Queens Park Rangers
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| Full name | Queens Park Rangers Football Club |
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| Short name | QPR |
| Founded | 1886 |
| Ground | Loftus Road Stadium |
| Capacity | 18,439 |
| Owner |
Tune Group (66%) Lakshmi Mittal (33%) |
| Co–Chairmen |
Tony Fernandes Ruben Gnanalingam |
| Manager | Ian Holloway |
| League | Championship |
| 2015–16 | Championship, 12th |
| Website | Club home page |
Queens Park Rangers Football Club (usually referred to as QPR) is a professional association football club based in White City, London, that plays in the Championship, the second tier of English football. Their honours include winning the League Cup in 1967, as well as finishing top of the second tier in 1983 and 2011. QPR were also runners-up of the Football League First Division in 1975–76, and reached the final of the 1982 FA Cup.
Queens Park Rangers were founded in 1886 after the merger of Christchurch Rangers and St. Judes Institute. In the early years after the club's formation in its original home of Queen's Park, London, they played their home games at many different grounds, until finally the club settled into its 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. Outside London, QPR also traditionally share rivalries with Watford, Luton and Cardiff, although in recent years these fixtures have become less prominent.
The club was formed in 1886, when a team known as St Jude's (formed in 1884) merged with Christchurch Rangers (formed in 1882). The resulting team was called Queen's Park Rangers, because most of the players came from the Queen's Park area of north-west London. 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, although the team would briefly attempt to attract larger crowds by playing at the White City Stadium for two short spells: 1931 to 1933, and the 1962–63 season.
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