[2] During the presidency of Robert Guérin, the French team was largely made up of only Parisians, with two exceptions, but under Billy, the Northerners made their entrance in large scale, and they were keen to win the so-called "Paris-Nord" meetings to confirm the domination of the Northern clubs, thus becoming a sort of annual selection match for the French team.

[1] On All Saints' Day of 1913, two matches were organized at the same time by the main rival organizations, with the USFSA selection facing the amateurs' team of English Wanderers in Auteuil, while the LFA's selection of Paris faced the London League in Saint-Ouen, and this choice proves the acuteness of the rivalry between the federations.

[1] The English Wanderers was made up of several players who had played international matches for England amateur, some of which at the Olympic Games of 1908 and 1912, such as Albert Henry Bell, Frederick Chapman, and Henry Littlewort,[1] and thus, the USFSA team logically lost 1–4, and on the following day, the English Wanderers defeated a Le Havre selection by a score of 5–0.

[8] Two months later, on 4 January 1914, the Lions des Flandres gained national recognition after its 3–0 victory against the LFA's Paris selection in Lille, thanks to goals from Henri Lesur, Alphonse Six, and Raymond Dubly.

[1][9] In the build-up for a match against Belgium on 25 January 1914, France played a warm-up game against a selection of the foreigner players in Paris, which included both 7 "Liguists" (LFA) and 4 "Unionists" (USFSA), being made-up of 6 Swiss, 3 British, 1 Hungarian, and a Franco-Italian; it ended in a goalless draw.

[citation needed] As part of the UEFA Regions' Cup, a Nord-Pas-de-Calais selection was created in 1999, in which players must be 19 years old and have never signed a professional, trainee, aspirant, or federal contract.