PSG's New Stadium Project: A €1 Billion Investment in Massy | OneFootball

Paris Saint-Germain is set to depart their historic stadium, the Parc des Princes amid frustration with Anne Hidalgo, Paris city Mayor. The club has intended to buy and expand its historic stadium for years but was denied by the city. The club's desire has always been to modernise and increase the capacity of their stadium, but it has been met by the city's official with resistance and the negotiations seemed to have ended between both parts.

The Massy Project

Therefore, the club sought to build a brand new stadium that would help the club to become one of the biggest club in Europe, and it seems that they found the perfect location for their new home. PSG will now embark on a transformative journey with plans to build a new €1 billion, 90,000 seat stadium in Massy, a suburb approximately 15 kilometers south of central Paris.

With the impossibility to gain ownership of the Parc des Princes, Nasser Al-Khelaifi and the club looked elsewhere to build a stadium, as many sites fought to welcome the club and its fans. However, Massy easily convinced the Qataris and won the race to be PSG's new home.

This ambitious new project will signify a pivotal shift for the club, looking to build one of the largest and most advanced football venues in the world. Which will not only profit to the club in terms of revenue on matchdays, but also in terms of infrastructure. The club will not only build a stadium but develop the area. It would also become the biggest stadium in France, surpassing the 80,000 seats of the Stade de France.

Future challenges

The future challenges for the club as they are about to depart their historic stadium, their home since 1974, will be a possible resistance from long-time fans having a deep connection with the Parc des Princes. Furthermore, the club will have to ensure a good accessibility of their future venue to maintain fan attendance, while preserving the atmosphere that lifted them on so many times European nights.

With the club building a new stadium, it seems that the new era started with the inauguration of the PSG Campus, their cutting-edge new training center last November is well underway and should see the club go through a deep transformative phase in the near future. There is no doubt that this news will not be well received by every fans of the club but it is a necessary step forward for the club.