France national under-21 football team

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France Under-21

Nickname

Les Bleuets
(patterned after Les Bleus,
nickname for the senior team)

Association

Fédération Française
de Football

Coach

René Girard

Captain

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Most caps

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Top scorer

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Home colours





Away colours

First International
U23: France 0-0 Norway
Alès, November 11, 1970

U21: France 1-1 Belgium
Amiens, September 3, 1976

Largest win
France 7-0 Yugoslavia
Reims, November 16, 1985

Worst defeat
England 6-1 France
Sheffield, February 28, 1984
Records for competitive
matches only.

UEFA U-21 Championship

Appearances

8 (First in 1982)

Best result

Winners 1988

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The France national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of France and is controlled by the French Football Federation. The team competes in the European Under-21 Football Championship, held every two years.

Following the realignment of UEFA's youth competitions in 1976, the French Under-21 team was formed. The team has a good record - it has finished first, second, third and fourth in the competition on one occasion each. The team failed to qualify for the finals on seven occasions, but will take part in the forthcoming 2006 tournament finals, which will take place in Portugal in May and June.

Since the under-21 competition rules insist that players must be 21 or under at the start ot a two year competition, technically it is an U-23 competition. For this reason, France's record in the preceding U-23 competitions is also shown. France did not enter a team in the first two U-23 competitions, but reached the quarter finals in the third.

1 UEFA U-23 Championship Record
2 UEFA U-21 Championship Record
3 Current and recent players
4 See also
5 Sources/External links

[edit] UEFA U-23 Championship Record

1972: Did not qualify. Finished 4th of 4 in qualification group.
1974: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 3 in qualification group.
1976: Losing quarter-finalists.

[edit] UEFA U-21 Championship Record

1978: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 3 in qualification group.
1980: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 3 in qualification group.
1982: Losing quarter-finalists.
1984: Losing quarter-finalists.
1986: Losing quarter-finalists.
1988: Winners.
1990: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 4 in qualification group.
1992: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 5 in qualification group.
1994: Losing semi-finalists. Finished fourth.
1996: Losing semi-finalists. Finished third.
1998: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 5 in qualification group.
2000: Did not qualify. Finished 1st of 5 in qualification group. Lost qualification play-off.
2002: Runners-up.
2004: Did not qualify. Finished 1st of 5 in qualification group. Lost qualification play-off.
2006: Losing semi-finalists.
2007: Did not qualify. Lost qualification play-off.

[edit] Current and recent players

Players born in 1986 or later are eligible for the 2007-09 UEFA European U-21 Championship, 1988 or later are eligible for the 2009-11 UEFA European U-21 Championship and so on. The Under-19 team will be the most obvious source of the next crop of Under-21s.

1986-born
(eligible to 2009 UEFA European U-21 Championship)

Sébastien Bassong
Habib Bellaïd
Alexandre Bonnet
Yohan Cabaye
Mohamed Chakouri
Mathieu Coutadeur
Kevin Das Neves
Didier Digard
Franck Dja Djedje
Ricardo Faty
Yohan Gouffran
Yoann Gourcuff
Geoffrey Jourdren
Younes Kaboul
Hugo Lloris
Florian Marange
Sylvain Marveaux
Yassin Moutaouakil
Julien Quercia
Mamadou Samassa
Moussa Sow

1987-born
(eligible to 2009 UEFA European U-21 Championship)

Those players in italics have caps for the senior team. Details of exactly which players have been selected for the March 2007 fixture against Denmark and Norway are available here.

[edit] See also

[edit] Sources/External links

UEFA Under-21 website Contains full results archive
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Contains full record of U-21/U-23 Championships.

European Under-21 Championship v • d • e
National under-21 football teams of Europe (UEFA) v • d • e
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