French national soccer team / European championships

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France

European Championship record scorer:	Michel Platini (9)
European Championship record players:	Lilian Thuram (16)
Rank:	2
Organizer:	1960, 1984, 2016
Balance sheet
39 European Championship games 20 wins 9 draws 10 defeats 62:44 goals
statistics
First European Championship game France 4-5 Yugoslavia Paris ( FRA ); July 6, 1960
Biggest European Championship victory France 5: 0 Belgium Nantes ( FRA ); June 16, 1984
Biggest European Championship defeat France 1: 4 Netherlands Bern ( CHE ); June 13, 2008
successes
European Championship
Participation in the finals	9 ( first : 1960 )
Best results	Winner 1984 , 2000
Best results in the countries where the UEFA European Football Championships are held
(As of July 10, 2016)

The article contains a detailed description of the French national football team at European championships . France took part in the finals of the European Championship for the ninth time in 2016, has won the title twice and was the first country to host the finals for the third time in 2016. With Michel Platini (9 goals) and Lilian Thuram (16 games), France provided the players with the most European Championship goals and games until 2016.

The national team at European championships

Overview

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1960	France	3rd place match	Czechoslovakia	Fourth	Albert Batteux
1964	Spain	not qualified				failed in the quarterfinals to Hungary
1968	Italy	not qualified				failed in the quarter-finals to Yugoslavia
1972	Belgium	not qualified				failed in qualification to Hungary
1976	Yugoslavia	not qualified				failed in qualifying to Belgium , which could not qualify for the finals either
1980	Italy	not qualified				failed in qualification to defending champion Czechoslovakia
1984	France	final	Spain	European champion	Michel Hidalgo	First European title, Michel Platini top scorer
1988	BR Germany	not qualified				failed in the qualification at the later Vice European Champion Soviet Union
1992	Sweden	Preliminary round	Denmark , England , Sweden	-	Michel Platini	after two draws and one defeat against eventual European champions Denmark eliminated as third in the group
1996	England	Semifinals	Czech Republic	-	Aimé Jacquet	Defeat on penalties against the eventual European runner-up
2000	Netherlands and Belgium	final	Italy	European champion	Roger Lemerre	2nd European title, first world champion who could become European champion
2004	Portugal	Quarter finals	Greece	-	Jacques Santini	Defeat against the eventual European champion
2008	Austria and Switzerland	Preliminary round	Italy , Romania , Spain		Raymond Domenech
2012	Poland and Ukraine	Quarter finals	Spain	-	Laurent Blanc	Defeat against the defending champion and world champion
2016	France	final	Portugal	Vice European champion	Didier Deschamps	As hosts, France was automatically qualified and after two wins they were the first team to reach the round of 16. Final defeat by a 0: 1 n.V.
2021	Europe	qualified				France had initially applied to host games with the Stade des Lumières, which was under construction , but then withdrew. In the qualification the French prevailed together with Turkey against Iceland, Albania, Andorra and the Republic of Moldova. In the final round, the French will meet Germany in Munich and defending champions Portugal in Budapest and a team that has yet to qualify through the playoffs.

EM 1960

For the European football championship in 1960 , which was still held as the "European Cup of Nations", France was drawn in the round of 16 against Greece and won the first leg in Paris 7-1 in October 1958 , with Raymond Kopa scoring the first European qualifying goal for France . This made it possible to cope with the 1-1 draw in the second leg in Athens two months later. Austria was the opponent in the quarterfinals. Again, the French had home rights first and won clearly 5-2 in December 1959, with 1958 World Cup top scorer Just Fontaine scoring three goals. In the second leg in March 1960 in Vienna Fontaine was not used, but the Équipe tricolore retained the upper hand 4-2, with four different goalscorers being successful. Once the four best teams were determined, France was chosen to host the finals. Fontaine, who suffered a double broken leg after joining Espanyol Barcelona in 1960, could not be considered for the finals and Kopa was also unavailable due to an injury.

On July 6, 1960, the first European Championship final match took place in the Prinzenparkstadion in Paris , and in the highest-scoring game in European Championship history, the host faced Yugoslavia, which two months later was to win the Olympic gold medal and seven players were on the European Championship squad then also in the Olympic squad. Already in the 11th minute, Milan Galic gave the Yugoslavs a 1-0 lead, but just a minute later Jean Vincent equalized . Then it took until the 43rd minute until François Heutte brought the French into the lead for the first time, and so it went into the break. In the 53rd minute, captain Maryan Wisnieski increased it to 3-1, but two minutes later the Yugoslavs hit the ground. With his second goal, François Heutte restored the two-goal lead in the 62nd minute, but with that the French had missed their powder, while the Yugoslavs turned the game with three goals and made it 5-4 in the final, in which they did the USSR was subject. For France only the game for 3rd place remained. In front of only 9,400 spectators this game was also lost, this time with 0: 2 less dramatically. Just Fontaine and Jean Vincent were together with the Czechoslovak Titus Buberník top scorer of the entire competition with 5 goals each.

