The PSG season so far reads like two different sides wearing the same shirt. In Europe, Paris are back-to-back Champions League holders who opened the defence of the trophy by putting six past Slovan Bratislava. In Ligue 1, they needed until the middle of September to win a match at all. With the international break now interrupting things, here is every competitive game of the 2026/27 campaign to date, competition by competition.
Trophée des Champions: beaten by Lens
The curtain-raiser went wrong immediately. Paris lost the Trophée des Champions 1-0 to Lens, a result that looked like a curiosity at the time and reads rather differently now that the domestic form has followed the same pattern. French football’s season opener is a one-off showpiece between the previous year’s league and cup winners, and for a squad that had spent the summer being told it was the best in Europe, losing it by a single goal was an awkward way to begin.
UEFA Super Cup: the first trophy of the year
Redress arrived eight days before the league began. Paris beat Aston Villa 2-1 on 13 August to win the UEFA Super Cup — the club’s second, and still the only trophy in the cabinet this season. There was a neat subplot in it: Lucas Digne had completed his return to the Parc from Villa on 10 August, three days before the two clubs met, so he faced his former employers as a Parisian rather than a visitor.
Ligue 1: five points from four
Then the league, and the part of the campaign that has caused all the noise. Three games passed without a win before Sunday finally broke the run at Brest.
| Round | Fixture | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 (23 Aug) | Rennes (a) | 2-2 draw |
| 2 (28 Aug) | Lille (a) | 2-2 draw |
| 3 (4 Sep) | Monaco (h) | 1-2 defeat |
| 4 (13 Sep) | Brest (a) | 1-0 win |
Two away draws opened it. At Rennes, Paris could not turn a lively afternoon into three points; at Lille, Marquinhos headed a late equaliser to rescue a point. The genuine jolt came at the Parc des Princes on 4 September, when Monaco won 1-2 in Paris — Filipe Luís’s side arriving in form and leaving with the points.
Sunday’s 1-0 win at Brest was the first league victory of the season, and it came from an unlikely direction. João Neves found Ousmane Dembélé, who back-heeled the ball into Ferran Torres’s path, and the summer signing from Barcelona took one touch before finishing from 25 yards past Egil Selvik. It was not a dominant night — Get French Football News had Brest ahead on expected goals, with Kamory Doumbia striking the outside of a post and Matvey Safonov making two saves of real consequence — but it was three points, and it moved Paris to five from four.
Champions League: the defence starts with six
The European story is a different one entirely. Matchday 1 of the league phase brought Yaya Touré’s Slovan Bratislava to the Parc on 9 September, and Paris won 6-1 having taken 21 shots in the first half alone.
Dembélé opened the scoring after Nuno Mendes’s effort came back off the post, then added a close-range header from a deflected Dro Fernández cross. Torres scored three — a near-post volley set up by Dembélé, a curled finish after a Maghnes Akliouche dribble, and a half-volley from a Dembélé corner — before Fabián Ruiz made it six late on. Suleiman Camara pulled one back for the visitors. Dembélé assisted two of the three Torres goals; Akliouche, for his part, is still waiting for a first Paris goal of his own.
What the PSG season so far actually tells us
Two things, mostly. The first is that Ferran Torres has been the signing of the window — four goals across the Slovan and Brest games, and GFFN report he also scored on his Ligue 1 debut. For a squad that spent the summer losing Gonçalo Ramos, Randal Kolo Muani and Bradley Barcola, a forward who scores immediately was the single most important box to tick.
The second is that the gap between the European team and the domestic one is real rather than imagined. Luis Enrique‘s players have looked exactly like champions when a Champions League night demands it and distinctly ordinary when a Sunday in Ligue 1 does. Dembélé himself called the start poor, and the shape of the strongest XI is still being argued over four rounds in.
There is time. Paris have retained the European Cup — one of only nine clubs in history to manage it, and only the second in the Champions League era — which buys a good deal of patience. The FIFA Intercontinental Cup final on 16 December is still on the calendar, and the league phase has plenty left in it. But a back-to-back European champion cannot run a domestic season on five points from four for much longer.
