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Sports in France play an important role in French society, and the country has a strong sporting history. The most popular sport in France is football. ==Football== (詳細はFootball, known in some countries as soccer, is the most popular sport in France, with 1,973,270 licensed players in the leagues.〔 The sport was imported from England at the end of the 19th century, under the name of association football. In its early days, the sport gained followers mainly in the Paris area and the Northern part of the country - Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Normandy were the first teams that were created outside Paris. In the South, football's competitor, rugby football, was more favoured at the time. Established in 1919 from competing organizations, the Fédération française de football consists of 18,000 teams.〔:fr:Sport en France〕 The France national football team is one of only eight teams to have won the FIFA World Cup (1998), with good results in other editions: runners-up in 2006, third place in 1958 and 1986, and fourth place in 1982. It is also one of only nine teams to have won the UEFA European Championship (1984 and 2000). France was also the 1984 Olympic Champion. Ligue 1 is the French professional league for association football clubs. It is the country's primary football competition and serves as the top division of the French football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Ligue 2. The most successful club in the French first division history is AS Saint-Étienne with 10 championships (last one in 1981), followed by Olympique de Marseille with 9 titles and FC Nantes with 8 titles. The Coupe de France is the premier knock-out cup competition in French football. The Coupe de la Ligue is the second major cup competition in France. The Trophée des champions is played each July as a one-off match between the Coupe de France winners and the Ligue 1 champions. Only one French club, Olympique de Marseille, has won the UEFA Champions League in 1993. Stade de Reims (1956, 1959), AS Saint-Étienne (1976), and AS Monaco (2004) have been runners-up. SC Bastia (1978), FC Girondins de Bordeaux (1996) and Olympique de Marseille (1999, 2004) have also been runners-up in the UEFA Europa League. France women's national football team main international achievement has been fourth place at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. Women's national professional competitions are supervised by the Fédération française de football. The first division is the Championnat de France de football féminin. Olympique Lyonnais is the most successful team in French first division history with 12 titles, including an ongoing streak of eight titles (2007 to present). In the UEFA Women's Champions League, OL have won twice (2011 and 2012) and have been runners-up twice (2010 and 2013). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sport in France」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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