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Football in France

Season	2021–22
Men's football
Ligue 1	Paris Saint-Germain
Ligue 2	Toulouse
Championnat National	Laval
Coupe de France	Nantes
Trophée des Champions	Lille
Women's football
Division 1	Lyon
Coupe de France	Paris Saint-Germain
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The following article is a summary of the 2021–22 football season in France, which was the 88th season of competitive football in the country and ran from July 2021 to June 2022.

National team

France national football team

Friendlies

25 March 2022	France	2–1	Ivory Coast	Marseille, France
21:15	Giroud 22' Tchouaméni 90+3'	Report	Pépé 19'	Stadium: Stade Vélodrome Referee: Vítor Ferreira (Portugal)

29 March 2022	France	5–0	South Africa	Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
21:15	Mbappé 23', 76' (pen.) Giroud 34' Ben Yedder 81' Guendouzi 90+2'	Report		Stadium: Stade Pierre-Mauroy Referee: Sandro Schärer (Switzerland)

2022 FIFA World Cup qualification

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	8	5	3	0	18	3	+15	18	Qualification for 2022 FIFA World Cup		—	1–1	2–0	1–1	8–0
2	Ukraine	8	2	6	0	11	8	+3	12	Advance to play-offs		1–1	—	1–1	1–1	1–1
3	Finland	8	3	2	3	10	10	0	11			0–2	1–2	—	2–2	1–0
4	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8	1	4	3	9	12	−3	7			0–1	0–2	1–3	—	2–2
5	Kazakhstan	8	0	3	5	5	20	−15	3			0–2	2–2	0–2	0–2	—

1 September 2021	France	1–1	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Strasbourg, France
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Griezmann 40'	Report	Džeko 36'	Stadium: Stade de la Meinau Attendance: 21,754 Referee: Sandro Schärer (Switzerland)

4 September 2021	Ukraine	1–1	France	Kyiv, Ukraine
20:45	Shaparenko 44'	Report	Martial 51'	Stadium: NSK Olimpiyskiy Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

7 September 2021	France	2–0	Finland	Décines-Charpieu, France
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Griezmann 25', 53'	Report		Stadium: Groupama Stadium Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Germany)

13 November 2021	France	8–0	Kazakhstan	Paris, France
20:45	Mbappé 6', 12', 32', 87' Benzema 55', 59' Rabiot 75' Griezmann 84' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Parc des Princes Attendance: 45,551 Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)

16 November 2021	Finland	0–2	France	Helsinki, Finland
20:45		Report	Benzema 66' Mbappé 76'	Stadium: Helsinki Olympic Stadium Referee: Marco Guida (Italy)

2021 UEFA Nations League Finals

7 October 2021 (2021-10-07) 2021 UEFA Nations League SF	Belgium	2–3	France	Turin, Italy
20:45	Carrasco 37' Lukaku 40'	Report	Benzema 62' Mbappé 69' (pen.) T. Hernandez 90'	Stadium: Juventus Stadium Attendance: 12,409 Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany)

Final

Spain	1–2	France
Oyarzabal 64'	Report	Benzema 66' Mbappé 80'

UEFA Nations League

Group 1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Croatia	6	4	1	1	8	6	+2	13	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	2–1	1–1	0–3
2	Denmark	6	4	0	2	9	5	+4	12			0–1	—	2–0	2–0
3	France	6	1	2	3	5	7	−2	5			0–1	1–2	—	2–0
4	Austria (R)	6	1	1	4	6	10	−4	4	Relegation to League B		1–3	1–2	1–1	—

3 June 2022	France	1–2	Denmark	Saint-Denis, France
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Benzema 51'	Report	Cornelius 68', 88'	Stadium: Stade de France Attendance: 75,833 Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)

6 June 2022	Croatia	1–1	France	Split, Croatia
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Kramarić 83' (pen.)	Report	Rabiot 52'	Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Marco Guida (Italy)

10 June 2022	Austria	1–1	France	Vienna, Austria
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Weimann 37'	Report	Mbappé 83'	Stadium: Ernst-Happel-Stadion Attendance: 44,800 Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)

13 June 2022	France	0–1	Croatia	Saint-Denis, France
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Modrić 5' (pen.)	Stadium: Stade de France Attendance: 77,410 Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)

France national under-23 football team

Summer Olympics

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the games have been postponed to the summer of 2021. However, their official name remains 2020 Summer Olympics with the rescheduled 2021 dates have yet to be announced.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan (H)	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Mexico	3	2	0	1	8	3	+5	6
3	France	3	1	0	2	5	11	−6	3
4	South Africa	3	0	0	3	3	8	−5	0

