The LFP is also responsible for organizing the Coupe de la Ligue, the country's league cup competition.

The football contests take place in the Bois de Boulogne, by permission of the authorities and surprise the French amazingly.

[11] According to Statista, of the estimated 130,000 professional football players worldwide, 6,368 originated from France, the third highest number in the world after Brazil (10,694) and Mexico (9,223).

The league was created in 1934, a year after Ligue 1 and consisted of 23 clubs that were divided into two groups, Nord and Sud.

The Championnat National 3 is the 5th division in French football and normally consists of 168 teams in 12 groups of 14 organised to align with the regional leagues.

The league was originally created in 1918 by Alice Milliat and ran for 12 successful seasons until women's football was banned in France.

The leagues based in the overseas departments and territories of France are run by their respective associations under the watch of the French Football Federation.

Under the rules of the FFF, clubs in the leagues are allowed to participate in confederation competitions based on their regional locations.

France also won two European Championships in 1984 and 2000, and hosted the tournament on three occasions, including their victorious 1984 campaign.

France initially struggled on the international stage failing to qualify for three of the first FIFA Women's World Cups and the six straight UEFA European Championships before reaching the quarter-finals in the 1997 edition of the competition.

However, since the beginning of the new millennium, France have become a mid-tier national team and one of the most consistent in Europe, having qualified for their first-ever FIFA Women's World Cup in 2003 and reaching the quarter-finals in the last three consecutive European Championships.

As an overseas department of the French Republic, each national team is not a member of FIFA, therefore they are not eligible to enter the World Cup.

However, since inhabitants of the overseas departments are French citizens, players are eligible to play for the France national football team.

A special rule of the CONCACAF Gold Cup only allows players to join the team if they have not played for France during the previous five years.

Lilian Thuram and Bernard Lama, who were born in Guadeloupe and Martinique, respectively, were a part of the winning team at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

Also on the team were Thierry Henry and Bernard Diomède, who, though born in metropolitan France, were descendants of parents from overseas departments.

Currently, Florent Malouda (French Guiana), William Gallas, Mikaël Silvestre, Michaël Ciani (Guadeloupe), Nicolas Anelka (Martinique), and Guillaume Hoarau and Florent Sinama Pongolle (Réunion) are members of the national team who either hail from or whose families hail from the overseas departments.