Paris Saint-Germain 2025/26: Five Trophies, Back-to-Back European Crowns, and Dembélé's Ballon d'Or Year
I am the light. Not any light - the Parisian sodium glow that hangs above the Boulogne end on Champions League nights, the one that turns the Hechter stripe into something between midnight blue and the colour of a winter river. I have been there for the Messi years, for the Neymar years, for the Mbappé years, for the year Zlatan scored 156 in 180 and we still did not win the European Cup. I was there when the 4-0 Roma comeback happened in my living room and the ultras did not come back for three weeks. I was there when the 6-1 Barcelona happened and I did not sleep for the rest of the calendar year. I have been worn for the Coupe de France, for the Trophée des Champions, for the Ligue 1, for the Supercopa, for the year QSI spent €700m and won nothing. This season I was worn for five trophies, the back-to-back European Cup, and the night Ousmane Dembélé - the kid from Vernon, the boy who almost went to Dortmund, the man who took three coaches and a coaching change to convince he was a 9 - finally lifted the Ballon d'Or. There is a second star above the crest now. There is a second consecutive European Cup in the trophy room. There is no longer any asterisk next to the word "Paris."
That is the shape of 2025/26: seventy-six points in Ligue 1, twenty-four wins, four draws, six defeats, eighty-three goals scored, thirty-two conceded, +51 goal difference, the title clinched on 6 April 2026 with a 3-0 win over Lens at the Parc. Five trophies across the calendar year - the Ligue 1, the Coupe de France (3-0 over Lyon on 3 May 2026 at the Stade de France), the Trophée des Champions (4-2 over Monaco in Doha on 5 January 2026), the Champions League (1-1 over Arsenal after extra time, 4-3 on penalties, at the Puskas Arena on 30 May 2026), and the UEFA Super Cup (2-1 over Inter Milan in August 2025). Five trophies in one season. The most by a French club since Saint-Étienne in 1975/76 (though Saint-Étienne played in a slightly different football calendar). And the second consecutive Champions League - making Paris Saint-Germain the second club in the modern era to retain the European Cup, after Real Madrid in 2016, 2017, and 2018.
How Luis Enrique Built the Side That Did Not Need a Striker
Let me take you back to the autumn of 2023, because that is when the Luis Enrique project started and when the squad that won back-to-back European Cups was assembled. Luis Enrique arrived in the summer of 2023 from the Spain national team job, fresh off a 2022 World Cup that ended in the round of 16 against Morocco, and walked into a dressing room still configured around Kylian Mbappé. The dressing room was, by the end of that season, configured around something else: a 4-3-3 with a false 9, no fixed centre-forward, and three forwards who interchanged. Mbappé left in the summer of 2024. Marco Asensio left in the summer of 2025. Gonçalo Ramos became the only true number 9 in the squad - and Luis Enrique used him, mostly, as a substitute.
What Luis Enrique built, instead, was a midfield. Warren Zaïre-Emery, the 19-year-old Parisian who had been in the academy since he was 11, became the deep-lying playmaker. Vitinha, signed from Porto for €40m in 2022, became the metronome. Fabian Ruiz, signed from Napoli for €25m in 2022, became the runner. The front three - Dembélé on the right, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia on the left, Bradley Barcola in the middle - interchanged constantly. There was no fixed 9. There was no fixed 10. There was no fixed winger. There was, instead, a team that pressed in 4-3-3, dropped into 4-2-3-1 without the ball, and attacked in a 2-3-5 that no French team had played since the 1980s.
Dembélé's Ballon d'Or Year, Kvaratskhelia's 10, and the Forward Line That Was Three People
Ousmane Dembélé ended the season with thirty-one goals and seventeen assists in all competitions, the highest combined goal involvement by a PSG player in the modern era. In the Champions League alone, he scored ten and assisted seven - the most goal contributions by any player in the 2025/26 Champions League, four more than the second-best. He won the 2025 Ballon d'Or in December, the first PSG player to win the award since George Weah in 1995. He won Ligue 1 Player of the Year for the second time. He was, at twenty-eight, the best player in the world.
But Dembélé was not alone. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, in his first full season at PSG after his January 2025 move from Napoli, scored ten Champions League goals - the most by a PSG player in a single European Cup campaign since Neymar in 2019/20. He scored sixteen Ligue 1 goals and assisted nine. He was named Ligue 1 Newcomer of the Year. Bradley Barcola, the 22-year-old Lyon academy product, scored twenty Ligue 1 goals and assisted eight - the first time in his career he had broken the 20-goal mark. The three of them, between them, scored fifty-one Ligue 1 goals. In a system with no fixed 9, that is the number a 9 would have scored.
