Stade Rennais Football Club (French pronunciation"stad Rene]) is often referred to by the name of Stade Rennais FC, Stade Rennais, Rennes, or simply SRFC is a French professional football club located within Rennes, Brittany. They play with the rest of Ligue 1, the top level of French football. They they play home matches in their home stadium, the Roazhon Park. The president of the team is Nicolas Holveck, and its owner is Artemis, the holding company run by French businessman Francois Pinault.
Rennes was established in the year 1901 with the title Stade Rennais and is one of the first participants of the first division in French football. Together with Nantes, Rennes is one of the top teams in this region. they are both one of the major clubs to play in each year the Derby Breton. The club's highest performance in the league was third. It was able to achieve it after their season put to an end prematurely in 2019-20. Rennes has been awarded the three Coupe de France titles in 1965, 1971 and in 2019. In the aftermath of winning the Coupe de France in 1971, Rennes changed its name to the present version.
Rennes have home colours of black and red shirts and socks. They have a long-running rivalry with the other Breton club Nantes which they compete in their own version of the Derby Breton.
Rennes is famous by its academy for youth, which is known by its name in English in the UK as the Henri Guerin Training Centre, that was established in the year 2000. It was the French Football Federation (FFF) recognized Rennes as having the top youth academy in France in the year 2010. The mainstay of this academy's structure is their team for under-19s that has won three times the Coupe Gambardella three times in 2003, 1973 and 2008. It has also produced a number of famous talents, including Ousmane Dembele Yacine Brahimi Eduardo Camavinga, Yoann Gourcuff, Yann M'Vila, Moussa Sow, Abdoulaye Doucoure, Sylvain Wiltord and Jimmy Briand.
