Mickaël Landreau has made the most career appearances by a Frenchman in Europe's top five leagues, with 618 appearances in Ligue 1.

	NAME	M	MIN	START	G	G/M	A	G+A	PK
1	Mickaël Landreau M. Landreau	618	55,450	618	0	0.00	0	0	0
2	Claude Makélélé C. Makélélé	607	50,770	579	18	0.03	7	25	0
3	Hugo Lloris H. Lloris	579	51,732	579	0	0.00	2	2	0
4	Sylvain Pierre Kastendeuch S. Pierre Kastendeuch	577	50,497	566	28	0.05			21
5	Steve Mandanda S. Mandanda	564	50,183	563	0	0.00	1	1	0
6	Karim Benzema K. Benzema	551	39,192	456	281	0.51	88	369	28
7	Antoine Griezmann A. Griezmann	546	41,082	476	202	0.37	75	277	12
8	Moussa Sissoko M. Sissoko	543	40,801	454	38	0.07	29	67	2
9	Kevin Gameiro K. Gameiro	542	32,749	358	175	0.32	44	219	18
10	Dimitri Payet D. Payet	540	38,913	452	114	0.21	119	233	16
11	Robert Pirès R. Pirès	529	39,448	448	126	0.24	41	167	7
12	Steed Malbranque S. Malbranque	520	36,161	422	50	0.10	64	114	7
13	Ludovic Giuly L. Giuly	518	34,715	399	110	0.21	16	126	2
14	Bruno N'Gotty B. N'Gotty	518	44,423	497	24	0.05			0
15	Florent Balmont F. Balmont	513	39,332	460	13	0.03	28	41	1
16	Jimmy Briand J. Briand	512	33,278	364	105	0.21	56	161	13
17	Daniel Bravo D. Bravo	509	37,827	425	76	0.15			8
18	Sylvain Armand S. Armand	506	42,737	474	19	0.04	8	27	0
19	Zinedine Zidane Z. Zidane	506	40,894	477	95	0.19			5
20	Marcel Desailly M. Desailly	504	44,149	497	17	0.03			0
21	Lilian Thuram L. Thuram	503	43,638	489	10	0.02			0
22	Bernard Lama B. Lama	501	44,956	501	2	0.00			2
23	Blaise Matuidi B. Matuidi	498	38,160	431	36	0.07	22	58	0
24	Sylvain Distin S. Distin	497	42,978	477	7	0.01	6	13	0
25	Jean-Luc Ettori J. Ettori	494	44,338	494	0	0.00			0