Season 1957/1958

Having been relegated back to the Second Division, after losing the Play-Off against Lille, Stade Rennais started the 1957/1958 season with the ambition of securing promotion straight back to the top flight as quickly as possible. The Red and Blacks would lose the services of strikers Caeiro, Lambert and Legrand, as well as defenders Simon and Toupel during the close season, but had strengthened the squad with the arrivals of Waloryszek and Mayet. Rennes soon got themselves a spot in the top half of the table after the first few games, and even sat on top of the Second Division, after a run of five straight wins. Stade Rennais would remain unbeaten over their first fifteen league matches, and wouldn't drop out of the top three between matchday 8 and the end of the season. Rennes would spend 20 weeks as leader, and scored the biggest victory of the season, thrashing Stade Français 7-0. Promotion to the First Division would be comfortably obtained, finishing the season in the runners-up spot in the table, boasting the best attack, the best defence and the best goal difference. Cuissard scored 24 league goals, and finished third in the top-scorer list of the Second Division. In the French Cup, Rennes were eliminated by Besançon, bottom club of the Second Division, in the Round of 32. It should be noted that Rennes played a prestige friendly against the French national team on 12th February 1958, and it was "Les Bleus" who would win the match 4-1.