Association football clubhouse in Shepherd ‘s Bush, England
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Football club

Queens Park Rangers Football Club, normally abbreviated to QPR, is an english professional football club based in Shepherd ‘s Bush, West London. The club presently competes in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. They were founded in 1886 after the fusion of Christchurch Rangers and St Judes Institute, although their official initiation date is 1882 which is when Christchurch Rangers were first formed. In the early years after the clubhouse ‘s formation in its master home plate of Queen ‘s Park, London, they played their home games at many different grounds, until finally the club settled into its current placement at Loftus Road, renamed Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium at the beginning of the 2019–20 temper. [ 2 ] QPR ‘s most late season in the exceed escape was in 2014–15. The club ‘s achievements include winning the League Cup in 1967, and they were FA Cup finalists in 1982. [ 2 ] Their highest ever league finish was achieved in 1975–76 when they were runner-up in the First Division, now known as the Premier League, and qualified for Europe for the first fourth dimension, reaching the quarter-finals of the 1976–77 UEFA Cup. QPR have long-standing rivalries with respective other clubs in the West London area. The most celebrated of these are Chelsea and Fulham. [ 2 ]

history [edit ]

The baseball club was formed in 1886, when a team known as St Jude’s ( formed in 1884 ) merged with Christchurch Rangers ( formed in 1882 ). [ 3 ] The resulting team was called Queen ‘s Park Rangers and their official formation date is considered to be 1882, which is the original establish date of Christchurch Rangers. The club ‘s name came from the fact most of the players came from the Queen ‘s Park area of northwest London. St Jude ‘s Institute on Ilbert Street W10 is still in use as a community hall and in July 2011 cabaret picture Stan Bowles unveiled a brass celebrating its home in history. QPR became a master team in 1889. The club were elected into the Southern Football League in 1899. They first base won the Southern Football League in 1907–08. As Southern League champions that year, they played in the first ever Charity Shield equal, against the Football League champions, Manchester United. The clubhouse lost 0–4 in a replay after the first gear game had finished 1–1. Both games were played at Stamford Bridge. QPR were Southern League champions for a second time in 1911-12. The club joined the Football League in 1920, when the Third Division was formed, chiefly with Southern League clubs. When the Third Division was split into North and South the follow season, QPR, like most of the erstwhile Southern League clubs that had joined the Football League to form the Third Division, were in the Third Division ( South ). QPR played their family games in closely 20 different stadium ( a league record ), ahead permanently settling at Loftus Road in 1917, although the team would briefly try to attract larger crowd by playing at the White City Stadium for two short circuit spells : 1931 to 1933, and the 1962–63 season. [ 4 ]
Chart showing the progress of QPR ‘s league finishes from 1920–21 season to present The club were promoted as champions of Division 3 South in the 1947–48 season. Dave Mangnall was the coach as the club participated in four seasons of the Second Division, being relegated in 1951–52. Tony Ingham was signed from Leeds United and went on to make the most ever league appearances for QPR ( 519 ). arguably the club ‘s greatest ever director, [ 5 ] Alec Stock, arrived prior to the start of the 1959–60 temper. The 1960–61 season saw QPR achieve their biggest winnings to date : 9–2 vanadium Tranmere Rovers in a Division 3 couple. In clock time, Stock, together with Jim Gregory who arrived as chair in the mid-1960s, helped to achieve a total transformation of the club and its surroundings. In 1966–67, QPR won the Division Three championship and became the first Third Division cabaret to win the League Cup on Saturday, 4 March 1967, beating West Bromwich Albion 3–2, coming back from a two-goal deficit. It is still the only major trophy that QPR have won. It was besides the foremost League Cup concluding to be held at Wembley Stadium. After winning promotion in 1968 to the crown trajectory for the first fourth dimension in their history, Rangers were relegated after just one season and spent the following four years in Division Two. Terry Venables joined from Spurs at the beginning of the 1969–70 season and Rodney Marsh was sold to Manchester City. During this time, new QPR heroes emerged including Phil Parkes, Don Givens, Dave Thomas and Stan Bowles. These new signings were in summation to home-grown endowment such as Dave Clement, Ian Gillard, Mick Leach and Gerry Francis. In 1974, Dave Sexton joined