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'Stade Rennais Football Club' is a French football club from the city of Rennes, will play their 48th season in Ligue 1 (the top French division) in 2007-08. The team coach and manager is Pierre Dréossi and the president is Frédéric de Saint-Sernin, who is close to billionaire François Pinault, who owns the team.
Founded in 1901 as 'Stade Rennais Université Club' they assumed their current name in 1971. In the same year, the club won its last notable trophy, the Coupe de France, defeating Olympique Lyonnais in the final.
History
1901-1904
Stade Rennais was founded on March 10 1901 by former students from Rennes. Their first match took place two weeks later against FC Rennais, which they lost 6-0.
On May 4 1904 Stade Rennais and FC Rennais merged, to give birth to Stade Rennais Université Club.[1]
1905-1922
Stade Rennais became renown both on a regional and national level, winning three Champions of Brittany titles and winning on three occasions the Ligue de l’Ouest de Football Association, as well as winning la Coupe des Alliés and getting to the final of the French Cup.
1923-1963
1990-1998
Those years were the beginning of stability at the club.But the season 1990-1991 was a failure, despite players such as François Omam-Biyik or Arnold Oosterver, but the team was saved thanks to administrative relegations of OGC Nice and Stade Brestois. The following year, in 1991-1992, Rennes was not able to avoid relegation. The club began to play with young players from its youth academy, such as Sylvain Wiltord, Jocelyn Gourvennec, Ulrich Le Pen or Laurent Huard.Rennes came back in Division 1. On July 7, 1993 Pinault group became the main sponsor of the club, with its brands Pinault. The club has been playing in the top division since this date. During this era, the team had players such as Marco Grassi and Shabani Nonda.[2]
Since 1998
In 1998, Breton billionaire François Pinault, a great fan of the team, bought the team, and gave it a strong financial stability[2]. He was first very ambitious for its team, and bought at a high price South-American such as Lucas Severino (140 millions of French franc)[4], Mario Hector Turdo for the Division 1 season 2000/2001 but these players were all failures[5]. The team has now changed his strategy and uses players from its youth academy, aguarbly one of the best in France, and the best for two years now[6] [7].
In the 2004–2005 Ligue 1 campaign, Rennes managed to finish in a commendable fourth place in the final standings, their best ever position, securing them automatic qualifition for the UEFA Cup.
In the 2005–2006 season, following a very close race for the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup qualifications in France, they finished a disappointing seventh place in Ligue 1.
In 2006-2007, Rennes again finished in fourth place, missing out on a UEFA Champions League place as a result of a Lille goal in the 93rd minute of the last game of the season. But they did secure UEFA Cup football for next season despite absence of Frei and Kallstrom.
Colours
The Stade Rennais first played in a vertically-striped sky blue and sea blue shirt, while FC Rennais wore a red and black shirt.After the merger, Stade Rennais UC changed its colours, their new kit combined the vertical stripes of Stade Rennais and the red and black of FC Rennais.
Honours
===French Cup===
★ Winner: 1965, 1971
★ Finalists : 1922, 1935
★ Semi-finalists : 1919, 1959, 1967, 1970, 1986, 2003 , 2006
★ Quarter-finalists : 1918, 1923, 1924, 1929, 1934, 1952, 1989, 2000, 2004
===Ligue 2
★ Champions : 1956, 1983
★ Runners-up : 1939, 1958, 1980, 1993, 1994
Other===★ 'Intertoto Cup' :
★
★ Finalists : 1999
★ 'Coupe Gambardella'
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★ Winner: 1973, 2003
★ 'Western DH (Division d'honneur)' :
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★ Champions : 1920, 1923
★ 'Western USFSA League' :
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★ Champions : 1904, 1906, 1908, 1909
★ 'French Interfederation Cup' :
★
★ Winners : 1916
★ 'Western Interfederation Cup' :
★
★ Winners : 1919
★ 'Odorico Cup' :
★
★ Winners : 1920
★ 'Allies' Cup' :
★
★ Winners : 1916, 1917
★ 'Upper Britanny League' :
★
★ Champions : 1921
★ 'Rennes Cup' :
★
★ Winners : 1916
Presence in Europe
★ 'Cup Winners' Cup' :
★
★ 1965-66 : Eliminated by Dukla Prague in first round.
★
★ 1971-72 : Eliminated by Rangers in first round.
★ 'UEFA Cup' :
★
★ 2005-06 : Eliminated in group stage.
★
★ 2007-08 : Qualified for group stage.
★ 'Intertoto Cup' :
★
★ 1996-97 : Eliminated in group stage.
★
★ 1999-00 : Finalist, defeated by Juventus F.C..
★
★ 2001-02 : Eliminated by Aston Villa in semi-final.
Overall European Record
| Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 'Cup Winners' Cup' | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -3 |
| 'UEFA Cup' | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -7 |
| 'Intertoto Cup' | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 19 | 3 |
| 'Total' | 24 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 27 | 34 | -7 |
Management Staff
★ Manager: 'Pierre Dréossi'
★ Assistant Manager: 'Philippe Redon' and 'Michel Sorlin'
★ Youth Coach: 'Laurent Huard'
★ Goalkeeping Coach: 'Christophe Lollichon'
★ Fitness Coach: 'Christian Schmidt'
Current squad
''As of August 25 2007.'' Players in 'bold' have international caps.
Out on loan
'Transfers 2007-2008 (Summer)'
'In:'
'Out:'
''Notable 2006-07 transfers''
'In'
'Out'
Famous past players
''For a complete list of former Stade Rennais FC players with a Wikipedia article, see .''
French players
Foreign players
Managerial history
★ Kalman Szekany:1932-1933 ★ Mc Cloy:1933-1934 ★ Josef Pepi Schneider:1934-1936 ★ Jean Batmale:1936-1939 ★ François Pleyer:1945-1952 ★ Salvador Artigas:1952-1955 ★ Henri Guérin:1955-1961 ★ Antoine Cuissard:1961-1964 ★ Jean Prouff:1964-1972 ★ René Cédolin:1972-1974 ★ Antoine Cuissard:1974-1976 ★ Claude Dubaële:1976-1977 ★ Alain Jubert:1977-1979 ★ Pierre Garcia:1979-1982 | ★ Jean Vincent:1982-1984 ★ Pierre Mosca:1984-1986 ★ Patrick Rampillon:1987 ★ Raymond Kéruzoré:1987-1991 ★ Didier Notheaux:1991-1993 ★ Michel Le Millinaire:1993-1996 ★ Yves Colleu:1996-1997 ★ Guy David:1997-1998 ★ Paul Le Guen:1998-2001 ★ Christian Gourcuff:2001-2002 ★ Philippe Bergeroo:2002 ★ Vahid Halilhodžić:2002-2003 ★ Laszlo Bölöni:2003-2006 ★ Pierre Dréossi:2006- |
[8]
References
1. Les années 1900 : le Stade Rennais voit le jour
2. Les années 90 : le groupe Pinault prend les commandes
3. Les années 90 : le groupe Pinault prend les commandes
4. Cyril Chapuis, un buteur inattendu
5. Stade Rennais, effectif 2000-2001
6. Centre de formation :
Rennes toujours au sommet
7. Classemet des centres de formation 2007
8. Stade Rennais coaches on RSSSF
External links
★ Official Site
★ Stade Rennais Online : First Unofficial Website
★ Stade Rennais Online : Stade Rennais' Fans Forum
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