EM 1964

Four years later, more teams than 1960 wanted to participate, so the round of 16 was preceded by a preliminary round . In this the French met the English . After a 1-1 draw in London , they won 5-2 in Paris . France then prevailed in the round of 16 against Bulgaria after a 0: 1 in Sofia with 3: 1 in the second leg, but failed in the quarter-finals to Hungary with 1: 3 and 1: 2.

EM 1968

For the European Football Championship in 1968, group games were scheduled for the first time in qualifying . Belgium, Poland and Luxembourg were the opponents of the French. The two successful club coaches Jean Snella and José Arribas had temporarily taken over the office of national coach after the preliminary round at the 1966 World Cup , but gave up the office again after only four games because they wanted to concentrate on their work as club coach again. Her successor was Just Fontaine , who was replaced by Louis Dugauguez after only two friendlies . France could not win any of the qualifying games against Belgium - they lost 1: 2 in Belgium and only achieved a 1: 1 at home - but otherwise the French won all games, while the Belgians lost both games against Poland, they had In the end, the French were ahead of the game and qualified for the quarter-finals. Here they met Yugoslavia. After a 1-1 home match, they suffered the biggest defeat against Yugoslavia in the second leg with a 5-1 win. Yugoslavia then reached the final in the finals and only lost it in the replay against hosts Italy . Dugauguez initially stayed in office, but after a 0-1 home defeat against Norway in qualifying for the 1970 World Cup , he was dismissed and Georges Boulogne his successor.

European Championship 1972

For the European Championship finals in 1972, France could not qualify again . In a group with Hungary, Bulgaria and Norway , only third place was taken with three wins, one draw and one defeat. The decisive factor was a 2-0 home defeat against Hungary, which made the Hungarians group winners and also made it through the quarter-finals, but only finished fourth in the final. Boulogne initially remained in office, but after missing qualification for the football World Cup in 1974 , he was replaced by the Romanian Ștefan Kovács , who is still the only foreign national coach of the "Equipe Tricolor".

EM 1976

In 1976 the final round was held for the last time with four teams. France failed again in the group stage , this time to Belgium and the GDR . There was only one home win against Iceland , which only won one game. Group winners Belgium then failed in the quarter-finals to vice world champions Netherlands. For Kovács, his tenure as national coach ended with the missed qualification. His successor was Michel Hidalgo .

EM 1980

In qualifying for the European Championship in Italy, which was held for the first time with eight teams, the French met defending champions Czechoslovakia , Sweden and Luxembourg in the group . France gambled away the qualification in the first game, in which only a 2-2 win against Sweden was achieved in Paris. In the end, this point loss was decisive for the fact that with one point less behind the Czechoslovaks they only finished second, as both won their home games against each other and all other games. The Czechoslovaks then finished third in the finals by beating hosts Italy on penalties. After that, the game for 3rd place was no longer carried out. Hidalgo remained in office and was able to lead France to the 1982 World Cup , which ended France in fourth and in 1984 to their first triumph at a World Cup.

EM 1984

Starting grid in the final

France, Germany, England and Greece were interested in hosting the 1984 European Championship. UEFA then decided in favor of France so that if it were to host the association, it would have a chance to expand its outdated stadiums and build new ones with government grants. France therefore did not have to qualify for the finals.

The French were drawn to the teams from Denmark , which surprisingly eliminated England in qualifying, Yugoslavia and Belgium . In the opening game against the Danes, the French struggled for a long time. It was only in the 78th minute that Michel Platini scored the 1-0 winner with his first European Championship goal. Manuel Amoros received the red card three minutes before the end of the game . It went better in the second game against the northern neighbor. After just four minutes, Platini made it 1-0. Before the break, Alain Giresse and Luis Fernández increased to 3-0. In the second half, Platini scored two more goals to make it 5-0, the highest win in 72 games against Belgium. They then had a harder time in the last group game against Yugoslavia, who had lost 5-0 to Denmark three days earlier and had no chance of reaching the semi-finals. Nevertheless, the Yugoslavs gave everything again, took the lead in the 31st minute and held it until the 58th minute. Then Platini managed the only flawless hat trick to date at an EM. In the 80th minute, the Yugoslavs reduced it to 2: 3, but it wasn't enough for more. France was in the semi-finals against Portugal . Here too it got dramatic. The Portuguese were able to compensate for the early lead of the French in the 78th minute and thus force an extension. In this they were able to take the lead first and hold it until six minutes before the end, then Jean-François Domergue managed to equalize and a minute before the end Platini scored the 3-2 winner. This was the first time France was in the final against the Spaniards , who had only prevailed against Denmark on penalties . After a goalless first half, Platini scored a 1-0 lead with his ninth goal in the 57th minute, which was threatened again when Yvon Le Roux became the first player in a European Championship final to be red in the 86th minute Card received. Bruno Bellone then made everything clear with the 2-0 in the last minute and France received the Coupe Henri-Delaunay for the first time . Platini was the top scorer with nine goals, a record that has not yet been surpassed despite a maximum of six games. The nine goals were also the best in the entire competition including qualification, which the French didn't have to take part in. Also, no player has managed to score more than nine goals in two or more tournaments. With the European Championship triumph, Michel Hidalgo resigned as national coach, his successor was his assistant Henri Michel .

