List of Queen's Park F.C. seasons

This is a list of Queen's Park Football Club seasons up to the present day. The list details Queen's Park's record in major league and cup competitions, and the club's top league goal scorer of each season. Top scorers in bold were also the top scorers in Queen's Park's division that season. Records of regular minor competitions such as the Glasgow Cup are only included for seasons where the club reached a final.

Summary

 

Chart of yearly table positions of Queen's Park in the Scottish league system.

Queen's Park is the oldest football club in Scotland, founded in 1867. They were the nation's earliest dominant force, winning 10 Scottish Cups over the competition's first two decades, providing many players to the Scotland national football team (including all 11 players for the first official international match in 1872) and also playing in the English FA Cup final on two occasions in the 1880s when Scottish teams were permitted to enter.^[1][2] Determined to maintain an amateur ethos at the club, they declined to participate in the Scottish Football League when it launched in 1890,^[3] eventually joining ten years later – by which time professionalism had been adopted and standards raised among their competitors, most prominently Glasgow rivals Celtic and Rangers who soon began to eclipse the Spiders' success and popularity. Despite their diminishing status, in an ambitious 1903 project the club constructed the world's largest stadium, Hampden Park (their third home ground bearing that name) which became the national stadium for cup finals and Scotland fixtures, though still proudly owned by the amateurs.^[1][2]

Although no longer making an impact on the Scottish Cup and consistently among the lower-ranked sides in Division One (any successful period would usually result in all the best players quickly being signed by professional clubs, with no financial incentive to entice them to stay meaning there was never much chance to build and maintain a strong squad), with the exception of one year Queen's Park still maintained their top level status until after World War II, but after a relegation in 1948 they only returned to the elite group for two more seasons in the 1950s, and then fell towards the bottom of the lower tier, dropping into a third division when it was introduced in the 1970s and a fourth division in the 1990s, remaining there since and playing home matches at a modernised, near-empty Hampden Park.^{[citation needed]}

With relegation out of the Scottish Professional Football League system having been introduced, in 2019 the club's members voted to turn professional in an effort to pull away from the lowest reaches of the setup and maintain greater control over the young players they trained, who had previously been allowed to move on for nothing.^[4] They also sold Hampden to the Scottish Football Association, using the funds to upgrade the adjacent training ground Lesser Hampden to become their regular match from 2021,^[5] having already built a new club pavilion there seven years earlier.^[6]

