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Best french national team players

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Zinedine Zidane1630

The worldwide ranking generated by 333 votes

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Zinedine Zidane1630

Franck Ribéry1622

Blaise Matuidi1610

Kylian Mbappé1596

Paul Pogba1595

Emmanuel Petit1584

Fabien Barthez1583

Laurent Blanc1576

Bixente Lizarazu1574

#10

Raphaël Varane1574

#11

Antoine Griezmann1567

#12

Eric Cantona1551

#13

William Saliba1545

#14

Thierry Henry1540

#15

Didier Deschamps1539

#16

N'Golo Kanté1539

#17

Kingsley Coman1537

#18

Karim Benzema1528

#19

Ousmane Dembélé1516

#20

Hugo Lloris1515

#21

Robert Pirès1513

#22

Youri Djorkaeff1512

#23

Lilian Thuram1510

#24

Olivier Giroud1507

#25

Djibril Cissé1503

#26

Sylvain Wiltord1500

#27

Florent Malouda1498

#28

Claude Makélélé1494

#29

Theo Hernandez1482

#30

Moussa Sissoko1481

#31

Jules Koundé1478

#32

Olivier Dacourt1474

#33

Marcel Desailly1461

#34

Eduardo Camavinga1452

#35

Yoann Gourcuff1448

#36

Raymond Kopa1448

#37

Michel Platini1445

#38

Lucas Hernandez1444

#39

Jean-Pierre Papin1441

#40

Bernard Lacombe1441

#41

David Trezeguet1438

#42

Patrick Vieira1437

#43

Aurélien Tchouaméni1436

#44

Willy Sagnol1427

#45

Alain Giresse1417

#46

Jean Tigana1412

#47

Hatem Ben Arfa1410

#48

Maxime Bossis1396

#49

Patrice Evra1390

#50

Just Fontaine1384

What the community says

Rank your favorite all-time French national team players. From Zidane to Mbappé, discover the legends of French football by the community.

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.