THE OLDEST SCOTTISH CLUB

Queen's Park FC is a Scottish amateur football club, the oldest in Scotland (since 1867), that has played its home matches at Hampden Park since 1873. This stadium is a 51,800 seater stadium, obviously far too big for a Scottish league club playing in Division Two.The Scottish FA want Queen's Park out of Hampden as soon as possible so  they can get on with using the stadium for more prestigious football matches and QP may benefit from a £5 million sale..

The Scottish FA are hooking up with the Glasgow City Council to make things work. The Council invested money into the stadium in the 1990s and is represented on the Hampden Park Ltd board.

Named after a Scottish Civil War hero, John Hampden, the stadium presently hosts Scottish national matches, rugby, concerts and the like, to help pay for its existence.

Queens Park now play at the Lesser Hampden, having been there since the 1920s, a ground virtually on the same site as its "big brother". In fact there have been three Hampdens, but that's another story

Located in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, the stadium once held a 149,415 crowd for a Scotland v England international in 1937. Located at its present site since October 31st 1903, it was built as the biggest stadium in the world and could hold 150,000 by the 1930s.

The capacity has been reduced to 80,000 and the stadium was fully renovated in 1999. It also is the home of the Scottish FA, the Scottish FA Hall of Fame, and the Scottish National Football Museum.

Since September 2018, the Scottish FA agreed to buy the stadium from Queen's Park when the lease runs out in 2020, the intention to ensure the future of the country's national stadium.

Murrayfield Stadium waits in the shadows, in case things don't work out and the rugby stadium has already hosted some Scottish football, including Celtic's European matches in 2014, as well as other events such, European Rugby, Edinburgh Pro 14 and Heart of Midlothian when their stadium was being renovated and various rock concerts.

Here are the Queen's Park Club;
1874 Scottish FA Cup winners.
Remember that Queen's Park (The Spiders) also won the English FA Cup in 1884 and 1885.
 "Ludere Causa Ludendi"....."To Play for the Sake of Playing".
True amateurs.