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First World War. They moved to their current home at Selhurst Park
in 1924.

Shortly after the professional club was created in 1905, Crystal Palace applied for election to the

Manchester United
.

Origins and formation (1854–1905)

Mono photograph of the front of the Palace and some of its surrounding grounds.
The Crystal Palace Exhibition building (1854)

Between 1852 and 1854, the glass exhibition building known as The Crystal Palace was relocated from Hyde Park and rebuilt in an area of South London next to Sydenham Hill. This area was renamed Crystal Palace – including the Crystal Palace Park surrounding the site where various sports facilities were built. The Crystal Palace Company who owned the exhibition building founded the Crystal Palace Club in 1857 to play cricket before turning their attention to football. It had been lobbied by existing members of the cricket club to provide a continuation of sporting activities during the winter months. The company formed an amateur Crystal Palace football club in 1861.[4] Many of its original players were members of the cricket club, and they shared the same pitch within the Crystal Palace Park.[5][6]

The amateur club became one of the original founder members of the

FA Cup final at the sports stadium situated inside the Palace grounds. With the Crystal Palace Company also reliant on tourist activity for their income, they sought fresh attractions for the venue, and founded the London County Cricket Club of W. G. Grace before deciding to form a new professional football club to play at the stadium.[10]

1905 FA Cup Final
at the Crystal Palace Stadium.

The professional Crystal Palace Football Club was formed on 10 September 1905 under the chairmanship of Sydney Bourne,[11] and were assisted by Edmund Goodman, an Aston Villa employee who was recommended to Palace by the Villa chairman, William McGregor.[12] Goodman organised the business side of the club and appointed John Robson to be the team's manager. Robson had transformed his previous club Middlesbrough from an amateur outfit to an established Football League First Division team.[13] Goodman, a former amateur player with Villa, had his playing career cut short by an injury which led to the amputation of his right leg.[14] He also managed Palace from 1907 to 1925, becoming the club's longest ever serving manager in the process.

Southern League (1905–20)

The Crystal Palace F.C. squad (1905–06).

The newly-formed professional club applied to join the

New Brompton. The team's manager John Robson established a squad of sixteen professionals, most of them signed from clubs in the North East area of England, where Robson came from. Palace's inaugural campaign in the Southern League Second Division consisted mainly of matches against other clubs' reserve sides, alongside Wycombe Wanderers, Leyton, Southern United, St. Leonards United and Grays United. Their opening fixture was at home against Southampton Reserves, and approximately 3,000 spectators paid 6d to stand or a shilling to be seated. Palace led 3–0 after 30 minutes, before fading and losing 3–4. However, that was the club's only defeat in the league all season, and Palace were crowned champions. The season included a run of seventeen straight victories, one of them being a 9–1 win over Grays United. The club's home attendances in the league for that season were regularly between 2,000 and 3,000 spectators.[15]

Following their promotion, Palace started their second season as a professional club competing in the Southern League First Division, finishing in nineteenth place, but having enjoyed better form in the FA Cup. After beating Rotherham County in a qualifying tie, Palace were drawn away to Newcastle United in the first round proper. Newcastle were one of the biggest and most successful clubs in the top flight of English football at that time. They had played in the previous two FA Cup finals, were Football League First Division champions in 1905, and this season were on their way to another title. In what still stands as one of the club's greatest ever wins, Palace scored through Horace Astley against the run of play and then held off Newcastle to come away with a shock 1–0 win. The second and third rounds saw the club dispose of Fulham and Brentford respectively after both ties went to a replay. In the quarter-finals, Palace were drawn at home to the cup holders Everton, who had been challenging Newcastle for the First Division title throughout that season. In front of a then record crowd of 35,000, Palace took the lead, but their opponents equalised taking the tie to a replay, where Everton proved too strong, running out 4–0 winners.[16]

A headed goal scored by Palace striker Edwin Smith against Reading F.C., c. 1914.