22 July 2021 (2021-07-22)	Mexico	4–1	France	Tokyo, Japan
	Vega 47' Córdova 55' Antuna 80' Aguirre 90+1'	Report	Gignac 69' (pen.)	Stadium: Tokyo Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Chris Beath (Australia)

25 July 2021 (2021-07-25)	France	4–3	South Africa	Saitama, Japan
	Gignac 57', 78', 86' (pen.) Savanier 90+3'	Report	Kodisang 53' Makgopa 73' Mokoena 82'	Stadium: Saitama Stadium 2002 Referee: Kevin Ortega (Peru)

28 July 2021 (2021-07-28)	France	0–4	Japan	Yokohama, Japan
		Report	Kubo 27' Sakai 34' Miyoshi 70' Maeda 90+1'	Stadium: International Stadium Yokohama Referee: Iván Barton (El Salvador)

France women's national football team

Friendlies

25 June 2022	France	4–0	Cameroon	Beauvais, France
21:10		Report		Stadium: Stade Pierre Brisson

2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification

Group I

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	10	10	0	0	54	4	+50	30	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup		—	2–0	1–0	5–1	11–0	6–0
2	Wales	10	6	2	2	22	5	+17	20	Play-offs		1–2	—	0–0	5–0	4–0	6–0
3	Slovenia	10	5	3	2	21	6	+15	18			2–3	1–1	—	0–0	6–0	2–0
4	Greece	10	4	1	5	12	28	−16	13			0–10	0–1	1–4	—	3–0	3–2
5	Estonia	10	2	0	8	7	43	−36	6			0–9	0–1	0–4	1–3	—	4–2
6	Kazakhstan	10	0	0	10	4	34	−30	0			0–5	0–3	0–2	0–1	0–2	—

17 September 2021 (2021-09-17) 2023 Women's World Cup qualification	Greece	0–10	France	Patras, Greece
		Report	Majri 14' Geyoro 15', 40' Katoto 18', 25', 53' Palama 30' (o.g.) Diani 38' Asseyi 65' Renard 90+2' (pen.)	Stadium: Pampeloponnisiako Stadium Referee: Anastasia Pustovoitova (Russia)

21 September 2021 (2021-09-21) 2023 Women's World Cup qualification	Slovenia	2–3	France	Murska Sobota, Slovenia
	Prašnikar 20' Zver 88' (pen.)	Report	Katoto 28', 60' Majri 90+4' (pen.)	Stadium: Fazanerija City Stadium Referee: Riem Hussein (Germany)

22 October 2021 (2021-10-22) 2023 Women's World Cup qualification	France	11–0	Estonia	Créteil
	Geyoro 5' Katoto 15' Périsset 25' (pen.) Cascarino 29' Toletti 45' Orav 52' (o.g.) Diani 53' Tounkara 65', 72' Saar 79' (o.g.) Dali 90'	Report		Stadium: Stade Dominique Duvauchelle Referee: Abigail Marriott (England)

26 October 2021 (2021-10-26) 2023 Women's World Cup qualification	Kazakhstan	0–5	France	Nur-Sultan
		Report	Katoto 9', 23' Dali 17' Malard 38', 54'	Stadium: Astana Arena

26 November 2021 (2021-11-26) 2023 Women's World Cup qualification	France	6–0	Kazakhstan	Vannes
	Asseyi 5' Cascarino 9' Katoto 24' Périsset 37' Gauvin 72' (pen.) Diani 74'	Report		Stadium: Stade de la Rabine Referee: Silvia Domingos (Portugal)

30 November 2021 (2021-11-30) 2023 Women's World Cup qualification	France	2–0	Wales	Guingamp
	Diani 45+2' Bacha 90'	Report		Stadium: Stade du Roudourou Referee: Iuliana Demetrescu (Romania)

8 April 2022 (2022-04-08) 2023 Women's World Cup qualification	Wales	1–2	France	Llanelli
21:10	Ingle 71'	Report	Renard 31' Katoto 57'	Stadium: Parc y Scarlets Referee: Jana Adámková (Czech Republic)

12 April 2022 (2022-04-12) 2023 Women's World Cup qualification	France	1–0	Slovenia	Le Mans
21:10	Cascarino 47'	Report		Stadium: MMArena Referee: Sandra Braz (Portugal)

2022 Tournoi de France

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	France (H, C)	3	3	0	0	10	2	+8	9
2	Netherlands	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
3	Brazil	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
4	Finland	3	0	1	2	0	8	−8	1