Seasons

Key

Champions

Runners-up

3rd / Semi-final

Promoted

Relegated

Season	League											Scottish Cup	League Cup	Other	Manager	Top league scorer(s)
	League	Div	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Pos					Name	Goals
1871–72	N/A^[a]											N/A^[b]	N/A^[c]	FA Cup Semi-final	-	N/A
1872–73														FA Cup Semi-final
1873–74												Winners		N/A
1874–75												Winners		N/A
1875–76												Winners		N/A
1876–77												Quarter-final		FA Cup Quarter-final Charity Cup Winners
1877–78												Third round		FA Cup Second round Charity Cup Winners
1878–79												Quarter-final		N/A
1879–80												Winners		FA Cup First round Charity Cup Winners
1880–81												Winners		FA Cup First round Charity Cup Winners
1881–82												Winners		FA Cup First round
1882–83^[d]												Quarter-final		FA Cup First round Charity Cup Winners
1883–84^[e]												Winners		FA Cup Runners-up Charity Cup Winners
1884–85^[f]												Third round		FA Cup Runners-up Charity Cup Winners
1885–86												Winners		FA Cup Second round
1886–87												Semi-final		FA Cup First round
1887–88												Semi-final		N/A
1888–89												Third round		Glasgow Cup Winners Charity Cup Runners-up
1889–90												Winners		Glasgow Cup Winners Charity Cup Runners-up
1890–91	Did not enter^[g]											Quarter-final		Charity Cup Winners
1891–92												Runners-up		N/A
1892–93												Winners		N/A
1893–94												Semi-final		Charity Cup Runners-up
1894–95												First round		N/A
1895–96	Glasgow League	−	6	1	0	5	8	17	−9	2	4th	Third round		Glasgow Cup Runners-up Charity Cup Runners-up		Unknown	Unknown
1896–97	Glasgow League	−	8	6	1	1	23	10	13	13	1st	First round		N/A		Robert Smyth McColl	Unknown
1897–98	Glasgow League	−	8	5	1	2	23	17	6	11	2nd	Third round		Glasgow Cup Runners-up Charity Cup Runners-up		Robert Smyth McColl	7
1898–99	Glasgow League	−	10	4	2	4	19	17	2	10	3rd	Third round		Sheriff of London Charity Shield Winners (shared) Glasgow Cup Winners		Robert Smyth McColl	8
1899–1900	Inter City League	−	10	2	1	7	9	23	−14	5	6th	Runners-up		N/A		Robert Smyth McColl	5
1900–01	Division One	1	20	7	3	10	33	37	−4	17	7th	Second round		N/A		Robert Smyth McColl / David Wilson	7
	Inter City League	−	10	1	1	8	6	28	−22	3	6th					Harry Reginald Dinsmore	3
1901–02	Division One	1	18	5	4	9	21	32	−11	14	8th	Third round		Glasgow Exhibition Cup Quarter-final		David Wilson / Thomas A. Bowie	4
	Inter City League	−	10	0	2	8	5	10	−5	2	6th					Willie Lennie / Harry Reginald Dinsmore	2
1902–03^[h]	Division One	1	22	5	5	12	33	48	−15	15	10th	First round		N/A		Alexander Ferguson Currie	Unknown
	Inter City League	−	8	1	0	7	11	23	−12	2	9th					Hugh Crawford Shaw	3
1903–04^[i]	Division One	1	26	6	9	11	28	47	−19	21	8th	First round		N/A		Peter Forbes Jones / Alexander McAllister	5
	Inter City League	−	5	2	1	2	5	4	1	5	−					Unknown	Unknown
1904–05	Division One	1	26	6	8	12	28	45	−17	20	12th	First round		N/A		David Wilson	5
	Glasgow League	−	8	3	1	4	9	12	−3	7	4th					Peter Forbes Jones / David Wilson / William Davidson	2
1905–06	Division One	1	30	5	4	21	41	88	−47	14	16th	Second round		Charity Cup Runners-up		William Davidson	8
	Glasgow League	−	5	1	0	4	4	9	−5	2	6th					John Dick / John S. Murphy / John Nicol / Johnny McLean	1
1906–07	Division One	1	34	9	6	19	51	66	−15	24	15th	Semi-final		N/A		Andy Armour	11
