Between friends, family and even colleagues: for more than three million people, the 2026 World Cup is accompanied by a good-natured competition in the field of prediction. Since the start of the Football World Cup, the Mon Petit Prono application, or “MPP”, has been available even in front of the coffee machine in the open space – including that of La Croix. We debate bluntly the probabilities that Switzerland will beat Canada in the match on Wednesday, June 24 in Vancouver, and we are surprised to see that a complete football layman remains at the top of the ranking.
The game principle is simple – and therefore unifying. Each participant tries to predict the score of each match, even if France is not playing, and earns points according to the results of the matches. Player rankings are updated after each match. You don’t even need to be an expert: the application rewards the most unexpected bets with more points. Happy are the 0.3% of users who anticipated the improbable 0-0 in the match between Spain and Cape Verde on June 15.
Other free applications offer more or less the same thing, including Corporico, Fanlive or Scorecast, but it is Mon Petit Prono which is popular with the public. For a week at the launch of the world, it occupied the top of the ranking of the most downloaded apps in France.
Before My Little Prono, My Little Gazon
Born during the 2018 World Cup, MPP wasted no time in meeting its audience. Within a day, 100,000 people had registered. Successive competitions have gradually increased the number of users: more than 1.8 million French people took part in the game in 2022 for the World Cup in Qatar, there were 2.4 million during Euro 2024. As of June 24, 2026, some 3,547,641 people are registered.
Published by the Professional Football League (LFP), this application is the little sister of another, Mon Petit Gazon, known as MPG. Created in 2011 by the same group of friends led by Martin Jaglin, also director of digital growth within the Professional Football League, it brings together 700,000 users.
In this “fantasy football” game, participants take on the role of owners of a team whose players they recruit from among Ligue 1 athletes, using a fictitious budget. Users then climb the rankings of their fictional championship based on their players’ performances in real life.
If MPG allows you to play all year round, since June 11 it is MPP which has been at the top of the bill. Day and night, 19 employees are mobilized to ensure that everything goes well. Speaking to France Info, co-founder Martin Jaglin describes a real “football factory”. “With the time difference, our nights are a little shorter because there is a whole part of the technical team who checks that everything is going well. Sometimes, we have to add servers because there are too many simultaneous uses…” he describes. The factory will still be running until July 19, the date of the finale. Hoping that it will still be possible that day to bet on a victory for the France team.
