Paris Saint-Germain Feminine · History

Since January 2024, the Paris Saint-Germain women's team has played its home matches at the Campus PSG in Poissy, a 1,100-seat stadium that also houses the club's training centre. Paris Saint-Germain Féminine is the women's section of the Parisian club and competes in the Première Ligue, the top division in France. It was founded in the summer of 1971, shortly after the French Football Federation approved women's football. The team won the league for the first time in 2021, has won the Coupe de France four times and reached two UEFA Women's Champions League finals, in 2015 and 2017.

Origins and the years between divisions

For four decades the section played at the Stade Georges Lefèvre, next to the Camp des Loges training ground in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. It first reached the top flight for the 1979-80 season but was relegated in 1982 after three campaigns. For almost twenty years after that, the team moved up and down between the first two divisions. Promotion for good came in 2001, after Paris won the second division in 2000-01, and the club has not been relegated since. Its first national trophy was the 2010 Challenge de France, the competition later renamed the Coupe de France féminine.

Qatar Sports Investments and professionalisation

Qatar Sports Investments took over Paris Saint-Germain in 2012, and the women's project grew in scale. The squad turned professional, Farid Benstiti was appointed coach that year and the team left the Stade Georges Lefèvre for the Stade Sébastien Charléty. In 2018 the Stade Jean-Bouin was added as another home ground, while the Parc des Princes was kept for the biggest domestic and European fixtures. The main rival is Olympique Lyonnais. The two sides first met in 1994, in a fixture known as Le Classique. Paris did not beat Lyon until January 2014, when it won 1-0 at the Stade de Gerland.

Two European finals

Paris played its first UEFA Women's Champions League final in 2015 and lost 2-1 to FFC Frankfurt in Berlin. Two years later, with Patrice Lair as coach (2016-17), it was back in the final. This time the opponent was Lyon, at the Cardiff City Stadium, in the competition's first all-French final. The match finished 0-0 after extra time and Lyon won the shoot-out 7-6. In that same 2016-17 season Paris recorded its biggest win, 19-0 away to Bourges 18 in the Coupe de France in January 2017.

Cups and the first league title

The second Coupe de France came on 31 May 2018, with a 1-0 win over Lyon in the final at the Stade de la Meinau in Strasbourg. Marie-Antoinette Katoto scored the goal. Olivier Echouafni took over as coach that year and led the team to its first Première Ligue title in 2020-21, which ended Lyon's run of fourteen straight championships. In 2021-22 Katoto scored 32 goals, a club record for one season, and Paris beat Yzeure 8-0 in the cup final. In April 2022 a match against Lyon at the Parc des Princes drew 43,254 spectators, a French attendance record for a women's club game.

Coaches and the move to Poissy

After Echouafni (2018-21), the team was coached by Didier Ollé-Nicolle (2021-22), Gérard Prêcheur (2022-23) and Jocelyn Prêcheur (2023-24). The section began the 2023-24 season at the new Campus PSG in Poissy and played its first official match there in January 2024. On 4 May 2024, at the Stade de la Mosson in Montpellier, Paris beat FC Fleury 91 1-0 with a second-half goal from Lieke Martens to win its fourth Coupe de France.