1907–08	Division One	1	34	7	8	19	54	84	−30	22	16th	Third round		Charity Cup Runners-up		Thomas Fitchie	15
1908–09	Division One	1	34	6	13	15	42	65	−23	25	15th	Third round		Edinburgh Exhibition Cup Semi-final		Harry Paul	8
1909–10	Division One	1	34	12	6	16	54	74	−20	30	14th	Third round		N/A		Robert Smyth McColl	17
1910–11	Division One	1	34	5	4	25	28	80	−52	14	18th	Second round		N/A		James Hamilton / George Ramsay	3
1911–12	Division One	1	34	8	9	17	29	53	−24	25	17th	Third round		N/A		John Clark	7
1912–13	Division One	1	34	5	3	26	34	88	−54	13	18th	Third round		N/A		Willie Walker	8
1913–14	Division One	1	38	10	9	19	52	84	−32	29	15th	Fourth round		N/A		Bob Morton	22
1914–15	Division One	1	38	4	5	29	27	90	−63	13	20th	N/A^[j]		War Fund Shield Quarter-final		Jim Walker / Alan Morton	4
1915–16	Scottish League	1	38	11	6	21	53	100	−47	28	18th			N/A		Bob Morton	15
1916–17	Scottish League	1	38	11	7	20	56	81	−25	29	18th			Charity Cup Runners-up		Robert Forsyth McDermid	11
1917–18	Scottish League	1	34	14	6	14	64	63	+1	34	7th			War Fund Shield Quarter-final		Bob Morton	15
1918–19	Scottish League	1	34	15	5	14	59	57	+2	35	8th			Victory Cup Second round Charity Cup Runners-up		Bob Morton	21
1919–20	Scottish League	1	42	14	10	18	67	73	−6	38	12th	Third round		Charity Cup Runners-up		John Barr Bell	25
1920–21	Scottish League	1	42	11	11	20	45	80	−35	33	19th	First round		N/A		Andy Fyfe	11
1921–22	Division One	1	42	9	10	23	38	82	−44	28	21st	Second round		Charity Cup Runners-up		Andy Fyfe	10
1922–23	Division Two	2	38	24	9	5	73	31	+42	57	1st	Third round		Charity Cup Runners-up		Russell Moreland	17
1923–24	Division One	1	38	11	9	18	43	60	−17	31	17th	Third round		N/A		James McAlpine	9
1924–25	Division One	1	38	11	9	18	50	72	−22	31	17th	Second round		N/A		Robert Gillespie	17
1925–26	Division One	1	38	15	4	19	70	81	−11	34	13th	Second round		Charity Cup Runners-up		Robert Rennie Milne Barr	15
1926–27	Division One	1	38	15	6	17	74	84	−10	36	12th	Second round		N/A		Laurie McBain	17
1927–28	Division One	1	38	12	6	20	69	80	−11	30	16th	Semi-final		Charity Cup Runners-up		Douglas McLelland	19
1928–29	Division One	1	38	18	7	13	100	69	+31	43	5th^[k]	Second round		Glasgow Cup Runners-up		Douglas McLelland	27
1929–30	Division One	1	38	15	4	19	67	80	−13	34	15th	First round	N/A	Douglas McLelland	19
1930–31	Division One	1	38	13	7	18	71	72	−1	33	13th	Second round	Charity Cup Runners-up	James McAlpine	19
1931–32	Division One	1	38	13	5	20	59	79	−20	31	16th	Second round	Glasgow Cup Runners-up	James McAlpine / John Dodds	13
1932–33	Division One	1	38	17	7	14	78	79	−1	41	9th	Second round	Charity Cup Runners-up	John Dodds	30
1933–34	Division One	1	38	13	5	20	65	85	−20	31	15th	Second round	N/A	John Dodds	20
1934–35	Division One	1	38	13	10	15	61	80	−19	36	12th	Second round	Charity Cup Runners-up	John Dodds	27
1935–36	Division One	1	38	11	10	17	58	75	−17	32	13th	First round	N/A	John Dodds	17
1936–37	Division One	1	38	9	12	17	51	77	−26	30	15th	Second round	Charity Cup Runners-up	Joseph Kyle	15
1937–38	Division One	1	38	11	12	15	59	74	−15	34	12th	Second round	N/A	William Martin	30
1938–39	Division One	1	38	11	5	22	57	83	−26	27	19th	Second round	N/A	Joseph Kyle	18
1939–40	Division Two	2	4	1	3	0	7	5	+2	5	−	N/A^[j]	Emergency Cup First round Glasgow Cup Runners-up	Joseph Kyle	3
	Emergency League West^[l]	-	30	7	7	16	55	82	−27	21	14th			Joseph Kyle	22