16 February 2022 Tournoi de France	France	5–0	Finland	Le Havre
	Westerlund 12' (o.g.) Malard 16' Renard 34', 89' Geyoro 57'	Report		Stadium: Stade Océane Referee: Eszter Urbán (Hungary)

19 February 2022 Tournoi de France	France	2–1	Brazil	Caen
	Katoto 23', 59'	Report	Marta 19' (pen.)	Stadium: Stade Michel d'Ornano Attendance: 12,050 Referee: Esther Staubli (Switzerland)

22 February 2022 Tournoi de France	France	3–1	Netherlands	Le Havre
21:10	Renard 20' (pen.) Katoto 25', 74'	Report	Beerensteyn 50'	Stadium: Stade Océane Attendance: 5,231 Referee: Marta Huerta de Aza (Spain)

UEFA competitions

UEFA Champions League

Qualifying rounds

Third qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sparta Prague	1–5	Monaco	0–2	1–3

Play-off round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Monaco	2–3	Shakhtar Donetsk	0–1	2–2 (a.e.t.)

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MCI	PAR	RBL	BRU
1	Manchester City	6	4	0	2	18	10	+8	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–1	6–3	4–1
2	Paris Saint-Germain	6	3	2	1	13	8	+5	11			2–0	—	3–2	4–1
3	RB Leipzig	6	2	1	3	15	14	+1	7	Transfer to Europa League		2–1	2–2	—	1–2
4	Club Brugge	6	1	1	4	6	20	−14	4			1–5	1–1	0–5	—

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LIL	SAL	SEV	WOL
1	Lille	6	3	2	1	7	4	+3	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	0–0	0–0
2	Red Bull Salzburg	6	3	1	2	8	6	+2	10			2–1	—	1–0	3–1
3	Sevilla	6	1	3	2	5	5	0	6	Transfer to Europa League		1–2	1–1	—	2–0
4	VfL Wolfsburg	6	1	2	3	5	10	−5	5			1–3	2–1	1–1	—

Knockout phase

Round of 16

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Chelsea	4–1	Lille	2–0	2–1
Paris Saint-Germain	2–3	Real Madrid	1–0	1–3

UEFA Europa League

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LYO	RAN	SPP	BRO
1	Lyon	6	5	1	0	16	5	+11	16	Advance to round of 16		—	1–1	3–0	3–0
2	Rangers	6	2	2	2	6	5	+1	8	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–2	—	2–0	2–0
3	Sparta Prague	6	2	1	3	6	9	−3	7	Transfer to Europa Conference League		3–4	1–0	—	2–0
4	Brøndby	6	0	2	4	2	11	−9	2			1–3	1–1	0–0	—

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MON	RSO	PSV	STU
1	Monaco	6	3	3	0	7	4	+3	12	Advance to round of 16		—	2–1	0–0	1–0
2	Real Sociedad	6	2	3	1	9	6	+3	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs		1–1	—	3–0	1–1
3	PSV Eindhoven	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1	8	Transfer to Europa Conference League		1–2	2–2	—	2–0
4	Sturm Graz	6	0	2	4	3	10	−7	2			1–1	0–1	1–4	—

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GAL	LAZ	MAR	LOK
1	Galatasaray	6	3	3	0	7	3	+4	12	Advance to round of 16		—	1–0	4–2	1–1
2	Lazio	6	2	3	1	7	3	+4	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–0	—	0–0	2–0
3	Marseille	6	1	4	1	6	7	−1	7	Transfer to Europa Conference League		0–0	2–2	—	1–0
4	Lokomotiv Moscow	6	0	2	4	2	9	−7	2			0–1	0–3	1–1	—

Knockout phase

Round of 16

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Braga	3–1	Monaco	2–0	1–1
Porto	1–2	Lyon	0–1	1–1

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
West Ham United	4–1	Lyon	1–1	3–0

UEFA Europa Conference League

Qualifying phase and play-off round

Play-off round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rennes	5–1	Rosenborg	2–0	3–1

Group stage

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		REN	VIT	TOT	MUR
1	Rennes	6	4	2	0	13	7	+6	14	Advance to round of 16		—	3–3	2–2	1–0
2	Vitesse	6	3	1	2	12	9	+3	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs		1–2	—	1–0	3–1
3	Tottenham Hotspur	6	2	1	3	11	11	0	7			0–3	3–2	—	5–1
4	Mura	6	1	0	5	5	14	−9	3			1–2	0–2	2–1	—

1. The Tottenham Hotspur v Rennes match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Rennes due to numerous positive COVID-19 tests in the Tottenham Hotspur squad.

