The club retained their amateur status from their foundation in 1867 until 2019, which meant it was extremely difficult to compete at the highest level and the intensity of the derby dramatically declined after 1958 as the Spiders never returned to the top tier.

[1] On 20 October 2012, the old derby was revived again in league football after 54 years in the Scottish Third Division following Rangers' expulsion from the top flight in 2012 – the attendance figure for their first meeting was a world record for a fourth division match at the time as 49,463 fans were present at Ibrox Stadium to see fourth placed Rangers overcome early leaders Queen's Park 2–0.

[3] This was the first five-figure attendance Queen’s Park had recorded for 29 years and would have been higher if the stadium was not operating at reduced capacity due to upgrading work on the North Stand.

[6] A match between the two clubs officially came to records in an 1875 friendly to raise money for the victims of a huge fire in Bridgeton that had claimed many lives.

[7] In the 1879–80 season Queen's Park recorded their largest victory against their rivals in a Cup replay, dominating the match 5–1 on 27 September 1879 at the first Hampden in front of 5,000 spectators.

They also played against each other in the Glasgow Cup: in 1898[8] Rangers beat Queen's Park 4–0 in the final and the next year the Spiders took their revenge winning the local trophy with a narrow 1–0 victory.

On the other hand the Gers won it for first time the following year in 1894, overcoming Queen's Park in the semi-final after a replay, though it took them until 1948 to reach 11 wins and surpass their old rivals' record (Celtic had done so by 1925).

The 1938–39 season was the last one before World War II with Rangers winning the title and Queen's Park finishing at the bottom of the table – but they were never relegated as there was no official football action the following year.

The league cup tournament was divided in groups of four and the two rivals met in the 1944–45 season when they faced each other in the semi-final match at Hampden which Rangers won 3–0 on 21 April 1945 in front of 70,000 spectators.

The Original Glasgow derby was resumed eight years later in the 1956–57 season with Queen's Park returning to the highest tier and playing in a memorable battle with Rangers which ended in a 6–4 victory for the Govan side, who went on to win the title.

Their last meeting prior to Rangers' 2012 removal from the top tier took place on 20 August 1991 in the Scottish League Cup when they beat Queen's Park 6–0 at Ibrox in the second round of the competition in front of a crowd of 32,230 fans.

In 2012, Rangers endured severe financial difficulties, and its holding company was put into liquidation while the team had to apply for entry to the bottom (fourth) tier of the Scottish league.

Another historical local club, Clyde, was part of the league that season, bringing in a glimpse of the glorious past of Glaswegian football.

Overall, Rangers won all four fixtures against Queen's Park, finishing as champions while the Spiders qualified for the play-offs but failed to win promotion.

On 26 August 2014 Queen's Park hosted Rangers in the first round of the 2014–15 Scottish League Cup at the Excelsior Stadium in Airdrie (Hampden was being used for the 2014 Commonwealth Games at the time).

In the shock of the tournament, a second half strike by Seb Drozd, a stout defensive performance from the Spiders and a last-minute penalty save by goalkeeper Calum Ferrie from James Tavernier gave Scotland's oldest team an 1–0 away victory and a spot in the quarter-finals for the first time in 42 years.