EM 1988

As defending Also France had - unlike the former world champion for the world championships - again for the next European Championship finals qualify . Opponents were the USSR , the GDR , Iceland and Norway . France could only win their home game against Iceland, which in turn even won two games. With four draws and three defeats, it was only enough for third place. Group winners USSR reached second place at the European Championships. Henri Michel initially remained in office, after only two games in qualifying for the 1990 World Cup , but he resigned from his office. His successor was Michel Platini , who did not succeed in leading the French to the World Cup, but got another chance for the 1992 European Championship.

EM 1992

In qualifying for the European Championship in 1992 , France then met Czechoslovakia, Spain, Iceland again and Albania . France won all eight games and easily qualified for the European Championship finals.

For the finals, they were drawn into a group with hosts Sweden , England and Yugoslavia. Shortly before the start of the final round, Yugoslavia was excluded due to UN sanctions as a result of the Yugoslav wars and Denmark was nominated. Most of the Danish players had already started their vacation after the end of the season of the national leagues because they did not expect to participate. In Sweden, the French met the hosts in the opening game and achieved a 1-1 draw. Against the English it was enough in the second game only to a goalless draw. Against hosts Sweden then followed a 1: 2 after a 1-0 lead which was already achieved in the 4th minute. After a 2-1 defeat against Denmark, France retired as third party and Platini resigned as national coach. His successor was his assistant Gérard Houllier , who resigned after missing the qualification for the World Cup in 1994 . After all, Jean-Pierre Papin was the top scorer of the entire competition with 11 goals.

EM 1996

Postage stamp from Azerbaijan on the game France versus Romania

For Euro 1996, which was first staged with 16 teams, the French against had to Romania , Poland and Israel as well as Slovakia and Azerbaijan , who participated for the first time, qualify . France again did not lose a game under new national coach Aimé Jacquet and conceded only two goals, but failed to win five times. In the end, with one point behind Romania, they only finished second. As the sixth-best runner-up in the group, it was just enough for direct qualification.

When the groups were drawn, the French were drawn to the group with Spain. Other opponents were the World Cup fourth Bulgaria and the qualifying opponent Romania. Against the Romanians, the opening game was won 1-0 by a goal from Christophe Dugarry . Against Spain, the French looked like the winner until five minutes before the end of the game, then the Iberians managed to equalize, so that the two parted 1-1. In the last group game, the French achieved a 3-1 win against Bulgaria and were thus qualified as group winners for the quarter-finals, which were held for the first time in a final round. Here they faced the Dutch , but with neither team able to score in 120 minutes, the penalty shoot-out had to decide. While all five French scored, a Dutchman failed against French goalkeeper Bernard Lama , which meant the French were in the semi-finals. Opponents were the Czechs , who took part in an international tournament for the first time after the division of Czechoslovakia into two states. Again neither team managed to score in 120 minutes, but this time all ten shooters were initially successful. Then the sixth French Reynald Pedros failed at the Czech goalkeeper while the sixth Czech was able to convert his penalty. The European Championship was over for France, but the next big tournament, the World Cup in France, brought the success that was hoped for. The Czech Republic was in the final, but lost to Germany with the first golden goal in European Championship history.

EM 2000

France (left) and Italy (right) before the final

Starting line-ups in the 2000 final

For Euro 2000, the French had after winning the world title against the Ukraine , Russia , Iceland , Armenia and Andorra qualify . Under Roger Lemerre , who had taken over as national coach after the World Cup triumph, France only lost the home game against Russia and achieved first place with six wins and three draws. Ukraine failed as group runner-up in the relegation games to Slovenia .

