Queen's Park F.C.
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Queen's Park Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Glasgow. It is the oldest association football club in Scotland, having been founded in 1867, and is the 10th-oldest in the world. The team play in the Scottish Championship, the second tier of the Scottish football pyramid. The club was fully amateur for the first 152 years and for many years was the only fully amateur club in the Scottish professional leagues, until its membership voted to end that status in November 2019. The club's amateur status was reflected by its Latin motto, 'Ludere Causa Ludendi' – 'To Play for the Sake of Playing'. 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 until 2021, the club's home has been Hampden Park in south-east Glasgow, a Category 4 stadium which is also the home of the Scotland national team. The club have alternated 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. The team have played in white and black hoops as shirt colours for the vast majority of the club's existence.
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| Year | Manufacturer | Sponsor |
| 1867–1977 | Own Brand | N/A |
| 1977–1989 | Bukta | Granyte Paints (1988–89) |
| 1989–1994 | Umbro | N/A |
| 1994–2001 | Le Coq Sportif | Irn-Bru (1996–2022) |
| 2001–2003 | Fila | |
| 2003–2006 | Diadora | |
| 2006–2013 | Joma | |
| 2013–2020 | Under Armour | |
| 2020–2022 | Admiral | |
| 2022–2023 | Macron | Scotts |
| 2023– | Adidas | City Facilities Management |
| Year | Averageattendance | Stadium |
| 2010/11 | 566 | Hampden Park |
| 2011/12 | 519 | |
| 2012/13 | 2,803 | |
| 2013/14 | 402 | Excelsior Stadium |
| 2014/15 | 509 | Hampden Park |
| 2015/16 | 518 | |
| 2016/17 | 566 | |
| 2017/18 | 688 | |
| 2018/19 | 573 | |
| 2019/20 | 583 | |
| 2020/21 | 0 | Falkirk Stadium |
| 2021/22 | 593 | Firhill Stadium |
| 2022/23 | 911 | Ochilview Park |
| 2023/24 | 1,798 | Hampden Park |
| 2024/25 | 1,608 | Hampden Park |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | ENG | Calum Ferrie |
| 2 | DF | SCO | Zach Mauchin |
| 3 | DF | ENG | Henry Fieldson |
| 4 | DF | SCO | Euan Murray (captain) |
| 5 | DF | ENG | Charlie Fox (vice-captain) |
| 6 | DF | AUS | Nikola Ujdur |
| 7 | FW | SCO | Louis Longridge |
| 8 | MF | SCO | Roddy MacGregor |
| 9 | FW | SCO | Michael Ruth |
| 10 | MF | SCO | Grant Savoury |
| 11 | MF | SCO | Aidan Connolly |
| 12 | DF | SCO | Carlo Pignatiello |
| 14 | FW | ENG | Josh Fowler |
| 15 | DF | SCO | Darryl Carrick |
| 16 | MF | SCO | Ricky Waugh |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | MF | SCO | Tyrece McDonnell |
| 18 | FW | SCO | Aiden McGinlay |
| 19 | FW | SCO | Timam Scott |
| 21 | MF | SCO | Ross Mclean |
| 22 | DF | SCO | Matthew Shiels |
| 23 | FW | CAN | Josiah Sowa |
| 24 | MF | SCO | Michael Collie |
| 26 | DF | SCO | Rocco Friel (on loan from QPR) |
| 27 | GK | SCO | Archie Aitchison |
| 28 | FW | ENG | Seb Drozd |
| 29 | MF | SCO | Liam McLeish |
| 30 | GK | SCO | Jack Wills |
| 31 | GK | POL | Milosz Sliwinski |
| 33 | DF | SCO | Cole Burke |
| 50 | GK | SCO | Coupar Wilkie |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | MF | SCO | Jamie Bradley (on loan at Clyde) |
| 34 | FW | SCO | Conor Falls (on loan at Cumbernauld Colts) |
| 44 | DF | SCO | Magnus Mackenzie (on loan at East Kilbride) |
| Position | Name |
| Head coach | Sean Crighton |
| Assistant head coach | Jim Duffy |
| Goalkeeping coach | David Scott |
| Head of recruitment | David Stevenson |
| Performance analyst | Declan Tobin |
| Head physiotherapist | Jorge Pismante |
| Head of sport science | Ross Banks |
| Club doctors | Simon GibsonKevin Thomson |
| Academy director | Tommy McIntyre |
| U19s head coach | Charley King |
| U17s head coach | Lee Mitchell |
| Year | Name |
| 1908–1928 | John Nutt |
| 1928–1946 | Bert Manderson |
| 1946–1963 | Willie Gibson |
| 1963–1965 | Eddie Turnbull |
| 1965–1969 | Harold Davis |
| 1969–1974 | Tommy Duncan |
| 1974–1976 | Davie McParland |
| 1976–1979 | Joe Gilroy |
| 1979–1994 | Eddie Hunter |
| 1994–1997 | Hugh McCann |
| 1997–1998 | Graeme Elder |
| 1998–2002 | John McCormack |
| 2002–2004 | Kenny Brannigan |
| 2004–2008 | Billy Stark |
| 2008–2013 | Gardner Speirs |
| 2014–2018 | Gus MacPherson |
| 2018–2019 | Mark Roberts |
| 2019–2021 | Ray McKinnon |
| 2021–2022 | Laurie Ellis |
| 2022 | Gardner Speirs |
| 2022–2023 | Owen Coyle |
| 2023 | Robin Veldman |
| 2024–2025 | Callum Davidson |
| 2025 | Steven MacLean |
| 2025– | Sean Crighton |
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