John Robson left Palace to manage neighbours

Highbury, and defender Horace Colclough was called up by England to play in the team that beat Wales in Cardiff on 16 March 1914.[17]

Following the outbreak of the

The Admiralty, who had taken over the Crystal Palace and its grounds at the start of the war, ordered the club to leave and they chose to move to nearby Herne Hill Velodrome. The club finished that season in fifteenth place. When Croydon Common F.C. failed to return to business after the war, Palace moved into their ground known as The Nest which was situated opposite Selhurst railway station. In the first full season after the war, Palace finished in third place in 1919–20.[18]

The Football League (1920–58)

Crystal Palace became a Football League club in 1920 when the Southern League First Division clubs were admitted en bloc as founder members of a newly formed Football League Third Division. In their first season as a Football League club, Palace lost their opening game at Merthyr Town 1–2 with George Milligan scoring the club's first ever league goal. Milligan's Palace career was short-lived however, and he made just one more appearance for the club. Palace's first ever home Football League match was a disappointing 0–0 draw against Plymouth Argyle, but the club then went on a run of six consecutive wins. Goalkeeper Jack Alderson, who had been signed in 1918, kept a clean sheet in five of those wins and they lost just six more league games all season. Palace were unbeaten in the final sixteen games of the season which included an eight-game winning streak and went on to win the championship by five points from runners-up Southampton and gain promotion to the Second Division. The club conceded just 34 goals over the season, a record that stood until 1979,[19] and Palace joined Preston North End, Small Heath, Liverpool and Bury as the only clubs at that time to have won a championship in their first season as a league club. Palace also won their third London Challenge Cup, beating Clapton Orient 1–0 at White Hart Lane with a goal from forward John Conner.[20]

Palace goalkeeper Jack Alderson, caricatured in the Football Special (1922). In 2005 Alderson was voted the club's third best goalkeeper of all time by fans.[21]

The following season saw the formation of a Northern section of the Third Division which meant the southern clubs were now part of a new division called the Third Division South. This arrangement would continue until 1958, when the Third and Fourth Division were formed, but for now Palace were above all of that, and in 1921–22 they opened their second season in the Football League as a Second Division club, finishing in fourteenth place. In the first round of the FA Cup that season, Palace achieved one of their greatest ever wins, thrashing First Division Everton 6–0 at Goodison Park. In the 1922–23 season, Palace struggled in the lower reaches of the division, eventually finishing sixteenth and the following season saw the club finish in fifteenth place. It was also around this time that the club made a significant purchase with regards to a new permanent home.[22]

Back in 1919, the Palace minute book contained an entry instructing the Secretary to investigate the possibility of obtaining a lease on the 'ground at Selhurst', although calling it a 'ground' was a little misleading since at the time it was a piece of wasteland valuable only to the

Leeds Road, but the design for Selhurst Park was unusual in that it had no roof gable. The other three sides of the ground remained open banking with just the lower parts being terraced. Construction work was delayed by industrial disputes, and when the ground was opened by the Lord Mayor of London on 30 August 1924, the stand had not been completed. It did however boast many luxuries, including "offices, tea rooms, training quarters, plunge, slipper, shower and needle baths". The opening fixture was against The Wednesday, and in front of a crowd of 25,000, Palace lost 0–1, with the first goal at Selhurst Park being scored by Billy Marsden. That defeat set the tone for the season, with the club eventually finishing in twenty-first place – and were relegated along with Coventry City. A win in the last game at home to Oldham Athletic would have secured survival, but Palace lost by a single goal and it would be almost 40 years before the club would again grace the second level of English football. The following year saw Selhurst Park stage the England versus Wales international on 1 March 1926. It remains the only full international match to be played at the ground.[23]

Following the club's relegation to the Third Division South, Edmund Goodman stepped down as manager three months into the

The war years of 1939–45 saw football enter a period of disarray with the creation of Wartime Leagues. Palace joined the League South "A" Division in 1939 and the League South "D" Division in 1940, winning the latter competition, and then promptly won an improvised South Regional League the following season on goal average. They joined the London League for the 1941–42 season, with the clubs in London refusing to accept the ad-hoc competitions the Football League were organising. This division only lasted that season before the London clubs were back in the Football League fold, with Palace joining the Football League South for the next four seasons.[25] The club fielded 186 different players during the seven wartime seasons.[26]

