Season 1947/1948

At the beginning of the 1947/1948 season, Stade Rennais University Club were in dire financial straits, and were obliged to release their two top scorers from the previous campaign in André Simonyi and Joseph Rabstejnek, to go off to pastures new. To compensate for those departures, the Red and Blacks would focus their recruitment on attacking players, such as Grumellon, Cousin, Paillère and Le Berre. Rennes had finished the previous season with a run of five straight defeats, and that bad run would continue at the start of the new season, losing their first three league matches, and they found themselves bottom of the table. Thankfully, Rennes were able to pick themselves up, although they never threatened to get into the top half of the table. Rennes would spend the season between 10th and 15th thereafter, but finished the season with a run of five games unbeaten, ending the campaign in 10th, with the 12th-rated attack, and 7th-ranked defence. Their talented recruit, Jean Grumellon, would finish fourth in the top scorer charts, notching 22 goals. Rennes would also be the only team who didn't lose to the subsequent champions Marseille. In the French Cup, Rennes would get to the Round of 16, before being knocked out by Lens, the future finalists, who were 8th in the Second Division.