Queens Park Rangers F.C. season 2008-09

Infobox Football club season
club = Queens Park Rangers

season = 2008–09
manager = flagicon|ENG Iain Dowie
chairman =
league = flagicon|ENG Football League Championship
league result = "9th"
cup1 = FA Cup
cup1 result = "Last 64"
cup2 = League Cup
cup2 result = "Last 32"
cup3 =
cup3 result =
league topscorer =
season topscorer =
highest attendance =
lowest attendance = During the 2008–09 season, Queens Park Rangers will be playing in the Football League Championship, their fifth season of their current spell at this level.

Pre-season

New managerial team

Ian Dowie was announced as the replacement for Luigi De Canio as manager on 14 May 2008. [Cite news
title = QPR bring in Dowie as new coach
work = BBC Sport
accessdate = 2008-05-15
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/q/qpr/7400236.stm] Tim Flowers was later named Dowie's assistant, reprising his former role with Dowie at Coventry City. [Cite news
title = Flowers named QPR assistant boss
work = BBC Sport
accessdate = 2008-05-22
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/q/qpr/7411253.stm]

ponsorship

Following the termination of the club's sponsorship deals with "Car Giant", Le Coq Sportif and Sellotape at the end of the previous season, in July it was announced that Gulf Air would be the new shirt sponsors. [ [http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=221972&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=31105 New soccer strip] , Gulf Daily News, 3 July] Further sponsorship packages were also announced including Abbey Financial Services, Chronotech and Lotto Sport Italia. [ [http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=61203&d=254&h=0&f=0 QPR signs Abbey as its financial partner] , Marketing Week, 19 June 2008]

Matches

Events

Queens Park Rangers started the season against Barnsley at Loftus Road. Fitz Hall scored twice in as many minutes after Iain Hume put the Yorkshire side 1-0 up in the fifth minute. Hall also missed a penalty in the second half, but Rangers held on to win the game 2-1. The highlight of the season so far was an impressive 1-0 win away to Aston Villa in the 3rd round of the Carling Cup with Damion Stewart getting the decisive goal. QPR are now in the 4th round of the competition for the first time since the 1995-96 season.

quad

First-team squad

:"As of 6 August 2008."cite web
title = Player Profiles
url = http://www.qpr.premiumtv.co.uk/page/ProfilesDetail/0,,10373,00.html
publisher = Queens Park Rangers FC
accessdate = 2007-10-31] cite news
title = REVISED SQUAD NUMBERS
url = http://www.qpr.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10373~1357919,00.html
publisher = Queens Park Rangers FC
date = 2008-08-06
accessdate = 2008-08-06]

Out on loan

Transfers

ummer

In

FA Cup

Charlton School Away Fixture 10/9/08Josh Wigston Left Back In The Changing Rooms (Water Boy)

League Cup

Competitions

Results summary

Results by round

Table

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References

succession box
before=2007-08
title=Queens Park Rangers seasons
years=2008-09
after=2009-10