2010 Française des Jeux season
Introduction  2010 Française des Jeux season '''Manager ''' Marc Madiot '''One-day victories''' 2 '''Stage race overall victories''' 1 '''Stage race stage victories''' 13 Previous season • Next seasonThe 2010 season for the  cycling team began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Chrono des Nations. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every ProTour event.Personnel-wise, the team was mostly unchanged from the 2009 season. Its manager, as it has been since its inception in 1997, was former cyclist Marc Madiot.On 2 July, the eve of the Tour de France, the team announced that the French national lottery would extend its sponsorship of the team for four years, and the team would immediately change its name to . For the 2011 season, the team will ride as a UCI Professional Continental team. Only the top 20 teams from 2010 in the UCI's points system were eligible for ProTeam status, and FDJ finished 21st in that ranking.
2010 roster Ages as of January 1, 2010.;Riders who joined the team for the 2010 seasonRider2009 teamOlivier BonnairePierre CazauxRoubaix Lille MétropoleThibaut Pinot''neo-pro''Arthur Vichot''neo-pro'';Riders who left the team during or after the 2009 seasonRider2010 teamJérôme CoppelSébastien JolySaur–SojasunGuillaume LevarletSaur–Sojasun
One-day races ===Spring classics======Fall races===
Stage races The team scored three victories at the Tour Méditerranéen, with Hutarovich in stages 1 and 3 and Veikkanen in stage 2.Veikkanen's stage win gave him the overall race lead, but he was unable to hold it through the conclusion of the race, losing it on the final day to Alejandro Valverde. Française des Jeux' early season successes continued at the Tour du Haut Var, when Le Mével won the second stage of the two-day event, and with it the overall.
Grand Tours As they did in 2009, Française des Jeux declined to participate in the Giro d'Italia.===Tour de France===FDJ, as they became known shortly before the Tour de France began, entered the race with a squad led by Le Mével, tenth-place finisher and best French rider in 2009.In stage 1, the first road race stage after the prologue time trial, several crashes took place in the final few kilometers, meaning only five riders were at the front of the race to contest the sprint finish. Ladagnous avoided crashing and made this little selection, though he was last of the five riders in the kick to the finish. Ladagnous took a meaningless ninth place the next day, as the peloton decided not to race to the finish, neutralizing the results for all but stage winner Sylvain Chavanel. In stage 9, Casar made a breakaway of 10 riders, including such big names as Luis León Sánchez, Damiano Cunego, and Jens Voigt. All of them figured into the day's results. Race favorites Alberto Contador and Andy Schleck broke away from the other top riders in the race on this day. Voigt dropped back and paced them so long and so strenuously that they joined the leaders on the road, now a five-rider group including Casar, Sánchez, and Cunego. Contador and Schleck finished sixth and seventh on the day, not seeking the stage win. For their parts, Sánchez, Cunego, and Casar finished 2 seconds ahead as the three of them did aggressively seek the win. Cunego started his sprint early and had a gap for a moment, but Casar perhaps knew the course better, taking an aggressive line on the course's final left-hand turn. The finish line was just after that turn, so Casar made it across first and won the stage.In stage 13, Geslin finished seventh on the stage, sixth in the sprint behind solo winner Alexander Vinokourov. Three days later in stage 16, Casar came close to a second victory. He was part of a day-long breakaway, that included Lance Armstrong, and finished second behind Pierrick Fédrigo in the sprint finish. Casar finished the race in 25th place, the team's best finisher, just under 46 minutes behind Tour champion Alberto Contador. Le Mével was 42nd, more than an hour and 22 minutes back. The squad finished 15th in the teams classification.===Vuelta a España===
Season victories  Date  Race  Competition  Rider  Country  Location   Tour Méditerranéen, Stage 1  UCI Europe Tour      Souvain   Tour Méditerranéen, Stage 2  UCI Europe Tour      Trets   Tour Méditerranéen, Stage 3  UCI Europe Tour      Six-Fours-les-Plages   Volta ao Algarve, Stage 1  UCI Europe Tour      Albufeira   Tour du Haut Var, Stage 2  UCI Europe Tour      Montauroux   Tour du Haut Var, Overall  UCI Europe Tour        Circuit Cycliste Sarthe, Youth classification  UCI Europe Tour        Circuit Cycliste Sarthe, Teams classification  UCI Europe Tour       Tro-Bro Léon  UCI Europe Tour      Brittany   Tour de Romandie, Mountains classification  UCI ProTour        Four Days of Dunkirk, Stage 5  UCI Europe Tour     Dunkirk   Circuit de Lorraine, Stage 1  UCI Europe Tour     Jarny   Circuit de Lorraine, Stage 5  UCI Europe Tour     Hayange   Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan  UCI Europe Tour     Brittany   Route du Sud, Points classification  UCI Europe Tour       Tour de France, Stage 9  UCI World Ranking        Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne   Tour de Pologne, Stage 3  UCI World Ranking     Katowice   Paris–Corrèze, Stage 2  UCI Europe Tour      Chaumeil   Paris–Corrèze, Points classification   UCI Europe Tour        Paris–Corrèze, Mountains classification   UCI Europe Tour        Paris–Corrèze, Teams classification  UCI Europe Tour       Tour du Poitou-Charentes, Stage 1  UCI Europe Tour      Royan   Vuelta a España, Stage 2  UCI World Ranking      Marbella
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