as coach and, in 1975–76 led QPR to the runner-up spot in the First Division, missing out on the championship by one point with a team containing seven England internationals and internationals from the home nations. After completing their 42-game season, QPR sat at the crown of the league, one point ahead of Liverpool who went on to defeat Wolverhampton Wanderers to clinch the title. Wolves were relegated to the Second Division that lapp season. The recently 1970s besides saw some cup success with Rangers reaching the semi-finals of the League Cup and in their first base entry into european football reached the quarter finals of the UEFA Cup losing to AEK Athens on penalties. Following Sexton ‘s departure in 1977 the club finally slipped into the moment Division in 1979 .
In 1980, Terry Venables took over as coach and in 1981 the clubhouse installed an artificial turf pitch. In 1982 QPR, calm playing in the Second Division, reached the FA Cup Final for the only fourth dimension in the club ‘s history, facing holders Tottenham Hotspur. Tottenham won 1–0 in a replay. The follow season QPR went on to win the Second Division championship and returned to English football ‘s top division. After a respectable fifth-place polish, and UEFA Cup qualification, the trace class, Venables departed to become director of Barcelona. In 1988 the club had a new president, 24-year-old Richard Thompson. Over the next seven years, respective managers came and went from Loftus Road and the club spent many seasons finishing mid table but avoided relegation. The most successful season during this period was the 1987–88 season in which QPR finished fifth, missing out on a UEFA Cup crusade due to the prohibition on English clubs in european competition as a resultant role of the Heysel Stadium catastrophe. They were besides runners up in the 1986 League Cup, losing to Oxford United .
QPR crest used from 1982 until 2008 Gerry Francis, a keystone player in the 1970s QPR side who had proved himself as a successful director with Bristol Rovers, was appointed coach in the summer of 1991. In the 1991–92 First Division campaign they finished mid-table in the league and were laminitis members of the new Premier League, finishing fifth, as top London club, in the 1992–93 inaugural address season. Francis oversaw one of QPR ‘s most celebrated victories, the 4–1 acquire at Old Trafford in front of live television receiver on New Year ‘s Day 1992. Midway through the 1994–95 temper Francis resigned and very cursorily became director of Tottenham Hotspur and Ray Wilkins was installed as player-manager. Wilkins led QPR to an eighth-place coating in the Premiership. In July 1995 the cabaret ‘s circus tent goalscorer, Les Ferdinand, was sold for a club record fee of £6 million to Newcastle United. QPR struggled throughout the following season and were relegated at the end of the 1995–96 season. QPR then competed in Division 1 until 2001 under a succession of managers. Gerry Francis returned in 1998 ; however, the 2000–2001 season proved to be a calamity, and Francis resigned in early 2001 .
charismatic former player Ian Holloway became director, but was unable to stop Rangers from being relegated to England ‘s one-third tier for the first gear clock time for more than 30 years. Following the 2003–2004 season QPR returned to Division 1 and struggled for consistent form over the adjacent two campaigns before Holloway was suspended amidst rumor of his at hand departure for Leicester City. A poor serial of results and miss of advance at the club saw Holloway ‘s successors Gary Waddock and former John Gregory – both early players – fail to hold on to the coach ‘s job. During this same period, QPR became embroiled in fiscal and boardroom controversy. Although the club had floated on the Alternative Investment Market in 1991, in 2001 it entered administration ( receivership ). A period of fiscal hardship followed and the baseball club left administration after receiving a £10m high-interest emergency loanword which continued to burden the golf club. [ 6 ] Scandals involving the directors, shareholders and others emerged in 2005–06 temper and included allegations of blackmail and threats of violence against the clubhouse ‘s president Gianni Paladini. [ 7 ] In an unrelated incident, QPR were far rocked by the murder of young person team actor Kiyan Prince on 18 May 2006 [ 8 ] and, in August 2007, the death of adolescent and promising first-team player Ray Jones in a cable car clang. [ 9 ] Following this low point in the club ‘s history as Rangers besides faced mounting fiscal atmospheric pressure, in the same month it was announced that the club had been bought by affluent Formula One businessmen Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone ( see Ownership and finances below ). During the 2007–08 season, Rangers competed in the Football League Championship ( see besides : 2007–08 Queens Park Rangers F.C. temper ). John Gregory ‘s reign as director came to an end in October 2007 after a string of inadequate results left QPR at the bottom of the Championship and he was replaced by Luigi De Canio until the end of the 2007–08 season. Further investment followed in early 2008 as the cabaret looked to push for forwarding to the Premier League within four years, on the back of greater fiscal stability. [ 10 ] On 14 May 2008, Iain Dowie was announced as the director to begin the campaign to return Rangers to the top flight. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] however, on 24 October 2008 Dowie was sacked after equitable 15 games in cathexis of the club. [ 13 ]