1940–41	Southern League^[l]	-	30	6	3	21	46	79	−33	15	16th		Southern League Cup Group stage	Summer Cup First round^[8]	William Browning	11
1941–42	Southern League^[l]	-	30	11	5	14	55	56	−1	27	10th		Southern League Cup Group stage	Summer Cup First round^[8]	David Wilkie	13
1942–43	Southern League^[l]	-	30	7	4	19	55	76	−21	18	14th		Southern League Cup Group stage	Summer Cup Second round^[8]	Arthur Dixon	16
1943–44	Southern League^[l]	-	30	10	6	14	64	75	−11	26	11th		Southern League Cup Group stage	Summer Cup First round^[8]	Arthur Dixon / Johnny Aitkenhead	13
1944–45	Southern League^[l]	-	30	12	4	14	60	62	−2	28	10th		Southern League Cup Semi-final	Summer Cup Second round^[8]	Arthur Dixon	15
1945–46	Southern League A Division^[l]	-	30	11	8	11	60	60	0	30	8th		Southern League Cup Group stage	Victory Cup First round Glasgow Cup Winners	Colin Liddell	15
1946–47	Division A	1	30	8	6	16	47	60	−13	22	13th	Third round	Group stage	N/A	Andrew Irving Aitken	14
1947–48	Division A	1	30	9	2	19	45	75	−30	20	16th	Third round	Group stage	N/A	Andrew Irving Aitken	11
1948–49	Division B	2	30	14	7	9	66	49	+17	35	5th	First round	Group stage	Supplementary Cup First round	Robert Hugh Gunn	21
1949–50	Division B	2	30	12	7	11	63	59	+4	31	9th	First round	Group stage	Supplementary Cup First round	Derek Grierson	17
1950–51	Division B	2	30	13	7	10	56	53	+3	33	6th	Second round	Group stage	N/A	Derek Grierson	20
1951–52	Division B	2	30	8	4	18	40	62	−22	20	15th	Second round	Group stage	Saint Mungo Cup First round Supplementary Cup First round	Derek Grierson	15
1952–53	Division B	2	30	15	7	8	70	46	+24	37	3rd	Second round	Group stage	Charity Cup Runners-up	Seamus O'Connell	20
1953–54	Division B	2	30	9	9	12	56	51	+5	27	10th	First round	Group stage	N/A	Maxwell Murray	14
1954–55	Division B	2	30	15	5	10	65	36	+29	35	4th	Fourth round	Group stage	Charity Cup Runners-up	Robert Johnston McCann	15
1955–56	Division Two	2	36	23	8	5	78	28	+50	54	1st	Sixth round	Group stage	N/A	Charlie Church	17
1956–57	Division One	1	34	11	7	16	55	59	−4	29	13th	Sixth round	Group stage	Charity Cup Runners-up	Unknown	Unknown
1957–58	Division One	1	34	4	1	29	41	114	−73	9	18th	Third round	Group stage	N/A	Andrew P. McEwan	9
1958–59	Division Two	2	36	9	6	21	53	80	−27	24	18th	Second round	Group stage	N/A	Malcolm Darroch	8
1959–60	Division Two	2	36	17	2	17	65	79	−14	36	11th	Third round	Group stage	N/A	Charlie Church	13
1960–61	Division Two	2	36	10	6	20	61	87	−26	26	15th	First round	Group stage	N/A	Peter Buchanan	17
1961–62	Division Two	2	36	12	9	15	64	62	+2	33	12th	First round	Group stage	N/A	Peter Buchanan	24
1962–63	Division Two	2	36	13	6	17	66	72	−6	32	14th	Third round	Group stage	N/A	Peter Buchanan	18
1963–64	Division Two	2	36	17	4	15	57	54	+3	38	7th	Second round	Group stage	N/A	Peter Buchanan	23
1964–65	Division Two	2	36	17	9	10	57	41	+16	43	4th	Second round	Group stage	Glasgow Cup Runners-up	Malky Mackay	16
1965–66	Division Two	2	36	13	7	16	62	65	−3	33	13th	First round	Group stage	N/A	Malky Mackay	14
1966–67	Division Two	2	38	15	10	13	78	68	+10	40	7th	Third round	Group stage	N/A	Niall Hopper	13
1967–68	Division Two	2	36	20	8	8	76	47	+29	48	4th	Second preliminary round	Quarter-final	N/A	Ian Campbell	18
1968–69	Division Two	2	36	13	7	16	50	59	−9	33	11th	First round	Group stage	N/A	Ian Campbell	10