After the war Palace returned to the Third Division South and endured their worst season up to that point in 1948–49, finishing bottom and applying for re-election for the first time. Palace kept their place and finished seventh the next season. They followed this up with another bottom place and re-election in 1950–51, with the unwanted record of scoring the fewest number of goals in a Third Division South season. Palace continued to struggle over the next few seasons and required re-election for a third and final time in 1955–56, with only Swindon Town keeping them from bottom spot that season, and they would remain in the bottom half of the division until the league was restructured in 1958.

Rising through the divisions (1958–73)

The 1958–59 season began a period of change with Arthur Wait taking control of the club as chairman, and the league was restructured with Palace playing in the new Fourth Division. This new division had been formed with the merging of the clubs in the bottom half of the Third Division South with those in the bottom half of the Third Division North. Palace had failed to qualify for the new Third Division, falling outside the top twelve finish required by two places. Palace's first season in the Fourth Division saw them finish seventh, with the club faring slightly worse the following campaign with an eighth place finish. Wait appointed the ex-Tottenham manager Arthur Rowe in April 1960 and the club then enjoyed a successful 1960–61 season, finishing second behind league newcomers Peterborough United who thus matched Palace's 1920–21 achievement of winning a championship in their inaugural league season. Palace also set Fourth Division records for the highest average attendance of 19,092, and the highest attendance at an individual match; 37,774 for the Good Friday game at Selhurst Park against Millwall.[27] Surrey-born Johnny Byrne scored 31 of Palace's 110 goals that season, and his strike partner Roy Summersby contributed 25 as the club moved up to the Third Division.[28]

Palace finished fifteenth in the Third Division at the end of the 1961–62 season. In November 1961, Byrne was called up to the England national team despite playing outside the top two divisions at the time, one of only five players ever to achieve this. He played the whole of the 1–1 draw against Northern Ireland, part of the 1962 British Home Championship, at Wembley Stadium. After international recognition, the West Ham manager Ron Greenwood paid a transfer fee of £65,000, including ex-Palace striker Ron Brett in exchange, to take "Budgie" to the Hammers in March 1962. This was a record fee between two British clubs at the time. Byrne left Palace having scored 96 goals for the club, then a post-war record.[29]

Alfredo Di Stéfano, who played for Real Madrid against Palace in 1962. The Croydon Advertiser reported that his "move that led to Madrid's fourth goal was conducted with effortless ease at walking pace."[30]

On Wednesday 18 April 1962, Palace achieved distinction when the great

European Cup final. Madrid beat Palace 4–3 in a thrilling match. Arthur Rowe resigned as Palace manager due to health reasons in December 1962, and the club appointed former player Dick Graham to replace him. The 1962–63 season saw the club finish eleventh, before gaining promotion to the Second Division the following season, after finishing second behind Coventry City on goal average.[31]

Over the next few seasons, Palace achieved respectable top half finishes in the Second Division, during which they appointed Bert Head as their new manager in April 1966. Head promoted from the youth team and transferred in a number of new players, including the re-signing of old favourite Johnny Byrne. His work paid dividends in the 1968–69 season when Palace, not fancied as promotion candidates at the beginning of the season, finished second behind Derby County, who were managed by Brian Clough. Palace had achieved a place in the top flight for the first time in their history, clinching promotion with a sixteen-game unbeaten run to end the season.[32]

The Dave Clark Five's chart-hit "Glad All Over" became a huge crowd favourite around this time,[33] after the band performed the song at a concert staged at Selhurst Park.[34] It was played regularly before the start of home games, with the Palace fans banging on advertising hoardings in time with the drum beat in the chorus of the song and it remains the club's anthem today.[35]

Palace's life in the top division of English football began with a home game against