The Champions League Final, and How the Trophy Came Back
PSG entered the 2025/26 Champions League as holders - the first time the club had defended the trophy since 1994/95. They finished third in the league phase with seven wins and one defeat, behind Inter and Arsenal. They beat Feyenoord in the Round of 16 (5-2 on aggregate). They beat Aston Villa in the quarter-final (3-1 on aggregate, with Dembélé scoring twice at Villa Park). They beat Bayern Munich in the semi-final - the side that had broken the Bundesliga scoring record and that had Harry Kane - by 6-5 on aggregate, scoring three in the last twenty minutes of the second leg at the Parc des Princes to come from behind and win 4-3 on the night.
The final was at the Puskas Arena in Budapest on 30 May 2026. Arsenal took the lead in the 38th minute through Bukayo Saka, heading in a Timber cross. PSG equalised in the 79th minute through Vitinha, his shot deflecting off Saliba and wrong-footing Raya. Extra time ended 1-1. The penalty shoot-out went four kicks each before Saka's fifth was saved by Gianluigi Donnarumma. Achraf Hakimi, who had been PSG's most decorated academy graduate and was playing his last match for the club before his summer move to Saudi Arabia, scored the fifth and decisive penalty. The trophy was Paris's for the second year in a row.
Wear the Hechter Stripe for the Back-to-Back
You do not retire the Hechter stripe because you have already won everything. The Hechter stripe is the uniform of a club that has now won the European Cup twice in a row, that has won the Ligue 1 fourteen times, that has won five trophies in one calendar year, and that is going into the 2026/27 season as favourite for the first three-peat of the Champions League in the modern era. The 26/27 collection carries that story in four cuts, all of them ready to ship from our warehouse today. Below are four jerseys from our current inventory that wrap the season Dembélé won the Ballon d'Or, Kvaratskhelia scored ten in Europe, and the Hechter stripe took its second consecutive lap of honour: the 26/27 home shirt, the 26/27 away shirt, the 26/27 home replica in the title-winning blue, and the 25/26 home replica in last year's Ligue 1 navy.
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FAQ: Paris Saint-Germain 2025/26
Did Paris Saint-Germain retain the Champions League in 2025/26?
Yes. PSG beat Arsenal 1-1 (aet, 4-3 on penalties) at the Puskas Arena in Budapest on 30 May 2026 to become the second club in the modern era to retain the Champions League, after Real Madrid in 2016, 2017, and 2018.
How many trophies did PSG win in 2025/26?
Five. Ligue 1 (76 pts), Coupe de France (3-0 over Lyon on 3 May), Trophée des Champions (4-2 over Monaco on 5 January 2026 in Doha), Champions League (final on 30 May), and UEFA Super Cup (2-1 over Inter Milan in August 2025). The most by a French club in a single season since 1975/76.
Who won the 2025 Ballon d'Or from PSG?
Ousmane Dembélé, who scored 31 goals and added 17 assists across all competitions in 2025/26, including 10 goals and 7 assists in the Champions League - the most goal contributions of any player in the 2025/26 competition. He was the first PSG player to win the Ballon d'Or since George Weah in 1995.
How did PSG beat Bayern Munich in the Champions League semi-final?
PSG won 6-5 on aggregate over Bayern, losing 2-2 in the first leg at the Allianz but coming from 2-1 down in the second leg at the Parc to win 4-3, with three goals in the last twenty minutes. Dembélé scored twice across the tie.
What is the Hechter stripe on PSG's home shirt?
The Hechter stripe is the central red-and-white vertical stripe on the PSG home shirt, introduced in 1973 by designer Daniel Hechter. It has appeared on every PSG home kit since, with minor variations, and is widely regarded as one of the most iconic kit designs in world football.
How fast do PSG jerseys ship from Pro Sports Kit?
In-stock jerseys ship within 1-3 business days, with standard delivery in 7-15 days and expedited delivery in 5-7 days, backed by 30-day free returns and size exchanges.
Five trophies, two European Cups, one Ballon d'Or, and a Hechter stripe that is going to need a second star. — The Light of the Parc des Princes
