The conquest of the Champions League did not give more credit to PSG. The club owned by Qatar is not popular in France, indicates a survey.
If PSG hoped to conquer the hearts of the French, it is missed. Although winner of the last edition of the Champions League, crushing the Italians of Inter Milan on May 31 in Munich (5-0), the club of the capital struggles to build up a sympathy capital.
A recent survey carried out by Ipsos
After the European coronation only gives 13% of French people considering themselves “PSG supporters”, and 16% as “followers”. Four out of ten respondents (43%) said they were happy with PSG's victory against Inter.
Why such a low popularity rating while the 1976 Saint-Etienne (only finalist in the C1) and the 1993 OM (winner), for example, seem to have vibrated France with whole football? The image of the owner of PSG can explain this.
To support terrorist groups
Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) is none other than a fund of Qatar and it is indeed a powerful financial state which, since 2011, has held Paris Saint-Germain. Too powerful since it has stifled any competition at the national level to the point of distorting the title of champion of France or the Coupe de France. No suspense at the start of Ligue 1.
In recent years, Qatar has been regularly criticized for its troubled relations, not to say accomplices, especially with Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group, and the Muslim Brotherhood. The purchase of PSG would only be a soft power operation intended to exist internationally. Marketing level, it is successful. * :
Study by Ipsos-Cesi School of Engineers, between June 6 and 10, 2025, with a sample of 1,000 people representative of the French population, aged 18 to 75.