For the European Championship finals, which was held in two countries for the first time, the French were drawn into a group with co-hosts, the Netherlands, Denmark and the Czech Republic. The opening game was won 3-0 against Denmark, followed by a hard-fought 2-1 win against the Czech Republic. Since the Dutch had also won against both of them, the final group game was the final for group victory. In a game with changing leaders, the Dutch ended up 3-2 ahead. As a result, the French met Spain as runners-up and secured a 2-1 win in the first half. In the semifinals they then met Portugal, with Zinédine Zidane and Luís Figo facing the best players of the time. After the score was 1: 1 after 90 minutes, the game went into extra time, in which it looked for a long time as if the penalty shoot-out would have to decide. Three minutes before the end, however, the Portuguese Abel Xavier got the ball in front of his own goal. The Austrian referee Günter Benkö gave a penalty. Zidane transformed him and brought the world champion to the European Championship final - it was the first golden goal that fell through a penalty. France and Italy then faced each other in the final. The Italians led 1-0 after 55 minutes and held the lead until the final minute. Then Sylvain Wiltord managed to equalize. In extra time, David Trezeguet, who came on as a substitute in the 76th minute, scored the winning goal for the world champion. It was the second final in a row that was decided by a golden goal. France was the first world champion to become European champion and then also won the FIFA Confederations Cup 2001 , which was held as a World Cup dress rehearsal , but failed at the 2002 World Cup without a win in the preliminary round. By winning the European Championship, captain Didier Deschamps ended his national team career .

EM 2004

After the messed up World Cup , the French faced Slovenia, Israel , Cyprus and Malta in qualifying for the 2004 European Championship . Under the new coach Jacques Santini , who took over the post after the World Cup, the French won all eight games and easily qualified for the finals.

In Portugal, the defending champions met England in the opening game and won 2-1, with Zinédine Zidane only compensating for the English lead in the first minute of stoppage time with a directly converted free kick and scoring the winning goal in the third minute of stoppage time with a penalty could. Previously, David Beckham had not been able to convert a penalty in the 72nd minute. In the second game against Croatia they first took the lead with an own goal . The Croatians were able to turn the game around in the second half before David Trezeguet made it 2-2 in the 64th minute. In the last group game against Switzerland it was Thierry Henry who secured the 3-1 win with two goals in the second half. The French were thus in the quarter-finals and met Greece, which, under German coach Otto Rehhagel , had left the Spaniards and Russians behind in the group with hosts Portugal. The Greeks met the reigning European champions France with a defensive tactic that did not allow French combined football to develop, but even had a better chance in the first half. The mostly unimaginative "Equipe Tricolore" only came up with some good chances in the second half, but lacked the necessary precision. Thierry Henry narrowly missed the goal twice. Angelos Charisteas scored the winning goal in the 65th minute with a header. The French then tried the crowbar until the end of the game - but unsuccessfully. This ended the European Championship prematurely for the French, the Greeks then also reached the final in which they also won 1-0 against the hosts with a goal by Charisteas. This ended his tenure as national coach for Santini, followed by Raymond Domenech .

EM 2008

French and Dutch fans at the game France - Netherlands

In qualifying group B for the 2008 European Championship, the French faced the Italians, against whom they had lost the 2006 World Cup final on penalties . Other opponents were Scotland, who only missed qualifying in the last game with a 2-1 home game against Italy, Ukraine, Lithuania, Georgia and the Faroe Islands, who lost all games. The French now had to do without Zinédine Zidane , who had resigned after the World Cup final, scored the most goals and conceded the fewest goals, but in the end only finished second behind Italy, who was still enough to qualify. The qualification was secured by a 2-0 win against Lithuania in the penultimate game through the defeat of the Scots against Italy.

France and Italy met again in the final round, which was once again played in two countries, but only in the last group game when it was a question of securing second place behind the Dutch who had already qualified for the quarter-finals. Both World Cup finalists lost heavily to the Dutch, Italy 3-0 and the French 4-1, and both of them had only drawn against Romania. The winners could only achieve second place if the Dutch did not lose their last group game, in which they spared some regular players, against Romania. The Dutch then ensured with a 2-0 win against the Romanians that the game between France and Italy had the importance it deserved. After an emergency brake and the associated red card for Éric Abidal , Andrea Pirlo was also able to convert the penalty that was due to make it 1-0 for Italy. Daniele De Rossi then managed to make it 2-0 for the world champion in the second half, so that the runner-up was eliminated.

EM 2012

Scene from the game against England with Ashley Cole (left) and Franck Ribéry (right)

After the 2010 World Cup , which went miserably for France - but also for Italy - both were eliminated in the group bottom in the preliminary round - Laurent Blanc took over as coach. He managed to lead the French through the qualification for the EM 2012 as group winners - even if it was open until the last match day. In a group with Bosnia and Herzegovina , Romania, Belarus , Albania and Luxembourg , the French had one point more than Bosnia and Herzegovina, which failed in the playoffs of the group runners-up to Portugal and only with a 1-1 in the last game in France had missed direct qualification.