John Jackson denying George Best and Brian Kidd. The next match was again at home, this time against Sunderland which Palace won 2–0. However, the season soon became a long struggle against relegation for the club, but they were eventually able to secure safety, finishing in twentieth place above demoted Sheffield Wednesday and Sunderland. Palace avoided the drop for two more seasons,[36] and followed the trend of many other top flight clubs by introducing a new "Player of the Year" award which has been presented at the end of every season since 1971–72. The first recipient was defender John McCormick.[37]

Despite some good performances in the 1972–73 season, most notably a 5–0 home win against Manchester United, Palace eventually succumbed to relegation in their fourth season in the top flight. Arthur Wait, having overseen the rise of the club from the Fourth to the First Division, was replaced as chairman by Raymond Bloye in November 1972, and the club also appointed Malcolm Allison as the new manager in March the following year, replacing Bert Head. In Allison's first game in charge at home against Chelsea, he gave a debut to young Scottish defender Jim Cannon. Palace had never won a London derby in the top flight up to this point, but Cannon, who had come through the youth ranks, marked the Chelsea striker Peter Osgood out of the game and then scored the second goal in a 2–0 win to begin a long career with the club.[38]

The coming of The Eagles (1973–84)

Despite relegation, the

Peter Taylor climbed to seventeenth place with a 3–1 win at Fulham on Good Friday. Palace then lost three consecutive matches which saw them needing to win in their final game of the season at Cardiff City to remain in the second tier of English football. They could only draw 1–1, and suffered relegation for a second successive season.[39]

Allison's rebranded Palace crest.

The

Leeds United and Chelsea along the way, before losing 0–2 to Southampton at Stamford Bridge on 3 April 1976. Allison resigned at the end of the season, partly because of the failure to get Palace promoted, but he had also come under scrutiny due to some of his off the field antics, which included being photographed in the team bath with actress and glamour model Fiona Richmond.[39][40]

Allison was replaced as manager by Terry Venables, who had been his assistant the previous season, and he guided the club to promotion at the first attempt. The Palace youngsters also won the

David Swindlehurst
was completed by a finish from outside the penalty area to give the Eagles a 2–0 win. Palace were crowned champions, and had reached the top flight again.

As an increasing number of players from the FA Youth Cup winning team had now established themselves in the first team, the press dubbed Palace the "Team of the Eighties". They began the 1979–80 season well, staying unbeaten longer than any other club in the top flight, and also briefly went top of the whole Football League when they beat Ipswich Town 4–1 at Selhurst Park in late September. Unfortunately the young starlets could not keep this form up, and a slide down the table resulted in Palace finishing thirteenth, which at that point was the club's highest ever league finish.[41]

The slide continued into the 1980–81 season, with nine defeats in the first ten games, and Venables quit Palace to join QPR. The club were also suffering financial problems, and were virtually relegated by the end of January when another, even bigger change occurred. Ron Noades, previously the chairman of Wimbledon, led a consortium to take financial control of the club, purchasing it from Raymond Bloye. Palace spent the next couple of seasons flirting with relegation from the second tier and there were numerous managerial changes, including the unpopular appointment of ex-Brighton manager Alan Mullery.

Steve Coppell era (1984–93)

Steve Coppell, who led Palace to an FA Cup Final and a third place finish in the top flight. He managed the club over four separate spells.

The former Manchester United and England winger

extra-time in the second leg to end their eight-year exile from the top flight. Ian Wright, who scored 24 league goals, and 33 in all competitions in the promotion campaign, was voted player of the year by the club's supporters.[42][43][44]

Palace began their first top flight campaign in almost a decade by re-signing former youth team product

Their first ever appearance at Wembley Stadium saw Palace facing

Lee Martin cap a 40-yard run by slotting past Nigel Martyn to win the Cup for the Red Devils.[48]

The club built on the success of the previous campaign and even challenged for the

final
.

