QUEEN'S PARK

No, not Rangers or "of the South", this was the first club to be formed in Scotland and naturally with little opposition, they found life a little lonely. They took part in the English FA Cup and reach the finbal twice! There was not much opposition at tghat time, so maybe they had a false sense of security? Keen to remedy this, the club managers put an advertisement in the local newspaper and they were joined in the Dewar's Hotel by Clydesdale (River Clyde?? you know about that?), Vale of Leven, Dumbreck, Third Lanark, Eastern and Granville.

Kilmarnock sent their apologies, but those that said YES, formed the Scottish Football Association on this day, March 13th in 1873.

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 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.

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. 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. 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, 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 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.

The club badge since 1928.

The Queen's Park Football Club was founded on 9 July 1867 with the words: "Tonight at half past eight o'clock a number of gentlemen met at No. 3 Eglinton Terrace for the purpose of forming a football club."^[8]

Gentlemen from the local YMCA took part in football matches in the local Glasgow area which gave the club its name. During the inaugural meeting, debate raged over the club's name. Proposals included: 'The Celts'; 'The Northern', and 'Morayshire'. Perhaps such choice of names suggest a Highland influence within the new club. After much deliberation, 'Queen's Park' was adopted and carried, but only by a majority of one vote. Although Queen's was not the first club in Britain, that honour going to Edinburgh's Foot-Ball Club, formed in 1824, they can certainly claim to be the first Association club in Scotland. Opposition first came in the form of a now defunct Glaswegian side called Thistle FC. and Queen's won 2–0 on 1 August 1868.

On 30 November 1872, Scotland played England at the West of Scotkand Cricket ground, at Hamilton Crescent. For the one and only time, all eleven Scots players were from Queen's Park and they wore blue jerseys, as those were the current colours of Queen's. 4,000 spectators watched.

Remember, Queen's Park formed the Scottish FA on 13 March 1873, with eight other clubs. The match against Dumbreck on 25 October, was the first match to be played at Hampden Park. It was also the first match which saw Queen's Park players wear their custom black and white hooped jerseys, which lent the club the nickname of 'The Spiders'. Dabvid Wotherspoon, a Queen's Park player and committee member, has been credited with the introduction of the black and white hoops. Most importantly, it was the first Scottish Cup tie and Scottish competitive match for the club and Queen's won 7–0. In the final, Queen's defeated Clydesdale 2–0 at Hampden.