Crest introduced under Flavio Briatore and used from 2008 until 2016 On 19 November 2008, QPR named erstwhile Portugal midfielder Paulo Sousa as their modern first base team coach. [ 14 ] however, on 9 April 2009, his contract was terminated after he allegedly divulged confidential information without authority. [ 15 ] On the same day as Sousa ‘s dismissal, player/coach Gareth Ainsworth was appointed as player/caretaker director for a second time. In June 2009 Jim Magilton was named as raw coach of QPR. Despite leading QPR to a dear begin to the 2009–10 season, a loss of class combined with an alleged head-butting incident [ citation needed ] with Hungarian midfielder Ákos Buzsáky saw the golf club further embroiled in controversy. Magilton left the cabaret by reciprocal accept on 16 December 2009, along with his adjunct John Gorman. They were replaced by Paul Hart and Mick Harford on the next day. Less than a calendar month and merely five games after becoming director at QPR, Hart parted with the club on 14 January 2010 ; the reasons for his leaving the club were unstated. On 30 April 2011, QPR secured promotion to the Premier League by winning the championship with a 2–0 gain over Watford. [ 16 ] A subsequent FA probe involving QPR ‘s skill of Alejandro Faurlín threatened to deduct points from the side and put their promotion into hazard. The probe concluded on 7 May 2011, with QPR found to be at fault in two of the seven charges, and received a £875,000 fine. however, there were no points deducted by the FA, and QPR ‘s promotion to the Premier League was secured. [ 17 ] In January 2012, club chair Tony Fernandes appointed Mark Hughes as team director 36 hours after the previous incumbent Neil Warnock was sacked. Following a tough beginning to his Loftus Road career and after a tend of five directly home plate wins, Hughes and QPR escaped delegating despite a dramatic 3–2 frustration at Manchester City on the last day of the temper. [ 18 ] On 23 November 2012, Mark Hughes was sacked on the back of a poor begin to the 2012–13 season, [ 19 ] having amassed only four points in 12 games and with the clubhouse languish at the bottom of the Premier League despite significant fiscal investment in new players in the 11 months of Hughes ‘ tenure. A day former, Harry Redknapp was confirmed as the new coach. [ 20 ] On 28 April 2013, in a 0–0 absorb against companion delegating rivals Reading, and with three games of the season to play, QPR were relegated from the Premier League down to the Championship after two seasons in the crown flight. [ 21 ] During the 2013–14 season, QPR finished fourth in the Championship, and qualified for the play-offs where they defeated Wigan Athletic in the semi-finals. In the final against favourites Derby County on 24 May 2014, QPR won 1–0 with a goal scored by Bobby Zamora in the 90th hour to return to the Premier League. [ 22 ] Following promotion to the Premier League, QPR endured a unmanageable 2014–15 political campaign. Harry Redknapp resigned in February after poor results and common frustration with the board. He was replaced by Chris Ramsey. The cabaret finished the season in final place, amassing only 30 points, and were relegated rear to the championship after only one season. After a inadequate start to the following season, Ramsey was sacked in November 2015 and former coach Neil Warnock returned to the hot seat in interim charge. On 4 December 2015, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was appointed the golf club ‘s newly coach on a roll contract. [ citation needed ] Hasselbaink was sacked on 5 November 2016, just 11 months after being in charge. [ 23 ] then six days belated QPR reappointed Ian Holloway who was in charge 10 years previously. [ 24 ] Holloway left the club at the end of the 2017–18 season. [ 25 ] On 17 May 2018, QPR appointed early England coach Steve McClaren as director. [ 26 ] Despite a promise first gear half of the temper in which the team sat equally high as eighth by Christmas, results promptly tailed off following the twist of the year and McClaren was sacked in April 2019 after a 2–1 personnel casualty to Bolton. [ 27 ] On 8 May 2019, Mark Warburton was appointed as McClaren ‘s successor on a biennial deal .

