History of rugby union matches between France and Wales

The early years of the fixture were dominated by Wales, who won 18 of the first 19 matches before France were expelled from the Five Nations Championship after the 1931 tournament.

Up to that point Wales had won 66.04% of their encounters and still remained France's most difficult Five Nations Championship opponent.

Similar to the first two decades between France and Wales, in which Wales won an overwhelming majority of fixtures played between the pair, between the years 1980 and 1999 France dominated the Welsh; they won seventeen out of twenty-three meetings (73.91%), including a twelve-match win streak between the years 1983 and 1993.

Since the introduction of the Six Nations Championship, both France and Wales have won six titles each, including four Grand Slam's.

Early during the 2000s France largely maintained the stranglehold that they gained throughout the previous decade, winning eight out of eleven matches.