IC11 team profiles

FRANCE
France will make its international debut in the International Cup in 2011, but 'Les Coqs' have been active since 2004 when they first played in the EU Cup. The first French team was established in 1995 close to Le Havre in Normandy with the first match played in Normandy in 2000.

In 2008 the first French Cup was played in Paris and there currently are seven teams playing across two leagues.

One of first the Australian football matches played outside Australia was in France in 1916 during World War I at the Somme. A feature in the French football calendar is the annual Anzac Cup played between French and Australian ex-pat teams in Villers-Bretonneux.

Brett Kirk says: "France are an unknown quantity. I did see a few of their players, one guy in particular who is one of the best European players going around."

France Coqs Team List