FC Queen's Park

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FC Queen's Park
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Basic data
Surname Queen's Park Football Club
Seat Glasgow
founding July 9, 1867
Board ScotlandScotland James Hastie
Website queensparkfc.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach ScotlandScotland Gus MacPherson
Venue Hampden Park
Places 52,500
league Scottish League Two
2019/20 5th place Scottish League Two
home
Away

The FC Queen's Park (officially: Queen's Park Football Club ) is a Scottish football club from Glasgow with a long history and tradition, which today is the only amateur club in the Scottish Football League plays. He plays his home games in Hampden Park , the same stadium where the Scottish national team plays their games. The club was responsible for including slats on football goals , free kicks and halves in the rules. A trip to Ireland to play the Caledonians attracted so much attention that the first Irish football team was formed shortly afterwards - Cliftonville FC . Queen's Park is the third most successful club in the Scottish Cup after Celtic and the Rangers with ten titles won. The amateur status of Queens Park is also reflected in the club's motto: "Ludere causa Ludendi" - "To play for the sake of the game".

After relegation in the 2017/18 season , the club plays in the fourth-class Scottish League Two .

Club history

Queen's Park, also known as The Hoops or The Spiders , was founded on July 9th, 1867, making it the oldest club in Scotland. At that time there was no set of rules and the association developed its own. Under these rules, those of Queen's Park, the first international match between Scotland and England took place on November 30, 1872. The Scottish team consisted exclusively of players from the QPFC. The jerseys were blue, as they can still be found on the Scottish national team today. The game ended with a 0-0 in front of 4,000 spectators.

Queens Park 1874

In 1872 they were invited to the English FA Cup for the first time , only one year later the Scottish Football Association was founded and the Scottish Cup brought into being. Queen's Park was a founding member of the Scottish Football Association. The home jerseys were also changed in 1873, from the traditional blue to black and white horizontal stripes, which gave the club its nickname The Hoops . In 1874, the first success in the club's history was celebrated by winning the Scottish Cup. This triumph could be repeated two more times in the two following years and thus won the trophy three times in a row. The same feat was achieved again from 1880 to 1882, before the trophy was won for the last and 10th time in 1893. In 1884 and 1885 they took part again in the English FA Cup. Both times they reached the finals, but were subject to the Blackburn Rovers .

From 1900 it was no longer particularly successful. Which was probably mainly due to the fact that the club rejected any form of professionalism in the game, former professional players from other teams were not allowed to play at Queen's Park. In 1890 the club refused to join the newly formed Scottish League. The club also feared that the league could dominate the sport and bring about the downfall of the smaller clubs. While that proves to be true today, six of the league's founding members ceased to exist soon after it was founded. Queen's Park was neglected by the league, so in 1900 they took the opportunity to join. The club was given special treatment by the league, not only were they the only amateur club, they were also exempt from relegation to the Second Division until 1922 .

The last notable successes were winning the Second Division in 1923 and 1956.

It wasn't until the 1990s that former professional players were allowed to play for the club, which allowed many of the better players to play for Queen's Park. It was only under the influence of coach John McCormack that the club's management allowed players to be loaned from professional clubs.

At the end of the 2006/07 season, after six years of third division promotion to the Scottish Football League Second Division. In 2008, as eighth, they narrowly escaped relegation, which then had to be started a year later after a lost play-off game.

Fans and support

Queen's Park fans are known to travel to the away games in large numbers, considering the size of the club. Traditionally, the fans come from the southeast of Glasgow and are less religious than the two big Glasgow clubs Celtic and Rangers .

Since 2005 there has been a friendship with the SG Wattenscheid 09 . This came about during a training camp in Wattenscheid .

A little more than 50 years ago, the Queen's Park Supporters Association was founded, a kind of fan association with the aim of sharing the common interest in the club. The number of members has increased steadily over the past few years. In addition to outbound trips and the fan shop, the association also looks after the club's television. You can see the highlights of the games on the club website. This service is a rarity in Scotland's lower leagues.

Although on average only 750 fans attend the league games, FC Queen's Park plays its home games in Hampden Park, which has 52,500 seats.

Stadion

The Clubhouse of Hampden Park Second, 1889

The first Hampden Park was established from 1872 to 1873 and the first game took place on October 25, 1873. Queens Park played against Dumbreck in the Scottish Cup. The first final of the Scottish Cup competition also took place in Hampden Park in 1874. A proposed extension of a railway line to Cathcart, forced the Hoops to change stadiums in 1883. For a year they played in Titwood Park at Clydesdale FC . In 1884 they moved to the new stadium, which was also named Hampden Park and was not far from the old Hampden Park. It was a multifunctional stadium with turnstiles at the entrance. It was the first of its kind. The first final of a cup competition between Celtic and Rangers later took place in this stadium. The second Hampden Park Stadium was later sold to Third Lanark and renamed Cathkin Park .

In the late 1890s this stadium became too small due to the large number of spectators and planning for a new stadium began. A twelve-acre farmland was bought on Mount Florida and the third and current Hampden Park was built. The first game took place on October 31, 1903, between Queen's Park FC and Celtic Glasgow.

The stadium is named after John Hampden , an English politician from Westminster .

successes

Championships

Cup competitions

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useful information

  • When the name came up when the association was founded, there were many suggestions. So among others The Celts , The Northern and Morayshire , which indicates an influence of the Highlands . The Queen's Park FC proposal ultimately won with a majority of one vote.
  • The old farmhouse near Lesser Hampden , used as a changing room and clubhouse for the reserve and youth, is now considered by football historians to be the oldest surviving football building in the world.
  • Queen's Park became the first team in Scotland to have a live televised game in 1951.
  • In 1922 the club donated the trophy for the Queen's Park Shield cup competition .

Records

  • Biggest win: 16-0 against St. Peters in the Scottish Cup in 1885
  • Biggest defeat: 0: 9 against FC Motherwell in 1930
  • Record attendance: 95,722 against the Glasgow Rangers in the Scottish Cup in 1930

Web links

Commons : FC Queen's Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Queen's Park FC website about the establishment ( Memento of May 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  2. ↑ Queen's Park FC website about the international match ( Memento from May 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. ↑ Information about the association on the Queen's Park FC website ( Memento from May 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  4. ↑ Information on the history of Hampden Park at hampdenroar.org.uk  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hampdenroar.org.uk  
  5. ↑ Information about the stadium on the club website ( Memento from May 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)