At the finals, which again took place in two countries, France was drawn into a group with England, Sweden and co-hosts Ukraine. In the first game of the finals, England and France drew 1: 1, both goals came in quick succession in the 30th and 39th minute. A 2-0 win then followed against Ukraine. After a 2-0 defeat by Sweden, the French benefited from England winning 1-0 against Ukraine, putting France in second place in the quarter-finals. Here the French met defending champions and world champions Spain, against whom the French had never lost a competitive game. But with this game this series ended. The Iberians won 2-0 and made it to the semi-finals. Here they prevailed against Portugal and then also won the final against Italy 4-0, the highest victory in the history of the European Championship final. Blanc's term of office ended with the end of the European Championship, and his successor was his former teammate Didier Deschamps , captain of the world and European championship team from 1998 and 2000 respectively.

EM 2016

Several associations had applied to host the European Championship 2016, which is to be held for the first time with 24 teams. France, Italy and Turkey had submitted their applications for the decision on May 28, 2010. Italy eliminated in the first round of voting. In the second vote on the same day, France prevailed against Turkey with 7: 6 votes and was chosen as the venue. This means that France is automatically qualified. As a novelty of the qualification, France was drawn into a group of five and played a friendly game against the otherwise play-free team on each match day, but they were not included in the rating.

This gave France planning security for the preparation and did not have to worry about further test match opponents. In the games against the teams in Group I there were seven wins, two draws and only one defeat - the first against Albania. If the games had been included in the rating, France would have become group winners and would have also qualified in terms of sport. There were also wins in friendly matches against Spain and Sweden and defeats against Brazil and Belgium. Due to the fact that all games are classified as friendly matches, France fell from 10th place in the FIFA world rankings , which was occupied in July 2014 after the World Cup , to 22nd place.

For the group draw on December 12, 2015, France was one of six teams but with only the seventh best UEFA coefficient assigned to Pot 1 and could therefore not meet defending champions Spain and world champions Germany in the group stage, but the neighbors Italy or Switzerland, who in Pot 2 were. Switzerland was then drawn and, as further opponents, Romania for the opening game and Albania for the second game. After two wins by goals in the final minutes, France became the first team to reach the round of 16. In the third game they parted goalless from the Swiss and became group winners. The first opponent in the knockout round was Ireland, who won 2-1 with two goals from Griezmann after an early deficit from penalties. In the quarter-finals, not only could the surprise team from Iceland be defeated 5-2, but also the cheering rituals of the Icelandic fans for the semi-final against Germany were taken over. For the first time since the 6: 3 in the game for third place at the 1958 World Cup, the French achieved a competitive win against Germany. In the final against the Portuguese, the French were the better team for a long time, but were unable to score and then conceded the decisive goal in extra time, which meant they lost a competitive game against Portugal for the first time.

EM 2021

For the first pan-European European Championship, France had initially applied to host games with the Stade des Lumières, which was under construction and inaugurated in 2016 , but then withdrew. In qualifying, the French faced Turkey , Iceland, Albania, Andorra and the Republic of Moldova . The French, who won the World Cup in 2018, started with a 4-1 win in the Republic of Moldova, followed by a 4-0 home win against Iceland. But then they lost 2-0 in Turkey. After four more victories, it was only enough to make it 1-1 in the home game against Turkey. When the Turks and Icelanders split goalless on the penultimate game day, both the Turks and the French qualified for the European Championship finals, as the French had already won both games against Iceland and even if they were tied, the Icelanders ranked first through a direct comparison 3 would have referred. With a 2-1 win against the Moldovans a few hours later, they passed the Turks to first place. This was consolidated in the last group game, the 100th game under national coach Didier Deschamps , with a win in Albania.

At the draw, the French were drawn from the group with Germany, defending champions Portugal and a team that has yet to qualify via the playoffs. You will meet the opponents of the last two European Championship games.

Player with the most appearances in European championships

Lilian Thuram , French player with the most EM games

Games	player	Year (games)
16	Lilian Thuram	1996 (5), 2000 (5), 2004 (4), 2008 (2)
14th	Zinedine Zidane	1996 (5), 2000 (5), 2004 (4)
13	Laurent Blanc	1992 (3), 1996 (5), 2000 (5)
	Didier Deschamps	1992 (3), 1996 (4), 2000 (6)
12	Bixente Lizarazu	1996 (5), 2000 (4), 2004 (3)
	Marcel Desailly	1996 (5), 2000 (6), 2004 (1)
11	Thierry Henry	2000 (5), 2004 (4), 2008 (2)
	Hugo Lloris	2012 (4), 2016 (7)
10	Youri Djorkaeff	1996 (5), 2004 (5)
	Patrice Evra	2008 (2), 2012 (1), 2016 (7)
9	Fabien Barthez	1996 (0), 2000 (5), 2004 (4)
	Olivier Giroud	2012 (3), 2016 (6)
	Patrick Vieira	2000 (6), 2004 (3), 2008 (0)
8th	Christophe Dugarry	1996 (4), 2000 (4)
	Luis Fernández	1984 (5), 1992 (3)
	Nicolas Anelka	2000 (5), 2008 (3)
	Adil Rami	2012 (4), 2016 (4)
	Sylvain Wiltord	2000 (5), 2004 (3)

