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Full name | Queen's Park Football Club | |||
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Nickname(s) | The Spiders | |||
Founded | 9 July 1867 | |||
Ground | Hampden Park, Glasgow | |||
Capacity | 51,866 | |||
President | Graeme Shields | |||
Head coach | Callum Davidson | |||
League | Scottish Championship | |||
2023–24 | Scottish Championship, 8th of 10 | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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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 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]
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