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France Under-21
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)Les Bleuets (The Little Blues)
Les Espoirs (The Hopes)
AssociationFrench Football Federation
Head coachSylvain Ripoll
Most capsMickaël Landreau (43)
Top scorerOdsonne Édouard (17)
First colours
Second colours
First international
France France 7–1 England 
(Le Havre, France; 22 May 1952)
Biggest win
France France 7–0 Yugoslavia 
(Reims, France; 16 November 1985)
Biggest defeat
 England 6–0 France France
(Sheffield, England; 28 February 1984)
Records for competitive
matches only.
UEFA U-21 Championship
Appearances9 (first in 1982)
Best resultWinners (1988)

The France national under-21 football team (French: Equipe de France Espoirs), known in France as Les Espoirs (French pronunciation: ​[ɛs.pwaʁ], The Hopes), is the national under-21 football team of France and is controlled by the French Football Federation. The team competes in the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, held every two years.

Following the realignment of UEFA's youth competitions in 1976, under-21 football teams in Europe were formed. The team is exclusively for football players that are age 21 or under at the start of the two-year campaign of the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship meaning a player can represent the national team until the age of 23.

France has won the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship once in 1988. Notable players on the team that went on to play for the senior national team include Laurent Blanc, Eric Cantona, Franck Sauzée, and Jocelyn Angloma, among others.[1] Blanc was named the tournament's Golden Player.[2] The team's best finish since was in 2002 when the team finished runner-up to the Czech Republic in Switzerland.

The France under-21 team does not have a permanent home. The team plays in stadiums located all around France, particularly grounds of Ligue 2 clubs. Because of the smaller demand compared to the senior national team, smaller facilities are used. Recently, the under-21 team has established the Stade Auguste-Delaune II, home of Stade Reims, as a home residence having played numerous matches there over the past two seasons.

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French is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French.

France

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France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Its eighteen integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 km2 (248,573 sq mi) and had a total population of over 68 million as of January 2023. France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre; other major urban areas include Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Lille, Bordeaux, and Nice.

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Franck Sauzée

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Jocelyn Angloma

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Czech Republic national under-21 football team

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Ligue 2

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Ligue 2, also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsorship by Balkrishna Industries, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the other being Ligue 1, the country's top football division. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with both Ligue 1 and the third division Championnat National. Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 38 games each, totalling 380 games in the season. Most games are played on Fridays and Mondays, with a few games played during weekday and weekend evenings. Play is regularly suspended the last weekend before Christmas for two weeks before returning in the second week of January.

History

Though, under-21 teams weren't formed until 1976, Les Espoirs, a youth national team in France, had existed since 1950 playing its first match on 22 May 1952 defeating England 7–1 at the Stade Jules Deschaseaux in Le Havre. The team's next match was two years later suffering a 3–1 defeat to Italy in Vicenza. For the rest of the decade, the youth team played seven more matches, which included a 1–1 draw with Hungary in Budapest and a 2–0 loss to England in Sunderland in 1959. In the 1960s, Espoirs continued to play matches against fellow national youth sides. However, on 18 December 1968, the team contested a match against Algeria senior team in Algiers recording an impressive 5–2 victory. Four days later, the team draw 1–1 with the under-23 team of Algeria in Oran. On 12 February 1969, the Espoirs played the Hungary senior team at the Stade Gerland in Lyon. The match ended in a 2–2 draw.

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Media coverage

France's under-21 football friendlies and qualifying matches are broadcast by Direct 8.

Results and fixtures

Legend

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixture

2021

31 May 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship QF Netherlands  2–1  France Budapest, Hungary
18:00
  • Boadu 51', 90+3'
Report Stadium: Bozsik Aréna
Referee: Maurizio Mariani (Italy)

2022

9 June 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group H Ukraine  3–3  France Istanbul, Turkey
Report
Stadium: Esenyurt Necmi Kadıoğlu Stadium
Referee: Vassilis Fotias (Greece)
Note: The match was originally scheduled to be played on 29 March 2022 at Arena Lviv, Lviv but due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine was unable to host the match.
23 September Friendly Germany  0–1  France Magdeburg, Germany
Report
Stadium: MDCC-Arena
Referee: Krzysztof Jakubik (Poland)
26 September Friendly France  2–2  Belgium Valenciennes, France
Report Stadium: Stade du Hainaut
Attendance: 9,768
Referee: Alessandro Dudic (Switzerland)
19 November Friendly France  1–1  Norway Caen, France
Report
Stadium: Stade Michel d'Ornano

2023

25 March Friendly England  4–0  France Leicester, England
Stadium: King Power Stadium
28 March Friendly France  v  Spain Vannes, France
Stadium: Stade de la Rabine

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Hungary

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Faroe Islands national under-21 football team

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Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

As of 22 April 2021
Position Name Nationality
Manager Sylvain Ripoll  French
Assistant manager Patrice Gonfalone  French
Assistant manager José Alcocer  French
Goalkeeping coach Sylvain Matrisciano  French
Doctor François Brochet  French
Physiotherapist Guy Puravet  French

Players

Current squad

For the 2021–22 and 2022–23 seasons, including the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, players born on or after 1 January 2000 are eligible.

