Paris Saint-Germain Football Club is a professional football club based in Paris, France. It was founded on August 12, 1970, thanks to the merger of Paris FC and Stade Saint-Germain.
  Paris Saint-Germain has been playing in the Ligue 1 since 1974, the current championship record. The capital club is one of the most prestigious outfits in French football having won two Ligue 1 titles, eight Coupes de France, a record three Coupes de la Ligue and two Troph¨¦es des Champions. PSG is, with Olympique de Marseille, one of only two French clubs to have won a European competition, claiming the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1996 and the Intertoto Cup in 2001.
  Paris Saint-Germain's traditional colours are a blue shirt with a red central vertical bar framed by white edgings. It was designed by fashion designer Daniel Hechter, who collaborated with the club to design the iconic shirt which would become a strong symbol of the club. This shirt was first used between 1973 and 1974 in Division 2. The current badge was adopted in 2002. The logo consists of a red silhouette of the Eiffel Tower with the royal white cradle of Louis XIV underneath it and a blue background.
  As of April 2010, Paris Saint-Germain is the third richest club in France after Olympique Lyonnais and Olympique de Marseille.The club was also one of the 14 founder members of the now-defunct G-14 group of the leading European football clubs and is member of its modern replacement, the European Club Association. PSG also operates a reserve team and a female section since 1971.