Queen's Park FC is a football club based in Glasgow.  They were, for the vast majority of their history, the only amateur club in the Scottish League; this status is reflected by their motto, Ludere Causa Ludendi - to play for the sake of playing.  Queen's Park is the oldest football club in Scotland, having been founded in 1867.  In 1873, the Scottish Football Association and the Scottish Cup was instituted with Queen's Park as founder members. The club won the Scottish Cup during the first three years of the competition.  In 1872 Queen's Park were also invited to take part in the first ever English F.A Cup entering at the semi-final stage against the famous public school side, Wanderers. The game ended goalless. Unable to remain for the replay due to financial constraints, Queen's were compelled to scratch. They finished runners-up in the FA Cup on two subsequent occasions, in 1884 and 1885, on both occasions to Blackburn Rovers.   Queen’s Park would win ten Scottish Cup finals, but in 1890 when the Scottish Football league was formed, the club turned down the opportunity to join this new league set-up. Remaining true to their amateur ethics, the club rejected the new 'professionalism' creeping into the sport. Queen's Park remained outside the Scottish Football league for several years, during which time the club found it increasingly hard to arrange fixtures, especially with those who were members of the new league structure.  The lure of regular weekly fixtures was too hard to refuse; the club eventually entered the league in 1900. That same year, Queen's Park reached the Scottish Cup final one more time losing a memorable game 4-3 to Celtic.  By the time Queen's Park was already in decline as a major force in Scottish football. The club struggled to compete against their professional counterparts and generally finished near the foot of the table. They were spared relegation in 1906, 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1915 when they successfully applied for re-election to the First Division. In 1910 they were given special dispensation to prevent players being poached by the professional clubs during the season.  

The reinstatement of the Second Division in 1920  meant that the old election procedures were replaced by automatic promotion and relegation. Queen’s Park could no longer rely on the support of the First Division clubs and in 1922 they were relegated. This proved a temporary setback as they stormed to the Second Division title the following season and remained in the First Division until 1940 when the Scottish League was suspended.   In 1945 Queen’s Park were placed in Division “A” (the top level in the restructured league) but they were relegated in 1948. After eight seasons in the Second Division, they returned to the top division as champions in 1956 but they could no longer compete against the professional First Division sides and went down again in 1958. When the Premier Division was created in 1975, Queen’s Park was placed in the new Second Division (third tier). They were promoted in 1981 but held on for only two seasons before they were relegated. In 1995 the Scottish League was restructured into four divisions of ten clubs: Queen’s Park found itself in the basement, the new Third Division. In an effort to become more competitive, the club amended their rules so that former professional players could now play for the team.  Queens Park charged to the league title in 1999-2000, but were relegated the following season. They gained promotion through the play-offs for the first time in 2006-07. This time they remained in the third tier for two seasons. After finishing 9th in the Second Division in season 2008–09 and then being defeated in the end-of-season play-off semi-finals (losing 1–2 on aggregate v Stenhousemuir), Queen's Park were finally promoted after beating Clyde FC in the playoff final in May 2016.  Following a ninth place finish in 2017/18, they were relegated to Scottish League Two after a 3-2 aggregate loss to Stenhousemuir in the play-offs. In 2019 the club elected to go professional enabling them to sign players on long-term contracts and collect transfer fees. They won the Scottish League Two title in 2021 and were promoted to the Championship the following season.