The following season was to become one marked by controversy for the club. In September 1991,

FA Premier League in 1992–93. Mark Bright was sold to Sheffield Wednesday in September and the Eagles struggled to score goals without him. They were relegated on goal difference, after Oldham Athletic's 4–3 victory over Southampton on the last day of the season. Palace's 49 points from 42 games that season became the joint-highest total of any club ever to have been relegated from the top flight of English football, and remains a Premier League record. The club's relegation prompted the resignation of Coppell after nine years at the helm, and he was succeeded by his assistant Alan Smith.[50]

Ups and downs (1993–98)

Alan Smith immediately guided Palace back to the Premier League as runaway champions of the second tier,

1994–95
season, and Palace unluckily found themselves demoted on the last day again.

Smith left the club by "mutual agreement" within days of Palace's relegation from the Premier League.

play-off final for the second year running.[66][67] Palace achieved promotion back to the Premier League after defeating Sheffield United 1–0 with David Hopkin scoring the winner in the 90th minute.[68]

The

Swedish international striker Tomas Brolin as his assistant.[72] The pair failed to achieve an improvement in form and Palace were demoted back to the second tier, having won just two home games all season and finishing bottom of the table with 33 points. Lombardo and Brolin were replaced as the management team by out-going chairman Noades and Ray Lewington for the last three games of the campaign.[73] Despite finishing bottom, the beginning of the next season saw Palace get their first experience of European football in the UEFA Intertoto Cup.[74] Goldberg's takeover of the club was finally completed in early June,[75]
although Noades maintained ownership of the ground, leasing it back to the club to use.

Two administrations (1998–2010)

The club's European venture was brief, entering the UEFA Intertoto Cup in the

1998–99 season quickly turned sour due to owner Mark Goldberg being unable to sustain his financial backing of the club and they were placed into administration.[77] Venables left and Steve Coppell returned to manage Palace once again,[78] with Peter Morley installed as temporary chairman.[79] Coppell guided the club to consecutive mid-table finishes and in July 2000, Singapore financier Jerry Lim purchased an almost bankrupt Crystal Palace, immediately selling the club on to millionaire businessman and lifelong fan Simon Jordan. Soon after taking control, Jordan replaced Coppell with Alan Smith who returned to the club for a second spell as manager.[80] Despite reaching the League Cup semi-finals, Smith was sacked in April 2001, with relegation to the third tier looking imminent.[81] Long-serving coach and former Palace player Steve Kember was put in temporary charge of the first team alongside Terry Bullivant,[82] and relegation was avoided on the last day of the season with an 87th-minute Dougie Freedman goal away to Stockport County.[83]

Palace turned to former Manchester United captain

Andrew Johnson, the second highest goalscorer in the division.[95] At that time Palace held the unwanted distinction of being the only club to have been relegated from the Premier League four times.[96]

Palace players huddle before a match at Selhurst Park in 2007.

The following season saw the club reach the play-offs for the second time in three seasons, but on this occasion they failed to progress to the final, losing to Watford.[97] Palace also lost another manager with Dowie leaving the club after stating that he wanted to be closer to his family in Bolton.[98] Simon Jordan had accepted Dowie's reasons and waived a £1million compensation fee in the manager's contract. However, when Dowie was appointed as manager of local rivals Charlton Athletic, Jordan pursued him through the courts,[99] eventually settling the affair in April 2008.[100] Former Palace fans favourite Peter Taylor succeeded Dowie as manager for the 2006–07 season.[101] Taylor was unsuccessful in getting the club promoted, and was replaced by Neil Warnock two months into the following season.[102][103] Warnock guided Palace to the 2008 Championship play-offs where they lost in the semi-finals to Bristol City.[104] The club followed this with a disappointing fifteenth place finish the next season.[105]

The

League One instead of Palace.[112] Following the end of the season, Freedman replaced Hart as temporary manager and the club emerged from administration owned by a consortium of wealthy fans called CPFC 2010.[113] The consortium praised the efforts of the Palace fans who led a campaign which helped secure the freehold of Selhurst Park by putting pressure on Lloyds Bank to sell the ground back to the club.[114]

Back among the elite (2010–present)

