Heston Rovers F.C. Heston Rovers F.C. Heston Rovers Football Club are a Scottish senior football club who play their home games at Palmerston Park in Dumfries, which they share with Queen of the South. Heston are members of the South of Scotland Football League and D&G Youth Football Development Association league also. Although Heston Rovers F.C. were founded in 1978, as a youth club, the present senior club were formed in 2008 following an amalgamation with Glencaple-based Dumfries F.C., who were already members of the South of Scotland Football League but struggling. Dumfries F.C. was the result of an earlier merger in 2000,
History of Queen of the South F.C. the club in May 2004 to join former club St Johnstone, with his former assistant Iain Scott taking over. With a second consecutive fifth place spot in 2004, Queens became the first part-time club to remain in the new First Division for more than two years. Queens then finished fourth in the First Division in 2005 – their highest finish since 1963. Iain Scott parted from the club with the club second bottom of the league in 2005–06. Dumfries-born Ian McCall, by this time also a BBC media pundit, was appointed manager in November 2005. McCall brought in Gordon Chisholm