1969–70	Division Two	2	36	10	6	20	38	62	−24	26	15th	Second preliminary round	Group stage	N/A	Ian Whitehead	12
1970–71	Division Two	2	36	13	4	19	51	72	−21	30	14th	Third round	Group stage	N/A	Malky Mackay	8
1971–72	Division Two	2	36	12	9	15	47	61	−14	33	12th	Second round	Group stage	N/A	Malky Mackay	11
1972–73	Division Two	2	36	9	12	15	44	61	−17	30	14th	Second round	Group stage	N/A	Malky Mackay	9
1973–74	Division Two	2	36	12	4	20	42	64	−22	28	14th	Third round	Group stage	N/A	Ian Fallis	12
1974–75	Division Two	2	38	10	10	18	41	54	−13	30	16th^[m]	Fourth round	Group stage	N/A	David McParland	Malky Mackay / Hugh McGill	10
1975–76	Second Division	3	26	10	9	7	41	33	+8	29	4th	First round	Group stage	Spring Cup First round		Hugh McGill / Alexander Crawford McNaughton	8
1976–77	Second Division	3	39	17	11	11	65	51	+14	45	5th	Third round	Group stage	N/A	Joe Gilroy	Bernard Donnelly	15
1977–78	Second Division	3	39	13	15	11	52	51	+1	41	7th	Fifth round	Second round	N/A		Bernard Donnelly	7
1978–79	Second Division	3	39	8	12	19	46	57	−11	28	13th	Third round	Second round	N/A	Joe Gilrory → Eddie Hunter	John Ian Ballantyne	14
1979–80	Second Division	3	39	16	9	14	59	47	+12	41	5th	First round	Third round	N/A	Eddie Hunter	James Anthony Gillespie	21
1980–81	Second Division	3	39	16	18	5	62	43	+19	50	1st	First round	Second round	N/A		Gerard McCoy	17
1981–82	First Division	2	39	13	10	16	41	41	0	36	8th	Fifth round	Group stage	N/A		Gerald M. Crawley	9
1982–83	First Division	2	39	6	11	22	44	80	−36	23	14th	Fifth round	Group stage	N/A		Jimmy Gilmour	10
1983–84	Second Division	3	39	14	8	17	58	63	−5	36	10th	Third round	Second round	N/A		Lex Grant	17
1984–85	Second Division	3	39	12	9	18	48	55	−7	33	10th	Second round	First round	Glasgow Cup Runners-up		Jimmy Nicholson	18
1985–86	Second Division	3	39	19	8	12	61	39	+22	46	4th	Fourth round	First round	N/A		Gary Fraser	11
1986–87	Second Division	3	39	9	19	11	48	49	−1	37	9th	Second round	First round	N/A		Ross Caven	13
1987–88	Second Division	3	39	21	9	9	64	44	+20	51	3rd	Second round	Second round	N/A		Paul O'Brien	17
1988–89	Second Division	3	39	10	18	11	50	49	+1	38	7th	Third round	First round	N/A		George Campbell Crooks	8
1989–90	Second Division	3	39	13	10	16	40	51	−11	36	11th	First round	Second round	N/A		Michael Hendry	10
1990–91	Second Division	3	39	17	8	14	48	42	+6	42	5th	Second round	Second round	Challenge Cup First round		Michael Hendry	17
1991–92	Second Division	3	39	14	7	18	59	63	−4	35	9th	First round	Second round	Challenge Cup Second round		Stephen McCormick	17
1992–93	Second Division	3	39	8	12	19	51	73	−22	28	11th	First round	First round	Challenge Cup First round		James Rodden	9
1993–94	Second Division	3	39	12	10	17	52	76	−24	34	11th^[n]	First round	First round	Challenge Cup Second round		John O'Neill	17
1994–95	Third Division	4	36	12	6	18	46	57	−11	42	8th	Second round	First round	Challenge Cup First round	Eddie Hunter → Hugh McCann	Brian McPhee	8
1995–96	Third Division	4	36	12	12	12	40	43	−3	48	6th	Third round	First round	Challenge Cup First round	Hugh McCann	Scott Edgar	6
1996–97	Third Division	4	36	9	9	18	46	59	−13	36	8th	Third round	Second round	Challenge Cup First round		Daniel Ferry	7
1997–98	Third Division	4	36	10	11	15	42	55	−13	41	7th	Second round	First round	Challenge Cup First round	Graeme Elder	Scott Edgar	9
1998–99^[o]	Third Division	4	36	11	11	14	41	46	−5	44	6th	Third round	First round	N/A^[p]	John McCormack	Scott Edgar	7
