Season 1967/1968

After a pretty average season from a sporting point of view, Stade Rennais were hoping to have a much better year as they started the 1967/1968 season. Four key players (Ascensio, Boutet, Pellegrini and Prigent) had left the club. Only Calmettes and Mosa were recruited to compensate for the loss, but they both settled in well at their new club. The beginning of the season pretty much set the tone for the rest of it, with just three wins in their opening 14 league fixtures. The Red and Blacks would thus spend the majority of the season floating between 10th and 15th in the table. Just before the season entered its run-in, Rennes would still have a major scare, flirting with the relegation zone on the matchday 31. Thankfully, they would finish the season in much more convincing form than they had demonstrated throughout the rest of the campaign, and ended up in 14th position, with the 8th-ranked attack, and 16th-best defence. Rennes' French Cup run would be short and sweet, eliminated in the round of 64, losing 2-3 after extra-time against fellow First Division side Ajaccio.