2026/2027 season

Ligue 1

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Stade Rennais
Head coach: Franck Haise · Non confirmé précisément (Haise a évolué en 3-4-3 et 4-2-3-1 selon les périodes)
Rank
4th
Pts
13
P
6
Form
🟢 Good

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
10/10
Attack
4/10
Defence
8/10
Form
9/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:High

4th with 13 pts from 6 matches: 4 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat.

12 goals scored, 10 conceded.

"It will be a game to play, not to suffer," the French trequartista is ready to challenge Europa League

Tuttosport · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Retrieved from Stade Rennais against 70 million euros, the 21-year-old French central defender is making stunning debuts (...)

Foot Mercato · 16 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

The 21-year-old central defender, who was recruited this summer in Rennes against 70 million euros, forms the Reds defensive axis with Virgil Van Dijk. He also discovered the French team at the last rally in Clairefontaine.

L'Équipe · 16 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Wvs AJ Auxerre (H) · 4-1
Lvs Olympique Lyonnais (A) · 0-4
Wvs Olympique de Marseille (H) · 1-0
Wvs Angers SCO (A) · 2-1
Wvs Le Mans FC (H) · 3-2
WWWWDL
12 scored / 10 conceded over 6 matches played
Rest: 7 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
3W - 1D - 0L
Away form
1W - 0D - 1L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
2.0
Goals conceded per match
1.6
At home
8 scored · 3 conceded in 3 matches
Away
2 scored · 5 conceded in 2 matches
Over 2.5 goals
4 of 5
Both teams score
3 of 5
Clean sheets
1 of 5
Failed to score
1 of 5
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Stade Rennais play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity
Preferred system
Non confirmé précisément (Haise a évolué en 3-4-3 et 4-2-3-1 selon les périodes)
Philosophy
Compact block, quick transitions, ability to punish opposition lapses.
Attacking strengths
Clinical efficiency that had PSG doubting for a good part of the match.
Defensive solidity
2 goals conceded, but against one of the best attacks in the league.
Pressing
Intense in spells.
Transitions
Quick, geared towards runs in behind.
StrengthFranck Haise, an experienced and respected head coach (architect of fine seasons at Lens), a return “to his roots” for him since he was a youth coach at the club from 2006 to 2012.
WeaknessCohesion still being built, he took charge of the squad relatively recently (appointed in February 2026).

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
The win snatched in the 96th minute against Le Mans, since upheld by the refereeing authority, got Rennes's season going with four points from two matchdays. Nicolas de Tavernost took an ambitious line by setting the objective of “first being a European club” and judging that a finish outside the top five would be a disappointment. The Europa League draw, with four manageable home fixtures and only one big away trip, to Turin, reinforces that feeling. Brice Samba's absence even showed that deputy Nicolas Lemaître could hold his own on his first appearance.
Coach / players / board relationship
Franck Haise retains the board's confidence, and the executive president publicly defended the way the squad was built: “The team is well put together.” De Tavernost highlights a model that combines results in the professional game with the academy, while locking down the ownership question: “Rennes is not for sale,” the Pinault family having been involved for thirty years. The club also managed its fringe players methodically, selling Jonathan Do Marcolino to Annecy with a buy-back priority. The arrival of Boulaye Dia, who says he is “ready to play regularly”, completes an attack judged a little thin after Breel Embolo's departure.
Mood with the supporters
The mood is carried by the return to Europe and by a draw received with a smile, Juventus aside. The stadium, however, is stirring the city: de Tavernost is reviving the idea of a new ground of around 45,000 seats at La Barre-Thomas, entirely funded by the Pinault family, while the city council replies that it is only discussing an extension of the Roazhon Park. Another source of tension is the LFP's reversal of the return fixture against PSG, which deprives Rennes of hosting the champions and is pushing the club towards an appeal to the CNOSF. The club also opened away ticket sales for the trip to Angers as early as Friday.
Pressure on the head coach
Low to moderate. Haise can point to a first win and to a board that is showing its confidence, but the European objective stated publicly by de Tavernost — a top five at minimum — sets a demanding floor. October's run, with three Sundays at 17:15 framed by Europa League matches, will test the squad's depth.
Club objectives
The ambition is twofold: getting back into Europe on a lasting basis in the league and making the most of a favourable Europa League draw to go far. Institutionally, the club wants to reopen the question of a new stadium, a source of revenue it considers untapped, against the extension option the city council defends. The window, with around €36.8m invested against close to €97m banked, is embraced as the expression of a value-creation model underpinned by the academy.
Recent internal tensions
The friction is primarily institutional: a quiet stand-off with Rennes city council over the new stadium, and a dispute with the LFP after the reversal of the return fixture against PSG, which the club is contesting on the grounds that no exceptional circumstances were demonstrated. In the dressing room, the unresolved cases of Djaoui Cissé and Alidu Seidu remain to be watched, Juventus having also tried their luck for Cissé late in the window.
Absences
InjuredBrice Samba — Muscle injury, ruled out of the home game against Le Mans on 30 August; replaced by Nicolas Lemaître.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Paris FC — Stade Rennais

