The QPR fan pundit for FLW was asked to list the top 12 scorers in the team’s history.
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Queens Park Rangers had a terrible summer, but Gareth Ainsworth’s team is showing some signs of life at Loftus Road with two victories and three losses in their first five games.Along with Rob Dickie, Luke Amos, Chris Martin, Olamide Shodipo, and first-choice goalkeeper Seny Dieng, Stefan Johansen, the captain of QPR, has departed the organization.
Rob Dickie, Luke Amos, Chris Martin, Olamide Shodipo, first-choice goalkeeper Seny Dieng, and other players have departed QPR, including the club’s captain Stefan Johansen.
Sinclair Armstrong and Lyndon Dykes are some of Ainsworth’s current possibilities for strikers, but in this article, Football League World’s QPR fan analyst takes us back in time.
The 12 greatest strikers the club has ever had, according to Louis Moir, are listed from 12 to 1.Do you concur with these selections? Which of the players on this list would you change?Do you concur with these selections? Which of the players on this list would you change?
Even though Loic Remy only spent a short time at the club, he displayed class, and a big-money transfer quickly opened the door for him to join Newcastle United and later Chelsea.
Although it may have been with Newcastle that we saw him at his finest in the Premier League, the Magpies took him on loan after his arrival, and then the Blues purchased him permanently.
He could have scored many more goals for QPR had he stayed with the team, but it was never going to be easy for them to hold onto him given his talent for the team. In his first six months with the team, Remy scored six goals in 14 league games.
Djibril Cisse had a respectable strike rate when playing for QPR, but like Remy, he didn’t stay at the team for very long. After receiving two early red cards during his time with the Hoops, he was able to calm down and finish with a very respectable nine goals from 26 Premier League games.
All of that transpired as QPR battled for their lives, making the accomplishment all the more remarkable. He did, however, leave the club in the 2012–13 winter transfer window to join Al Gharafa on loan, and at the end of that campaign, he left the club permanently by mutual consent.
He has the ability to score goals though, scoring six of his eight at the conclusion of the 2011–2012 season to help QPR avoid relegation.
Although his stint at QPR was brief, Wegerele was ultimately highly successful. Throughout his career, he represented a number of teams, including Chelsea, Luton Town, Blackburn Rovers, and Coventry City.
The US international striker, who was born in South Africa, had his best scoring seasons with QPR, though. He was a player for the Rs from 1990 to 1992, making 65 league games and tallying 29 goals.
Prior to the advent of new manager Gerry Francis, Wegerle flourished at QPR. However, Francis hardly used the forward and eventually sold him in March 1992.
When Bannister moved to QPR from Sheffield Wednesday to take Clive Allen’s place, he had large shoes to fill. Nevertheless, he was successful there and loved playing on the “plastic pitch” at Loftus Road.
In the 168 games that followed, he scored 66 goals during the course of his three-and-a-half seasons with the team. The two hat-tricks against ferocious rivals Chelsea were among the highlights of that.
The first occurred during a 6-0 thrashing of their neighborhood rivals on March 31, 1986, at Loftus Road, and the second occurred during a 3-1 victory on September 12, 1987, also at Loftus Road. He left his job in 2001 at the age of 41.
He scored 36 goals in 172 league games during his first tenure at the club in the 1990s, and 54 goals in 197 league games during his second tenure, which lasted from 2001 to 2007.
He led Rangers back into the second division of English football during his second stint, which was particularly fruitful. By the time his time at the club was through, he had scored 104 goals, making him the sixth-highest striker in club history.
Charlie Austin
Charlie Austin simply had to feature on a list of the best strikers Queens Park Rangers have had, especially since the turn of the century.
The sharpshooting Austin has scored goals for a number of clubs including having successful spells with Swindon Town and Burnley but it’s perhaps at QPR where he is loved most of all.
Austin scored 63 goals in 148 games across two stints with the side, the most recent of which ended in 2022. His 20 goals secured promotion to the top-flight in 2014, but his 18 goal haul in the Premier League couldn’t keep his new side up the following season.
5Rodney Marsh
Between 1966 and 1972 Rodney Marsh became a household name in the UK due to his flamboyant nature and keen eye for goal. The striker played 211 times for QPR, scoring 106 goals and become on icon of the era with his long flowing hair and careless attitude.
He later played for Manchester City with distinction, before playing for Tampa Bay Rowdies, but his most successful spell was with the Rs.After joining from Fulham in 1966, Marsh had arguably his best season for QPR, scoring 44 goals in 53 games helping Rangers to become Third Division Champions and earning himself the title of Third Division top goalscorer in the process.
He was also a vital member of the team that went on to win the 1967 League Cup and become runners-up of the 1966/1967 Second Division. Marsh has cemented himself as a legend of the club.
4Clive Allen
Clive Allen made himself a household name at Spurs, scoring 49 goals in a single season, but he is still regarded as one of Queens Park Rangers’ best-ever strikers.
Between 1978 and 1980 he bagged 32 goals from 49 appearances, including a hat-trick in 1979 as an 18-year-old against Coventry. His performances earnt him a big-money move to Arsenal. He flopped at Highbury and later moved to Crystal Palace as they were relegated, before rocking back up at QPR.
He scored 40 goals in 87 outings in his second spell at Loftus Road and was instrumental in getting them to their first ever FA Cup final. He is another of their all-time top scorers.
3Les Ferdinand
Les Ferdinand has been a big part of the club even today, but in his day he was a striker of incredible pedigree. He was recently Director of Football, but his association with the club goes back a long way.
Between 1987 and 1995 he played 163 times for the club, scoring 80 goals. He was their main striker entering the Premier League era and earned England caps whilst playing for QPR. Ferdinand’s extremely powerful shot and ability to find spaces inside the box made him a nightmare to deal with. With 60 league goals, he is by far QPR’s most prolific striker in Premier League history and one of the best to ever emerge from West London.
His later career took him to Newcastle, Spurs, and West Ham, but his career went full circle when he returned in a director role with the club that plucked him from obscurity at Hayes. However, the 56-year-old left his post this summer.
2Brian Bedford
Bedford played for plenty of English clubs in his career, but none were for anywhere near as long or successfully as with QPR. From 1959-1965 he scored 161 league goals in 258 games, making him one of the most prolific marksmen in the club’s history.
He is QPR’s second-highest goalscorer behind the top spot on this list. However, despite being a prolific striker, his team never managed to achieve promotion to the Second Division, but did finish third in 1960/61, with Bedford scoring an impressive 33 in 44 league games that season.
His 180 goal-haul in six seasons is an incredible strike-rate. After Bedford’s retirement from playing he became a professional tennis coach and he was later the stadium manager at Loftus Road, too. He passed away last year at the age of 88.
1George Goddard
Goddard was a top centre-forward in the 1920s and 1930s, most notably with QPR. He is a club legend in West London.
He scored 174 league goals (186 in all competitions) in 243 appearances for Rangers, becoming the club’s all-time leading goalscorer. A record that still stands despite Goddard’s death in 1987 at the age of 84.
In December 1933, he was sold to bitter rivals Brentford, due to QPR’s poor financial state and dire need to raise money, after their ill-fated spell at the White City Stadium. Goddard also had spells at Wolves, Sunderland and Southend United in the latter stages of his playing career.
