Men's association football team

The France national football team (French: Équipe de France de football) represents France in men's international football. ❤️ It is controlled by the French Football Federation (FFF; Fédération française de football), the governing body for football in France. ❤️ It is a member of UEFA in Europe and FIFA in global competitions. The team's colours and imagery reference two ❤️ national symbols: the French blue-white-red tricolour and Gallic rooster (coq gaulois). The team is colloquially known as Les Bleus (The ❤️ Blues). They play home matches at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis and train at Centre National du Football in ❤️ Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines.

Founded in 1904, the team has won two FIFA World Cups, two UEFA European Championships, two FIFA Confederations Cups, one ❤️ Olympic Games, one CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions, and one UEFA Nations League title. France was one of the four European ❤️ teams that participated in the first World Cup in 1930. Twenty-eight years later, the team led by Raymond Kopa and ❤️ Just Fontaine, finished in third place at the 1958 World Cup. France experienced much of its success in three different ❤️ eras: in the 1980s, from the 1990s to early 2000s, and during the late 2010s. In 1984, under the leadership ❤️ of the three-time Ballon d'Or winner Michel Platini, France won Euro 1984 (its first official title), a CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup (1985), ❤️ and reached two World Cup semi-finals (1982 and 1986).

During the captaincy of Didier Deschamps, with Zinedine Zidane on the pitch, ❤️ Les Bleus won the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000. They also won the Confederations Cup in 2001 and 2003. ❤️ Three years later, France made it to the final of the 2006 World Cup, losing 5–3 on penalties to Italy.

A ❤️ decade later, the team reached the final of Euro 2024, where they lost 1–0 to Portugal in extra time. Two ❤️ years after that, France won the 2024 World Cup, its second title in that competition. After winning the 2024 Nations ❤️ League, they became the first, and so far, the only European national team to have won every senior FIFA and ❤️ UEFA competition.[3][4] France is also one of the only two countries, the other being Brazil, to have won all men's ❤️ FIFA 11-player competitions at all age levels,[5][6][7][8][9] having claimed both the FIFA World Cup, FIFA U-20 World Cup, FIFA U-17 ❤️ World Cup, the now-defunct FIFA Confederations Cup, and Olympics titles, as well as the first to complete the collection, after ❤️ the U-20 national team captured the first U-20 World Cup title in 2013.[7] In 2024, France reached a second consecutive ❤️ World Cup final, but this time lost 4–2 on penalties to Argentina.