France national football team

The **France national football team** is the national football team of France. They won the FIFA World Cup 2 times (1998, 2018), the UEFA European Football Championship twice (1984, 2000) and the
FIFA Confederations Cup twice (2001, 2003). The teams current coach is Didier Deschamps, who took over from Laurent Blanc.

## Most appearances

|width="50"|#|style="width:150px;"|Name|style="width:100px;"|Career|width="50"|Caps|width="50"|Goals|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align="left"|Lilian Thuram|1994–2008|**142**|2|||||
|2|align="left"|**Hugo Lloris**|2008–_present_|**136**|0|||||
|3|align="left"|Thierry Henry|1997–2010|**123**|51|||||
|4|align="left"|Marcel Desailly|1993–2004|**116**|3|||||
|5|align="left"|**Olivier Giroud**|2011–_present_|**110**|46|||||
|6|align="left"|Zinedine Zidane|1994–2006|**108**|31|||||
|7|align="left"|Patrick Vieira|1997–2009|**107**|6|||||
|8|align="left"|Didier Deschamps|1989–2000|**103**|4|||||
|9|align="left"|**Antoine Griezmann**|2014–_present_|**102**|42|||||
|rowspan=2|10|align="left"|Laurent Blanc|1989–2000|**97**|16||||
|align="left"|Bixente Lizarazu|1992–2004|**97**|2||||||

## Top scorers

|width="50"|#|style="width:150px;"|Player|style="width:100px;"|Career|width="50"|Goals|width="50"|Caps|width="50"|Average|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|style="text-align: left;"|**Olivier Giroud**|2011–_2024_|**57**|137|0.42||||||
|2|style="text-align:left;"|**Kylian Mbappé**|2017–present|**53**|93|0.57||||||
|3|style="text-align:left;"|Thierry Henry|1997–_2010_|**51**|123|0.42||||||
|4|style="text-align:left;"|**Antoine Griezmann**|2014–_2024_|**44**|137|0.32||||||
|5|style="text-align:left;"|Michel Platini|1976–1987|**41**|72|||||||
|6|style="text-align:left;"|**Karim Benzema**|2007–_2022_|**36**|94|||||||
|7|style="text-align:left;"|David Trezeguet|1998–2008|**34**|71|||||||
|8|style="text-align:left;"|Zinedine Zidane|1994–2006|**31**|108|||||||
|9|style="text-align:left;"|Just Fontaine|1953–1960|**30**|21|||||||
|10|style="text-align:left;"|Jean-Pierre Papin|1986–1995|**30**|54|||||||

## Honours

- _This is a list of honours for the senior France national team_

**FIFA World Cup**

- **Champions (2):** 1998, 2018
    - Runners-up: 2006
    - Third place: 1958, 1986
    - Fourth place: 1982

**UEFA European Championship**
    - **Champions (2):** 1984, 2000
    - Runners-up: 2016
    - Semi-finals: 1996
    - Fourth place: 1960

**FIFA Confederations Cup**
    - **Champions (2):** 2001, 2003

**UEFA Nations League**
    - **Winners**: 2020–21

**Olympic football tournament**
    - **Gold Medal (1):** 1984
    - Silver Medal: 1900
    - Fourth place: 1920
    - Semi-finals: 1908

|Competition||||Total||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|FIFA World Cup|2|1|2|5|
|align=left|UEFA European Championship|2|1|1|4|
|align=left|FIFA Confederations Cup|2|0|0|2|
|align=left|UEFA Nations League|1|0|0|1|
|align=left|Olympic football tournament|1|1|0|2|

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: France
- **fifa trigramme**: FRA
- **nickname**: (The Blues)
- **association**: French Football Federation, Fédération Française de Football (FFF)
- **confederation**: UEFA (Europe)
- **coach**: Didier Deschamps
- **captain**: Hugo Lloris
- **most caps**: Hugo Lloris (145)
- **top scorer**: Olivier Giroud (56)
- **home stadium**: Stade de France
- **fifa max**: 1
- **fifa max date**: May 2001 – May 2002, August – September 2018
- **fifa min**: 26
- **fifa min date**: September 2010
- **elo max**: 1
- **elo max date**: most recently 16 August 2018
- **elo min**: 40
- **elo min date**: March–July 1930
- **first game**: Évence Coppée Trophy, 3–3
(Brussels, Belgium; 1 May 1904)
- **largest win**: 16–0
(Nice, France; 18 November 2023)
- **largest loss**: 17–1
(London, England; 22 October 1908)
- **world cup apps**: 15
- **world cup first**: 1930
- **world cup best**: Champions (1998 FIFA World Cup, 1998, 2018 FIFA World Cup, 2018)
- **regional name**: UEFA European Championship, European Championship
- **regional cup apps**: 10
- **regional cup first**: 1960 European Nations' Cup, 1960
- **regional cup best**: Champions (UEFA Euro 1984, 1984, UEFA Euro 2000, 2000)
- **confederations cup apps**: 2
- **confederations cup first**: 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2001
- **confederations cup best**: Champions (2001 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2001, 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2003)