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The Belgium national football team [b] has represented Belgium in men's international football since their maiden match in 1904. The squad is under the global jurisdiction of FIFA and is governed in Europe by UEFA—both of which were co-founded by the Belgian team's supervising body, the Royal Belgian Football Association.
France and Belgium have since contested 75 official matches against each other, the most all-time between each team. Aside from Belgium, France have contested matches against almost 90 other national teams. Of the 90 teams, France have not lost to 40 of them having earned a perfect winning percentage against 26 of the teams.
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.
Marcel Desailly (116 caps, 3 goals) represented France at seven major international tournaments, including four as captain. Patrick Vieira (107 caps, 6 goals) was the fifth player to reach 100 caps for France. Defender Laurent Blanc (97 caps, 16 goals) was declared the fourth best French player of all time by magazine France Football. [25]
France won the match 1–0 with the only goal coming from Cyprès. [2] Later that year, France returned to Brussels to face Belgium and lost 0–7. In the return match, played a year later on 22 April 1906 in Saint-Cloud, France again lost 0–5 to the Belgians. On 11 November, France were defeated 0–15 by England before defeating Belgium 2–1.
Belgium center back Jan Vertonghen in possession of the ball during the match. The teams had faced each other in 5 previous matches, including one World Cup group stage match in 2002, which ended in a 2–2 draw. Their most recent meeting came in a friendly in 2017, a 1–0 Belgium win and also Belgium's first victory over Japan. [5]
The following table shows Belgium's all-time international record per opponent. It excludes any unofficial matches. ... France: 78: 30: 19: 29: 161: 133 +28: 38.46: 1 ...
Just like in Belgium's previous Euro tournament in 2000, they lost 2–0 to Italy in the group phase. [6] In spite of winning with broad margins against the Republic of Ireland (3–0) [7] and Hungary (4–0) at UEFA Euro 2016, [8] [9] Belgium's second very talented generation disappointed with a quarter-final exit. As during the tournament's ...