Queen's Park Football Club is a Scottish football club based in Glasgow. The club is currently the only fully amateur club in the Scottish Professional Football League; its amateur status is reflected by its Latin motto, Ludere Causa Ludendi - "to play for the sake of playing". Queen's Park is the oldest association football club in Scotland, having been founded in 1867, and is the oldest outside England and Wales. Queen's Park is also the only Scottish football club to have played in the FA Cup Final, achieving this feat in both 1884 and 1885.
Reconstruction and change
The 1975-76 season saw the reconstruction of the Scottish Leagues and Queen's entered the Second Division. Coinciding with this, Queen's appointed a head coach for the first time. Davie McParland led Queen's to 4th place but left at the end of the season to join Partick Thistle. Joe Gilroy was his successor and Queen's finished 5th, 7th and 13th under his guidance before his departure at the end of 1978-79 season.  Former player Eddie Hunter took charge and within two seasons, Queen's had been promoted as 1980-81 champions. The talent in the side was obvious. Derek Atkins was an ever-present in goal, John McGregor a high scoring defender and Jimmy Nicholson and Gerry McCoy netted a combined tally of 28 goals. Much of the side was inexperienced, with full-back Bobby Dickson one of the few who had been a mainstay in previous years. After a highly respectable finish of 8th the following season, Queen's finished bottom and were relegated in 1983. The main reason for this was the loss of some of the players who had won Queen's promotion. In particular, John McGregor and Alan Irvine departed, leaving for Liverpool and Everton respectively. During the same season, Queen's lost 2-1 to Rangers at Hampden in the Scottish Cup quarter-finals.  Recovery took a while but eventually a good side featuring Stevie Ross, Kenny Brannigan, Ian McCall and Ross Caven finished 4th in 1985-86 - winning three more games than the Championship side of 1981. Queen's lost narrowly by 2-1 at Celtic Park in the 4th round of the Scottish Cup in the February 1986.  1987-88 was a further improvement but 21 victories was only enough for 3rd place. 1990-91 was another season of frustration as Queen's squandered a chance for promotion after having been in contention for so long and finished 5th, only four points behind 2nd place Montrose.
When did the Queen's Park F.C. reconstruction occur?
The 1975-76 season saw the reconstruction of the Scottish Leagues and Queen's entered the Second Division.
The 1975-76 season saw the reconstruction of the Scottish Leagues and Queen's entered the Second Division.