List of Queens Park Rangers F.C. seasons
, also known as QPR, is an English association football club based in White City, London. The club originated from a merger between St Jude's and Christchurch Rangers in 1886, both of whom were founded in 1882. Initially an amateur side who played in the West London League and the second division of the London League, QPR joined the Southern Football League when they turned professional in 1898. After they won the league during the 1907–08 season, they participated in the first Charity Shield match and lost to Manchester United in a replay.
They joined the Football League Third Division in 1920, and in 1967 became the first Third Division side to win the League Cup. They have won four divisional titles in the English football league system, two in the second tier and two in the third. Their best placed finish in the system was as runners-up in the Football League First Division in the 1975–76 season, while their best achievement in the FA Cup was also as runners-up, in the 1981–82 competition.
As of the end of the 2019–20 season, the team have spent 40 seasons in the third tier of the English football league system, 31 in the second and 23 in the top tier. The table details the team's achievements and the top goalscorer in senior first-team competitions from their first professional season in the Southern Football League in the 1899–1900 season to the end of the most recently completed season. It includes the tournaments that QPR participated in during the First and Second World Wars, which are not counted against players' official statistics as they were unofficial and considered to be friendlies.
Key
Key to league record:- P – Played
- W – Games won
- D – Games drawn
- L – Games lost
- GF – Goals for
- GA – Goals against
- Pts – Points
- Pos – Final position
1st or W | Winners |
2nd or F | Runners-up |
F* | Finalist, but match never completed |
Promoted | |
Relegated | |
♦ | Top league scorer in QPR's division |
Key to divisions and tournaments:
- West London Observer Cup – West London Observer Football Challenge Cup
- West London – West London League
- London 2 – London League Division Two
- Southern 1 – Southern League First Division
- Southern 2 – Southern League Second Division
- SP Floodlit Cup – Southern Professional Floodlit Cup
- Western 1A – Western League Division 1A
- Division 1 – Football League First Division
- Division 2 – Football League Second Division
- Division 3 – Football League Third Division
- Division 3S – Football League Third Division South
- Division 3SN – Football League Third Division South
- Division 3SN Cup – Football League Third Division South Cup
- London Com – London Combination
- London Com – London Combination
- League South 'B' – Wartime League South 'B'
- League South 'D' – Wartime League South 'D'
- Merc CC Trophy – Mercantile Credit Centenary Trophy
- Premier – Premier League
- Championship – EFL Championship
- League One – EFL League One
- Grp – Group stage
- QR3 – Third qualifying round
- QR4 – Fourth qualifying round, etc.
- Pre – Preliminary round
- R1 – First round
- R2 – Second round, etc.
- QF – Quarter-final Southern section
- QF – Quarter-final
- SF – Semi-final Southern section
- SF – Semi-final
- F – Final Southern section
- F – Final
- W – Winners