As of July 10, 2016

Player with the most goals at European championships

Gates	player	Year (goals)
9	Michel Platini	1984 (9)
6th	Antoine Griezmann	2016 (6)
	Thierry Henry	2000 (3), 2004 (2), 2008 (1)
5	Zinedine Zidane	1996 (0), 2000 (2), 2004 (3)
3	Olivier Giroud	2016 (3)
	Dimitri Payet	2016 (3)
	David Trezeguet	2000 (2), 2004 (1)
	Youri Djorkaeff	1996 (1), 2000 (2)
2	Laurent Blanc	1992 (0), 1996 (1), 2000 (1)
	Jean-François Domergue	1984 (2)
	Christophe Dugarry	1996 (1), 2000 (1)
	François Today	1960 (2)
	Jean-Pierre Papin	1992 (2)
	Sylvain Wiltord	2000 (2), 2004 (0)
1	11 players

As of July 10, 2016

Players banned from European championships

• In 1984 Manuel Amoros received the red card in the first group game and was suspended for the next few games. He was only used again in the final, in which Yvon Le Roux also received the red card.
• In 1996 Christian Karembeu received the second yellow card in the quarter-finals and was suspended for the semi-finals.
• In 2000 Marcel Desailly and Patrick Vieira received the second yellow card in the semifinals and were suspended for the final. In this also Lilian Thuram received the second yellow card.
• In 2008 Éric Abidal received the red card in the last group game. Since France was eliminated, it had no further effect. But he was suspended for the first World Cup qualifier against Austria.
• In 2012, Philippe Mexès received the second yellow card in the last group match and was suspended for the quarter-finals. In this Jérémy Ménez also received the second yellow card. Since France was eliminated, it had no effect.
• In 2016, N'Golo Kanté and Adil Rami received the second yellow card in the round of 16 and were suspended for the quarter-finals. The second yellow cards for Laurent Koscielny and Samuel Umtiti in the final had no effect.

Share of players playing abroad in the EM squad

Legionaries played no or only a very minor role in the first four cadres. For the most part, it was outstanding players who moved abroad. After that, however, they always made up the main part of the cadre.

Year (games)	Number (countries)	Players (stakes)
1960 (2)	0
1984 (5)	1 (in Italy)	Michel Platini (5)
1992 (3)	2 (1 in England, 1 in Italy)	Eric Cantona (3); Laurent Blanc (3)
1996 (5)	4 (in Italy)	Jocelyn Angloma (2), Marcel Desailly (5), Didier Deschamps (4); Christian Karembeu (4)
2000 (6)	14 (2 in Germany, 6 in England, 4 in Italy, 2 in Spain)	Youri Djorkaeff (5), Bixente Lizarazu (4); Emmanuel Petit (3), Patrick Vieira (6), Thierry Henry (5), Didier Deschamps (6), Frank Lebœuf (1), Marcel Desailly (6); Lilian Thuram (5), Vincent Candela (2), Laurent Blanc (5), Zinédine Zidane (5); Christian Karembeu (1), Nicolas Anelka (5)
2004 (4)	15 (2 in Germany, 9 in England, 3 in Italy, 1 in Spain)	Bixente Lizarazu (3), Willy Sagnol (3); Patrick Vieira (3), Robert Pires (4), Sylvain Wiltord (3), Thierry Henry (4), Claude Makélélé (3), Marcel Desailly (1), William Gallas (4), Louis Saha (2), Mikaël Silvestre (4); Olivier Dacourt (3), David Trezeguet (4), Lilian Thuram (4), Zinédine Zidane (4)
2008 (3)	13 (2 in Germany, 6 in England, 2 in Italy, 3 in Spain)	Franck Ribéry (3), Willy Sagnol (2); Nicolas Anelka (3), Lassana Diarra (0), Patrice Evra (2), William Gallas (3), Claude Makélélé (3), Florent Malouda (2); Sébastien Frey (0), Patrick Vieira (0); Éric Abidal (2), Thierry Henry (2), Lilian Thuram (2),
2012 (4)	11 (1 in Germany, 7 in England, 1 in Italy, 2 in Spain)	Franck Ribéry (4); Hatem Ben Arfa (2), Patrice Evra (1), Yohan Cabaye (3), Gaël Clichy (3), Laurent Koscielny (1), Florent Malouda (3), Samir Nasri (4); Philippe Mexès (3); Karim Benzema (4), Adil Rami (4)
2016 (7)	18 (1 in Germany, 11 in England, 3 in Italy, 1 in Mexico, 2 in Spain)	Kingsley Coman (5); Yohan Cabaye (2), Olivier Giroud (6), N'Golo Kanté (4), Laurent Koscielny (7), Hugo Lloris (7), Eliaquim Mangala (1), Anthony Martial (3), Dimitri Payet (7), Bacary Sagna (7), Morgan Schneiderlin (0), Moussa Sissoko (6); Lucas Digne (0), Patrice Evra (7), Paul Pogba (7); André-Pierre Gignac (6), Antoine Griezmann (7), Adil Rami (4)

