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Europe’s new season opens with a rematch that never really got settled. When Paris Saint-Germain and Aston Villa walk out at Stadion Salzburg on 12 August 2026, they do so with a head-to-head record split straight down the middle: two games, one win apiece, and an aggregate that PSG shaded by the narrowest possible margin. The Champions League holders against the Europa League holders, the champions of France against the surprise kings of Europe’s second tier — and a UEFA Super Cup that would make either club the 12th to win the trophy more than once.
PSG vs Aston Villa Head-to-Head Record
The entire history of this fixture runs to 180 minutes, played across six days in April 2025 in the Champions League quarter-finals. PSG went through 5-4 on aggregate. Villa won the second leg. Neither side has ever drawn with the other.
| Head-to-head | Paris Saint-Germain | Aston Villa |
|---|---|---|
| Played | 2 | 2 |
| Won | 1 | 1 |
| Drawn | 0 | 0 |
| Lost | 1 | 1 |
| Goals for | 5 | 4 |
| Goals against | 4 | 5 |
| Goals per game | 2.5 | 2.0 |
Split the record and it reads 50-50. Read the aggregate and PSG are ahead by one goal — scored, as it happens, deep into stoppage time by a left-back.
| Date | Competition | Fixture | Result | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15/04/2025 | Champions League QF, 2nd leg | Aston Villa vs PSG | 3-2 | 42,535 |
| 09/04/2025 | Champions League QF, 1st leg | PSG vs Aston Villa | 3-1 | 47,511 |
Parc des Princes, 9 April 2025: How PSG Recovered From a Shock Opener
Villa struck first and against the run of play. PSG had pinned them back from the whistle, pressing high and dictating tempo with the possession game that defined Luis Enrique’s side all season — but the opening goal went the other way. Nuno Mendes lost the ball in midfield, John McGinn pounced and fed Youri Tielemans, whose cross was tapped in by Morgan Rogers on 35 minutes.
The lead lasted four minutes. Désiré Doué, then 19, curled a finish over Emiliano Martínez and under the bar to level before the break. After it, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia drilled in off the near post to make it 2-1, and Mendes rounded off a 3-1 win two minutes into added time, cutting inside Ezri Konsa and beating Martínez at his near post. Martínez had kept the score respectable — early saves from Vitinha and Ousmane Dembélé, another full-stretch stop from Achraf Hakimi — but Villa’s seven-match winning run across all competitions ended there.
Villa Park, 15 April 2025: The Comeback That Fell One Goal Short
The return leg is the reason this tie still feels unfinished. PSG arrived two goals up and were three ahead inside 27 minutes: Hakimi on 11, Mendes again on 27. At half-time it was 1-2 and the quarter-final looked done.
Then Villa scored three. Tielemans pulled one back on 34, McGinn made it 2-2 on 55, and Konsa put Villa ahead two minutes later. A 3-2 win on the night, 42,535 inside Villa Park, and PSG hanging on by a single aggregate goal — the one Mendes had scored in stoppage time in Paris. Villa’s problem was arithmetic, not performance.
PSG’s Repeat Bid vs Villa’s 44-Year Wait
Both clubs have won this trophy once. Neither has ever won it twice.
| Paris Saint-Germain | Aston Villa | |
|---|---|---|
| Super Cup appearances | 2 (1996, 2025) | 1 (1982) |
| Titles | 1 (2025) | 1 (1982) |
| Route to 2026 final | Champions League holders | Europa League holders |
| Head coach | Luis Enrique | Unai Emery |
PSG became the 26th club to lift the trophy last August in Udine, coming from two goals down to beat Tottenham Hotspur 4-3 on penalties. Substitutes Kang-in Lee (85) and Gonçalo Ramos (90+4) forced the shoot-out; Vitinha missed the first kick before Ramos, Dembélé, Lee and finally Mendes converted. That was the 50th edition, and PSG were the first French club to win it — they remain the only French club ever to appear in it. Their other visit was less kind: as Cup Winners’ Cup holders in the 1996 edition, they lost 2-9 on aggregate to Juventus.
No club has won back-to-back Super Cups since Real Madrid in 2016 and 2017; before that only AC Milan in 1989 and 1990 managed it. History is otherwise on PSG’s side — European Cup holders have won 30 of the 50 editions played.
Villa’s claim is older and stranger. They beat Barcelona 3-1 on aggregate in the 1982 edition, both legs played in January 1983, overturning a 1-0 defeat at Camp Nou with a 3-0 extra-time win at Villa Park through Gary Shaw (80), Gordon Cowans (100) and Ken McNaught (104) — in a match Villa finished with ten men and Barcelona with nine. If they win in Salzburg, the 44-year gap between titles would be the longest in Super Cup history, comfortably beating the 24-year record shared by Liverpool and Valencia.
Villa would also become the first Europa League holders to lift the Super Cup since Atlético de Madrid in 2018. England’s ten wins across six clubs is second only to Spain’s 17; this is England’s 22nd appearance, again second to Spain’s 32.
