French national volleyball team

The **France national men's volleyball team** is the national volleyball team of France. It represents France in international competitions and friendly matches. It has been the reigning European Champion since 2015. It is ranked 10th (as of August 2016) in the FIVB World Ranking after playing in the 2016 Rio Olympics.

### Olympic Games

**Champions**   Runners up   Third place   Fourth place
|colspan=9|Summer Olympics record||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|valign="top" width=0%|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"||||||||
|1964|colspan=8 rowspan=6 align=center|Did not qualify|||||||
|1968|||||||||
|1972|||||||||
|1976|||||||||
|1980|||||||||
|1984|||||||||
|1988||8th place|8|3|5|12|13|<small>Squad</small>|
|1992||11th place|6|2|4|9|14|<small>Squad</small>|
|1996|colspan=8 align=center|Did not qualify|||||||
|2000|colspan=8 align=center|Did not qualify|||||||
|2004||9th place|5|2|3|8|10|<small>Squad</small>|
|2008|colspan=8 align=center|Did not qualify|||||||
|2012|colspan=8 align=center|Did not qualify|||||||
|2016||9th place|5|2|3|8|9|<small>Squad</small>|
|align=left|2020|colspan=9|_Qualified_||||||
|style="border:3px solid red"|2024|colspan=8|_Automatically qualified as hosts_||||||
|align=left|2028|colspan=8|_Future event_||||||
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### World Championship

|colspan=10|France in the FIVB World Championship|||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1949||6th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1952||6th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|style="border:3px solid red"|1956||7th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|1960||9th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1962|colspan="8" rowspan=1|Did not enter||||||||
|1966||18th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1970||17th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1974||16th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1978||15th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1982||16th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|style="border:3px solid red"|1986||6th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|1990||8th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1994|colspan=8 rowspan=2 align=center|Did not qualify||||||||
|1998||||||||||
|2002|Semifinals|3rd Place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|2006||6th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|2010||11th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|2014|Semifinals|4th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|2018||7th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||

### European Championship

**Champions**   Runners up   Third place   Fourth place

|colspan=9|European Championship record|||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|valign="top" width=0%|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"|||||||||
|1948||2nd Place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1950|colspan=8 align=center|Did not enter||||||||
|style="border:3px solid red"|1951||3rd Place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|1955||8th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1958||8th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1963||8th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1967||10th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1971||14th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1975||8th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1977||10th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|style="border:3px solid red"|1979||4th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|1981||8th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1983||12th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1985||3rd Place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1987|Final|2nd Place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1989||5th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1991||9th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1993||9th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1995|colspan=8 align=center|Did not qualify||||||||
|1997|Semifinals|4th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|1999||6th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|2001||7th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|2003|Final|2nd Place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|/  2005||7th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|2007||9th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|2009|Final|2nd Place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|/  2011||7th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|/  2013||5th place||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|/  2015|**Champions**|1st Place|6|6|0|18|6|<small>Squad</small>||
|2017|Playoffs|9th place|4|2|2|9|8|<small>Squad</small>||
|style="border:3px solid red"|/  /  /  2019|Semifinals|4th place|9|7|2|23|7|<small>Squad</small>|
|/  /  /  2021||||||||<small>Squad</small>||
|}||||||||||

### World League

**Champions**   Runners up   Third place   Fourth place
|colspan=9|FIVB World League record||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|valign="top" width=0%|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"||||||||
|1990||5th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|1991||7th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|1992||10th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|1993|colspan=8 rowspan=6 align=center|Did not enter|||||||
|1994|||||||||
|1995|||||||||
|1996|||||||||
|1997|||||||||
|1998|||||||||
|1999||7th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2000||7th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2001||5th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2002||7th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2003||10th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2004||5th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2005||10th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2006|Final|2nd Place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2007||6th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2008||10th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2009||9th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2010||12th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2011||12th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2012||7th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2013||10th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2014|G2 Final|10th place||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2015|G1 Final|**1st Place**||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2016|G1 Semifinals|**3rd Place**||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|2017|G1 Final|**1st Place**||||||<small>Squad</small>|
|}|||||||||

### Nations League

**Champions**   Runners up   Third place   Fourth place
|width=90|Year|width=150|Rank|width=35|Pld|width=35|W|width=35|L|width=35|SW|width=35|SL|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2018|**2nd place**|19|15|4|47|23||||||||
|2019|6th place|17|11|6|39|24||||||||
|2020|Qualified|–|–|–|–|–||||||||
|2021|Qualified|–|–|–|–|–||||||||

### World Grand Champions Cup

|colspan=9|World Grand Champions record||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1993|Did not qualify||||||||
|1997|||||||||
|2001|||||||||
|2005|||||||||
|2009|||||||||
|2013|||||||||
|2017|Round Robin|**5th place**|5|1|4|6|12|<small>Squad</small>|

### Current squad

The following is the French roster in the 2019 Men's Nations League.

