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PSG is the only French club to have qualified for the round of 16 of the C1 on Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Lens knew how to exit through the front door. Eliminated from the Champions League at the end of the fifth group match, the Art\u00e9siens won against Sevilla during the last meeting, Tuesday December 12, to win a ticket for the Europa League. A success which does not erase the historic rout of the Sang et Or, against Arsenal, 6-0, at the end of November, the biggest defeat of a French club in C1. Next to,<\/span> <\/span>PSG’s qualification – in pain – for the round of 16 does not constitute a huge surprise. It must be said that for ten years, the Ile-de-France team has come out of the pools every year, unlike its Ligue 1 counterparts, who are clearly not yet at the level of the competition. <\/span><\/p>\n Since the 2013-2014 season, only three French clubs have managed to escape from the group stages alongside PSG: AS Monaco (2014-2015 and 2016-2017 seasons), Olympique Lyonnais (2018-2019 and 2019-2020 seasons) and LOSC (in 2021-2022). Regularly, the Ile-de-France team is the only one to reach the round of 16. This happened five times between the 2013-2014 and 2022-2023 seasons. <\/span><\/p>\n Compared to the four other major European football nations, the French teams are poor students. Over the last ten years, 63% of French clubs have, on average, managed to get past the group stages compared to 90% of English clubs. A statistic, which for France, is largely boosted by the annual qualification of PSG because the French sample is based on the presence of only two teams on six occasions, and three during four seasons. Conversely, the German, Spanish and English samples are based on the presence of between three and five clubs. <\/strong>In quantifiable terms, this means that there are between three and five English clubs in the round of 16 and then between one and two French teams.<\/span><\/p>\n