The Second Super Cup Duel Between Emery and Enrique
They have met in this fixture before, and it went the same way most PSG-Villa arguments have gone. In Tbilisi in 2015, Luis Enrique’s Barcelona beat Unai Emery’s Sevilla 5-4 after extra time — one of the great Super Cup finals, and a scar Emery has carried into three subsequent attempts.
Emery is 0-3 in Super Cup finals: runner-up with Sevilla in 2014 and 2015, and with Villarreal in 2021. Enrique is 2-0, having won with Barcelona in 2015 and PSG in 2025, and a third would put him behind only Carlo Ancelotti (five) and Pep Guardiola (four) among coaches. What Emery does own is the Europa League itself — five titles with Sevilla (2014, 2015, 2016), Villarreal (2021) and now Villa (2026), making him the first coach to win it with three different clubs.
2025/26 in Review: How Both Sides Reached Salzburg
PSG did something only Real Madrid had managed in the Champions League era: they defended the title. Eleventh in the league phase, Enrique’s side then took apart Monaco (5-4 on aggregate), Chelsea (8-2), Liverpool (4-0) and Bayern München (6-5) before beating Arsenal 4-3 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in Budapest on 30 May. Enrique became the first Spanish coach since José Villalonga in 1956 and 1957 to win consecutive European Cups.
Villa’s run was more emphatic than the trophy’s reputation suggests. Second in the Europa League phase, they eliminated LOSC Lille (3-0), Bologna (7-1) and Nottingham Forest (4-1) before beating Freiburg 3-0 in the Istanbul final on 20 May. They won 13 of 15 Europa League matches — four more wins than any other side — and were the competition’s top scorers with 31 goals, six clear of Freiburg. Villa are the 31st different winner of the UEFA Cup/Europa League and the sixth from England.
Neither PSG nor Aston Villa Arrive in Salzburg on a Run
Recent results tell a scruffier story than the honours do. Both squads have been through a summer of rotation and heavy legs, and it shows.
| Paris Saint-Germain (recent) | Aston Villa (recent) |
|---|---|
| PSG 1-1 Man Utd | Bayern 2-1 Aston Villa |
| Mallorca 3-0 PSG | Pathum Utd 1-3 Aston Villa |
| PSG 1-1 Arsenal | Aston Villa 2-4 Real Sociedad |
| Paris FC 2-1 PSG | Porto 2-1 Aston Villa |
| Lens 0-2 PSG | Walsall 0-5 Aston Villa |
| PSG 1-0 Brest | Man City 1-2 Aston Villa |
Two wins in six for each, and defensive lapses on both sides — a 3-0 at Mallorca for PSG, a 4-2 loss at home to Real Sociedad for Villa. Form lines this loose rarely predict a one-off final, but they do explain why the market has been slower to settle on this fixture than the trophy pedigree would suggest. For the latest Super Cup odds and predictions, Tips.gg has the full breakdown.
Stadion Salzburg: Neutral Venue, but PSG Have Been Here Before
The final is at a ground PSG know. They have played twice at Stadion Salzburg — losing 2-0 to Salzburg in the 2011/12 Europa League group stage, and winning 3-0 there in the 2024/25 Champions League league phase. For Villa, it is a first visit to the city, though they did beat the Austrian side 3-2 at Villa Park on Matchday 8 of last season’s Europa League.
FAQ
What is the PSG vs Aston Villa head-to-head record?
Played 2, won 1 each, no draws. PSG lead the aggregate 5-4 from the 2024/25 Champions League quarter-final.
When and where is the 2026 UEFA Super Cup?
12 August 2026, 21:00, at Stadion Salzburg in Austria.
Have PSG and Aston Villa met in a final before?
No. Their only previous meetings were the two Champions League quarter-final legs in April 2025.
Has either club won the Super Cup before?
Both have, once. PSG beat Tottenham on penalties in 2025; Villa beat Barcelona over two legs in the 1982 edition.
Have Luis Enrique and Unai Emery met in a Super Cup final?
Yes — Enrique’s Barcelona beat Emery’s Sevilla 5-4 after extra time in Tbilisi in 2015.
What would a Villa win mean historically?
A 44-year gap between Super Cup titles, the longest in the competition’s history, and the first Europa League holders to win it since Atlético de Madrid in 2018.
What’s Riding on Salzburg
Neither trophy in this final was won comfortably — PSG needed penalties against Arsenal, Villa needed a run of 13 wins in 15 to reach Istanbul — and neither club can claim the head-to-head. What Salzburg offers is a tiebreaker to a quarter-final that was decided by one stoppage-time goal, plus the chance to become the 12th multiple Super Cup winner and, for PSG, the first side in nine years to retain it.
Beyond the night itself, the storylines run all season. Enrique is building something at the Parc des Princes that now looks less like a project and more like a dynasty. Emery, five Europa League titles deep and finally managing a club with Champions League football and continental silverware, has spent a decade losing this exact fixture. One of those trajectories bends in Austria on 12 August. Tips.gg will have the odds, the previews and the analysis in the build-up.