France boasts 310,399 sports facilities

 

including 40,435 tennis courts, 18,184 multi-sports halls and 6,381 swimming pools

15 stadiums with more than 30,000 seats

 

 

France is the third largest ski destination in the world,

with 44.9 million ski days sold in 2019-2020

 

 

Les 3 Vallées, the largest ski area in the world, with over 600km of slopes

 The Val Thorens resort was voted “world’s best ski resort” in 2020 for the seventh time

18.4 million licenses and other equity securities issued in 2019

 by all the federations approved by the Ministry for Sport

Football remains the most popular sport (2,198,835 licenses), followed by tennis (978,895) and horse riding (624,004)

13,410 sports diplomas

issued by the Ministry for Sport in 2018

 

65% of French people aged 15 and over practiced at least one sporting activity in 2020

84% of women participated in a physical or sporting activity, whether in everyday life or on vacation in 2018

From the start of the 2019 school year, “sport confidence” classes have been trialed:

Classes in the morning and physical and sporting activities in the afternoon 

Women’s football:

The number of FFF graduates has more than tripled over the past decade (176,000 women in 2019 compared with 51,000 in 2011)