Brazil vs. France: Head-to-head record and past meetings

The Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts played host to a blockbuster friendly encounter on Thursday night, with World Cup 2026 hopefuls Brazil and France going head-to-head.

A delightful dink from Kylian Mbappe gave France the lead, with Hugo Ekitike doubling the advantage, and despite Bremer making for a nervy end after pulling one back for Brazil with 12 minutes to play, Didier Deschamps' side held out for the 2-1 win.

Here, Sports Mole takes an in-depth look at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between the two sides.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 16

Brazil wins: 6

Draws: 3

France wins: 7

The head-to-head standings between France and Brazil are narrowly in the former's favour, with Les Bleus boasting seven wins to Selecao's six, alongside three draws in their 16 competitive and non-competitive encounters.

Of those 16 showdowns between the senior men's teams, 11 of them have been fought in international friendlies, including all of the four most recent encounters.

In their most recent clash, France secured a 2-1 victory thanks to goals from Mbappe and Ekitike, ending a two-game losing run against Brazil.

Prior to that, Dunga masterminded a 3-1 victory for Brazil in March 2015 thanks to goals from Oscar, Neymar and Luis Gustavo, two years after a straightforward 3-0 exhibition win, when Oscar was on target once more.

Before that three-goal beating in 2013, however, France had strung together a six-game unbeaten run against Brazil from 1997 to 2011, including one of their most memorable victories in the history of French football at the 1998 World Cup.

Ronaldo and Rivaldo were powerless against the might of Zinedine Zidane and Emmanuel Petit, as a 10-man France side prevailed 3-0 in the World Cup final, before another pair of standout competitive triumphs over Brazil.

Les Bleus also conquered the Selecao 2-1 in the semi-finals of the 2001 Confederations Cup - which they went on to win - before a 1-0 triumph in the 2006 World Cup quarter-finals before their Italy-inflicted penalty heartbreak.

However, France came out on the correct end of the shootout scoreline in the 1986 edition, when they dumped Brazil out in the quarter-finals but ultimately had to accept a third-placed finish.

Eliminating the South Americans that year was belated revenge for the events of 1958, where in the first-ever meeting between the two nations, Pele ran France ragged to become the youngest-ever World Cup hat-trick scorer in a 5-2 semi-final victory.