PSG lifted the league champions’ trophy at the Jean Bouin on a night that had already stopped mattering for their title chase, doing it at Paris FC’s ground in a chilly atmosphere. The trophy presentation came as the lineups for Paris FC and PSG were announced for the derby, with the hosts set to start Trapp, Camara, Coppola, Otavio, Matondo, Lees Melou, Chergui, Ikoné, Munetsi, Simon and Geubbels, while PSG named Safonov, Beraldo, Marquinhos, Zabarnyi, Lucea, Fabian Ruiz, Vitinha, Zaire-Emery, Barcola, Dembélé and Kvaratskhelia.
The result itself had lost its competitive edge, but the setting gave the evening its edge. PSG’s celebration at Paris FC’s home was described as controversial, and the sight of the champions lifting the trophy on city rivals’ turf underlined how the last match of the campaign could still carry more heat off the field than on it.
That mood fit the wider finish to the season, with PSG already out of reach and the final whistle serving more as a formality than a turning point. The champion’s trophy at Jean Bouin added a ceremonial layer to a fixture framed by a derby atmosphere, even if the football no longer held the same weight for PSG’s interests.
The friction was in the venue as much as the scoreline. A title celebration at Paris FC’s ground is exactly the kind of detail that turns a routine end-of-season presentation into a talking point, especially when it comes amid a city rivalry and a match that had already been stripped of sporting consequence for the champions.
For Paris FC, the night was part backdrop, part stage, and part reminder that the capital’s football tensions do not fade when the title is decided. PSG leave Jean Bouin with another championship in hand, but the argument over where it was lifted may linger longer than the match itself.
