PSG academy and France youth system shine with outstanding performance

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·14 January 2026

PSG academy and France youth system shine with outstanding performance

This Wednesday, the CIES Football Observatory published its new study. It concerns the training centers of the top 5 European leagues (England, Germany, Italy, Spain, and France) with the number of trained players playing there and their minutes played this season. Paris Saint-Germain ranks 3rd, as it has in the last 5 and 10 seasons.

The top 21 training centers

“The report also presents the rankings for the last five and ten years, with Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Paris St-Germain consistently in the top three, and Olympique Lyonnais in fourth. However, OL is fifth for the current season in terms of minutes played by players according to their training club, with Real Madrid first and Stade Rennais third in this case. * Training clubs are defined as the first clubs where players stayed for at least three seasons between the ages of 15 and 21.”

It is a great success for PSG, which has a training center that has been progressing significantly in recent years and is becoming a real asset. Both for nurturing the first team, as seen with Warren Zaïre-Emery, Senny Mayulu, Ibrahim Mbaye, and Quentin Ndjantou regularly this season, and for generating additional revenue through sales. Including resale percentages, a technique often used by sports advisor Luis Campos in negotiations.

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It is also important to highlight the quality of French training, the second most represented country in this top 21 with 5 clubs. Only Spain does better, with 7 clubs. This further underscores the strength of Spanish football (Barça and Real Madrid are also first over the last 5 and 10 years). Seeing Rennes in 4th place is not insignificant, especially when thinking of Ousmane Dembélé (28-year-old forward) and Désiré Doué (20-year-old midfielder/forward), two major players in Paris and the French national team.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.