Up to 500,000 people poured into the streets of the capital to celebrate after Saturday's match, police said. Some revelers got out of hand on the Champs-Elysees, Paris' famous tree-lined avenue.

The threat of hooligan violence was a major theme leading up to the competition's June 9 start, when the first of more than a million fans began zigzagging around the country to dozens of host cities.

Trouble at previous soccer tournaments in Europe and flare ups involving German and Polish fans at local matches made organizers wary.

At the 1998 World Cup, German hooligans beat a French policeman to near death and England fans rioted in Marseilles. At the 2000 European Championship, hundreds of rioting Britons were arrested in Belgium.

The 2006 World Cup has been low key when it comes to arrests.

On June 14, police clashed with German hooligans and eventually arrested 430 people, after Germany played Poland in Dortmund. By the next morning all had been released. On June 24 in Stuttgart, police arrested more than 500 England fans who hurled bottles and plastic chairs in separate outbursts that injured nine people.