Palmerston Park Palmerston Park Palmerston Park is a football stadium on Terregles Street in Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is the home ground of Scottish Championship club Queen of the South, who have played there since 1919. South of Scotland League club Heston Rovers have shared Palmerston since 2013. The stadium has a capacity of of which 3,377 are seats. Palmerston Park was first opened in 1919, when Queen of the South were formed, although football had been played on the site since the 1870s. The site of the ground was formerly a farm called Palmers Toun. This is on the
History of Queen of the South F.C. during 1999. Ronnie Bradford was appointed the new chairman of the football club in November 1999. Queen of the South's recently improved record was blotted during the 1999–2000 season. At the end of a poor season only a controversial points deduction for Hamilton Academical saved Queen of the South from relegation to the Third Division. John Connolly was appointed manager in July 2000. With captain Jim Thomson Queens ruled the Second Division to take the title in 2001–02. On 20 April 2002, like 51 years before, this was clinched with Queens winning away at Forfar Athletic. This time it was