In detail, the Agache holding company of the family of the boss of the luxury group LVMH now holds 52.4% of the club’s capital via Agache Sport.
Red Bull, the Austrian group that owns clubs in Leipzig and Salzburg, with which the Arnault family partnered on this project, owns 10.6%.
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The rest is divided between Alter Paris, the structure of Pierre Ferracci (29.8%) and BRI Sports Holdings, representing Lycamobile (7.2%).
“A new board of directors has been set up, reflecting the majority position of the Arnault family and the presence of Red Bull,” indicates the club, current leader of Ligue 2.
The Arnault family announced on October 17 that they had entered “into exclusive negotiations with a view to acquiring a majority stake in Paris FC”. The first discussions began last April.
Training objective
The budget of Paris FC, which has taken care of its recruitment with a view to moving up into the men’s elite at the end of the season, is already around 30 million euros.
After 14 days, the Parisians are at the top of Ligue 2, the first two of which will be promoted next season to L1 and the third will compete in a play-off for accession to the elite.
The club created in 1969 also has a women’s section already established at the high level. After nine days, Paris FC is 3rd in the Women’s Premier League, behind the untouchable Lyonnaises and Parisiennes of PSG.
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The newspaper L’Equipe estimated last month that the Arnault family’s investment would be “between 100 and 200 million euros over several years” for a club valued at “around fifty million euros”. according to a source close to the matter at AFP.
The project detailed on November 20 in front of the press by Antoine Arnault, son of Bernard Arnault and future strong man of the club, Pierre Ferracci predicts that the latter will withdraw from the capital of the club in 2027.
Pierre Ferracci hopes to convince BRI to follow him and leave around 80% of the shares to the Arnault family.
According to its new owners, the strategy of the PFC, which will count among its leaders the former president of PSG Michel Denisot, will rely mainly on training with the objective within one or two years of perpetuating the club in the first half of the Ligue 1 table and compete for qualifying places for the European Cups.
“We are not coming to change everything, or overturn the table,” insisted Antoine Arnault during the press conference on November 20 at the PFC training center in Orly.
“We want to do things gradually, without skipping steps, it’s very important, because incantations never work very well in football,” he added, referring to a commitment “of at least 10, 15 or 20 years” but refuting any idea of immediately entering into competition with PSG.
The ambition, he continued, is to build “the best training center in France” and to integrate into the first team “five, six, seven, why not eight players” who will come from there.
