
<p>Qatar Sports Investment, which owns PSG in France, purchased a minority stake in Portuguese club SC Braga. The move comes amid frequent discussion of clubs <a href="https:\/\/worldsoccertalk.com/2022/09/29/todd-boehly-in-talks-to-purchase-portuguese-club/">branching out into other countries</a>. </p>



<p>Qatar Sports Investment, also known as simply QSI, purchased 21.67% of SC Braga. There is no announcement on a fee that QSI paid to Braga for the minority share in the club. </p>



<p>QSI, with chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi, took over Paris Saint Germain in 2011. In turn, Al-Khelaifi became PSG’s president and CEO. Following his takeover, PSG rattled off eight Ligue Un titles in the 11 years of his ownership. Also, PSG picked up six Coupe de France wins in that tenure. </p>



<p>The main note of QSI’s ownership of PSG is bringing the biggest names in the sport to the club for high fees. The club set the transfer fee record in 2017 when it acquired Neymar from Barcelona. That same year, it announced the second-highest transfer fee for Kylian Mbappé. However, Mbappé’s did not kick in until 2018, skirting around UEFA’s financial fair play policies. Those two players cost the club over <a href="https:\/\/www.statista.com/statistics/263304/transfer-fees-the-10-most-expensive-transfers-in-soccer-ever/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">$400 million combined</a>. </p>



<h2>PSG owners place minority stake in Portuguese side Braga</h2>



<p>Now, the PSG owners branch out into Portugal via a minority stake in SC Braga. Braga is in a similar position to PSG when QSI took it over in 2011. The club is not as successful or popular as rivals Porto, Sporting or Benfica. Despite lacking the hardware of those clubs, Braga has recent success. It lost in the Europa League Final to Porto back in 2011. In the last 19 seasons, Braga finished top five all but twice. Consequently, the club is a mainstay in the Europa League, seven-consecutive seasons, including 2022/23.</p>



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<p>PSG ownership shows a commitment to expand with this minority stake in Braga. Other clubs with heavy investment, including the Red Bull Group or City Football Group, have clubs across the world.</p>



<p>In fact, new Chelsea owner Todd Boehly expressed his desire to create a similar scheme with the Stamford Bridge side. He sought out any possibility to reach into Portugal, just like QSI.</p>



<p>Braga currently sits in third in the Primeira Liga table, and second in its Europa League group. The club’s next game is against group leaders from Belgium Royale Union Saint-Gilloise on Thursday afternoon. </p>



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Qatar Sports Investment, which owns French side PSG, placed a minority stake in Portuguese club SC Braga on Monday.

PSG owners buy minority stake in Portuguese club SC Braga

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<p><a href="https:\/\/worldsoccertalk.com/teams/chelsea-tv-schedule/">Chelsea</a> owner <a href="https:\/\/worldsoccertalk.com/2022/09/14/how-boehlys-chelsea-is-different-than-other-us-ownership/">Todd Boehly</a> is looking to expand his soccer club portfolio, with a Portuguese club catching his eye.</p>
<p><a href="https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-fc-portimonense-b1028993.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reports</a> claim the American businessman is currently in talks to purchase Portimonense Sporting Club in Portugal. Boehly, along with his partners, also co-own the Los Angeles Dodgers (MLB) and Los Angeles Sparks (WNBA).</p>
<p>The Portuguese club is currently fourth in the <a href="https:\/\/worldsoccertalk.com/primeira-liga-tv-schedule/">Primeira Liga</a> standings. Founded over 100 years ago, Portimonense has never won a top division title or a significant trophy. They have, however, reached European competition once in the 1980’s. Portimonense was knocked out of the UEFA Cup, now called the Europa League, by Partizan 4-1 on aggregate.</p>
<p>Boehly made <a href="https:\/\/worldsoccertalk.com/2022/09/13/boehly-premier-league-all-star-game/">headlines</a> earlier in the month when he suggested bringing an All-Star game to the Premier League. But perhaps lost in the commotion surrounding the bold statement was his plan to purchase other European soccer clubs.</p>
<p>“We’ve talked about having a multi-club model,” Boehly stated at the same conference in which he talked about the All-Star game. “I would love to continue to build out the footprint. There are different countries where there are advantages to having a club. Red Bull does a good job. Manchester City has a big network of clubs.”</p>
<h3>Todd Boehly linked with Portuguese club</h3>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https:\/\/twitter.com/hashtag/%F0%9D%97%A6%F0%9D%97%94%F0%9D%97%9F%F0%9D%97%A7%F0%9D%97%A1%F0%9D%97%AC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#𝗦𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗡𝗬</a> has got a bit of everything. <a href="https:\/\/twitter.com/hashtag/ChelseaFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChelseaFC</a> chairman Todd Boehly offers a fascinating glimpse into his global vision for the English Premier League club. <a href="https:\/\/t.co/wa9aBHuGKe">pic.twitter.com/wa9aBHuGKe</a></p>
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<p>The businessman claimed that he wanted to buy additional teams to essentially create a feeder system for Chelsea. “Our goal is to ensure pathways for our young stars to get on to the Chelsea pitch while getting them real game time. To do that is through another club in a really competitive league in Europe.”</p>
<p>Portuguese agent Jorge Mendes has become a consultant for Chelsea to help choose a club to buy in his homeland. Boehly and company may not be done after potentially buying Portimonense either. The <a href="https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-fc-portimonense-b1028993.html">Evening Standard</a> also suggests that the new regime is surveying their options to acquire a club in Belgium as well.</p>
<p>Boehly has already been recently <a href="https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-santos-boehly-clearlake-b1025808.html">rejected</a> by the owners of Santos (Brazil) and Sochaux (France) in attempts to purchase the clubs.</p>
<p>While European teams are a clear objective for Boehly, a potential purchase of a Brazilian club is also still in the cards. Young players plying their trade in the South American country apparently have more time to qualify for pesky work permits.</p>
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Todd Boehly, who made recent headlines as the owner of Chelsea, now looks to expand his portfolio with Portuguese club Portimonense.

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