QPR: The Four Year Plan

QPR: The Four Year Plan

In 2007 Queens Park Rangers Football Club, facing relegation and bankruptcy, was rescued by high-profile billionaires Flavio Briatore, Bernie Ecclestone, Lakshmi Mittal and Amit Bhatia.

Their vision: to take a community of reluctant fans, semi-talented players and a roster of ever-changing managers to Premiership glory. The new owners, risking ridicule and commercial failure, allowed cameras unprecedented access to record the roller-coaster ride.

Witness one of modern football’s most extraordinary tales as we see boardroom battles, clashing egos, and behind the scenes drama. Facing difficulties at every stage, the story culminates when QPR heroically win promotion to the Premier League after four turbulent and dramatic seasons.

*Available in HD

Festivals and Awards

Winner: Best Documentary, Marbella Film Festival 2011

Official Selection:
Sheffield Doc/Festival 2012
Kicking and Screening Film Festival NY 2012
IDFA 2011
Madrid Film Festival 2011

Reviews

“Holds a mirror up to a sport which has become the plaything of not the occasional local millionaire, but multinational conglomerates of billionaires. The result is a documentary that offers both knockabout comedy and high drama, as enjoyable for the sports naysayer as for the football fan”
- Time Out London

“Dynamite… possibly the most vivid insight into the running of a football club yet committed to film”
- The Guardian

“Superb! The film that will shock football. The real star is Briatore who dominates the film like Tony Soprano, ready to terminate the employment of another hapless manager.”
- The Independent

“An absolute must-see”
- Daily Mail

“This terrific piece of television could have passed for a high-quality drama series, but it was real people in a real football club. Remarkable”
- Daily Mail

“A brilliant fly-on-the-wall documentary”
- The Sunday Times