Paris St-Germain aim to start their season as they hope to end it – by winning a European trophy.
The back-to-back European champions could become only the second team to win three consecutive Champions Leagues this season.
But first the focus is on the Uefa Super Cup against Europa League winners Aston Villa in Salzburg on Wednesday (20:00 BST).
- BBC Sport looks at how PSG are shaping up this season.
After years and years of failure and billions of pounds spent, Paris St-Germain finally won the Champions League in 2025.
And then they became one of only two teams to win consecutive Champions League trophies.
They hammered Inter Milan 5-0 in Munich in 2025 and then beat Arsenal on penalties in Budapest this year.
Only Real Madrid had won the Champions League back-to-back before – winning three in a row from 2016 to 2018.
It is something even the great teams like Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona or Manchester City, or Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United, or various Bayern Munich sides have not done.
Joining Real on three is the aim for Luis Enrique’s side this season.
Going back to the start, only three other teams have managed to win three consecutive European Cups – Real Madrid, who won the first five from 1956 to 1960, and Ajax and Bayern Munich both in the 1970s.
In fact if you stretch it out to three European Cups in five years you would only have to add Liverpool (1977, 1978, 1981) to that list.
Paris St-Germain will play in six competitions this season (three of them being one-off finals) – and will be favourites to win each of them.
They are the Uefa Super Cup, Trophee des Champions (France’s Community Shield), the Champions League, Ligue 1, the French Cup and the Fifa Intercontinental Cup.
Last season they won a joint record five, only failing in the French Cup where they lost to neighbours Paris FC in January. The season before they won four trophies.
No major team have ever won six pieces of silverware in a season before.
Away from PSG the record is Celtic’s five in 1966-67 (including the Glasgow Cup), while several teams have won four – including Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Manchester United and Manchester City.
