The French side failed to escape a difficult Round of 16 draw against Real Madrid, coughing up a 1-0 first-leg lead thanks to a disastrous 3-1 second leg defeat. It seemed PSG had done enough to advance until Karim Benzema’s second-half hat-trick sank the Parisians.
PSG are 13 points clear at the top of Ligue 1 and are on track for domestic glory again, but it is European success that they really crave, and another year of Champions League disappointment will leave a bitter taste in the mouth.
Have PSG won the Champions League?
PSG have yet to win the Champions League. Having now been eliminated from this year’s competition, that makes it now 14 times in the competition without winning, including the last 10 competitions in a row.
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Only Arsenal have won more matches in the Champions League without winning the trophy. Arsenal have won 83 games while PSG have won 69.
PSG players who won the Champions League
While PSG haven’t won the famous trophy, a host of their current players have lifted it with other clubs, as listed below.
It’s this kind of experience that the club is hoping will finally get them over the hump.
How close have PSG come to winning the Champions League?
The closest PSG have come to winning the Champions League was in the 2019-20 campaign, when they reached the final, where they were beaten 1-0 by Bayern Munich in Lisbon, with Kingsley Coman scoring the game-winner in the 59th minute.
That season PSG topped a group including Real Madrid, Club Brugge and Galatasaray. They then beat Borussia Dortmund, Atalanta and RB Leipzig in the knockout stages en route to the final.
