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Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace F.C. logo (2013)
Full name Crystal Palace Football Club
Nickname(s) The Eagles, The Glaziers, Palace
Founded 10 September 1905
Ground Selhurst Park
(Capacity: 26,255)
Owner Flag of United States John Textor (45%)
Flag of England Steve Parish (10%)
Flag of United States Josh Harris (10%)
Flag of United States David Blitzer (10%)
Chairman Flag of England Steve Parish
Manager Flag of Austria Oliver Glasner
Current League Premier League 
2023–24 Premier League, 10th
Website Club home page
Crystal Palace 2024-25 homeCrystal Palace 2024-25 awayCrystal Palace 2024-25 third
Football current event Current season

Crystal Palace Football Club is an English professional football club based in Selhurst, South London, that competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football. They were founded in 1905 at the famous Crystal Palace Exhibition building and played their home games at the FA Cup Final stadium, which was situated inside the historic Palace grounds. The club were forced to leave the Palace in 1915 due to the outbreak of the First World War, and played at Herne Hill Velodrome and the Nest until 1924, when they moved to their current home at Selhurst Park.

Palace joined the Football League in 1920, and have overall spent the majority of their time competing in the top two tiers of English football. Since 1964, they have only dropped below the second tier once, for three seasons between 1974 and 1977. Palace enjoyed a successful period in the top flight in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during which they achieved their highest ever league finish in 1990–91 of third place in the old First Division, now known as the Premier League. The club were denied a place in Europe at the end of that season because of the partial UEFA ban on English clubs at that time following the Heysel Stadium disaster. Palace became one of the original founding members of the Premier League. It was also during this period that Palace reached the 1990 FA Cup Final finishing runners-up to Manchester United after a replay. Palace set two unwanted Premier League records for relegation, in 1992–93 they were relegated on 49 points, which is still a record number of points for a relegated Premier League club and are also the only club ever to be relegated from the Premier League when finishing fourth from bottom in 1994–95, as it had been decided that the league would be reduced from 22 to 20 clubs for the following season. The club suffered severe financial problems towards the end of the 1990s and into the 2000s and went into administration twice, in 1999 and 2010. Palace recovered and gained promotion back to the Premier League in 2012–13 where they have remained ever since, and reached another FA Cup final in 2016.

The club's traditional kit colours were originally claret and blue, but in 1973 they decided to change to the red and blue vertical stripes now worn today. Palace have a fierce rivalry with Brighton & Hove Albion, with whom they contest the M23 derby and also share rivalries with fellow South London clubs Millwall and Charlton Athletic.

Players[]

First-team squad[]

As of 3 September 2023
No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Flag of England Sam Johnstone
2 DF Flag of England Joel Ward (captain)
3 DF Flag of England Tyrick Mitchell
5 DF Flag of England James Tomkins
6 DF Flag of England Marc Guéhi (vice-captain)
7 MF Flag of France Michael Olise
8 MF Flag of Colombia Jefferson Lerma
9 FW Flag of Ghana Jordan Ayew
10 MF Flag of England Eberechi Eze
11 MF Flag of Brazil Matheus França
14 FW Flag of France Jean-Philippe Mateta
15 MF Flag of Ghana Jeffrey Schlupp
16 DF Flag of Denmark Joachim Andersen
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 DF Flag of England Nathaniel Clyne
19 MF Flag of England Will Hughes
22 FW Flag of France Odsonne Édouard
23 MF Flag of England Malcolm Ebiowei
26 DF Flag of United States Chris Richards
28 MF Flag of Mali Cheick Doucouré
29 MF Flag of France Naouirou Ahamada
30 GK Flag of England Dean Henderson
31 GK Flag of England Remi Matthews
36 DF Flag of England Nathan Ferguson
44 DF Flag of Netherlands Jaïro Riedewald
49 FW Flag of England Jesurun Rak-Sakyi
DF Flag of England Rob Holding

Out on loan[]

No. Pos. Nation Player
33 MF Flag of Scotland Scott Banks (at St. Pauli until end of the 2023–24 season)
34 MF Flag of Republic of Ireland Killian Phillips (at Wycombe Wanderers until end of the 2023–24 season)
37 FW Flag of England John-Kymani Gordon (at Cambridge United until end of January 2024)
42 MF Flag of England Malachi Boateng (at Dundee until end of the 2023–24 season)
43 DF Flag of Northern Ireland Kofi Balmer (at Port Vale until end of the 2023–24 season)
48 FW Flag of England Luke Plange (at Carlisle United until end of the 2023–24 season)
63 GK Flag of England Owen Goodman (at Colchester United until end of the 2023–24 season)