The following 23 players were called up for friendly matches against England and Spain on 25 and 28 March 2023, respectively.[3]

Note: Names in italics denote players that have been capped by the senior team.

Caps and goals as of 25 March 2023, after the team's match against  England.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Illan Meslier (2000-03-02) 2 March 2000 (age 23) 11 0 England Leeds United
1GK Lucas Chevalier (2001-11-06) 6 November 2001 (age 21) 2 0 France Lille
1GK Stefan Bajic (2001-12-23) 23 December 2001 (age 21) 1 0 England Bristol City

2DF Benoît Badiashile (vice-captain) (2001-03-26) 26 March 2001 (age 22) 18 0 England Chelsea
2DF Castello Lukeba (2002-12-17) 17 December 2002 (age 20) 6 0 France Lyon
2DF Yasser Larouci (2001-01-01) 1 January 2001 (age 22) 3 1 France Troyes
2DF Niels Nkounkou (2000-11-01) 1 November 2000 (age 22) 1 0 France Saint-Étienne
2DF Valentin Gendrey (2000-06-21) 21 June 2000 (age 22) 1 0 Italy Lecce
2DF Yoan Koré (2004-11-16) 16 November 2004 (age 18) 0 0 France Paris FC
2DF Ismaël Doukouré (2003-07-24) 24 July 2003 (age 19) 0 0 France Strasbourg

3MF Enzo Le Fée (2000-02-03) 3 February 2000 (age 23) 10 3 France Lorient
3MF Kouadio Koné (2001-05-17) 17 May 2001 (age 21) 7 0 Germany Borussia Mönchengladbach
3MF Michael Olise (2001-12-12) 12 December 2001 (age 21) 3 0 England Crystal Palace
3MF Johann Lepenant (2002-10-22) 22 October 2002 (age 20) 1 0 France Lyon
3MF Han-Noah Massengo (2001-07-07) 7 July 2001 (age 21) 1 0 France Auxerre

4FW Amine Gouiri (2000-02-16) 16 February 2000 (age 23) 25 11 France Rennes
4FW Arnaud Kalimuendo (2002-01-20) 20 January 2002 (age 21) 16 4 France Rennes
4FW Rayan Cherki (2003-08-17) 17 August 2003 (age 19) 8 4 France Lyon
4FW Amine Adli (2000-05-10) 10 May 2000 (age 22) 7 3 Germany Bayer Leverkusen
4FW Matthis Abline (2003-03-28) 28 March 2003 (age 20) 3 1 France Rennes
4FW Andy Diouf (2003-05-17) 17 May 2003 (age 19) 1 0 Switzerland Basel
4FW Bradley Barcola (2002-09-02) 2 September 2002 (age 20) 1 0 France Lyon

Recent call-ups

The following players have also been called up to the France under-21 squad and remain eligible:

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up
GK Thimothée Lo-Tutala (2003-02-13) 13 February 2003 (age 20) 0 0 England Hull City v.  Norway, 19 November 2022
GK Guillaume Dietsch (2001-04-17) 17 April 2001 (age 21) 1 0 Belgium Seraing v.  Belgium, 26 September 2022
GK Yahia Fofana (2000-08-21) 21 August 2000 (age 22) 1 0 France Angers v.  Belgium, 26 September 2022

