France Six Nations squad 2025

[AlRums]

France has announced their 36-man squad for the 2025 Six Nations, with head coach Fabien Galthié retaining a mix of experienced leaders and promising young talent. Antoine Dupont, who remains pivotal to Les Bleus, is joined by returning stalwarts such as Grégory Alldritt and Julien Marchand.

In the forwards, Toulon lock Emmanuel Meafou makes his tournament debut, adding physicality to the pack, while young prospects like Marko Gazzotti and Joshua Brennan also feature. Cyril Baille, Uini Atonio, and François Cros bring stability to the front and back rows.

Among the backs, Théo Attissogbe and Gaël Dréan earn their first Six Nations call-ups, providing exciting options on the wings. Romain Ntamack and Matthieu Jalibert continue to headline the playmaker roles, while Damian Penaud and Gabin Villière add proven firepower in the wide channels.

The squad reflects Galthié's ongoing commitment to building depth ahead of the 2027 Rugby World Cup, with key absences due to injury, including Charles Ollivon and Arthur Vincent.

France will kick off their campaign at home against Italy on February 2, seeking to reclaim the ***le they last won in 2022. "We've assembled a squad capable of playing fast, dynamic rugby," said Galthié.

Forwards: Esteban Abadie, Dorian Aldegheri, Grégory Alldritt, Uini Atonio, Hugo Auradou, Cyril Baille, Giorgi Beria, Paul Boudehent, Joshua Brennan, Georges-Henri Colombe, François Cros, Thibaud Flament, Marko Gazzotti, Jean-Baptiste Gros, Mathias Halagahu, Oscar Jegou, Anthony Jelonch, Maxime Lamothe, Julien Marchand, Peato Mauvaka, Emmanuel Meafou, Dany Priso, Rabah Slimani, Romain Taofifenua.

Backs: Théo Attissogbe, Pierre-Louis Barassi, Léo Barré, Louis Bielle-Biarrey, Nicolas Depoortère, Gaël Dréan, Antoine Dupont, Antoine Frisch, Émilien Gailleton, Matthieu Jalibert, Nolann Le Garrec, Maxime Lucu, Yoram Moefana, Noah Nene, Romain Ntamack, Damian Penaud, Thomas Ramos, Gabin Villière.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Yuuup Slimani

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Includes the 2 players arrested in Argentina. Guardian saying charges were dismissed in December, a decision that is under appeal. I'd missed that.

 

[Toulousain ex French fan]

France has announced their 36-man squad for the 2025 Six Nations, with head coach Fabien Galthié retaining a mix of experienced leaders and promising young talent. Antoine Dupont, who remains pivotal to Les Bleus, is joined by returning stalwarts such as Grégory Alldritt and Julien Marchand.

In the forwards, Toulon lock Emmanuel Meafou makes his tournament debut, adding physicality to the pack, while young prospects like Marko Gazzotti and Joshua Brennan also feature. Cyril Baille, Uini Atonio, and François Cros bring stability to the front and back rows.

Among the backs, Théo Attissogbe and Gaël Dréan earn their first Six Nations call-ups, providing exciting options on the wings. Romain Ntamack and Matthieu Jalibert continue to headline the playmaker roles, while Damian Penaud and Gabin Villière add proven firepower in the wide channels.

The squad reflects Galthié's ongoing commitment to building depth ahead of the 2027 Rugby World Cup, with key absences due to injury, including Charles Ollivon and Arthur Vincent.

France will kick off their campaign at home against Italy on February 2, seeking to reclaim the ***le they last won in 2022. "We've assembled a squad capable of playing fast, dynamic rugby," said Galthié.

Forwards: Esteban Abadie, Dorian Aldegheri, Grégory Alldritt, Uini Atonio, Hugo Auradou, Cyril Baille, Giorgi Beria, Paul Boudehent, Joshua Brennan, Georges-Henri Colombe, François Cros, Thibaud Flament, Marko Gazzotti, Jean-Baptiste Gros, Mathias Halagahu, Oscar Jegou, Anthony Jelonch, Maxime Lamothe, Julien Marchand, Peato Mauvaka, Emmanuel Meafou, Dany Priso, Rabah Slimani, Romain Taofifenua.

Backs: Théo Attissogbe, Pierre-Louis Barassi, Léo Barré, Louis Bielle-Biarrey, Nicolas Depoortère, Gaël Dréan, Antoine Dupont, Antoine Frisch, Émilien Gailleton, Matthieu Jalibert, Nolann Le Garrec, Maxime Lucu, Yoram Moefana, Noah Nene, Romain Ntamack, Damian Penaud, Thomas Ramos, Gabin Villière.

One to watch although he may not feature in this 6N is Théo Attissogbe. I'd have him on the bench.
Jelonch is injured.

 

[Flankers' paradise]

Incredible that Serin can't get a look in, would probably start for the other 6n teams and better than Lucu imo

 

[Toulousain ex French fan]

Spare a thought for Baptiste Couilloud who I think is better than Serin and Lucu. Baptiste scored 11 tries in 2022 and 14 tries last season and still didnt get a look-in…

 

[mikebrownsauce1512]

Spare a thought for Baptiste Couilloud who I think is better than Serin and Lucu. Baptiste scored 11 tries in 2022 and 14 tries last season and still didnt get a look-in…

France's depth at 9 is unreal

 

[Toulousain ex French fan]

Dev Tour to NZ for them next summer as a consolation

 

[Toulousain ex French fan]

The injury list is mounting. Players are getting injured in training camp now, the clubs are going to love it. So after Jelonch, Taofefinua, Flament, now Penaud is out. They have to recall Roumat who is only just back from injury and has played 30 min with his club! But hey we beat the ABs last November by 1 pt so its all good!!