Youth academy[]

Main article: Crystal Palace F.C. Under-21s and Academy

Club alumni[]

Former players[]

Main article: Crystal Palace F.C. players

Managers[]

Main article: Crystal Palace F.C. managers

Honours[]

Domestic[]

Leagues[]

Cups[]

  • FA Cup
  • Full Members Cup
    • Winners (1): 1990–91
  • London Challenge Cup
    • Winners (3): 1912–13, 1913–14, 1920–21

External links[]

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History: Seasons

Crystal Palace FC
Crystal Palace F.C. squad - 2024–25

Henderson · Ward · Mitchell · Holding · Lacroix · Guéhi · Sarr · Lerma · 10 Eze · 11 França · 12 Muñoz · 14 Mateta · 15 Schlupp · 16 Chalobah · 17 Clyne · 18 Kamada · 19 Hughes · 20 Wharton · 22 Édouard · 26 Richards · 28 Doucouré · 29 Ahamada · 31 Matthews · 34 Riad ·

Manager:  Flag of Austria Oliver Glasner
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Crystal Palace F.C. squad seasons

1979-80 · 1982-83 · 1986-87 · 1988-89 · 1989-90 · 1990-91 · 1991-92 · 1992-93 · 1994-95 · 1995-96 · 1997-98 · 1998-99 · 1999-00 · 2013-14 · 2014-15 · 2015-16 · 2016-17 · 2017-18 · 2018-19 · 2019-20 ·

Crystal Palace FC
Crystal Palace F.C. seasons

2015-16 · 2016-17 · 2017-18 · 2018-19 · 2019-20 · 2020-21 · 2021-22 · 2022-23 · 2023-24 · 2024-25 ·

Crystal Palace Football Club - Managers

Robson (1905–07) • Goodman (1907–25) • Maley (1925–27) • Mavin (1927–30) • Tresadern (1930–35) • Bromilow (1935–36) • Moyes (1936) • Bromilow (1936–39) • Irwin (1939–47) • Butler (1947–49) • Rooke (1949–50) • Dawes & Slade (1950–51) • Scott (1951–54) • Spiers (1954–58) • G. Smith (1958–60) • Rowe (1960–62) • Graham (1963–66) • Rowe (1966c) • Head (1966–72) • Allison (1973–76) • Venables (1976–80) • Walley (1980c) • Allison (1980–81) • Gradi (1981) • Kember (1981–82) • Mullery (1982–84) • Bassett (1984) • Coppell (1984–93) • A. Smith (1993–95) • Coppell (1995–96) • Bassett (1996–97) • Coppell (1997–98) • Lombardo & Brolin (1998p) • Noades & Lewington (1998c) • Venables (1998–99) • Coppell (1999–2000) • A. Smith (2000–01) • Kember (2001c) • Bruce (2001) • Kember & Bullivant (2001c) • Francis (2001–03) • Kember (2003) • Symons (2003c) • Dowie (2003–06) • Taylor (2006–07) • Symons (2007c) • Warnock (2007–10) • Hart (2010) • Burley (2010–11) • Freedman (2011–12) • Lawrence & Fleming (2012c) • Holloway (2012–13) • Millen (2013c) • Pulis (2013–14) • Millen (2014c) • Warnock (2014) • Millen (2014–15c) • Pardew (2015–16) • Allardyce (2016–17) • de Boer (2017) • Hodgson (2017–21) • Vieira (2021–23) • Hodgson (2023–24) • Glasner (2024–)

Crystal Palace F.C. matches - 2024–25
2024–25 Premier League

Ipswich Town (a) · Arsenal (h) · Arsenal (a) ·

2024–25 FA Cup
Stockport County (h)
2024–25 EFL Cup

Norwich City (h) · Queens Park Rangers (a) · Aston Villa (a) · Arsenal (a)

Crystal Palace F.C. matches images - 2024–25
2024–25 Premier League
Arsenal (h) · Arsenal (a)
2024–25 FA Cup
2024–25 League Cup
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