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Best french national team players

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Zinedine Zidane1721

The worldwide ranking generated by 349 votes

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Zinedine Zidane1721

Blaise Matuidi1694

Emmanuel Petit1651

Fabien Barthez1648

Bixente Lizarazu1632

Paul Pogba1632

Franck Ribéry1627

Raphaël Varane1625

Kylian Mbappé1616

#10

Eric Cantona1601

#11

Antoine Griezmann1592

#12

Laurent Blanc1583

#13

Thierry Henry1582

#14

William Saliba1579

#15

Didier Deschamps1566

#16

N'Golo Kanté1563

#17

Kingsley Coman1557

#18

Karim Benzema1550

#19

Hugo Lloris1546

#20

Ousmane Dembélé1529

#21

Olivier Giroud1526

#22

Robert Pirès1523

#23

Lilian Thuram1517

#24

Youri Djorkaeff1510

#25

Djibril Cissé1504

#26

Sylvain Wiltord1503

#27

Florent Malouda1493

#28

Claude Makélélé1470

#29

Moussa Sissoko1466

#30

Jules Koundé1464

#31

Theo Hernandez1461

#32

Olivier Dacourt1455

#33

Eduardo Camavinga1433

#34

David Trezeguet1427

#35

Marcel Desailly1425

#36

Michel Platini1420

#37

Lucas Hernandez1417

#38

Yoann Gourcuff1414

#39

Patrick Vieira1414

#40

Raymond Kopa1411

#41

Jean-Pierre Papin1396

#42

Bernard Lacombe1390

#43

Aurélien Tchouaméni1385

#44

Willy Sagnol1379

#45

Alain Giresse1364

#46

Hatem Ben Arfa1347

#47

Jean Tigana1344

#48

Maxime Bossis1330

#49

Just Fontaine1309

#50

Patrice Evra1299

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.

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