Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League final shirts smash records in auction
Paris Saint-Germain have another title to add to their collection after successfully defending the Champions League: the undisputed hottest property for collectors of match worn shirts and other sports memorabilia.
Some of the signed PSG jerseys worn by star players in their Champions League final win over Arsenal last month went under the hammer on auction site Match Worn Shirt last week – and instantly smashed all records for football kit sold on the platform.
Ballon d’Or winner Ousmane Dembele’s top fetched the highest price of €160,015 (£138,036), but shirts worn by teammates Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Desire Doue and Marquinhos all went for more than £100,000 each too.
Before this month, the biggest fee paid for a football shirt on the platform was the €75,527 (£65,359) a collector shelled out in May for Lamine Yamal’s top from Barcelona’s 7-2 win over Newcastle United in their Champions League meeting in March.
The next highest was the €62,606 (£54,369) paid last year for Cristiano Ronaldo’s shirt from the Portugal match in which he hit two goals to become the all-time leading goalscorer in World Cup qualifying matches.
The combined total raised by the auction of PSG’s Champions League final kit on Match Worn Shirt topped €744,439.
Rise of sports memorabilia as an asset class
“This incredible auction typifies why fans and collectors around the world have a deep love of sports memorabilia,” said the platform’s CEO Tijmen Zonderwijk
“It celebrates the iconic moment of PSG winning the Uefa Champions League for a second consecutive season, and it gives collectors the chance to own the moments of history generated by the game and the incredible players who made it so special.”
The winning bidders for the shirts worn by Dembele, Kvaratskhelia, Doue and Marquinhos were all based in the US – as was the buyer of Yamal’s most valuable top.
Sports memorabilia has exploded in value and become seen as an alternative asset class, with the top five items ever to go under the hammer all being sold in the last five years.
Babe Ruth’s jersey from baseball’s famous “Called Shot” incident in 1932 went for an eye-watering $24m in 2024, eclipsing the almost $13m paid for a Mickey Mantle baseball card in 2022.
A collectors’ card featuring NBA legends Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant fetched $13m in 2025, Jordan’s shirt from Game 1 of the NBA Finals in his “Last Dance” season immortalised by the Netflix documentary went for $10m in 2022, while months earlier Diego Maradona’s shirt from the infamous “Hand of God” match with England in 1986 achieved a price of $9m.
The most expensive item ever sold on Match Worn Shirt, which operates a revenue-share model with partner clubs and organisations, is not a football kit but the suit worn by Dutch speed-skater Jutta Leerdam – also known as influencer Jake Paul’s partner – when winning Winter Olympic gold this year. A collector in the Netherlands paid £170,913.