Extending and Making The Web Stronger

It has been a year of growing supporter numbers in the stands, in our community initiatives and hospitality and commercial activities.

And in 2025 we will still be working hard on expanding our fanbase even further.

Festive football marks the halfway point of the league season for Callum Davidson and the first team – and we are well in the picture for the promotion play-offs in the Championship and have more Scottish Cup fixtures to look forward to in the coming year.

It promises to be an exciting second half of the season – and we’ll be watched weekly by pupils from our partner schools in the Tickets for Schools Scheme.

The programme of school visits and follow-up match attendance has been a great success again this year in bringing through the next generation of new supporters, and we have loved seeing the youngsters join our existing support who bring such appreciated backing week in, week out.

We hit the incredible 1,000 marker in May – and we’re looking forward to matching that total – or bettering it this year.

But it’s not the only area we are seeing growing numbers of young people caught up in the Spiders’ web.

We’ve again spent the year proudly giving back to the community, teaming up with Kilbryde Hospice and Aware Scotland for two charity awareness days at Hampden.

More than 50 guests and young people Aware Scotland attended our win over Airdrie and carried out various roles around the ground, and earlier in the year Louis Longridge threw participants a coaching session.

We have more good cause awareness days in the pipeline too as the club you support, support others – including Quarriers, Funding Neuro, The Brain Tumour Charity and Epilepsy Scotland.

Our partnership with McGoldrick’s Pool and Leisure Bar along the road in Rutherglen has also seen huge numbers of young fans file through the Hampden turnstiles to cheer on Scotland’s oldest football club.

They include: 
East End Radio
Stamperland 2013’s 
Glasgow Athletic 
Carmyle United
Little Dynamos
Renton Craigandro FC 2011’s 

Those initiatives have brought new fans into the club – but we’re seeing those already within the Queen’s Park family grow too.

Each member within our community foundation, delivering football sessions across the southside, also has access to each first-team game.

Likewise the footballers of the future in our Academy set-up are also eligible for each league game as we push for promotion.

As our support network continues to grow so do more and more young fans become caught up in the Spiders’ web and the joy of being a Queen’s Park fan, and 2025 promises to be another big year for the team – on and off the pitch.

Head of commercial Kieran Koszary said: “The past year has been one of incredible hard work from so many people – the staff at the club, the community foundation and academy not to mention our much-valued club partners – everyone has played a part.

“We have seen terrific success in our Tickets for Schools programme and reached a phenomenal four-figure milestone in May. There is plenty more to come too and we thank McDades Coaches, who supply transport to and from the game, as well as local partners PTS Clean, Howdens and Buck’s Bar Southside.

“Our partnership with McGoldrick’s has also seen community organisations given the chance to come along to games too – and with every new fan attending a game as part of these initiatives so too does the chance they are bitten by the Spiders bug and join our brilliant support who have cheered us on the pitch and backed us off it over the past year.”