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1959–60 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season

Queens Park Rangers 1959-60 football season

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ127110365 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1959-60 Queens Park Rangers season was the club's 69th season of existence and their 8th back in the Football League Third Division following their relegation in the 1951–52 season. QPR finished 8th in their league campaign, and were eliminated in the second round of the FA Cup. The start of the 1959–60 season saw the arrival of arguably the club's greatest ever manager, Alec Stock.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1959–60 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season” as queens Park Rangers 1959-60 football season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Queens, Park and Rangers.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 1951—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Queens, Park and Rangers providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q127110365. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1959 and 1951.

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This entry incorporates text from “1959–60 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.