titles | Seasons |
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| National | Première Ligue[80] | 1 | 2020–21 |
| Seconde Ligue[81] | 1 | 2000–01 | |
| Coupe de France Féminine[82] | 4 | 2009–10,2017–18,2021–22,2023–24 |
Paris Saint-Germain have had eight presidents.[54][55][83] Three of them have won at least one trophy.[8][9] Qatari businessman and chairman ofQatar Sports Investments,Nasser Al-Khelaifi, is the current president.[54][55] He is also the club's first foreign president.[84] Al-Khelaifi has been in charge since September 2012.[54][55][85][86][87]
Founded in 1971, the women's team was initially amateur and run by theAssociation Paris Saint-Germain.[85][86][87][88] This organization, founded in 1970, managed the club's amateur and professional activities for two decades. WhenCanal+ acquired PSG in May 1991, it transformed the club into alimited company known in France as SASP. The Association and the club were now two separate entities, each with a different president. The Association transferred the professional section to the SASP, while maintaining management of the amateur section. Between 1970 and 2012, the club's professional section consisted solely of the men's team.[88] When the women's team turned professional in September 2012, it separated from the Association and joined the SASP.[85][86][87][88] As with the men's team, Al-Khelaifi became the new president.[54][55]
Guy Crescent, president of the Association and elected in 1971, was the club's first president.Francis Borelli is the longest-serving president, having held the position for 13 years.[55][88]Simon Tahar was the last to preside over both the Association and the women's team.[85][86][87][88] Al-Khelaifi became the club's first president after its professionalization in 2012.[55] PSG won their first title, theSeconde Ligue, underBernard Brochand in 2001.[9] The club captured its first major trophy, theCoupe de France Féminine, under Simon Tahar in 2010.[8][9] Al-Khelaifi is the club's most successful president in terms of trophies won, with four. Since taking office, the Parisians have won aPremière Ligue championship and three Coupe de France titles.[8][9]
| No. | President | Tenure | PL | SL | CdF | TdC | UWCL | Total |
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| 1 |  Guy Crescent | Jun. 1971 – Dec. 1971 | ||||||
| 2 | Henri Patrelle | Dec. 1971 – Jun. 1974 | ||||||
| 3 | Daniel Hechter | Jun. 1974 – Jan. 1978 | ||||||
| 4 | Francis Borelli | Jan. 1978 – May 1991 | ||||||
| 5 | Bernard Brochand | May 1991 – Jun. 2001 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 6 | Alain Cayzac | Jun. 2001 – Jun. 2006 | ||||||
| 7 | Simon Tahar | Jun. 2006 – Sep. 2012 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 8 |  Nasser Al-Khelaifi | Sep. 2012 – Present | 1 | 3 | 4 |
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| President | Nasser Al-Khelaifi[91] |
| Head sporting director |  Angelo Castellazzi[92] |
| Assistant sporting director | Sabrina Delannoy[92] |
| Youth academy technical director | Sonia Haziraj[93] |
| Administrative manager | Sophie Perrichon[93] |
| Team manager | Cédric Martin[93] |
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| Head coach |  Paulo César[94] |
| Assistant coach | Alexy Kastelyn[92] |
| Goalkeeping coach | Mickael Grondin[92] |
| Fitness coach | Nicolas Colard[92] |
| Fitness assistant coach | Paul Margotteau[89] |
| Video analyst | Julien Roger[92] |
| Performance manager | Pauline Clavel[89] |
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