Global 2026, what the FFF expects from the Blues

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By: Nicolas Gerbault

While the year 2025 continues with some great successes on the side of tricolor football, the French Football Federation adopted its provisional budget for the coming season on Saturday. And it is a sum never seen until then which has been validated with 299.1 million euros in forecast. The authorities of the body have based on several elements. They notably toured a minimum result of the Blues at the 2026 World Cup.

While waiting for the players of Didier Deschamps to start the qualifications for the competition next September, the FFF therefore estimated that the French team would at least reach the quarterfinals of the next World Cup jointly organized by the United States, Canada and Mexico. However, and as said The teamthe competition ending after the closing of the accounts, the result “referred to the financial year 2026-2027”.

But the Blues must achieve the objective set. To build its provisional budget, the federation has also focused on income related to “New partnership contracts with Nike until 2035”. Another source of income, the
“Naming Cup of France with CrĂ©dit Agricole”. It's not just that and if Kylian MbappĂ© and his family will have their share of work to do, he will be the same on the girl's side.

A mission not easy for the blue

As the sports media said in the information it has collected, the FFF is waiting for the players to Laurent Bonadei to reach at least the quarter -finals of Euro 2025 which takes place in Switzerland from July 2 to 27. Not an easy task and an ambitious requirement for blue who fell into the death group for the first round, including England and the Netherlands.

From this budget of nearly 300 million euros (it was € 283.6 million last year), the Federation plans to allocate 106.2 in support of amateur football and 14 for the development of women's football.