Football: PSG will be a candidate for the takeover of the Stade de France

Europe 1 with AFP 12:33 p.m., March 10, 2023

Paris Saint-Germain will apply for the call for tenders launched by the State to sell the Stade de France enclosure for the summer of 2025, an internal source at the club said on Friday, confirming information from the daily L' Crew.

“We are candidates for the Stade de France” to buy the enclosure, the price of which is estimated at around 600 million euros, explained an internal source at PSG on Friday, specifying that the file had not yet been submitted.

Probable award in 2025

The price of the Stade de France is estimated at "647 million euros", according to the state accounts established in 2021. The state published the two calls for tenders on March 7: one for the sale, the other for a new concession, with the date of delivery of the “folds” April 27 at 12:00 p.m., according to the documents consulted by AFP.

The offers submitted, both for the transfer and for a concession, will be studied in 2024, for a probable award in 2025.

Last fall, the president of PSG Nasser Al-Khelaïfi had expressed his dissatisfaction with the negotiations with the City of Paris for a possible takeover of the Parc des Princes, the historic enclosure of the club.

A few weeks later, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, replied on January 15, indicating that the stadium was "not for sale".

"If ever this does not move forward with the Paris City Hall, we are preparing for other options," said the internal source at PSG, adding that discussions on the Parc des Princes with Anne Hidalgo had not progressed.

The club believes that if PSG does not become the owner of its lair, it will not be able to start an expansion and modernization project, valued at 500 million euros.