9th July 1867
Queen’s Park FC is founded
Queen’s Park FC, also known as The Spiders, was founded at a meeting held at 3 Eglinton Terrace, Glasgow, at half past eight on the evening of 9 July 1867. Its home ground is at Hampden Park, and the club has a policy of not paying its players: it believes they should play for the love of playing.
Queen’s Park is the oldest association football club in Scotland and provided all of the team members for Scotland’s first international match, when it played England in 1872. In later years, it counted Alex Ferguson and Andy Roxborough among its players. They went on to manage Manchester United and the Scottish national side respectively.
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