This is not a bluff on the part of President Nasser al-Khelaïfi: as he assured on RMC, PSG will build its own ultra-modern stadium in the coming years in order to leave the Parc des Princes, the symbolic of the club since 1974 (four years earlier, Stade Saint-Germanois had merged with a new club called Paris FC). The club wanted to buy the Porte de Saint-Cloud stadium in order to increase the capacity from 47,000 to nearly 60,000 seats. The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo refused the sale of the enclosure, however offering the possibility of carrying out work.
As indicated The Parisian Friday, PSG is decided to build its own stadium even with the end of Hidalgo’s mandate at the head of the capital in 2026 (she will not run again).
“A question of life and death” according to “NAK”. The president of the capital club is counting on the support of Valérie Pécresse, the president of the Ile-de-France region, who passed a motion to make 50 hectares available in favor of the club owned by Qatar. The Rouge et Bleu will therefore ultimately play in a stadium in the western suburbs of Paris (in Hauts-de-Seine or Yvelines).
PSG’s billion-dollar stadium
A few months ago, PSG’s plan was to build an arena with 60,000 to 70,000 seats but, still according to The Parisianthe architects of the American firm, Populos, thought of a modular stadium with a capacity ranging from 50,000 to 90,000 seats in order to host matches of the Parisian team as well as other sporting events and concerts. The cost of the operation would amount to more than a billion euros.
At 90,000 seats, PSG would suddenly become the European club with the largest stadium in Europe behind FC Barcelona’s Camp Nou, which will offer 105,000 seats at the end of its renovation this winter. The new Santiago-Bernabéu, the sumptuous setting of Real Madrid, “only” has a capacity of 78,297 seats. Wembley and Stade de France have 90,652 and 80,698 seats respectively.
