Rating
72
Strong — top 13% · Glicko-2 1842 ±74
Record
44-1-14
74.6% of 59 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+12.0
34.5 for, 22.4 against
Home advantage
+4.7
Points per match better at home
Attack
+35%
34.5 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+20%
22.4 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Fabien Galthié
- Captain
- Antoine Dupont
- Union
- Fédération Française de Rugby
- Emblem
- Gallic rooster
- Home ground
- Stade de France
- First match
- FRA 8–38 (Paris, France; 1 January 1906)
- Most caps
- Fabien Pelous (118)
- Leading scorer
- Thomas Ramos (563)
- Most tries
- Damian Penaud (40)
- World Cups
- 10, from 1987
- Best World Cup
- Runners-up (1987, 1999, 2011)
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Japan2026-07-18 · away42–15won
Australia2026-07-11 · away42–26won
New Zealand2026-07-04 · away32–34lost
England2026-03-14 · home48–46won
Scotland2026-03-07 · away40–50lost
Newest first, from France's own point of view. Home and away are as the record stores them; a fixture the record does not mark neutral is listed as one side's home, which is right for a league round and wrong for a final played at a third ground.
Biggest win: 96-0 v Namibia
Heaviest defeat: 17-43 v New Zealand
Strong — top 13%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is France. The scale is this domain's own and does not compare across the two.
Teams that play alike sit close together. The two axes hold 67% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (45%) rises with more average margin, less points conceded. Component 2 (22%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.
11 of 45 teams sit too close together to name without covering another team's point, so they are drawn unlabelled. Every dot is still a link to that team, and its name is in the tooltip.
- 1New Zealand0.35
- 2Finland0.44
- 3Czechia0.72
- 4Scotland1.02
- 5Sweden1.10
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.