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1996–97 Paris Saint-Germain FC season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ3896069 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1996–97 season was Paris Saint-Germain's 27th season in existence. PSG played their home league games at the Parc des Princes in Paris, registering an average attendance of 35,302 spectators per match. The club was presided by Michel Denisot and the team was coached by Ricardo. Raí was the team captain.

Players

As of the 1996–97 season.

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Kits

Opel was the shirt sponsor, and Nike was the kit manufacturer.

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The public source identifies “1996–97 Paris Saint-Germain FC season” as season of football team. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Paris, Saint-Germain and season.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Paris, Saint-Germain and season providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3896069. The first chronological checks are 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “1996–97 Paris Saint-Germain FC season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.