As of July 10, 2016

Record against the other European champions at European championships

• Spain: 4 games (including 1 final), 2 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat, 5-4 goals
• Denmark: 3 games, 2 wins, 1 loss, 5-2 goals
• Netherlands: 3 games, 1 draw, 2 defeats, 3: 7 goals (5: 4 on pens)
• Portugal: 3 games, 2 wins, 1 loss, 5: 4 goals
• Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic: 3 games, 1 win, 1 draw, 1 defeat, 2: 3 goals (5: 6 p.e.)
• Italy: 2 games (including 1 final), 1 win, 1 defeat, 2: 3 goals
• Greece: 1 game, 1 loss, 0-1 goals
• Germany: 1 game, 1 win, 2-0 goals
• USSR / CIS / Russia: no games

Records

• The following countries have the highest victories in European championships.
  •  Belgium : preliminary round 1984 - 5-0 (highest win in 72 games against Belgium)
  •  Denmark : Preliminary round 2000 - 3-0 (also a 3-0 in a friendly match in 1973)
  •  Spain : Final 1984 - 2-0 (also a 3-1 in the European Championship qualification in 1992 and in the 2006 World Cup round of 16)
  •  Czech Republic : Preliminary round 2000 - 2: 1 (only win against the Czech Republic so far)
• The French team suffered their biggest defeats in European championships against the following countries:
  •  Greece : quarter-finals 2004 - 0-1 (only loss to Greece)
  •  Sweden : preliminary round 2012 - 2-0 (also a 0-2 in the 1970 World Cup qualification)
• The longest winning streak without victories on penalties: France (1984), the Netherlands (1988 to 1992) and the Czech Republic (2000 to 2004) achieved 5 victories in a row
• Longest streak with at least one goal per game: France (2000–2004) 9
• Highest wins in the preliminary round: France - Belgium (1984), Denmark - Yugoslavia (1984) and Sweden - Bulgaria (2004) - all 5-0
• The highest-scoring game: 9 goals in the semifinals 1960 Yugoslavia 5-4 France
• Record goalscorer : Michel Platini 9 goals (since 2016 with Cristiano Ronaldo )
• The only "flawless" hat trick : Michel Platini (France), on June 19, 1984 in the group game against Yugoslavia with goals in the 59th, 61st and 76th minutes.

Trainer

• Roger Lemerre won the European Championship with France in 2000 and the African Championship in 2004 with Tunisia

Negative records

• First expulsion in a final: Yvon Le Roux 1984 in the 86th minute of the final France - Spain
• The fewest viewers on average: 20,400 (France 1960)

Games

Paris (3) Marseille (4) Nantes Saint-Etienne Malmo (2) Solna Newcastle (2) Leeds Liverpool Manchester Bruges (3) Brussels Amsterdam Rotterdam Coimbra Lisbon (2) Leiria Zurich (2) Bern Donetsk (3) Kiev Saint-Denis (3) Lille Lyon Munich Budapest (2)

Venues (green = positive balance, yellow = balanced balance, red = negative balance, bold = final venue, number in brackets = number of games if> 1)

France has played 39 European Championship games so far, 20 of which have been won. Ten were lost and nine ended in a draw. Six games had to be extended, one of which was won and lost on penalties, as well as two won and lost by golden goal and one normal in overtime. France took part in the opening game of the European Championships four times, in 1960, 1984 and 2016 as hosts and against the hosts in 1992, had 13 home games so far - most of all previous European Championship participants - and played three times against the hosts (1992, 2000 and 2012 in the Preliminary round).

France played once (in the quarter-finals in 2012) against the defending champions and four times (in the preliminary round in 1992, in the quarter-finals in 2004 and 2012 and in the final in 2016) against the eventual European champions.

The most frequent opponents are Spain (4 ×) as well as Denmark, England, the Netherlands, Portugal and Romania (3 × each).

