©️", "In Women's World Cup Origin Story, Fact and Fiction Blur", https://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/visual-stories/teams/france/, https://www.espn.com/soccer/standings/_/league/FIFA.WWC, https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/451900-crowd-chants-equal-pay-after-us-womens-soccer-world-cup-victory, https://www.fff.fr/actualites/186344-la-liste-de-corinne-diacre-le-31-octobre?themePath=equipes-de-france-1/, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=France_women%27s_national_football_team&oldid=983388638, European women's national association football teams, Articles needing additional references from September 2018, All articles needing additional references, Pages using national squad without sport or team link, Pages using national squad without sport and with team link, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 October 2020, at 23:54. Clairefontaine is the national association football centre and is among 12 élite academies throughout the country. The squad composed of veterans that failed to reach the 1994 FIFA World Cup were joined by influential youngsters, such as Zinedine Zidane. The team scored a win and two draws at the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 Group C, and was defeated by England in quarter-finals. [49] They were drawn to play Australia, Peru and Denmark in a group in which they were considered heavy favourites. The team's two titles place in second place only trailing Brazil who have won four. Two years later, the team triumphed at UEFA Euro 2000. The team went on to beat England on penalty kicks in the quarterfinals, but lost to the United States in the semi-finals. England and Germany had also won both tournaments; albeit England competes as Great Britain in the Olympics and East Germany won the Olympic tournament in 1976. [18] Following the completion of the World Cup tournament, Federation President Jean-Pierre Escalettes resigned from his position. France experienced much of its success in four major eras: in the 1950s, 1980s, late 1990s/early 2000s, and mid/late 2010s, respectively, which resulted in numerous major honours. 7 ranked Norway, and an underrated Iceland. [20][21], At Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, France reached the quarter-finals, where they were beaten by eventual champions Spain. If number of goals are equal, the players are then listed alphabetically. They are the reigning world champions, having won the most recent World Cup final in 2018. In 2018, France defeated Croatia 4–2 in the final match and won the World Cup for the second time.[84]. [68], France normally wear blue shirts, white shorts and red socks at home (similar setup to Japan), while, when on the road, the team utilizes an all-white combination or wear red shirts, blue shorts, and blue socks with the former being the most current. In 1998, the Stade de France was inaugurated as France's national stadium ahead of the 1998 World Cup. [74], France is often referred to by the media and supporters as Les Bleus (The Blues), which is the nickname associated with all of France's international sporting teams due to the blue shirts each team incorporates. Due to the blocked exits, spectators who could not leave the stadium had to go down to the pitch and wait until it was safer. On 16 September 2010, France qualified for the World Cup following the team's 3–2 aggregate victory over Italy. Dominique Rocheteau and José Touré scored the goals. [4] That same year, France took part in the unofficial 1971 Women's World Cup, held in Mexico. Again, however, they lost. France has entered one of the most successful eras in the country's women's football history. France went on to beat Mexico 5–0 to qualify to the knockout round as top of the group. A year before getting officially sanctioned, France took part in a makeshift European Cup against England, Denmark, and Italy.