List of France national football team captains

Platini became the first France captain to win a major international competition after leading the team in the 1984 European Football Championship.

Aside from Deschamps and Platini, only three other players have captained France on over 40 occasions: defenders Roger Marche and Marcel Desailly, and goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.

He is one of four players to be sent off in a FIFA World Cup final, one of the other three being fellow France captain Zinedine Zidane.

Under the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) governing body, Allemane is the only French player to wear the armband in all of his national team appearances.

[8] Aside from Canelle and Allemane, Gaston Barreau, René Bonnet, Étienne Jourde, and Robert Lemaître are the only other players to ever captain the national team on their debuts.

[12] The first player to captain France in a major international competition while playing under FIFA was André François.

But yes, my proudest moment is that victory and that team, because we could overcome any obstacle, hated defeat and always stepped onto the pitch to win.

Following Aston, the captaincy was rotated among striker Jean Baratte and defenders Roger Marche and Robert Jonquet.

The former Stade de Reims defender held the record of captaining France the most until he was surpassed by Michel Platini in 1986.

In 2000, Platini was surpassed by Didier Deschamps, who captained France to its first FIFA World Cup title in 1998.

[21][22] From 2004 to 2010, when Raymond Domenech managed the national team, the captaincy regularly alternated between Patrick Vieira and Zinedine Zidane.

[32] In November, Hugo Lloris became the ninth goalkeeper in national team history to wear the armband.