AwaySunday 18 October at 17:15Matchday 7
It's today. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says
Prediction
EstimateParis FC — Stade Rennais
51 %
1 · Paris FC
23 %
X · draw
26 %
2 · Stade Rennais
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 6 matches played by Paris FC, 6 matches by Stade Rennais. Confidence: medium
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 170 goals scored over 116 team-matches played (18 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.47 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    Paris FC — attack8 in 6 matches0.910.95
    Paris FC — defence4 in 6 matches0.450.73
    Stade Rennais — attack12 in 6 matches1.361.18
    Stade Rennais — defence10 in 6 matches1.141.07
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.50 for Paris FC and 0.50 for Stade Rennais. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.61 goal scored on average by the host against 1.30 by the visitor, over the 46 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.24; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.42, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.10. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    Paris FC at home: 2.33 pts/match versus 1.83 overall over 3 matches → ×1.074
    Stade Rennais away: 1.50 pts/match versus 2.17 overall over 2 matches → ×0.938
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λParis FC = 1.47 × 0.95 × 1.07 × 1.10 × 1.074 = 1.76
    λStade Rennais = 1.47 × 1.18 × 0.73 × 0.938 = 1.18
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 50.9%, draw 23.5%, away win 25.6% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-1 (only 11.0%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers
  • Kilian Belazzoug
  • Nicolas Lemaître
  • Brice Samba
Defenders
  • Abdelhamid Ait Boudlal
  • Junior Aké
  • Kenny Assignon
  • Lilian Brassier
  • Charlie Richard Cresswell
  • Arsène Jonathan Do Marcolino Rogombe
  • Przemyslaw Adam Frankowski
  • Gonçalo Calisto de Oliveira
  • Issa Habri
  • Ruben Lomet
  • Quentin Merlin
  • Mohamadou Aboubakar Nagida
  • Bryan Keith Reynolds
  • Anthony Rouault
  • Alidu Seidu
  • Isiaka Soukouna
  • Yaël Thébault
  • Florian Truffert
Midfielders
  • Ludovic Blas
  • Mahdi Camara
  • Mohamed Chebbi
  • Djaoui Cissé
  • Henrick Do Marcolino
  • Valentin RongierC
  • Ayanda Sishuba
  • Sebastian Szymanski
  • Adrien Thomasson
  • Chibuike Ugochukwu
Forwards
  • Mousa Al-Tamari
  • Amadou Kalabane Diallo
  • Djibril Diallo
  • Elias Quiñonez
  • Estéban Lepaul
  • Eliezer Mayenda
  • Arnaud Nordin
  • Issa Soumaré
Squad last verified on 30 Aug 2026 — source: deux-zero.com; captain confirmed by butfootballclub.fr (24/07/2026).

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026
DIRECT. Paris FC-Rennes: Follow the 7th day of Ligue 1 live match
Source: RMC Sport
rss18 Oct 2026
Stade Rennais: Quentin Merlin's new life... N2
Source: Foot Mercato
rss18 Oct 2026
Quentin Merlin, out of the group for the trip from Rennes to Paris FC, will be aligned in N2 at his request
Source: L'Équipe
rss18 Oct 2026
Mahamadou Nagida, a profile at the Nuno Mendes in Rennes: "He never doubtes, does not fear pressure"
Source: L'Équipe
rss17 Oct 2026
Blas challenges Juve: "The Rennes will play to win." And that precedent. .
Source: Tuttosport
rss17 Oct 2026
Benfica is again appointed the French goalkeeper of Rennes
Source: Notícias ao Minuto — Desporto
Institutional3 Sep 2026
Rennes city council replied to the club's president by stating that its discussions with the club “concern the extension of the current stadium” and that it is not aware of any other project, restating its commitment to enlarging the Roazhon Park.
Source: Stade Rennais Online
Other3 Sep 2026
The refereeing authority has upheld the penalty awarded to Rennes in the 96th minute against Le Mans: Noa Boissé's arm, on an acrobatic effort from Arnaud Nordin, “artificially increased the area covered by his body” and deflected the ball. Romain Lissorgue had played on before going to the VAR monitor.
Source: Stade Rennais Online
Club3 Sep 2026
Signed on loan from Lazio on deadline day, Boulaye Dia declared himself immediately available: “I am ready to play regularly.”
Source: Stade Rennais Online
Institutional2 Sep 2026
Executive president Nicolas de Tavernost has revived the new stadium project: “The Pinault family is ready to invest in a stadium in Rennes,” referring to the plan for around 45,000 seats proposed in June 2024 on the La Barre-Thomas site, entirely funded by the owning family. He also stated that “Rennes is not for sale” and set the ambition: “The objective is first of all to be a European club,” a finish outside the top five being a disappointment.
Source: Stade Rennais Online
Club2 Sep 2026
Rennes's window is judged ambitious but imperfect: around €36.8m invested against close to €97m banked, with an attack judged insufficiently stocked after Breel Embolo's departure, and the unresolved situations of Djaoui Cissé and Alidu Seidu.
Source: But! Football Club
Institutional1 Sep 2026
The LFP has scheduled three consecutive Rennes fixtures on Sundays at 17:15: Rennes-Auxerre on 11 October, Paris FC-Rennes on 18 October and Rennes-Strasbourg on 25 October, a run made demanding by the alternation with Europa League matches against OFI Crete and Juventus.
Source: Stade Rennais Online
Transfers1 Sep 2026
Jonathan Do Marcolino has officially been transferred to FC Annecy, in Ligue 2, with Stade Rennais retaining a buy-back priority on the player.
Source: Stade Rennais Online
Transfers1 Sep 2026
Boulaye Dia was loaned to Stade Rennais by Lazio on the last day of the summer window.
Source: Orange Sport
Transfers31 Aug 2026
Lilian Brassier has joined Eintracht Frankfurt, a departure that forms part of a summer in which Rennes generated close to €97m in sales, including €63.6m for Jérémy Jacquet to Liverpool.
Source: Eurofootnews
Result30 Aug 2026
Stade Rennais took their first win of the season against Le Mans (3-2), thanks to an Esteban Lepaul brace, including a stoppage-time penalty, and a goal from Valentin Rongier.
Source: Foot Mercato
News last verified on 18 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.