Owen Coyle’s Spiders take on Hamilton Academical at the National Stadium at Hampden as Queen’s Park play in front of a crowd in Glasgow’s Southside for the first time in nearly three years and young members of the local community, as well as some older ones, are coming out to back the team.

Over 20 community groups and over 30 schools have taken up the offer of a free ticket for Saturday’s game in what is one of the biggest fan engagement schemes ever seen in Scottish Football.

The club would like to say, ‘Thank You’ to everyone that comes along with Kieran Koszary, Head of Commercial at Queen’s Park, adding: “We have used the ‘Free Tickets for the Community’ Initiative a few times this season for individual schools and they have always been well received but this is on a different scale.”

“What started out as a nice idea to join the Queen’s Park family, and mark the club playing in the southside again, has grown beyond our wildest dreams.”

“We hope that everyone has a terrific afternoon and enjoys the football. I cannot promise any goals however I am sure the likes of Simon Murray and Dom Thomas will be doing their best to give the crowd something to cheer.”

The people coming along to watch the game come from: –

Community Groups
Harper Asylum Seekers
Cambuslang FC
Cathkin Blazes
Curo Salus
Football Memories
Freedom from Torture
Glasgow and District Youth Football League
Glasgow Girls FC
Jeely Piece Club
Jimmy Johnstone Academy
Milngavie Football Club
Queen’s Park FC Academy
Queen’s Park FC Foundation
OLM – 2009
Park Sport
Third Lanark 2011
Stamperland FC 2008
St Cadoc’s FC
Scottish Youth Football Association
Toryglen Autism FC
Ultimate Soccer

Schools
Annette Street Primary School
Battlefield Primary School
Belmont House School
Burgh Primary School
Burnside Primary School
Carmunnock Primary
Cathkin High School
Croftfoot Primary School
Crookston Castle Primary School
Holycross Primary School
Holyrood Secondary School
King’s Park Primary School
King’s Park Secondary School
Linburn Academy
Mosspark Primary School
Merrylee Primary School
Mount Florida Primary School
Pollockshields Primary School
Shawland’s Primary School
St Brigid’s Primary School
St Conval’s Primary School
St Columbkille Primary School
St Fillan’s Primary School
St Francis’ Primary School
St John’s Primary School
St Vincent’s Primary School

We would also like to welcome both Beckford Primary and St Paul’s Primary from Hamilton who are also coming along after accepting the offer of tickets made by our opponents tomorrow.