World Cup Final at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow: France (2) 4 Croatia (1) 2
World Cup winners France are expected to receive a rapturous reception on their return to Paris on Monday.
France beat Croatia 4-2 in Sunday's World Cup final in Moscow to win the tournament for a second time, 20 years on from their 1998 triumph on home soil.
LeMonde.fr, the website of the newspaper by the same name, reported Les Bleus are scheduled to arrive back in France at 1555 local time (1455BST).
The victorious squad are then set to travel to the Champs-Elysees in central Paris, parading on the fabled boulevard at around 1700 (1600BST), before a reception at the Elysee, the official residence of President Emmanuel Macron.
The team's official Twitter account, equipedefrance, showed a video of Manchester City full-back Benjamin Mendy boarding a bus.
It was accompanied by a message saying "We go back to France with the Cup and one more star" - referring to the stars worn by national teams on their shirts to show the number of World Cups they have won.
Late on Sunday night the same account showed members of the France squad dancing on a table and being filmed while serenading N'Golo Kante, the Chelsea midfielder who is quietly spoken but a hugely influential player.
President Macron was at the Luzhniki Stadium on Sunday for the final and warmly embraced the winning players and head coach Didier Deschamps.
Deschamps lifted the trophy at Stade de France 20 years ago and now is the third person, after Brazil's Mario Zagallo and Germany's Franz Beckenbauer, to win the tournament as a player and coach.
France striker Antoine Griezmann, whose fourth goal of Russia 2018 came in the final, said on fifa.com: "We're so happy. We feel so proud, and we just want one thing: to go and celebrate this with the people of France.
Pele joked he may be forced to return to playing after France's 19-year-old forward Kylian Mbappe joined him as only the second teenager to score in a World Cup final.
The former Brazil superstar, now 77, wrote on Twitter: "If Kylian keeps equalling my records like this I may have to dust my boots off again."
Mbappe replied: "The king will always remain king."
France manager Didier Deschamps described his delirious World Cup-winning squad as "a little mad" after they celebrated their victory over Croatia in the final by gatecrashing his press conference.
A 4-2 win over Croatia at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium earned Deschamps access to one of football's most elite clubs, those who have lifted the World Cup as both competitor and coach.
Only Franz Beckenbauer of Germany and Brazil's Mario Zagallo have managed the same feat, but neither marked the moment with quite the same outpouring or joy.
As he prepared to begin his post-match media conference Deschamps was mobbed by a conga line of players chanting his name and dousing him with beer and champagne.
He was hugged, squeezed, jostled and cajoled by the young, diverse and talented team he has led to the summit of the sport and he did not attempt to stop them for a moment.
"They are a little crazy, they have always been a little mad," he said with the broadest of smiles.
"They are young and they are happy."
At 49 Deschamps cannot claim to be young, but he could hardly conceal his happiness.
"I don't really like to talk about myself but I am forced to a little bit. I had the immense pleasure and privilege to live through this as a player 20 years ago. It is marked in my memory forever," he said.
"But what the players did today is just as beautiful and just as strong. I have a son who is 22 and he was too young when we were world champion, now young people are living through this.
"At the moment my players don't really know what it is to be world champions but I told them two things.
"That these 23 players are linked forever: they may follow different paths but they are marked together by this event. And that they are going to be different now. They are not the same, they are world champions.
"Maybe they will win other titles but there is nothing above world champions."
France were not perfect en route to the title, arguably being outplayed in the first half despite heading to the tunnel 2-1 up after a Mario Mandzukic own-goal and a debatable penalty from man-of-the-match Antoine Griezmann.
They ensured they left as worthy winners, though, adding fine strikes from Paul Pogba and young player of the tournament Kylian Mbappe against a goalkeeping aberration from Hugo Lloris.
Deschamps expects more big things from Mbappe, marked by all and sundry as a once-in-a-generation talent, in the future but knows nothing is guaranteed in international football.
"Mbappe is only 19, I hope is a champion again, but 20 years ago David Trezeguet and Thierry Henry were only maybe 19 and they'd become champions again," said Deschamps.
Pele is certainly impressed by the Paris St Germain man, who became the first teenager to score in a World Cup final since the Brazil great in 1958, saying on Twitter: "If Kylian keeps equalling my records like this I may have to dust my boots off again..."
Croatia boss Zlatko Dalic gave a comparatively sombre address and there were no player break-ins or group singalongs for the runners-up.
But he cut a magnanimous figure, refusing to focus on the controversial decision, using VAR, to award a spot-kick against Ivan Perisic for a handball.
He disagreed, as did many observers, but did not linger.
"I never comment on refereeing but let me say one sentence: in the World Cup final you do not give such a penalty," said Dalic.
"That in no way diminishes France's win but maybe we were a bit unlucky. In the first six games we may have been favoured by luck, today not.
"I respect the referee, he gave what he saw fair and square. VAR when it goes in your favour is good, when it doesn't it's bad."
His captain Luka Modric at least had the consolation of taking home the Golden Ball for the tournament's best player, although the pain of defeat lingered.
The Real Madrid man said: "I think we were the better team but sometimes better teams don't win."
World Cup Final: France (2) 4 Croatia (1) 2
France: Lloris,Pavard,Varane,Umtiti,Lucas,Mbappe-Lottin,Pogba,
Kante (Nzonzi 54),Matuidi (Tolisso 73),Griezmann,
Giroud (Fekir 81).
Subs Not Used: Mandanda,Kimpembe,Lemar,Dembele,Rami,Sidibe,
Thauvin,Mendy,Areola.
Booked: Kante,Lucas.
Goals: Mandzukic 18 og,Griezmann 38 pen,Pogba 59,
Mbappe-Lottin 65.
Croatia: Subasic,Vrsaljko,Lovren,Vida,Strinic (Pjaca 81),
Rebic (Kramaric 71),Rakitic,Brozovic,Perisic,Modric,Mandzukic.
Subs Not Used: Livakovic,Corluka,Kovacic,Jedvaj,Bradaric,
Caleta-Car,Badelj,Pivaric,Lovre Kalinic.
Booked: Vrsaljko.
Goals: Perisic 28,Mandzukic 69.
Ref: Nestor Pitana (Argentina).
