History

We are not sure when the Queen's Soccer Club was formed but we believe its origins go back at least to the time when Queen's College Belfast became the Queen's University of Belfast in 1908. Queen's played in the first Collingwood Cup competition in 1914. Our oldest team photograph is of the Queen's team which won the Collingwood Cup in 1939. We would be delighted to receive information about the early years of the club and copies of old pictures.

Saturday Football:

By the 1960s the number of teams fielded each Saturday had grown to five but by the end of the 1980s we had just three teams. Today the Club runs 3 teams in total. The firstsplay in the IFA Championship Division 2 with the Seconds and Colts (Freshers) in the Northern Amateur Football League . The first team will play its early season home games at Sport&Leisure Swifts ground at Glen Road, Belfast until our new ground is ready at the Dub, expected mid October 2011. The Seconds and Colts play at QUB Playing Fields, Upper Malone Road.

Wednesday Football:

QUB Soccer teams also compete in the Irish Universities Football Union (IUFU) Competitions (Collingwood Cup, Crowley Cup and Harding Memorial Trophy and National Universities league) and in the N.I. Colleges League. Queen's has won the prestigious Collingwood Cup on 19 occasions, second only to University College Dublin (UCD). The Crowley Cup (second teams) and Harding Memorial Trophy (first year students) were first competed for in 1970.

The Club is totally amateur and is run mostly by students with the help and guidance of one member of staff and a few graduates. Our members are drawn roughly equally from both sides of the community. It also has members from other parts of the UK and Ireland and from all over the world. Queen's Football Club fully supports the IFA's “Football for All” strategy.