Season 1934/1935

After finishing the 1933/1934 season in Sixth Place, the Stade Rennais University Club managed to retain the majority of it's first-choice starting line-up, including top-scorer Vollweiler - who had scored 25 goals in the previous campaign. The Red and Blacks were in ambitious mood, and recruited some experienced players, with the likes of Volante, Laurent, Boccon and Barlemann signing for the club. In a First Division which had been enlarged from 14 to 16 teams, Rennes made heavy weather of their start to the new season, losing five our of their first eight league fixtures. Directed by team boss, Josef Schneider, the club would recover slightly, winning three consective matches to lift themselves back into a more comfortable position in mid-table, a place they would occupy for the remainder of the season. In November 1934, however, Rennes were deprived of their goalscorer Vollweiler, who fractured his leg. To replace him, the manager would often turn to Kaiser, who would also suffer a serious injury April 1935. With a lack of cover in the attacking sector, the Red and Blacks would not get any higher than eighth in the table, and ended up finishing in tenth spot, with the 7th-ranked defence, and 8th-ranked attack in the First Division. The real shining light, in an otherwise uninspiring season, would come in the French Cup, which saw Stade Rennais reach the Final for only the second time in their history, after a valiant cup run (albeit losing the showpiece occasion 0-3 to Marseille.)