DF Pierre Kalulu (2000-06-05) 5 June 2000 (age 22) 15 2 Italy Milan v.  Spain, 28 March 2023 INJ
DF Mohamed Simakan (2000-05-03) 3 May 2000 (age 22) 2 0 Germany RB Leipzig v.  Spain, 28 March 2023 INJ
DF Warmed Omari (2000-04-23) 23 April 2000 (age 22) 2 0 France Rennes v.  Spain, 28 March 2023 INJ
DF Adrien Truffert (2001-01-20) 20 January 2001 (age 22) 15 0 France Rennes v.  England, 25 March 2023 INJ
DF Melvin Bard (2000-11-06) 6 November 2000 (age 22) 3 0 France Nice v.  England, 25 March 2023 INJ
DF Quentin Merlin (2002-05-16) 16 May 2002 (age 20) 5 0 France Nantes v.  Norway, 19 November 2022
DF Malo Gusto (2003-05-19) 19 May 2003 (age 19) 7 1 France Lyon v.  Norway, 19 November 2022
DF Wesley Fofana (2000-12-17) 17 December 2000 (age 22) 7 0 England Chelsea v.  Belgium, 26 September 2022
DF Tanguy Nianzou (2002-06-07) 7 June 2002 (age 20) 1 1 Spain Sevilla v.  Belgium, 26 September 2022
DF Bafodé Diakité (2001-01-06) 6 January 2001 (age 22) 1 0 France Lille v.  Belgium, 26 September 2022
DF William Saliba (captain) (2001-03-24) 24 March 2001 (age 22) 5 0 England Arsenal v.  Faroe Islands, 24 March 2022 SEN
DF Loïc Badé (2000-04-11) 11 April 2000 (age 22) 3 0 England Nottingham Forest v.  North Macedonia, 16 November 2021
DF Andy Pelmard (2000-03-12) 12 March 2000 (age 23) 2 0 Switzerland Basel v.  Faroe Islands, 6 September 2021
DF Rayan Aït-Nouri (2001-06-06) 6 June 2001 (age 21) 5 0 England Wolverhampton Wanderers v.  Liechtenstein, 12 November 2020 INJ

MF Maxence Caqueret (2000-02-15) 15 February 2000 (age 23) 19 2 France Lyon v.  England, 25 March 2023 INJ
MF Joris Chotard (2001-09-24) 24 September 2001 (age 21) 6 0 France Montpellier v.  England, 25 March 2023 INJ
MF Khéphren Thuram (2001-03-26) 26 March 2001 (age 22) 14 2 France Nice v.  Norway, 19 November 2022
MF Sofiane Diop (2000-06-09) 9 June 2000 (age 22) 13 4 France Nice v.  Belgium, 26 September 2022
MF Eduardo Camavinga (2002-11-10) 10 November 2002 (age 20) 13 2 Spain Real Madrid v.  Ukraine, 9 June 2022
MF Alexis Beka Beka (2001-03-29) 29 March 2001 (age 21) 0 0 France Nice v.  Serbia, 12 October 2021
MF Aurélien Tchouaméni (2000-01-27) 27 January 2000 (age 23) 4 0 Spain Real Madrid v.  Liechtenstein, 12 November 2020 INJ

FW Elye Wahi (2003-01-02) 2 January 2003 (age 20) 3 1 France Montpellier v.  Norway, 19 November 2022
FW Nathan Ngoumou (2000-03-14) 14 March 2000 (age 23) 9 0 Germany Borussia Mönchengladbach v.  Belgium, 26 September 2022
FW Georginio Rutter (2002-04-20) 20 April 2002 (age 20) 4 0 England Leeds United v.  Belgium, 26 September 2022
FW Mohamed-Ali Cho (2004-01-19) 19 January 2004 (age 19) 7 0 Spain Real Sociedad v.  Germany, 23 September 2022 INJ
FW Hugo Ekitike (2002-06-20) 20 June 2002 (age 20) 0 0 France Paris Saint-Germain v.  North Macedonia, 16 November 2021
FW Janis Antiste (2002-08-18) 18 August 2002 (age 20) 1 0 Italy Sassuolo v.  Serbia, 12 October 2021
FW Nathanaël Mbuku (2002-03-16) 16 March 2002 (age 21) 2 1 France Reims v.  Faroe Islands, 6 September 2021
FW Sékou Mara (2002-07-30) 30 July 2002 (age 20) 2 0 England Southampton v.  Faroe Islands, 6 September 2021
FW Isaac Lihadji (2002-04-10) 10 April 2002 (age 20) 2 1 France Lille v.  Switzerland, 16 November 2020
FW Éric Junior Dina Ebimbe (2000-11-21) 21 November 2000 (age 22) 1 0 Germany Eintracht Frankfurt v.  Azerbaijan, 7 September 2020
Notes
  • Players in italics have played at senior level.
  • COV Withdrew due to COVID-19
  • CLU Player withdrew from the squad because of a club necessity.
  • INJ Player withdrew from the squad due to an injury.
  • SEN Player withdrew from the squad due to a call up to the senior team.
  • SH Player sent home by team staff.

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Bristol City F.C.

Bristol City F.C.

Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England, which compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. They have played their home games at Ashton Gate since moving from St John's Lane in 1904. The club's home colours are red and white, and their nickname is The Robins—a robin featured on the club's badge from 1976 to 1994 and from 2019 onwards. Their main rivals are Bristol Rovers, with whom they contest the Bristol derby, and Cardiff City, with whom they contest the cross-border Severnside derby.

Defender (association football)

Defender (association football)

In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring.

Benoît Badiashile

Benoît Badiashile

Benoît Ntambue Badiashile Mukinayi Baya is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Premier League club Chelsea and the France national team.

Honours

Champions (1): 1988
Runners-up (1): 2002
Champions (12): 1977, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1997, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2015
Finalists (14): 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1986, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016

Competitive record

UEFA U-23 Championship

  • 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.

UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Year Result Pld W D* L GS GA
1978 did not qualify 4 0 1 3 4 6
1980 4 2 1 1 3 2
1982 Quarterfinals 6 3 1 2 9 8
1984 Quarterfinals 6 3 1 2 11 9
1986 Quarterfinals 8 2 3 3 13 13
1988 Champions 12 6 5 1 21 13
1990 did not qualify 6 3 2 1 11 7
1992 8 3 2 3 7 5
France 1994 Fourth Place 14 10 2 2 24 8
Spain 1996 Third Place 14 8 4 2 30 5
Romania 1998 did not qualify 8 4 3 1 13 8
Slovakia 2000 8 6 2 2 19 6
Switzerland 2002 Runners-Up 15 12 3 0 27 7
Germany 2004 did not qualify 10 8 1 1 20 7
Portugal 2006 Semi-finals 14 10 2 2 24 10
Netherlands 2007 did not qualify 4 2 1 1 6 3
Sweden 2009 10 5 3 2 17 7
Denmark 2011 8 4 3 1 12 6
Israel 2013 10 8 0 2 23 7
Czech Republic 2015 10 8 1 1 31 11
Poland 2017 10 6 2 2 17 8
Italy San Marino 2019 Semi-finals 14 11 2 1 28 11
Hungary Slovenia 2021 Quarterfinals 14 11 0 3 37 13
Total 1 title 209 126 44 39 375 170
*Draws include knockout matches decided via penalty shoot-out.
**Gold background colour indicates that the tournament was won. Red border colour indicates tournament was held on home soil.

2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Qualification

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  France 10 9 0 1 32 10 +22 27 Final tournament 3–1 3–2 1–0 5–0 5–0
2  Switzerland 10 9 0 1 26 8 +18 27 3–1 2–1 4–1 2–1 3–0
3  Georgia 10 5 0 5 17 14 +3 15 0–2 0–3 2–1 1–0 4–0
4  Slovakia 10 4 0 6 22 21 +1 12 3–5 1–2 3–2 2–1 6–0
5  Azerbaijan 10 2 0 8 6 18 −12 6 1–2 0–1 0–3 2–1 1–0
6  Liechtenstein 10 1 0 9 3 35 −32 3 0–5 0–5 0–2 2–4 1–0
Source: UEFA

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France

France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Its eighteen integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 km2 (248,573 sq mi) and had a total population of over 68 million as of January 2023. France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre; other major urban areas include Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Lille, Bordeaux, and Nice.

Spain

Spain

Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country primarily located in southwestern Europe with parts of territory in the Atlantic Ocean and across the Mediterranean Sea. The largest part of Spain is situated on the Iberian Peninsula; its territory also includes the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla in Africa. The country's mainland is bordered to the south by Gibraltar; to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea; to the north by France, Andorra and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. With an area of 505,990 km2 (195,360 sq mi), Spain is the second-largest country in the European Union (EU) and, with a population exceeding 47.4 million, the fourth-most populous EU member state. Spain's capital and largest city is Madrid; other major urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Zaragoza, Málaga, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and Bilbao.

Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate, and an area of 238,397 km2 (92,046 sq mi), with a population of under 18.9 million inhabitants (2023). Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, followed by Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.

Slovakia

Slovakia

Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the southwest, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's mostly mountainous territory spans about 49,000 square kilometres (19,000 sq mi), with a population of over 5.4 million. The capital and largest city is Bratislava, while the second largest city is Košice.

Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located at the confluence of Western, Central and Southern Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.

Germany

Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of 357,022 square kilometres (137,847 sq mi), with a population of over 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr.

Source: "France national under-21 football team", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 28th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_national_under-21_football_team.

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References
  1. ^ "1988: France sweep to final glory". Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). Archived from the original on 8 July 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
  2. ^ "1988: Laurent Blanc". Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
  3. ^ "Fédération Française de Football" (in French).
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