World champions 1998 will face Belgium in the 2018 World Cup semifinals at Saint Petersburg Stadium St. Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday (07/10/2010).
The meeting of both teams, since 1904, has occurred 73 times. Beginning with 3-3 series of them in a friendly match. Since then, France has collected 24 victories and 30 defeats, the rest of the series.
However, in their last 10 meetings, France collected five wins, two defeats and three draws. At the 1986 World Cup they met. At that time France won 4-1. However, if the count included a meeting in the World Cup qualifiers, France and Belgium have met six times, four won by France and one Belgium and the rest of the series. France's first win in the World Cup over Belgium took place in the first round of the 1938 World Cup with a score of 3-1.