 

[OllyM97]

The injury list is mounting. Players are getting injured in training camp now, the clubs are going to love it. So after Jelonch, Taofefinua, Flament, now Penaud is out. They have to recall Roumat who is only just back from injury and has played 30 min with his club! But hey we beat the ABs last November by 1 pt so its all good!!

I don't know why, but the closer it gets to the Six Nations, I'm starting to think France could totally implode. I think Galthie is becoming a hindrance to that side. Whilst they will beat a poor Welsh team on Friday, I think that 3 game away run in the middle could be interesting, especially if Twickenham goes wrong. England, Italy and Ireland is a very tough run of away games. The days of Rome being a 50 point gimme are gone and France have had their troubles there before, two years ago they probably should have lost. Ireland in Dublin speaks for itself too.

 

[Toulousain ex French fan]

The hype around the side is getting hilarious though…yes i think Galthié is part of the problem not the solution. If he can't win a 2nd championship with the talent pool at his disposal, he needs to go. Simple.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Ah I still think France will win, I have no fear that they'll implode with Dupont as a leader, any team he plays for seem ready to die for him and it's easy to see why. Penaud is a massive loss, as is Flament but they'll still be the most free scoring side in the competition and probably with a comfy margin. Their problems just aren't as big as anyone else's:

Ireland - Currently developing an attacking structure with a team that's aging in parts, a power struggle at 10 and down a head coach. It was this time in the last RWC cycle that things began to click but that was with Furlong, Conan, Henshaw and Aki all still in their primes and most crucially, having Sexton as an onfield coach. I expect it to take longer this time. I think our best chance of winning is try to play like prime Gatland Wales v at least France if not England too and try to develop the attack a bit against the softer packs and / or defences in the comp.

England - The squad has potential to win the championship but Borthwick hasn't shown the ability to unlock what is needed fron the players. One meaningful win last year aside, they just haven't been able to get past focused and competent sides. Even with improvements, a 4 win 6n with a strong number of BPs and good points difference seems at least one step too far.

Scotland - Injuries piling and realistically, they're a couple steps behind in terms of talent from France in any case.

Italy - Potential to improve but they're not going to win.

Wales - I prefer not to speak

So yeah, if Ireland or England don't show up with some improvements on the latter half of next year it's hard to look past a French side that looked a top 2 side in the world in November.

 

[Toulousain ex French fan]

Talking up the opposition…

 

[AlRums]

New twist sees Romain Ntamack's Six Nations ban extended

France fly-half Romain Ntamack will now miss round three of the Guinness Six Nations against Italy after a failed...

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[Which Tyler]

That's.... sloppy

 

[Toulousain ex French fan]

Hey where's the hype machine when we need it

Dupont's gone from Best Player in Le Universe to that arrogant little ball-dropper, all in the space of two games (make that one because Wales was hardly a game). We will remind him of all that before his next CCup game…
And now Ntamack won't be back for Italy. He could be tempted to play for Toulouse this weekend v Clermont, proper game. His name is not in the 'Premium' list of 'protected players'. How professional…

Galthié is screwed. He has to go to Rome with Jalibert or Ramos at 10, and he can't make up his mind. Then he will be going to Dublin with an undercooked Ntamack. Good luck with that.

 

[OllyM97]

Hey where's the hype machine when we need it

Dupont's gone from Best Player in Le Universe to that arrogant little ball-dropper, all in the space of two games (make that one because Wales was hardly a game). We will remind him of all that before his next CCup game…
And now Ntamack won't be back for Italy. He could be tempted to play for Toulouse this weekend v Clermont, proper game. His name is not in the 'Premium' list of 'protected players'. How professional…

Galthié is screwed. He has to go to Rome with Jalibert or Ramos at 10, and he can't make up his mind. Then he will be going to Dublin with an undercooked Ntamack. Good luck with that.

If Italy come out of the blocks and put France under pressure early, I can honestly see them making a real game of it at home. I don't know how many French players' hearts are really in it when the going gets tough if I'm being honest - particularly away from home. There's a mental fragility there that I just don't see with Ireland. I used to think @Toulousain ex French fan was really negative on Galthie early in his tenure but now I can see where he's coming from. Toulouse under Mola are so much more fluid and assured in what they're doing it's actually crazy. You might say Galthie doesn't have the time with the players that a club coach does - but he's been the job 5 years and has been given more help from the clubs than a lot of French coaches before him. He's had a lot of things put in place for him to deliver and he really hasn't. One ***le in 6 years with this team?. Give over, that's an absolutely abysmal record. People can say that he's been up against probably the best Irish team ever, which is true. However, I don't care what anyone says on here, France have got better individuals than Ireland in most positions. Alldritt, Dupont, Ntamack, Penaud and Ramos would absolutely walk into a combined team for starters. France on paper should be beating Ireland in Dublin, but they won't because of inferior coaching.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Nephew said Aldritt