The Paris municipal council voted again, Tuesday February 6, a wish to recall that the Parc des Princes is “part of the city’s heritage”
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“We want to move from the Park”declared Thursday, February 8, the president of Paris Saint-Germain Nasser al-Khelaïfi to the sports department of Radio France, on the sidelines of the annual UEFA congress in Paris, during which he was reappointed to the Comex of the European football body. “It’s too easy to say now that the stadium is no longer for sale. We know what we want, we wasted years trying to buy the Park. It’s over now, we want to move on from the Park “said Nasser al-Khelaïfi.
The president of PSG expressed his desire to leave the Parc des Princes, notably after the vote of the Paris Council. A vote to recall that the stadium is “belonging to the city’s heritage”, adopted with 64 votes in favor and 86 abstentions, reports France Bleu Paris. The deputy mayor of Paris David Belliard writes on social networks that “the Parc des Princes is not for sale”.
A source close to the Qatari president adds that “all efforts are now focused on leaving the Parc des Princes”. “We didn’t want to leave, but we had to. The town hall’s vote clarified things.”, continues this same source. Home of the capital’s club since 1974, the Parc des Princes belongs to the City of Paris, which rents it to PSG. The sale of the 48,000-seat stadium crystallizes tensions between the City of Paris and the management of the Parisian club, which had the ambition to modernize the sports venue and increase its capacity to 60,000 seats.
PSG stops investing in the Parc des Princes
Nasser al-Khelaïfi claims to have “lost 8 years”. “If the town hall had made this speech 8 years ago, the club would have already tried to move from the Park”, he assures. In March 2023, Paris Saint-Germain announced that it was going to submit an application to buy the Stade de France, located north of the capital, in Saint-Denis, in Seine-Saint-Denis. The club ultimately did not apply for the purchase of the Dyonisian venue.
Paris Saint-Germain is immediately stopping all investments for the Parc des Princes, the sports management learned from a source close to the matter. The club will hold a meeting this Thursday afternoon with the team in charge of the stadium.