stadium [edit ]

Queens Park Rangers have led a reasonably mobile being in their history. The respective grounds used anterior to 1886 are unknown but were credibly in the Queens Park area of London ( the first base being The Queens Park itself ). thereafter, the club played at 15 different locations in west London, but since joining the Football League in 1920, [ 28 ] they have entirely played at two grounds : Loftus Road and White City Stadium .
Loftus Road has been QPR’s stadium for the majority of their history
There were plans to build a new 40,000-seater stadium called New Queens Park ; however, plans have been shelved with the baseball club looking to build a stadium on the locate of the Linford Christie Stadium with 30,000 seats. The club have argued this would bring a huge fiscal rise to the local sphere, [ 30 ] but their plans were met with some initial agnosticism [ 31 ] by Hammersmith & Fulham Council. QPR have besides been involved in a long-running legal conflict to build a educate footing at Warren Farm [ 32 ] in Southall. In November 2018, Supreme Court judges rejected the final appeal from local objectors [ 33 ] against the proposals, [ 34 ] paving the way for the renovation of the locate to begin. however the baseball club formally abandoned plans for a trail grate at Warren Farm on 6 May 2020 replacing it with a design to develop the site into a residential district sports centre as the club signed a non-disclosure agreement with an unknown party regarding the freehold of another site. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] It was announced on 6 July that the club formally secured the freehold of the Heston Sports grind from Imperial College, with the intention of developing the locate into a train grind for the club, with discussions ongoing between the baseball club and Hounslow Council. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] On 31 March 2021, the clubhouse obtained planning permission for the renovation of Heston Sports Ground into a state of the art train ground, subject to a referral to the Secretary of State. The Club received ball hold from the Secretary of State on the 27th September 2021 along with final planning license from Hounslow Council being granted, with formal structure beginning on October 1st 2021. [ 39 ] The Club aims to move into the £20m facility, ( with £6.75m being raised through a bond outline ), by the start of the 2022-23 season, with the final examination contest date being the 2023-24 season. [ 40 ] In June 2019, the golf club gifted the stadium naming rights to The Kiyan Prince Foundation, a local charity set up by the church father of Kiyan Prince. Prince was a early QPR youth player who was fatally stabbed in 2006. [ 41 ] [ 42 ]

Rivalries [edit ]

QPR have long-standing rivalries with respective other clubs. The most celebrated of these are Chelsea and Fulham .

ownership and finances [edit ]

