PSG’s Champions League heroes feted across Paris as Macron hails pride of France | OneFootball

PSG celebrated a second Champions League title across Paris on Sunday, from Champ-de-Mars to the Élysée and Parc des Princes. Huge crowds turned out as Emmanuel Macron praised the team.

After a two hour flight from Budapest, the squad landed at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle at 16:25. Fifteen minutes later the trophy emerged and a red and blue bus marked champion d'Europe 2026 set off towards Champ-de-Mars, L'Équipe reports.

PSG chose the Champ-de-Mars over the Champs-Élysées to host more fans, and an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 gathered beneath the Eiffel Tower. The team arrived around 18:00 to Phil Collins' Who Said I Would.

Players and staff crossed a tricolour carpet, their shirts showing two stars and the line "It was never going to be just one". Captain Marquinhos thanked supporters and urged restraint, and Ousmane Dembélé told fans they would be back next year for a third.

The convoy reached the Élysée at 19:00 under heavy escort before meeting Macron. He said France had, thanks to PSG, won two titles in two years after a 70 year wait, and called them the pride of Paris and of the country.

Later, 48,000 filled the Parc des Princes, with brief entry scuffles at gate 417 before CRS helped stewards. At 21:42 the party peaked with pyrotechnics, player-by-player introductions, Désiré Doué and Matveï Safonov drawing loud ovations, and the trophy lifted amid fireworks to Daft Punk's One More Time.

Source: L'Équipe