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The French team celebrates their 2018 FIFA World Cup win in Russia after defeating Croatia 4–2 in the final. This is a record of France's results at the FIFA World Cup. France was one of the four European teams that participated at the inaugural World Cup in 1930 and have appeared in 16 FIFA World Cups, tied for the sixth most of any country. [1]
Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
France became the sixth country to win the World Cup more than once with their win. [96] Deschamps became the third person to have won the World Cup as both a player and manager, after Mário Zagallo and Franz Beckenbauer. [97] The final was the highest scoring since 1966, and the highest score in regular time since 1958.
The win gave France their first World Cup title, becoming the sixth national team after Uruguay, Italy, England, West Germany and Argentina to win the tournament on their home soil. They also inflicted the second-heaviest World Cup defeat on Brazil, [32] later to be topped by Brazil's 7–1 defeat by Germany in the semi-finals of the 2014 FIFA ...
In the first Arab World Cup, Morocco united the Arab world by rolling into the semifinals unbeaten. It knocked Belgium, the second-ranked team in the world, and Spain, the 2010 champions, out of ...
France won their first Confederations Cup in 2001 having appeared in the competition as a result of winning the FIFA World Cup in 1998. The team defeated Japan 1–0 in the final match. In the following Confederations Cup in 2003 , France, appearing in the competition as the host country, won the competition beating Cameroon 1–0 after extra ...
Argentina's Lionel Messi celebrates his side's third goal during the World Cup final against France at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena ...
The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th edition of the World Cup, FIFA's football competition for men's national teams, held in France between 10 June and 12 July 1998. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The finals featured 32 teams for the first time, up from 24 in the 1994 World Cup . [ 3 ]