France national football team · squad, results and honours
France
Two-time world champions with the deepest player pool in Europe.
France at a glance
- World ranking
- No. 3
- Ranking points
- 1818
- Confederation
- UEFA
- World Cup appearances
- 16 World Cups
- Nickname
- Les Bleus
- Federation
- Federation Francaise de Football (FFF)
- FIFA code
- FRA
- Squad size
- 11 players
The France national team
France is the European national football team, ranked No. 3 in the world.
France have reached four of the last seven World Cup finals, winning two, and remain the strongest producer of elite talent in European football.
The squad is assembled almost entirely from players based abroad, which lets the coaching staff switch systems between tournaments without changing personnel.
Home matches are concentrated in the Paris region, with the national team used as a flagship property for the federation's grassroots programmes.
France squad: the players in the current cycle
Mike MaignanGK
Benjamin PavardRB
Dayot UpamecanoCB
William SalibaCB
Theo HernandezLB
Eduardo CamavingaCM
Aurelien TchouameniDM
Ousmane DembeleRW
Kylian MbappeLW
Marcus ThuramST
Olivier GiroudSTFrance shirts in stock
A live selection of 12 France shirts pulled from the current uniSoccer Store catalogue. Every card opens the real product page.
2026-2027 France Home Shirt (Gusto 2)
€32,80Shop this shirt€52,902026-2027 France Away Shirt (Gusto 2)
€32,80Shop this shirt€52,902025-2026 France Away Concept Football Shirt
€32,80Shop this shirt€52,902025-2026 France Third Concept Football Shirt
€32,80Shop this shirt€52,902024-2025 France Dri-FIT ADV Match Home Shirt (Mendy 3)
€32,80Shop this shirt€52,902024-2025 France Away Shirt (Mendy 3)
€32,80Shop this shirt€52,902022-2023 France Home Shirt (POGBA 6)
€32,80Shop this shirt€52,902022-2023 France Away Shirt (POGBA 6)
€32,80Shop this shirt€52,902020-2021 France Home Football Shirt (POGBA 6)
€32,80Shop this shirt€52,902020-2021 France Away Football Shirt (POGBA 6)
€32,80Shop this shirt€52,90France 2014-15 Away Shirt ((Very Good) XXL) (Evra 3)
€32,80Shop this shirt€52,90France 2012-13 Home Shirt (M) (Excellent) (EVRA 3)
€32,80Shop this shirt€52,90
Ranking history
| Year | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 1726 |
| 2023 | 4 | 1756 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1765 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1809 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1811 |
Colours of France
France play in blue, white and red. International football gives a nation one shirt and one shot at making it unmistakable, and this is one of the few kits a neutral can name from a single stripe.
The nickname tells you how supporters see themselves: "Les Bleus". It is printed on flags, not on the shirt, and it travels with the team wherever the fixture list takes them. The shirt has been to 16 World Cups - more tournament football than most national sides ever accumulate.
What the shirt carries
France's honours stretch from 1984 to 2021 - 37 years between the first trophy on record and the most recent. Generations of players, one shirt. The team has been to 16 World Cups.
France currently sit No. 3 in the world ranking with 1818 points. Ranking points have moved from 1726 to 1811 across the period on record here, which is the honest way to describe a national side: not fixed, just always rebuilding.
France recent international results
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Morocco- Matches on file
- 5
- Record
- 3 W · 0 D · 2 L
- Goals scored
- 8
- Goals conceded
- 7
- Goal difference
- +1
- Goals per match
- 1.60
- Unbeaten runs
- 3 of 5 without defeat
- L 1-3 · UEFA Nations League (home) vs Italy · 2026-09-08
- L 2-0 · UEFA Nations League (away) vs Croatia · 2026-09-12
- W 2-1 · World Cup Qualifying (home) vs Netherlands · 2026-10-11
- W 0-2 · World Cup Qualifying (away) vs Germany · 2026-10-14
- W 3-1 · Friendly (home) vs Morocco · 2026-11-15
France upcoming internationals and fixtures
| Date | Opponent | Competition | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-14 | Portugal | World Cup qualifier | Home |
| 2026-11-18 | Netherlands | World Cup qualifier | Away |
| 2026-03-24 | Italy | International friendly | Home |
France honours and titles won
- FIFA World Cup · 1998, 2018
- UEFA European Championship · 1984, 2000
- UEFA Nations League · 2021
Recent fixtures decoded
The fixtures on this page are listed newest first, and September 2026 is the most recent. Read as a run rather than as isolated results, 3 wins, 0 draws and 2 losss tell the same story as the table but with the noise removed.
The venues on record are Paris, Split, Lyon. Away fixtures in this window were played in front of the loudest crowds a national side can face, and the score lines above are the reason coaches talk about managing travel and crowds as part of a campaign. Every one of these is a competitive fixture rather than a friendly, which is the context the ranking on this page is built from.
The qualifying road
France do not play one competition. The list on this page runs: the World Cup itself, the European Championship, the World Cup qualifying campaign.
Qualifying is the part supporters never see and every supporter judges. France currently sit No. 3 in the world with 1818 points, and the gap between one ranking place and the next is a handful of points - which is why a single bad qualifying run changes the way an entire campaign is remembered. France have reached four of the last seven World Cup finals, winning two, and remain the strongest producer of elite talent in European football.