1999–2000	Third Division	4	36	20	9	7	54	37	+17	69	1st	Second round	Second round	Challenge Cup quarter-finals		Mark Andrew Gallagher	13
2000–01	Second Division	3	36	10	10	16	28	40	−12	40	9th	Second round	Second round	Challenge Cup Second round		Mark Andrew Gallagher	7
2001–02	Third Division	4	36	9	8	19	38	53	−15	35	10th^[q]	Second round	First round	Challenge Cup First round		Stephen Canning / Ross Douglas Jackson	5
2002–03	Third Division	4	36	7	11	18	39	51	−12	32	8th	Third round	Second round	Challenge Cup Semi-final	John McCormack → Kenny Brannigan	John Gemmel	8
2003–04	Third Division	4	36	10	11	15	41	53	−12	41	7th	First round	Second round	Challenge Cup First round	Kenny Brannigan	Steven Reilly	7
2004–05	Third Division	4	36	13	9	14	51	50	+1	48	4th	Second round	First round	Challenge Cup Second round	Kenny Brannigan → Billy Stark	Frankie Carrol	14
2005–06	Third Division	4	36	13	12	11	47	42	+5	51	6th	Third round	Second round	Challenge Cup First round	Billy Stark	Mark Ferry	8
2006–07	Third Division	4	36	21	5	10	57	28	+29	68	3rd	First round	Third round	Challenge Cup Second round		David Weatherston	16
2007–08	Second Division	3	36	13	5	18	48	51	−3	44	8th	Third round	Second round	Challenge Cup Second round	Billy Stark → Gardner Speirs	Alan Trouten	12
2008–09	Second Division	3	36	7	12	17	35	54	−19	33	9th	Fifth round	First round	Challenge Cup First round	Gardner Speirs	Paul Cairney	7
2009–10	Third Division	4	36	15	6	15	42	42	0	51	4th	Second round	First round	Challenge Cup First round		Barry Douglas	8
2010–11	Third Division	4	36	18	5	13	57	43	+14	59	3rd	Second round	First round	Challenge Cup Second round		Jamie Longworth	12
2011–12	Third Division	4	36	19	6	11	70	48	+22	63	2nd	Fourth round	First round	Challenge Cup First round		Jamie Longworth	20
2012–13	Third Division	4	36	16	8	12	60	54	+6	56	3rd	Third round	Third round	Challenge Cup Second round		Lawrence Shankland	10
2013–14^[r]	League Two^[s]	4	36	5	9	22	36	68	−32	24	10th^[q]	Third round	First round	Challenge Cup First round	Gardner Speirs → Gus Macpherson	Eamonn Brophy	7
2014–15^[t]	League Two	4	36	17	10	9	51	34	+17	61	2nd	Third round	First round	Challenge Cup First round	Gus Macpherson	Paul Woods	9
2015–16	League Two	4	36	15	11	10	46	32	+14	56	4th	Third round	First round	Challenge Cup Semi-final		Paul Woods	11
2016–17	League One	3	36	12	10	14	37	51	−14	46	6th	Fourth round	Group stage	Challenge Cup Fourth round		Ross Millen	7
2017–18	League One	3	36	7	10	19	42	72	−30	31	9th	Third round	Group stage	Challenge Cup First round		Adam Cummins / Luke Donnelly / Aidan Keena	8
2018–19	League Two	4	36	11	10	15	44	47	−3	43	7th	Third round	Group stage	Challenge Cup Quarter-final	Gus Macpherson → Mark Roberts	David Galt / Lewis Hawke / Scott McLean	6
2019–20	League Two^[u]	4	28	11	7	10	37	35	+2	40	5th	Fourth round	Group stage	Challenge Cup First round	Mark Roberts → Ray McKinnon	Salim Kouider-Aïssa	13
2020–21^[v]	League Two^[w]	4	22	17	3	2	43	13	+29	54	1st	Second round	Group stage	N/A^[x]	Ray McKinnon	Bob McHugh / Simon Murray	6
2021–22^[y]	League One	3	36	11	18	7	51	36	+15	51	4th^[z]	Third round	Group stage	Challenge Cup Third round Glasgow Cup Runners-up	Laurie Ellis	Bob McHugh / Luca Connell	8
2022–23^[aa]	Championship	2	36	17	7	12	63	52	+11	58	3rd^[ab]	Fourth round^[ac]	Group stage	Challenge Cup Quarter-final	Owen Coyle	Simon Murray	18

