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PSG Esports

French esports team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ27670016
Source-derived summary

Paris Saint-Germain Esports, commonly referred to as PSG Esports, is a French professional esports club based in Paris, France. It operates as the esports department of Paris Saint-Germain FC. The organisation currently fields teams in EA Sports FC. It has previously competed in League of Legends, Rocket League, Dota 2, FIFA Online, Brawl Stars, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Arena of Valor, Fortnite Battle Royale, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. Its headquarters and training centre are located at the PSG Studio in Boulogne-Billancourt, which also hosts the Paris Saint-Germain Academy Esports.

Founded in 2016, PSG Esports entered competitive esports through League of Legends and EA Sports FC before expanding into multiple titles. The organisation has competed across a variety of esports scenes, establishing partnerships with teams including LGD Gaming, Talon Esports, Team New Age, and Tundra Esports. Across all divisions, PSG Esports has won 32 titles, including championships in Dota 2, League of Legends, EA Sports FC, Brawl Stars, Rocket League, and Rainbow Six Siege.

Through its partnership with LGD Gaming, PSG competed in Dota 2 under the PSG.LGD name from 2018 to 2023, winning several international titles and recording three top-three finishes at The International, the game's annual world championship. PSG Esports also won the Brawl Stars World Finals in 2020 and two DreamHack tournaments in Rocket League.

In EA Sports FC, PSG Esports has won several titles and featured players including DaXe, Agge, Rafifa13, Fiddle, and Maniika. Its League of Legends division, operated through the PSG Talon partnership, won multiple Pacific Championship Series titles before the partnership ended in 2025.

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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—2016, 2018, 2023, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Esports, French and esports is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from PSG Esports” 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.