The Ligue de Football de la Guyane – the region's national football governing body – runs the men's national team, organizes the annual Coupe Guyane tournament as well as administering the region's professional leagues the French Guiana Régional 1 and French Guiana Régional 2 divisions.
The men's national team played its first friendly against Dutch Guiana (now Suriname) in 1936 losing 1 to 3.
They met Dutch Guiana again for their first competitive match in the Coupe des Caraibes, losing again 2:4.
Known as Yana Dòkò, the team gained its first victory in a competitive match against British Guiana(now Guyana) in October 1948 with a score of 3:2.
[1] Despite being geographically in the subcontinent of South America, the local authorities chose to participate in the competition where most of the countries and dependent territories of the Caribbean area are located.