The CPFC 2010 consortium, consisting of businessmen

Championship table,[119] with Davids departing. Palace's away form in the first half of the season had been poor and a 0–3 South London derby defeat at Millwall on New Year's Day saw Burley sacked.[120] Freedman was promoted to manager,[121] and Lennie Lawrence was brought in as his assistant to provide some much needed experience.[122] The duo successfully guided Palace to safety with a game to spare.[123]

In the midst of the managerial change from Burley to Freedman, the club announced plans to relocate back to the site of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, built on their original home, and redeveloping it into a 40,000-seater, purpose-built football stadium.[124] The following season started well, and by late October the club were sitting in third place in the league.[125] Palace were also enjoying a good League Cup run that saw them beat Crawley Town, Wigan Athletic, Middlesbrough, and Southampton which set up a quarter final tie away at Manchester United. However league form began to slip and Palace went on a run of five winless games without even scoring immediately prior to the match against United. Entering the tie as obvious underdogs, a 35-yard strike from Darren Ambrose and an extra-time header from Glenn Murray saw Palace win at Old Trafford for the first time in 22 years.[126] The club then announced potential plans to update their image through a new badge.[127] On the pitch, league form remained patchy, and the semi-final of the League Cup ended in a penalty shoot-out defeat to Cardiff City.[128] Palace finished the 2011–12 campaign in seventeenth place, an improvement on the previous season.[129]

2016 FA Cup Final

Freedman took charge for a third season in

Kevin Phillips penalty in extra-time which ensured a return to the Premier League for the Eagles after an eight-year absence.[135]

In October of the 2013–14 season, Holloway quit as manager, with the club having only taken three points from their first eight games in the Premier League.[136] He was replaced by former Stoke City manager Tony Pulis, who led the team to safety.[137] Pulis then resigned just two days before the start of the 2014–15 season. Neil Warnock returned to Palace for a second spell as manager, but was sacked on 27 December 2014, with the club in the relegation zone.[138] In January, former Palace player Alan Pardew was confirmed as the new manager, signing a three-and-a-half-year contract with the club after a compensation package of £3.5 million was agreed with Newcastle United for his release.[139] Under Pardew, the club won eight games out of twelve in the new year, eventually securing mid-table safety and a third consecutive season in the Premier League.[140]

The following season saw the club reach their first

FA Cup Final for 26 years. Manchester United were the opposition, who Palace had lost to in the 1990 final. Palace would suffer disappointment again, losing 1–2 after extra-time. Pardew was sacked on 22 December 2016 after a poor run of results, and the following day Sam Allardyce was appointed as the new manager of the club, signing a 2½-year contract. Allardyce left the club two days after the end of the 2016–17 season due to personal reasons.[141] On 26 June 2017, former Dutch international Frank de Boer signed a three-year deal to become the club's first ever permanent foreign manager,[142] but was sacked after losing all of his first four games in the league.[143] He was replaced by former England manager Roy Hodgson, who at the age of 70 became the oldest appointee in Premier League history.[144] However poor results continued for a few more games, and Palace achieved the unenviable record of the worst start to a season in English football history with seven successive defeats and no goals scored.[145][146] Despite their nightmare start, the club eventually finished in a respectable eleventh place in the Premier League at the end of the 2017–18 season. This was followed by twelfth and fourteenth-place finishes in the following two seasons. After another fourteenth-place finish in the 2020–21 season, Hodgson left the club upon the expiration of his contract.[147]

On 4 July 2021, Palace appointed former Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira as their new manager on a three-year contract.[148] Vieira led the club to a twelfth-place finish and an FA Cup semi-final in his first full season. However, he was dismissed in March 2023 after a dismal winless run of 12 games, which had left the club in a relegation battle.[149] On 21 March 2023, Roy Hodgson was re-appointed Palace manager until the end of the season.[150] His experience proved crucial as he successfully guided the club to safety, finishing in eleventh-place in the Premier League at the end of the 2022–23 season. Hodgson was appointed permanent manager for a second time at the start of the following season,[151] but stepped down from the role prematurely on 19 February 2024.[152] On the same day, he was replaced by former Eintracht Frankfurt manager Oliver Glasner.[153]

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