All Time Head to Head
Home - W 26 - D 9 - L 9
Away - W 10 - D 14 - L 21
Total - W 36 - D 23 - L 30
Premiership only
Home - W 1 - D 1 - L 1
Away - W 0 - D 1 - L 2
Total - W 1 - D 2 - L 3
It was Christmas Day 1899 when Thames Ironworks first travelled across London to play Queen's Park Rangers, with the hoops making the return journey just five days later. Both of these Southern League First Division games ended in wins for the older and more established QPR before the newly reformed West Ham went on to dominate fixtures in the early 20th Century.
Between the wars the two sides only met each other once, in an FA Cup tie, with a handful of meetings in the old Second Division during the late '40's / early '50's. It was not until 1968 that the two teams met each other in the top tier for the first time, a 4-3 win for the Irons at the Boleyn Ground that ignited an evenly matched and almost unbroken two-and-a-half decade tussle across the top two divisions.
QPR were founder members of the Premier League, finishing 5th in the inaugural season (the highest placed London club). West Ham won promotion the following year, but over the next three years the Irons only managed to register one win from six games. QPR were relegated in 1996, with further relegation to the third tier 2001, followed by financial controversy leading to the club entering administration. Since then the only meetings between the two sides were in the League Championship in 2004.
QPR finally won promotion back to the top flight in 2011, giving them a year to get used to the Premiership before West Ham returned this year, but with 10 managers in the last 5 years they can hardly be described as a stable club. Indeed, so far this year they have only registered 2 points from a possible 15... and with our old boy "Butterfingers" Green in goal this would be a win to savour!
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