Head coach: Laurent Tillie

|No.|style="width:14em"|Name|style="width:8em"|Date of birth|style="width:9em"|Height|style="width:9em"|Weight|style="width:9em"|Spike|style="width:9em"|Block|style="width:17em"|2020–21 club|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | NBV Verona||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | Modena Volley||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | Allianz Milano||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | Allianz Milano||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" |||||||||
|||style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | Top Volley Cisterna||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" |||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | Zenit Kazan||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" |||||||||
||()|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | Zenit Saint Petersburg||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | NBV Verona||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | RENNES EC||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | SCC BERLIN||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | Chaumont||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | Arago de Sète||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | Revivre Axipower Milano||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | Rzeszów||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | Kioene Padova||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | SCC BERLIN||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | Tours Volley-Ball||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | TOAC TUC||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | GFCA VOLLEY BALL||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | Montpellier VUC||||||||
||style="text-align:left;"|style="text-align:right;"|||||style="text-align:left;" | Montpellier VUC||||||||

### Coach history

- 1938–1946 :  Plaswick
- 1946–1947 :  René Verdier

- 1947–1965 :  Marcel Mathor
- 1965-1965 :  Nagasaki
- 1965–1968 :  Nicolae Sotir
- 1968–1970 :  Georges Derose
- 1970–1979 :  Roger Schmitt
- 1979–1983 :  Jean-Marc Buchel
- 1983-1983 :  Georges Komatov
- 1983–1984 :  Éric Daniel
- 1984–1985 :  Jean-Marc Buchel
- 1985–1988 :  Éric Daniel
- 1988–1992 :  Gérard Castan
- 1993–1994 :  Jean-Marie Fabiani
- 1994–1995 :  Jean-Michel Roche
- 1995-1995 :  Gérard Castan
- 1995–1999 :  Vladimir Kondra
- 1999–2000 :  Pierre Laborie
- 2001–2012 :  Philippe Blain
- 2012– :  Laurent Tillie

### Record Attendance

|align="center"|**#**|align="center"|**Player**|align="center"|**Years**|align="center"|**Appearances**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Hervé Mazzon|1980–1991|417|||||
|2|Christophe Meneau|1986–2000|407|||||
|3|Laurent Tillie|1982–1995|406|||||
|4|Alain Fabiani|1977–1992|392|||||
|5|Stéphane Faure|1977–1988|350|||||
|6|Philippe Blain|1980–1991|340|||||
|7|Laurent Chambertin|1987–2002|336|||||
|8|Éric Bouvier|1979–1992|325|||||
|9|Luc Marquet|1990–2003|325|||||
|10|Stéphane Antiga|1998–2010|306|||||
|11|Laurent Capet|1993–2004|300|||||
|12|Olivier Rossard|1986–1995|294|||||
|13|Jean-Marc Jurkovitz|1983–1993|290|||||
|14|Frantz Granvorka|1996–2007|288|||||
|15|Dominique Daquin|1994–2006|267|||||

- Last updated table : December 2012.

## Other websites

- Official website
- FIVB profile

## Infobox (national volleyball team)

- **name**: France
- **image**: Flag of France.svg
- **nickname**: _Roosters_
_Team Yavbou_
- **federation**: Fédération Française de Volley-Ball (FFVB)
- **website**: [http://www.ffvb.org/ www.ffvb.org]
- **confederation**: CEV
- **coach**: Laurent Tillie
- **olympic apps**: 4
- **olympic first**: 1988
- **olympic best**: 8th (Volleyball at the 1988 Summer Olympics, 1988)
- **world champs apps**: 16
- **world champs first**: 1949
- **world champs best**: (2002 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship, 2002)
- **world cup apps**: 2
- **world cup first**: 1965
- **world cup best**: 5th (2003 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup, 2003)
- **regional name**: Men's European Volleyball Championship, European Championship
- **regional cup apps**: 28
- **regional cup first**: 1948 Men's European Volleyball Championship, 1948
- **regional cup best**: (2015 Men's European Volleyball Championship, 2015)
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