It's back to school for the Blues! The French team begins Friday evening, in Wroclaw in Poland, its qualification campaign for the 2026 World Cup. With a first match against Ukraine on the menu, the a priori most tough opponent in group D of these qualifiers, also composed of Iceland and Azerbaijan.
For this first meeting of the season, the last of his career on the tricolor bench, Didier Deschamps will not be able to count on William Saliba, Eduardo Camavonga and Rayan Cherki, injured. As for Ousmane Dembélé, if he participated in the entire training session on Thursday, he should start on the bench against the Ukrainians.
Ukraine-France, the probable composition of the Blues
The very likely absence of “Dembouz” at the kick -off, announced by The team And The Parisianshould benefit his young teammate at PSG, DĂ©sirĂ© DouĂ©, who should occupy the right side of the attack. The probable eleven of the Blues: Maignan – KoundĂ©, KonatĂ©, Upamecano, Digne – Tchouameni, KonĂ© – DouĂ©, Olise, Barcola – MbappĂ©.
How to see the match live and streaming?
The kick -off of the match between Ukraine and the French team, counting for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers in the Europe area, will be given this Friday, September 5, 2025 at 8:45 p.m. The meeting will take place at the Tarczynski Arena de Wroclaw (45,000 places), in Poland, and will be led by the Dutch referee Mr. Danny Makkelie.
The first outing of the Blues in this exercise 2025-2026 will be broadcast in clear, live and exclusively on the TF1 channel, with Grégoire Margotton and Bixente Lizarazu on the comments, accompanied by Saber Desfarges on the banks. It will also be accessible in streaming on the TF1+platform, but also via MyCanal.
