In July 1930, France appeared in the inaugural FIFA World Cup, held in Uruguay. In 1921, the USFSA finally merged with the FFF.
In 1919, the CFI transformed themselves into the French Football Federation (FFF). On, the French Interfederal Committee (CFI), a rival organization to the USFSA, ruled that FIFA would now be responsible for the club's appearances in forthcoming Olympic Games and not the USFSA. Due to disagreements between FIFA and the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA), the country's sports union, France struggled to establish an identity. France won the match 1–0 with the only goal coming from Gaston Cyprès.
The match was played at the Parc des Princes in front of 500 supporters. The following year, on 12 February 1905, France contested their first-ever home match against Switzerland. The France national football team was created in 1904 around the time of FIFA's foundation on and contested its first official international match on against Belgium in Brussels, which ended in a 3–3 draw. USFSA France team (or Club Français) at 1900 Summer Olympics Two years later, France won the 2018 FIFA World Cup, its second title in that competition, defeating Croatia 4–2 in the final match on 15 July 2018.įinally, the France team became the first European national team to have won all possible senior FIFA and confederation competitions after winning the UEFA Nations League in October 2021. A decade later, the team reached the final of the UEFA European Championship, where they lost 1–0 to Portugal in extra time. Three years later, France made it all the way to the final of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, where they lost 5–3 on penalties to Italy. They also won the FIFA Confederations Cup in 20. However, France only began to reach its prime from the 1990s onward, with the establishment of INF Clairefontaine.ĭuring the captaincy of Didier Deschamps, and with Zinedine Zidane on the pitch, Les Bleus won the FIFA World Cup in 1998 and triumphed at UEFA Euro 2000. In 1984, under the leadership of the three-time Ballon d'Or winner Michel Platini, France won UEFA Euro 1984 (its first official title), a CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions ( 1985) and reached another two World Cup semi-finals (19). Twenty-eight years later, the team, led by Raymond Kopa and Just Fontaine, finished in third place at the 1958 FIFA World Cup. France was one of the four European teams that participated in the inaugural World Cup in 1930. France experienced much of its success in three different eras: in the 1980s, late 1990s/early 2000s and late 2010s, respectively, which resulted in numerous major honours. They have won two FIFA World Cups, two UEFA European Championships, two FIFA Confederations Cups, one CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions and one UEFA Nations League title. They are the reigning world champions, having won the most recent World Cup final in 2018.įrance plays their home matches at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, and their manager is Didier Deschamps. France are colloquially known as Les Bleus (The Blues). The team's colours are blue, white, and red, and the coq gaulois its symbol. The France national football team ( French: Équipe de France de football) represents France in men's international football and is controlled by the French Football Federation ( Fédération française de football), also known as FFF.
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