Mickaël Landreau has made the most career appearances by a Frenchman in Ligue 1, with 618 appearances.

	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	Sylvain Pierre Kastendeuch S. Pierre Kastendeuch	577	50,497	566	28	0.05			21
3	Steve Mandanda S. Mandanda	555	49,373	554	0	0.00	1	1	0
4	Florent Balmont F. Balmont	513	39,332	460	13	0.03	28	41	1
5	Sylvain Armand S. Armand	506	42,737	474	19	0.04	8	27	0
6	Jean-Luc Ettori J. Ettori	494	44,338	494	0	0.00			0
7	Dimitri Payet D. Payet	492	34,825	406	103	0.21	101	204	16
8	Bruno Martini B. Martini	492	44,200	491	1	0.00			0
9	Daniel Congré D. Congré	490	41,573	467	14	0.03	8	22	0
10	Bernard Lama B. Lama	489	43,876	489	2	0.00			2
11	Franck Claude Silvestre F. Claude Silvestre	485	42,591	481	32	0.07			2
12	Daniel Bravo D. Bravo	485	36,483	408	76	0.16			8
13	Jimmy Briand J. Briand	483	31,200	339	102	0.21	50	152	13
14	Claude Puel C. Puel	483	39,287	435	4	0.01			0
15	Didier René Sénac D. René Sénac	475	41,572	465	19	0.04			0
16	Pascal Olmeta P. Olmeta	474	42,508	474	0	0.00			0
17	Laurent Batlles L. Batlles	473	32,212	366	41	0.09	8	49	1
18	Grégory Coupet G. Coupet	467	41,660	467	0	0.00	0	0	0
19	Étienne Didot É. Didot	461	35,114	403	18	0.04	20	38	0
20	Manuel Amoros M. Amoros	461	40,090	447	41	0.09			14
21	Philippe Vercruysse P. Vercruysse	457	36,368	414	102	0.22			4
22	Philippe Gaillot P. Gaillot	456	39,109	443	24	0.05			0
23	Benjamin André B. André	446	36,774	419	25	0.06	24	49	0
24	Paul Le Guen P. Le Guen	444	37,616	418	21	0.05			1
25	Joël Bats J. Bats	438	39,269	438	0	0.00			0