Queen's Park Football Club is based in Glasgow, Scotland. The club is currently the only fully amateur club in the Scottish Professional Football League and is the oldest association football club in Scotland, having been founded in 1867. Queen's Park is also the only Scottish football club to have played in the FA Cup Final, in 1884 and 1885. The club's home is a UEFA Category five star plus stadium, the all-seated Hampden Park in South East Glasgow, which is also the home of the Scottish national team. Queen's Park has won the Scottish Cup the third most times of any club, behind Celtic and Rangers. These victories came in the early years of the competition when QPFC were regarded as the leaders in their field, rather like the historic Corinthians and The Wanderers in England, from the 19th century. Indeed the Scottish national side was occasionally made up entirely by players from the one club!
'Hampden' is one of the great homes of football and celebrated its centenary on 31 October 2003. The stadium also houses the offices of the Scottish Football Association.
Hampden Park was the largest stadium in the world until 1950, when the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro was completed. After the release of the Taylor Report in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster, among other football tragedies, Hampden Park was converted to an all-seater. The current capacity is 52,025, although Queen's Park's average league attendance is around 750.
Outside of Hampden Park sits a smaller, lesser known ground called Lesser Hampden, a 3G pitch, where the club's youth teams play. Due to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, Queen's Park has had to move its home games to Airdrieonian's Excelsior Stadium.
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