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Addition - Scotland - Queen's Park F.C.

18.09.2007

Glasgow is the third largest city in United Kingdom and the largest one in Scotland. It is located in the Scottish west central lowlands on the River Clyde. It's industries include steel mills and shipyards. Many important Scottish companies have their headquarters in the city, thus making it one of Europe's top twenty financial centres.

Ludere causa ludendi - to play for the sake of playing - the motto of Queen's Park Football Club that has shaped much of the club's history. The oldest club in Scotland, Queen's Park have remained staunchly amateur since their foundation back in 1867.

Queen's Park are historically a very successful team. It took 8 years after the club's formation before they conceded a goal, marking perfectly just how dominant they were during the early Scottish football. In the first ever international football match, which was between Scotland and England in 1872, the Scotland squad was made up entirely of Queen's Park players. They wore their club jerseys, which were dark blue, and to this day the colour scheme has remained the first-choice for the Scotland national team.

Queen's Park - the Spiders - have won the Scottish Cup 10 times, with only Rangers and Celtic being more Victorious. The last (so far) time the Scottish Cup was won by Queen's Park, was over 100 years ago in 1893. Interestingly, the team took part even in the English FA Cup, and were runners up in 1884 and 1885, Blackburn Rovers proving to be better both times, before the Scottish FA prevented the club from playing in what they considered to be foreign competitions.

As more and more clubs became professional and the Scottish League was formed, Queen's Park's fortunes began to vane in the early 1900's. At first, relegation and promotion in the league was decided on votes by the clubs, so there was no real danger of relegation for the Spiders - Queen's Park attracted large crowds and the gate receipts were shared between the teams. After the advent of automatic promotion and relegation, Queen's Park went down for the first time when they finished the 1921/22 season in the relegation zone. Finally, the season 1957/58 was the latest one the Spiders have played on the highest level.

Queen's Park still plays home games at Hampden Park in south east Glasgow, as they have done through most of their history. Though the attendances the Spiders draw to the extravagant 52500 all seater Scottish national stadium are not what they used to be. The record crowd for Queen's Park, a whopping 95722, came when the club met Rangers in the Scottish Cup 1st Round match in 1930. Today the average attendance in games has been hovering around the 500 mark.

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