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Sports July 11, 2025
Shlomo Sprung
Shlomo Sprung

Paris Saint-Germain is on the Brink of the Greatest Soccer Season Ever

Ousmane Dembélé celebrates one of his two goals against Real Madrid in the Club World Cup semifinals on Wednesday. (Dan Mullan / Getty Images)
Just a win away from a fifth trophy in 2024-25 and $275 million in prize winnings, can PSG close out what has been a historic season?

Like Mike Tyson in his prime, this 2024-25 Paris Saint-Germain team knows how to deliver an early knockout punch.

In front of a packed MetLife Stadium crowd Wednesday in the Club World Cup semifinal, PSG scored in the sixth and ninth minutes en route to a 4-0 thrashing of Kylian Mbappé and Real Madrid to advance to Sunday’s final in New Jersey against Chelsea. That result came less than six weeks after the Parisians scored in the 12th and 20th minutes of a 5-0 humiliation of Inter Milan in the Champions League final, the first time the team has ever won European club soccer’s most prestigious prize.

Already winners of the Champions League, the French Ligue 1 title, the Coupe de France domestic cup, and the French Trophee des Champions, Paris Saint-Germain has a chance to add a fifth and final trophy to their collection for the 2024-25 season, capping off what could be the most successful and lucrative season a soccer team has ever accomplished.

PSG has already earned a reported $106.9 million from the new 32-team Club World Cup by reaching the final, with a chance to earn an additional $10 million for beating Chelsea on Sunday. It also took home $131.3 million for winning the Champions League and $25.72 million for capturing the Ligue 1 title. So the club has a chance to take home just under $275 million in prize money over the calendar year, and that’s before accounting for international TV money, stadium revenue, and merchandise sales. We’re looking at success on and off the field like we’ve never seen before, just years after the club’s strategy of amassing global superstars crashed and burned.

From 2021 to 2023, PSG boasted an offensive front line of Mbappé, Lionel Messi, and Neymar that was the envy of the football world. It was a lineup you’d custom rig as a FIFA manager, a seemingly unbeatable embarrassment of riches. Yet, in those two years with that trio, the club failed to make it past the Champions League’s Round of 16. Messi and Neymar left in 2023, and Mbappé departed a year later.

After that debacle, Paris Saint-Germain wisely decided to embrace a youth movement centered around shrewd transfers for players still in their 20s. French winger Ousmane Dembélé was brought over after that 2022-23 season in a €60 million deal from Barcelona, and has been their most dynamic goal scorer since. Georgian star Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, 24, arrived in a €85 million transfer from Napoli before this season, while 20-year-old French phenom Désiré Doué‘s €30 million arrival from Rennes turned into a masterful deal after he scored two goals in the Champions League final. Other key moves like Portuguese defensive midfielder João Neves, 22-year-old French attacker Bradley Barcola, 23-year-old Ecuadorian center back Willian Pacho, 24-year-old Portuguese striker Gonçalo Ramos, and playing teenage French homegrown phenom Warren Zaïre-Emery full-time were all made over the last two seasons.

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This youth movement, which sees the overall squad age at just over 25 years old, paid immediate dividends. After falling in the Champions League semis to Borussia Dortmund a year ago, PSG hit its stride toward the end of the group stage in the expanded CL format this year, which saw each team play eight games instead of six. The club dispatched Brest in a two-game playoff to reach the Round of 16 before sweeping past English clubs Liverpool, Aston Villa, and Arsenal to reach the final, where they bludgeoned Inter with brute and efficient force.

After a near-perfect run at this new, expanded Club World Cup that is 32 teams instead of eight, with a vastly increased prize pool, Paris Saint-Germain is on the precipice of perhaps the most lucrative and dominant season we’ve ever seen. All they’re missing is just one more knockout blow.

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Shlomo Sprung

Shlomo Sprung is a Senior Staff Writer at Boardroom. He has more than a decade of experience in journalism, with past work appearing in Forbes, MLB.com, Awful Announcing, and The Sporting News. He graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2011, and his Twitter and Spotify addictions are well under control. Just ask him.