Paris Saint-Germain Football Club is a French professional association football club founded in 1970, and based in the city of Paris in France. The club's first team play in the highest tier of French football, the Ligue 1.
Since its inception, Paris SG has played 47 seasons, all of which have been spent within the first three levels of the French football league system (Ligue 1, Ligue 2 and ).
PSG has spent 44 seasons in Ligue 1, winning the competition 6 times. The capital side has never been relegated from Ligue 1. The club's worst Ligue 1 finish to date is 16th, their placing at the end of the 1971–72 and 2007–08 seasons.
The 2015–16 season was the club's best to date. PSG won all four domestic titles (Ligue 1, Coupe de France, Coupe de la Ligue and Trophée des Champions) and reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League.
The Parisians scored 143 goals in all competitions, 50 of which were scored by Zlatan Ibrahimović (national record). In Ligue 1, the capital club finished with 96 points (national record).
Towards the end of the 1960s, an ambitious group of businessmen decided to create a major club in the French capital. They chose to merge their virtual side, Paris FC, with after the team from Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 15km west of Paris, won promotion to Ligue 2. PSG made an immediate impact both on and off the pitch, building a substantial fanbase and winning promotion in their first season.