Queen's Park F.C.

Not to be confused with the New Zealand football club Queens Park AFC, the English football club Queens Park Rangers F.C. or the Welsh football club Gap Queens Park F.C..

Queen's Park
Full nameQueen's Park Football Club
Nickname(s)The Spiders
Founded9 July 1867; 157 years ago (9 July 1867)
GroundHampden Park, Glasgow
Capacity51,866
PresidentGraeme Shields
Head coachCallum Davidson
LeagueScottish Championship
2023–24Scottish Championship, 8th of 10
Websitewww.queensparkfc.co.uk Edit this at Wikidata
Current season

Queen's Park Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Glasgow, which plays in the Scottish Championship, the second tier of the Scottish football pyramid. Queen's Park is the oldest association football club in Scotland, having been founded in 1867, and is the 10th oldest in the world.[1]

The club was fully amateur for the first 152 years and has played in white and black hoops as shirt colours for the vast majority of its existence.[2] For many years, the club was the only fully amateur club in the Scottish professional leagues, until its membership voted to end that status in November 2019.[3][4] The club's amateur status was reflected by its Latin motto, 'Ludere Causa Ludendi' – 'To Play for the Sake of Playing'.[5]

Queen's Park is also the only Scottish football club to have played in the English FA Cup Final, achieving this feat in both 1884 and 1885. With 10 titles, Queen's Park has won the Scottish Cup the third most times of any club, behind only Celtic and Rangers, although their last such win was in 1893. Having also been the first winners, Queen's were the record holders of the Scottish Cup for 51 years until Celtic claimed the trophy for the 11th time in 1925.

For over a century, the club's home has been Hampden Park in south-east Glasgow, a Category 4 stadium[6] which is also the home of the Scotland national team. The club alternate playing games there with playing at their previous reserve and training ground adjacent to the main stadium, Lesser Hampden, with plans to fully redevelop it into a 1,774-seat stadium.[7]

  1. ^ "Scottish Football Association: The Scottish FA: Football in Scotland". The Scottish FA. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  2. ^ "Queen's Park - Historical Football Kits". Historicalkits.co.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  3. ^ Bienkowski, Stefan (14 November 2019). "Queen's Park: Scotland's oldest club vote to go professional after 152 years as amateurs". BBC Sport. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  4. ^ Davenport, Sean (14 November 2019). "Historic vote for change at Queen's Park Football Club". The Queen's Park Football Club. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  5. ^ "To play for the sake of playing". The Herald. 20 January 2009. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  6. ^ Database, World Stadium. "List of UEFA Category 4 Stadiums". www.worldstadiumdatabase.com. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  7. ^ "Glasgow Football Club Kick Off 1,700-Seater Stadium Plan". reGlasgow. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2020.