Knockout phase

Knockout round play-offs

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Marseille	6–1	Qarabağ	3–1	3–0

Round of 16

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Marseille	6–1	Qarabağ	3–1	3–0
Leicester City	3–2	Rennes	2–0	1–2

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Marseille	3–1	PAOK	2–1	1–0

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Feyenoord	3–2	Marseille	3–2	0–0

UEFA Youth League

UEFA Champions League Path

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PAR	BRU	MCI	RBL
1	Paris Saint-Germain	6	4	2	0	16	7	+9	14	Round of 16		—	3–2	1–1	3–0
2	Club Brugge	6	3	2	1	18	11	+7	11	Play-offs		2–2	—	1–1	4–1
3	Manchester City	6	2	2	2	12	11	+1	8			1–3	3–5	—	5–1
4	RB Leipzig	6	0	0	6	4	21	−17	0			1–4	1–4	0–1	—

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SAL	SEV	LIL	WOL
1	Red Bull Salzburg	6	4	0	2	10	5	+5	12	Round of 16		—	2–0	3–1	3–0
2	Sevilla	6	3	2	1	8	3	+5	11	Play-offs		2–0	—	0–0	2–0
3	Lille	6	3	1	2	7	6	+1	10			1–0	0–3	—	2–0
4	VfL Wolfsburg	6	0	1	5	2	13	−11	1			1–2	1–1	0–3	—

Domestic Champions Path

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Miercurea Ciuc	0–5	Angers	0–2	0–3

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Angers	1–1 (4–5 p)	AZ	0–1	1–0

Play-offs

Round of 16

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Paris Saint-Germain	2–0	Sevilla

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Paris Saint-Germain	1–3	Red Bull Salzburg

UEFA Women's Champions League

Qualifying rounds

Round 1

Semi-finals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Bordeaux	2–1	Celtic

Final / Third-place play-off

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Bordeaux	3–1	Kristianstad

Round 2

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Levante	2–4	Lyon	1–2	1–2
VfL Wolfsburg	5–5 (3–0 p)	Bordeaux	3–2	2–3 (a.e.t.)

Group stage

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PSG	RMA	KHA	BRE
1	Paris Saint-Germain	6	6	0	0	25	0	+25	18	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	4–0	5–0	6–0
2	Real Madrid	6	4	0	2	12	6	+6	12			0–2	—	3–0	5–0
3	Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv	6	1	1	4	2	15	−13	4			0–6	0–1	—	0–0
4	Breiðablik	6	0	1	5	0	18	−18	1			0–2	0–3	0–2	—

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LYO	BAY	BEN	HAK
1	Lyon	6	5	0	1	19	2	+17	15	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	2–1	5–0	4–0
2	Bayern Munich	6	4	1	1	15	3	+12	13			1–0	—	4–0	4–0
3	Benfica	6	1	1	4	2	16	−14	4			0–5	0–0	—	0–1
4	BK Häcken	6	1	0	5	3	18	−15	3			0–3	1–5	1–2	—

Knockout phase

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayern Munich	3–4	Paris Saint-Germain	1–2	2–2 (a.e.t.)
Juventus	3–4	Lyon	2–1	1–3

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lyon	5–3	Paris Saint-Germain	3–2	2–1

Final

Barcelona	1–3	Lyon
Putellas 41'	Report	Henry 6' Hegerberg 23' Macario 33'

League season

Men

Ligue 1

1. Nice were deducted one point for uncontrolled crowd trouble that caused the abandonment of their match against Marseille.
2. Lyon were deducted one point for uncontrolled crowd trouble that caused the abandonment of their match against Marseille.
3. Nantes qualified for the Europa League group stage as the 2021–22 Coupe de France winners.
4. Bordeaux were initially relegated to Ligue 2. However, on 14 June it was decided by the DNCG to relegate Bordeaux administratively to the Championnat National for financial issues. On 27 July 2022, Bordeaux won its appeal and was officially maintained in Ligue 2 for the 2022–23 season.

Ligue 2

Championnat National

Women

Division 1 Féminine

Cup competitions

2021–22 Coupe de France

Final

2021 Trophée des Champions

2021–22 Coupe de France Féminine

References

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4. Dawkes, Phil (21 May 2022). "Barcelona 1–3 Lyon: Brilliant Lyon win eighth Champions League crown". BBC Sport. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
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