Jul 21, 2026
France national football team: full squad and key players
France reached the semi-finals at the 2026 World Cup before losing to Spain and then to England in a 6-4 bronze-medal thriller. Here is the full 26-ma...
Didier Deschamps
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Jul 19, 2026
Saka hat-trick fires England to World Cup bronze in a 6-4 thriller with France
England raced four goals clear, survived a France fightback led by Kylian Mbappe, and won the World Cup third-place play-off 6-4 in Miami. Bukayo Saka...
Jul 16, 2026
Deschamps takes his France farewell against a wounded England in the third-place play-off
France and England, both beaten in the semi-finals, meet in Saturday’s World Cup third-place play-off in Miami, the last match of Didier Deschamps’ Fr...
Jul 15, 2026
France’s run of World Cup finals ends as Deschamps bows out a game short
France’s decade of reaching finals ended in Dallas, and with it the Deschamps era. A 2-0 semi-final defeat to Spain leaves the most successful France...
Jul 9, 2026
Mbappe and Dembele send France past Morocco and into the World Cup semi-finals
Kylian Mbappe scored and set up Ousmane Dembele as France beat Morocco 2-0 in Foxborough to reach a third straight World Cup semi-final.
Jul 4, 2026
Mbappe’s penalty settles a fractious tie as France set up a Morocco rematch
Kylian Mbappe’s second-half penalty was enough for France to edge a bad-tempered last-16 tie with Paraguay and book a quarter-final against Morocco.
Jul 3, 2026
Paraguay’s giant-killers run into France in the World Cup last 16
Paraguay stunned Germany to reach the knockouts. Next comes a France side that has cruised through the tournament and looks the team to beat.
Jun 30, 2026
Mbappe scores twice as France brush aside Sweden to reach the last 16
Kylian Mbappe’s double and a Bradley Barcola strike carried France past Sweden and into a World Cup last-16 meeting with Paraguay.
Jun 29, 2026
France begin their knockout run against Gyokeres and a hopeful Sweden
France won all three group games and look the team to beat. Sweden scraped through on one win but carry a striker who can turn a knockout tie on his o...
Jun 26, 2026
Dembele’s first-half hat-trick sends France top of Group I in 4-1 win over Norway
Ousmane Dembele scored a hat-trick inside the opening 32 minutes as France beat Norway 4-1 in Foxborough to win Group I, while a rotated Norway side r...
Jun 26, 2026
Haaland and Mbappe meet as Norway and France fight for Group I top spot
Two strikers in red-hot form with one place at stake: Norway’s Erling Haaland and France’s Kylian Mbappe go head to head in Foxborough, both already t...
Jun 23, 2026
Mbappe’s double sends France into the last 32 after a storm-hit win over Iraq
Kylian Mbappe struck either side of a two-hour weather delay and Ousmane Dembele finally scored at a major tournament as France beat Iraq to seal a pl...
Jun 22, 2026
Mbappe’s France and Haaland’s Norway eye the last 32 on Group I’s big Monday
Group I’s two early leaders, France and Erling Haaland’s Norway, can both reach the last 32 on Monday night, while Senegal and Iraq fight to keep thei...
Jun 16, 2026
Mbappe’s record-breaking brace sends France past Senegal at the World Cup
Kylian Mbappe scored twice to become France’s all-time leading goalscorer as they recovered from a sluggish start to beat Senegal 3-1 in their World C...
Jun 15, 2026
France open Deschamps’s farewell World Cup against a dangerous Senegal
Didier Deschamps begins his farewell tournament as France open Group I against a Senegal side that knows exactly how to upset the favourites, with kic...
Jun 9, 2026
Olise hat-trick sends France to the World Cup with a 3-1 win over Northern Ireland
Michael Olise scored all three as France signed off their World Cup preparations with a 3-1 friendly win over a spirited young Northern Ireland in Lil...
Jun 8, 2026
Five goals from history: Mbappe and the World Cup record within his reach
Kylian Mbappe goes to North America 12 World Cup goals into his career and five short of Miroslav Klose’s all-time record. At 27, the maths is suddenl...
Jun 5, 2026
Ivory Coast stun France 2-1 in Nantes as Deschamps gets a World Cup warning
A second-half comeback from Guela Doue and Amad Diallo handed France a 2-1 defeat in their penultimate warm-up, denting Les Bleus’ build-up before the...
Jun 3, 2026
Deschamps takes France to Nantes to face Ivory Coast before the World Cup
France play Ivory Coast at the Stade de la Beaujoire on Thursday, a World Cup warm-up that brings Didier Deschamps back to the club where his career b...
Apr 22, 2026
Pochettino leads a four-man Real Madrid manager shortlist as Florentino Perez prepares for another reset
Real Madrid have drawn up a four-name list to replace Alvaro Arbeloa, with Mauricio Pochettino the name Florentino Perez is said to favour most. Jurge...