Queen’s Park Rangers FC is an English professional football club, based in Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith and Fulham, West London. QPR was formed in 1882, when a team known as St Jude's merged with Christchurch Rangers. The resulting team was called Queens Park Rangers, because most of the players came from the Queen's Park area of North-West London. QPR became a professional team in 1889 and played their home games in nearly 20 different stadia (a league record), before permanently settling in Loftus Road in 1917 (although the team briefly played at White City between 1931-3 and 1962–63 in the hope of attracting larger crowds). The following season, Rangers joined the Football League when the old Southern League Division One was incorporated as Division Three. Having finished bottom twice and survived two re-election campaigns (1924 and 1926), a new manager was brought in and the broad blue and white hooped shirts that have become firmly associated with the club were adopted. In 1931 the club moved to the White City but this proved a financial disaster and a year later they were back at Loftus Road.  QPR were promoted as champions of Division Three South in the 1947–48 season but were relegated in 1951–52. In 1966–67, QPR won the Division Three championship and became the first Third Division club to win the League Cup in March 1967, beating West Bromwich Albion 3–2, (coming back from a two goal deficit). After winning promotion in 1968 to the top flight for the first time in their history, Rangers were relegated after just one season and spent the next four years in Division Two.

The club returned to the top flight in 1973 and under Dave Sexton as manager were runners-up by a single pioint in the First Division in the 1975–76 season with a team containing seven England internationals.  This golden age was brief, however, and in 1979 the club was relegated.  In 1981, Rangers became the first English club to install an artificial playing surface, but its upopularity with visiting sides ensured that in 1988 it was replaced with turf.  In 1982,  QPR  under Terry Venables reached the FA Cup Final for the only time in the club's history, facing holders Tottenham Hotspur.  They lost 1-0 after a replay. The following season 1982–83 QPR went on to win the Second Division championship and returned to English football's top division.  Founder members of the Premier League they were relegated at the end of the 1995-96 season. Financial problems followed and in 2001 the club entered administration.  QPR has spent most of its recent history as a mid-table club in the championship. The club’s financial problems were only resolved when it was bought by wealthy Formula One businessmen Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone.  The club returned to the Premier League after winning the Championship title in 2010/11 under Neil Warnock. The team struggled and narrowly avoided relegation in 2012 but the following year they went down to the Championship for one season, returning to the top tier via the play-offs in 2014. They were immediately relegated and during the subsequent seasons have not managed to finish in the top half of the table.