France and Germany played against each other for the first time in the semifinals in 2016.

All EM games
No.	date	Result	opponent		venue	occasion	Remarks
1	07/06/1960	4: 5	Yugoslavia	H	Paris	Semifinals	First European Championship finals game
2	07/09/1960	0: 2	Czechoslovakia	H	Marseille	3rd place match
3	06/12/1984	1-0	Denmark	H	Paris	Preliminary round
4th	06/16/1984	5-0	Belgium	H	Nantes	Preliminary round
5	06/19/1984	3: 2	Yugoslavia	H	Saint Etienne	Preliminary round
6th	06/23/1984	3: 2 a.d.	Portugal	H	Marseille	Semifinals
7th	06/27/1984	2-0	Spain	H	Paris	final	First title win, last game under Michel Hidalgo
8th	06/10/1992	1: 1	Sweden	A.	Solna ( SWE )	Preliminary round
9	06/14/1992	0-0	England	*	Malmo ( SWE )	Preliminary round
10	06/17/1992	1: 2	Denmark	*	Malmo ( SWE )	Preliminary round	Last game under Michel Platini
11	06/10/1996	1-0	Romania	*	Newcastle upon Tyne ( ENG )	Preliminary round
12	06/15/1996	1: 1	Spain	*	Leeds ( ENG )	Preliminary round
13	06/19/1996	3: 1	Bulgaria	*	Newcastle upon Tyne ( ENG )	Preliminary round
14th	06/22/1996	0: 0 n.V .; 5: 4 i. E.	Netherlands	*	Liverpool ( ENG )	Quarter finals
15th	06/26/1996	0: 0 n.V .; 5: 6 i. E.	Czech Republic	*	Manchester ( ENG )	Semifinals
16	06/11/2000	3-0	Denmark	*	Bruges ( BEL )	Preliminary round
17th	06/16/2000	2: 1	Czech Republic	*	Bruges ( BEL )	Preliminary round
18th	06/21/2000	2: 3	Netherlands	A.	Amsterdam ( NLD )	Preliminary round
19th	06/25/2000	2: 1	Spain	*	Bruges ( BEL )	Quarter finals
20th	06/28/2000	2: 1 a.d.	Portugal	*	Brussels ( BEL )	Semifinals	Victory by Golden Goal 100th international match for Didier Deschamps
21st	07/02/2000	2: 1 a.d.	Italy	*	Rotterdam ( NLD )	final	Victory by Golden Goal 2. European Championship title 600th international match
22nd	06/13/2004	2: 1	England	*	Lisbon ( PRT )	Preliminary round	100th international match by Lilian Thuram
23	06/17/2004	2: 2	Croatia	*	Leiria ( PRT )	Preliminary round
24	06/21/2004	3: 1	Switzerland	*	Coimbra ( PRT )	Preliminary round
25th	06/25/2004	0: 1	Greece	*	Lisbon ( PRT )	Quarter finals	Last game under Jacques Santini
26th	06/09/2008	0-0	Romania	*	Zurich ( CHE )	Preliminary round
27	06/13/2008	1: 4	Netherlands	*	Bern ( CHE )	Preliminary round
28	06/17/2008	0: 2	Italy	*	Zurich ( CHE )	Preliminary round
29	06/11/2012	1: 1	England	*	Donetsk ( UKR )	Preliminary round
30th	06/15/2012	2-0	Ukraine	A.	Donetsk ( UKR )	Preliminary round
31	06/19/2012	0: 2	Sweden	*	Kiev ( UKR )	Preliminary round
32	06/23/2012	0: 2	Spain (TV)	*	Donetsk ( UKR )	Quarter finals	Last game under coach Laurent Blanc
33	06/10/2016	2: 1	Romania	H	Saint-Denis	Preliminary round
34	06/15/2016	2-0	Albania	H	Marseille	Preliminary round
35	06/19/2016	0-0	Switzerland	H	Lille	Preliminary round
36	06/26/2016	2: 1	Ireland	H	Lyon	Round of 16
37	07/03/2016	5: 2	Iceland	H	Saint-Denis	Quarter finals
38	07/07/2016	2-0	Germany	H	Marseille	Semifinals
39	07/10/2016	0: 1 a.d.	Portugal	H	Saint-Denis	final
	June 15, 2021		Germany	A.	Munich ( DEU )	Preliminary round
	06/19/2021		Playoff winners A / D	* / A	Budapest ( HUN )	Preliminary round
June 21, 2021			Portugal	*	Budapest ( HUN )	Preliminary round

See also

• French national football team at world championships

Individual evidence

1. ^ France 4-5 Yugoslavia
2. ↑ ENGLAND 1: 2 FRANCE EURO 2004