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Stade Rennais
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Full nameStade Rennais
Football Club
Nickname(s)Les Rouges et Noirs
(red and blacks)
Founded1901
GroundRoute de Lorient,
Rennes
Capacity31,127
ChairmanFrédéric de Saint-Sernin
ManagerPierre Dréossi
LeagueLigue 1
2006-20074th

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[3]. 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

Stade Rennais first kit

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

Coupe Gambardella

  • Winner: 1973, 2003

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Presence in Europe

Cup Winners' Cup:

  • Matches played: 4
  • Matches won: 0
  • Matches drawn: 2
  • Matches lost: 2
  • Goals scoreed: 1
  • Goals against: 4
  • Goal difference: -3

UEFA Cup:

  • Matches played: 6
  • Matches won: 1
  • Matches drawn: 1
  • Matches lost: 4
  • Goals scoreed: 4
  • Goals against: 11
  • Goal difference: -7

On September 15 2005, they played their first UEFA Cup match winning 3-1 at home against CA Osasuna. Rennes then lost all 4 games during the group phase (0-2 vs. VfB Stuttgart, 0-1 vs. Shakhtyor Donetsk, 2-0 vs. Steaua Bucharest and 5-1 vs. PAOK Thessaloniki).

Other

  • Champions of Ligue 2 : 1956, 1983
  • Finalists of the Intertoto Cup : 1999
  • Champions of France Interfédéral : 1916
  • Champions of DH (Division d'honneur ?) : 1923
  • Winners of the Coupe Odorico : 1920
  • Winners of the Coupe des Alliés : 1916, 1917
  • Champions of Brittany : 1904
  • Champions of Brittany and Normandy : 1909
  • Winner of the Interfédérale de l'Ouest cup : 1919
  • Champion of the West : 1920
  • Champion of Haute-Bretagne : 1921
  • Winner of the Coupe de Rennes : 1916

Management Staff

  • Manager: France Pierre Dréossi
  • Assistant Manager: France Philippe Redon and France Michel Sorlin
  • Youth Coach: France Laurent Huard
  • Goalkeeping Coach: France Christophe Lollichon
  • Fitness Coach: France Christian Schmidt

Current squad

As of July 20 2007 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK France FRA Fabrice Catherine
2 DF France FRA Rod Fanni
3 DF Sweden SWE Erik Edman
4 DF France FRA Guillaume Borne
5 DF Ghana GHA John Mensah
7 MF France FRA Jérôme Leroy
8 MF France FRA Kevin Bru
9 FW France FRA Mickaël Pagis
10 FW France FRA Daniel Moreira
11 FW France FRA Olivier Thomert
12 MF France FRA Romain Danzé
13 DF Sweden SWE Petter Hansson
14 MF France FRA Bruno Cheyrou
16 GK France FRA Patrice Luzi
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 MF Cameroon CMR Stéphane Mbia
18 MF France FRA Fabien Lemoine
19 FW France FRA Jimmy Briand
20 FW Democratic Republic of the Congo COD Jirès Kembo Ekoko
21 FW Switzerland SUI Julian Esteban
22 MF France FRA Etienne Didot (captain)
23 FW France FRA Lhadji Badiane
24 MF France FRA Olivier Sorlin
26 MF France FRA Sylvain Marveaux
27 DF France FRA Cyril Jeunechamp
28 DF France FRA Prince Oniangue
29 FW France FRA Moussa Sow
30 GK France FRA Simon Pouplin
31 FW Gabon GAB Stéphane N'Guéma
33 DF France FRA Bira Dembelé

Out on loan

16 GK Senegal SEN Cheick N'Diaye (at US Créteil-Lusitanos)

2006-2007 Transfers

In

Out

Famous past players

For a complete list of former Stade Rennais FC players with a Wikipedia article, see here.

French players

Foreign players

Managerial history

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References

  1. ^ "Les années 1900 : le Stade Rennais voit le jour". Stade Rennais FC official site. 2007-07-15. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ "Les années 90 : le groupe Pinault prend les commandes". Stade Rennais FC official site. 2007-07-16. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ "Les années 90 : le groupe Pinault prend les commandes". Stade Rennais FC official site. 2007-07-16. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ "Cyril Chapuis, un buteur inattendu". lequipe.fr. 2007-07-15. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ "Stade Rennais, effectif 2000-2001". forum.staderennais.free.fr unofficial Stade Rennais FC site. 2007-07-15. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ "Centre de formation : Rennes toujours au sommet". lfp.fr. 2007-07-15. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); line feed character in |title= at position 22 (help)
  7. ^ "Classemet des centres de formation 2007" (PDF). lfp.fr. 2007-07-15. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ Stade Rennais coaches on RSSSF

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