Paris (AFP)
Paris SG has paid 1.9 billion euros in social and tax contributions in ten years, since the arrival in 2011 of its current Qatari owner, a study commissioned by the club reported Thursday.
This figure includes the taxes paid by the players, the PSG, and the contribution of this one to the budget of the social organizations.
For the 2019-2020 season, Paris Saint-Germain paid a record amount of 269.3 million euros, more than triple the amount paid in 2011-2012 (81 million euros).
On the occasion of the ten years since the arrival of QSI at its head, the club of the capital entrusted to the Center of Law and Economy of Sport (CDES), based in Limoges, the mission of quantifying its economic weight by France.
According to the study, PSG generated more than 182.2 million euros of impact in Île-de-France, via its home matches or its investments (102.2 million euros in ten years in infrastructure ), like the future training center of Poissy, in Yvelines.
This represents 2,150 full-time equivalent jobs, whether direct, indirect or induced, from a network of more than 800 companies collaborating with the club.
"In the space of ten years, PSG has become one of the main sports franchises in the world and even the most dynamic in the last three years", welcomed the president of PSG Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, quoted in the club press release.
According to the firm Deloitte, PSG was the seventh football club to generate the most income in the world in 2019-2020 (540.6 million euros).
The Parisian club recorded over the past season a shortfall estimated at 100 million euros due to the pandemic, which in particular forced it to play almost the entire season without an audience.
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