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| Full name | Queens Park Rangers Football Club |
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| Short name | QPR |
| Founded | 1882 |
| Ground | Loftus Road Stadium |
| Capacity | 18,439 |
| Owner |
Tune Group (55%) Ruben Gnanalingam (33%) Lakshmi Mittal (11%) |
| Co–Chairmen |
Tony Fernandes Ruben Gnanalingam |
| Manager | Ian Holloway |
| League | Championship |
| 2016–17 | Championship, 18th |
| Website | Club home page |
Queens Park Rangers Football Club (also known as QPR) is a professional association football club based in White City, London, that currently plays in the Championship, the second tier of English football. Their honours include the raising of the League Cup in 1967, as well as being champions of the Championship in 1983 and 2011. QPR were also triumphant in the 2013–14 Championship playoffs and were winners of the League One trophy in 1947–48 and 1966–67.
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, of whom they contest what are known as West London Derbies.
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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