british music, media and sport entrepreneur Chris Wright bought QPR in 1996, finally relinquishing his majority shareholding in 2001 having ploughed £20 million into Loftus Road over the previous five years ; the cabaret struggled financially and went into government that same year. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Following drawn-out negotiations in December 2004, Wright agreed to sell his remaining 15 % stake ; 50 % of the money paid to him was given back to QPR, which was significant amount of cash to the club. [ 45 ] After a total of years of fiscal difficulties which included a menstruation in fiscal government, QPR was bought by Formula One tycoons and multi-millionaires Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore in a £14 million coup d’etat in August 2007. In spending £690,000 to acquire a 69 % majority stake in the club from a Monaco-based consortium led by italian football agent, Antonio Caliendo, Ecclestone spent £150,000 on his 15 %, while Briatore bought 54 % for £540,000 through a british Virgin Islands registered caller, Sarita Capital. In addition, Briatore and Ecclestone were believed to have promised £5 million in convertible loanword facilities to help buy players and have covered £13 million of debt, in a total committedness to the club of around £20 million. At the prison term of purchase, the remaining 31 % of shareholders turned down the offer of 1p a share. [ 46 ] On 20 December 2007, it was announced that the family of billionaire Lakshmi Mittal had purchased a 20 % shareholding in the club from Flavio Briatore. The purchase price of the 20 % impale was merely £200,000. As separate of the investment Lakshmi Mittal ‘s son-in-law Amit Bhatia took a put on the board of directors. [ 47 ] While Gianni Paladini remained president of the football club, Alejandro Agag, as chair of QPR Holdings ( the rear company ) was the de facto president, [ 46 ] until he was replaced by Flavio Briatore in early February 2008. [ 48 ] Agag moved into the function of managing conductor, supported by a deputy managing director, Ali Russell, who moved from Hearts in the scottish Premier League. [ 48 ] Despite QPR ‘s parlous fiscal condition in 2007–08, the aggregate personal wealth of the golf club ‘s new owners – which included the then world ‘s one-eighth deep man, Lakshmi Mittal – sparked speculation that QPR would receive significant far investment from their fresh benefactors, drawing parallels with their affluent West London neighbours Chelsea and Fulham. [ 49 ] however, no significant foster funds were made available to the baseball club other than those injected as separate of the buy of its contribution capital, and much of the subsequent player transfer action involved lend acquisitions or free transfers. indeed, it was reported in January 2008 that the investors had not discharged the £10 million loanword from ABC Corporation – secured on the golf club ‘s stadium – together with its £1 million annual sake burden—despite the baseball club ‘s prospective annual turnover of between £10 million and £15 million. furthermore, around £2 million was distillery owed to early director and major stockholder, Antonio Caliendo, who waived £4.5 million of loans when Briatore and Ecclestone bought the club. It was expected that the ABC loanword would be discharged in June 2008 on its maturity and that the debt owed to Caliendo would be paid off “ in early 2008 ” in line with a fund strategy which Ecclestone publicly stated would not result in the affluent owners just bankrolling the club. [ 49 ] In fact, the ABC loan was discharged on or around 31 July 2008. [ 50 ] Mittal ‘s investment is thought to be primarily motivated by his son-in-law ‘s interests and it was assumed that Mittal himself would remain a silent investor while Briatore, Ecclestone and Bhatia worked together to implement the scheme of lento building the club up ahead of a push button for promotion to the Premier League in 2009. The new owners besides pledged to refurbish Loftus Road and use their feel in Formula One to increase sponsorship revenues. [ 46 ] On 25 March 2008, QPR confirmed that, from the 2008–09 temper and for five seasons, their kits would be supplied by Lotto Sport Italia as separate of a number of modern partnerships formed by Flavio Briatore. [ 51 ] The investment electric potential of the club ‘s new backers resulted in a number of wildly inquisitive storylines in the football press throughout the 2007–08 season, including rumor signings of former World Player of the year winners Luís Figo and Zinedine Zidane, the latter as a possible coach. [ 52 ] In May 2008, billionaire Vijay Mallya was linked with buying into the clubhouse, as contribution of the Ecclestone, Briatore and Mittal consortium. [ citation needed ] Following the ending of the baseball club ‘s sponsorship deals with Car Giant, Le Coq Sportif and Sellotape at the end of the 2007–08 season, in early July 2008 it was expected to be announced that Gulf Air would be the new shirt sponsors for three years. [ 53 ] Further sponsorship packages were besides announced, including Abbey Financial Services and Lotto Sport Italia. [ 54 ] On 12 September 2011, Malaysia Airlines and AirAsia announced sponsorship of QPR ‘s shirts for the two seasons, with the sponsorship costing some £6.2 million. [ 55 ]
Flavio Briatore ‘s future as QPR chair came into question in September 2009 after he left the Renault F1 team in the midst of rush fixing allegations. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] The Football League board discussed the matter on 8 October 2009 and declared that they would be awaiting a response from Briatore to assorted questions before commenting far. [ 58 ] meanwhile, the club continued to make losses ( £18.8m in 2008–09 and £13.7m 2009–10 ). Briatore sold his 62 % share to Ecclestone in December 2010, with the italian possibly retaining a good of beginning refusal should Ecclestone sell, and initially stepped back from the daily run of the occupation in privilege of Amit Bhatia and Ishan Saksena, the ship’s company president and managing director respectively. however, his engagement gradually returned, and conflicts between Briatore on the one hand and Bhatia and Saksena on the other resulted in both Bhatia and Saksena leaving QPR in May 2011. [ 59 ] On 18 August 2011, malaysian businessman Tony Fernandes was unveiled as the majority stockholder after having bought out Ecclestone ‘s 66 percentage stake in the club for a rumor fee of around £35 million, while the Mittal Family retained their 33 % impale. Amit Bhatia was restored to his position as vice-chairman. [ 60 ] Phillip Beard was announced as the newfangled foreman executive of the club and Gianni Paladini removed as cabaret chair. Briatore and Ecclestone were no longer involved with the club, with no board representation or other fiscal ties. Bhatia besides explained in the coup d’etat announcement that the loan, representing the refinance ABC Corporation debt secured using the stadium as collateral, had now been “ bought off ” by the new government – that is, refinanced by new debt. It is thought that the current debt is represented by a stockholder lend to the club and is non-interest-bearing. [ 61 ] Despite the golf club ‘s fortunes in attracting investors, it continues to be mired in controversy from previous possession regimes and has been subject to proceedings from former investors Carlos Dunga and Antonio Caliendo. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] On 15 August 2018, Bhatia took over as president of the club. [ 64 ]