Notes

1. the Scottish Football League was established in 1890.
2. the Scottish Cup was established in 1873.
3. the Scottish League Cup was established in 1946.
4. Last season playing home matches at first Hampden Park.
5. Home matches played at Titwood, Glasgow.
6. First season playing home matches at second Hampden Park.
7. The Scottish Football League began in 1890, but Queen's Park declined to enter until 1900.
8. Last season playing home matches at second Hampden Park.
9. First season playing home matches at (third) Hampden Park.
10. The Scottish Cup was not held in the 1914–15, 1915–16, 1916–17, 1917–18 or 1918–19 seasons due to World War I, or the 1939–40, 1940–41, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1943–44, 1944–45 or 1945–46 seasons due to World War II.^[7]
11. 5th place in the 1928–29 Scottish Division One is Queen's Park's highest-ever league finish.
12. The official Scottish Football League was suspended from 1939 to 1946 due to World War II. Unofficial competitions were held.
13. The teams placed 1st–6th were added to the new First Division (below a new Premier Division) with the remaining clubs making up the new Second Division.
14. The teams placed 7th–14th were relegated to a new Third Division.
15. Home games played at Lesser Hampden due to major redevelopment work at Hampden.
16. The Scottish Challenge Cup was not held in the 1998–99 season.
17. 10th place in the 2001–02 Scottish Third Division and in the 2013–14 Scottish League Two is Queen's Park's joint lowest-ever league finish.
18. Home matches in second part of season played at Excelsior Stadium, Airdrie due to repurposing of Hampden for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
19. The leagues were renamed for the 2013–14 season, but the divisions remained as before.
20. Home matches in first part of season played at Excelsior Stadium, Airdrie due to repurposing of Hampden for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
21. Season curtailed due to the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland.
22. Home matches to end of March 2021 played at Hampden Park, the remainder (6 fixtures) played at Falkirk Stadium; matches played behind closed doors due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
23. Season shortened due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
24. The Scottish Challenge Cup was not played in the 2020–21 season due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
25. Home matches played at Firhill Stadium, Glasgow due to redevelopment work at Lesser Hampden not being completed.
26. Promoted in play-offs.
27. Home matches played at Ochilview Park, Stenhousemuir due to redevelopment work at Lesser Hampden not being completed. Two fixtures played at Hampden Park.
28. Eliminated in promotion play-offs.
29. Qualified for quarter-finals in tie, but disqualified for using ineligible player.

League performance summary

The Scottish Football League was founded in 1890 and, other than during seven years of hiatus during World War II,^[a] the national top division has been played every season since.^[b] The following is a summary of Queen's Park's divisional status:^[9]

• 125 total eligible seasons (including 2021–22)
• 42 seasons in top level^[c]
• 28 seasons in second level^[d]
• 23 seasons in third level^[e]
• 22 seasons in fourth level^[f]
• 10 seasons not involved – before club was league member

1. The incomplete 1939–40 edition has not been counted in the totals.
2. The top tier became the Scottish Premier League in 1998, and all four divisions became the Scottish Professional Football League in 2013.
3. Has existed between 1890–1939, and since 1946.
4. Has existed between 1893–1915, 1921–1939 and since 1946.
5. Has existed between 1923–1926, 1946–1949, and since 1976.
6. Has existed since 1994.

References

1. The Tiny Club, the Giant Stadium and the Deal Driving Them Apart, Rory Smith, New York Times, 21 December 2018
2. 'Lundere causa ludendi', Ignasi Torne, Panenka magazine, 29 January 2017, via Stuart Spencer / Scottish Football Museum
3. New claims show Queen's Park refused to go pro over love for Hampden Park cash, Gordon Blackstock, Daily Record, 26 April 2020
4. Scotland's oldest side Queen's Park to turn professional after 152 years, Sky Sports, 14 December 2019
5. Hampden Sale Completed, Queen's Park FC, 4 August 2020
6. Lesser Hampden J.B. McAlpine Pavillion Construction, QPFC.com
7. "Scottish Cup - Past Winners". Scottish Football Association. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
8. . Scottish Football Historical Archive. Archived from the original on 11 August 2018. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
9. (Queen's Park) Competition History (By Season), FitbaStats

External links

• History at Queen's Park FC official website
• Soccerbase
• FitbaStats
• Football Club History Database
• Playing Records at QPFC.com