Nickname: QPR, Hoops
Founded: 1882; 128 years ago
Ground: Loftus Road (Capacity: 18,360)
Owner: QPR Holdings, Ltd.
Chairman: Tony Fernandes
Manager: Neil Warnock
League: Premier League (season 2010–11: The Championship, 1st)
Queens Park Rangers Football Club (usually referred to as QPR) is an English professional football club, based in Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith and Fulham, west London. As the 2010-11 Football League Championship champions, they now play in the top tier of English football the Premier League, for the first time in 15 years. Other honours include winning the League Cup in 1967, being runners-up in the old First Division in 1975–76 and reaching the final of the FA Cup in 1982.
Queens Park Rangers Football Club were founded in 1882, and their traditional colours are blue and white. In the early years after the club's formation in their original home of Queen's Park, games were played at many different grounds until finally the club settled into their current location at Loftus Road. Owing to their proximity to other west London clubs, QPR maintain long-standing rivalries with several other clubs in the area. The most notable of these are Chelsea, Fulham and Brentford, with whom they contest what are known as West London derbies.
QPR became a professional team in 1889 and played their home games in nearly 20 different stadia (a league record), before permanently settling at Loftus Road in 1917. On 1 March 2010 Neil Warnock was appointed Manager on a three and a half year contract. In January 2012 Mark Hughes was appointed as team manager 36 hours after previous incumbent Neil Warnock was sacked. The current chairman of the club is Tony Fernandes.
On 30 April 2011, QPR secured promotion to the Premier League with a 2–0 win over Watford FC. A subsequent FA investigation involving QPR's acquisition of Alejandro Faurlín threatened to deduct points from the side and put their promotion into jeopardy. The investigation concluded on the 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.
Queens Park Rangers Football Club were founded in 1882, and their traditional colours are blue and white. In the early years after the club's formation in their original home of Queen's Park, games were played at many different grounds until finally the club settled into their current location at Loftus Road. Owing to their proximity to other west London clubs, QPR maintain long-standing rivalries with several other clubs in the area. The most notable of these are Chelsea, Fulham and Brentford, with whom they contest what are known as West London derbies.
QPR became a professional team in 1889 and played their home games in nearly 20 different stadia (a league record), before permanently settling at Loftus Road in 1917. On 1 March 2010 Neil Warnock was appointed Manager on a three and a half year contract. In January 2012 Mark Hughes was appointed as team manager 36 hours after previous incumbent Neil Warnock was sacked. The current chairman of the club is Tony Fernandes.
On 30 April 2011, QPR secured promotion to the Premier League with a 2–0 win over Watford FC. A subsequent FA investigation involving QPR's acquisition of Alejandro Faurlín threatened to deduct points from the side and put their promotion into jeopardy. The investigation concluded on the 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.