Statistics and records [edit ]

QPR signed Christopher Samba for a club record £12.5 million from Anzhi Makhachkala in January 2013, then sold him back for a cabaret record £12 million in July

QPR in Europe [edit ]

QPR ‘s first foray into european rival came when they qualified for the 1976–77 UEFA Cup reaching the quarter finals where they were eliminated by AEK Athens on penalties. The club besides qualified for the 1984–85 UEFA Cup, but were knocked out in the second round .

Players [edit ]

First-team team [edit ]

As of 31 August 2021[65][66]

The club retired the issue 31 shirt as a protection to former hitter Ray Jones who died in 2007. note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on loanword [edit ]

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Development squads [edit ]

As of 28 November 2021[67]

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luminary erstwhile players [edit ]

retire numbers [edit ]

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Queens Park Rangers FC ‘All Time XI ‘ [edit ]

Queens Park Rangers fans were asked for a vote for their all time strongest police squad in 2008 .

stream staff [edit ]

Current board of directors and senior management [edit ]

Updated 15 August 2018.[68]

Managers [edit ]

As of 26 October 2021

The last ten managers of QPR:

Kits [edit ]

A Queens Park Rangers FC home shirt for the 2012–13 season

Honours [edit ]

Note: the leagues and divisions of English football have changed somewhat over time, so here they are grouped into their relative levels on the English football league system at the time they were won to allow easy comparison of the achievement

domestic honours [edit ]

[ 76 ]

minor honours [edit ]

[ 76 ]

  • Division Three South (North Region) champions: 1945–46
  • Southern League champions: 1907–08; 1911–12
  • Western League champions: 1905–06
  • Western League runners-up: 1906–07; 1908
  • Wartime League South B champions: 1939–40
  • Wartime League South D runners-up: 1939–40
  • West London Challenge Cup finalist: 1890–91
  • West London Observer Cup winners: 1891–92; 1892–93
  • London Cup winners: 1895
  • Southern Charity Cup winners: 1913
  • Copa De Ibiza winners: 2005
  • Dryworld Cup winners: 2016

eSports team [edit ]

On 7 November 2017, QPR announced that the cabaret would partner with virtual Pro Gaming to battlefield a team in 11v11 FIFA, with a beginning team competing in the VPG English eSports Prem and a reserves team competing in the VPG English L1 South. [ 77 ]

References [edit ]