Played indoors (synthetic field and seven-a-side), the competition featured host club PSG and five more teams.
1983 European champions Hamburger SV won the inaugural 1984 edition, which also featured hosts Paris SG, French clubs Monaco and Bordeaux, Brazilian team Fluminense and Algerian side Tizi Ouzou (currently named JS Kabylie).
Besides Hamburger SV and Dynamo Kyiv, German side Köln, Belgian outfit Anderlecht, Brazilian team Santos and Dutch club Ajax also won the competition once.
Hosts Paris Saint-Germain finally won its first Tournoi Indoor de Paris-Bercy in 1987, in what was the competition's fourth edition.
Despite losing their opening day game against Porto (2–3), the Red and Blues qualified to the winners group after beating Bordeaux (5–2) in matchday two, thanks to a brace from Jules Bocandé.
Squared against Marseille and Porto in the winners group, a first success against OM (5–3, Bocandé hat-trick) put PSG on the right track before meeting the Portuguese side in the tournament final.
The Parisians lost both their games in the first phase — against Red Star Belgrade (4–6) and eventual champions Ajax (4–8) — and finished the tournament in fourth place.
The Swedish side was largely superior, winning the game 5–2, despite the goals from Daniel Bravo and David Rinçon for PSG.
A close match, PSG managed to win 4–3 with goals from Pascal Nouma (2), Safet Sušić and Rinçon; repeating the feat of 1987.