Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé. These names evoke domination, the goals by the hundreds and cupboards with overflowing trophies. They collected the golden balloons, stacked the Champions Leagues and marked history forever. However, at the top of their glory, a statistical feat, a collective Saint-Graal, has always escaped them. A record of crazy complexity, which measures a player's ability to win everything over a given period. This year, against all odds, it is not a unique superstar, but a squad of Paris Saint-Germain players who find himself in a position to bring down this brand deemed untouchable and to enter into an unknown dimension of the greatest.
The 2009 sextuplet in line … to overcome it!
This record is that of the number of major trophies won over a single and same calendar year. The absolute reference is the historical sexupé of FC Barcelona of Pep Guardiola in 2009, where Messi, Iniesta, Puyol and the others had swept everything away. Since then, no one has done better. Cristiano Ronaldo (in 2017 with Real) and Kylian Mbappé (in 2018 with PSG and France) stopped at five titles. This year, the Portuguese contingent of PSG – Vitinha, Nuno Mendes, Gonçalo Ramos and João Neves – is in a position to spray this record.
Nine trophies in 2025? Crazy but realistic calculation
How is it possible? The calculation is dizzying but very real. The four Portuguese have already raised five trophies since January 2025: the Champions Trophy, French Championship, the French Cup, the Champions League with PSG, as well as the League of Nations with Portugal. And the harvest is far from over! Four other titles are within their reach: the Club World Cup this summer, another champions trophy in August, the European Super Cup in stride, and finally the intercontinental cup in December. PSG as a club could make an unprecedented octuplet, but its Portuguese players, thanks to their success in selection, could bring the brand to nine!
The Barça record in 2009 could fall this year.
Stronger than Messi's Barça and Flick Bayern?
To achieve such a feat would place this PSG team and its Portuguese players above all the other large dynasties of modern football. The Grand Bayern Munich of 2020 had done a sexup, but he had spread over two civil years (the 6th title having been won in February 2021). The Grand Real Madrid of Zidane had stopped at a quintuplet in 2017, just like the Manchester City of Guardiola in 2023. These examples show how difficult it is to win everything in the space of 12 months, stressing the exceptional character of the performance that may be preparing to achieve.
A summer to enter the legend
The path is traced, but nothing has yet been played. Each upcoming match will be a final to get closer to this historic goal. For Vitinha and his compatriots, the coming months will not only be a question of awards, but a real quest for eternity. If they succeed, they will not be content to mark the history of PSG; They will achieve a performance that would bring them into a dimension where even Messi, Ronaldo and Mbappé, in their greatest years, have never set foot.
