Queen of the South Football Club is a Scottish professional football club founded in 1919 and located in Dumfries. The club currently plays in the Scottish First Division, the second tier of Scottish football.
Officially nicknamed The Doonhamers, but usually referred to as Queens and sometimes as QoS (as also listed on the club badge), its home ground since its formation has been Palmerston Park.
The club has won national honours, namely the 1950...
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Queen of the South Football Club is a Scottish professional football club founded in 1919 and located in Dumfries. The club currently plays in the Scottish First Division, the second tier of Scottish football.
Officially nicknamed The Doonhamers, but usually referred to as Queens and sometimes as QoS (as also listed on the club badge), its home ground since its formation has been Palmerston Park.
The club has won national honours, namely the 1950–51 B Division, the 2001–02 Second Division and the 2002–03 Scottish Challenge Cup. While Queens led Scotland's top division until Christmas in season 1953–54, its highest-ever finish in the Scottish top flight was fourth in 1933–34. Its longest cup run was in the 2007–08 Scottish Cup, in which it reached the final and finished runners-up.
The club is currently managed by Gordon Chisholm.
Dumfries got its nickname Queen of the South from David Dunbar, a local poet, who in 1857 stood for Parliament in the General Election. In one of his...
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