Crystal Palace Football Club is a professional football club based in Selhurst, South London, England. They currently compete in the Premier League, the highest level of English football. The club play their home matches at Selhurst Park.
The origins of the club can be traced as far back as 1854, when the Crystal Palace Exhibition building had been relocated from Hyde Park, London and rebuilt in an area of South London next to Sydenham Hill. This area was renamed Crystal Palace which included the Crystal Palace Park that surrounded the site where various sports facilities were built. An amateur Crystal Palace football team first played here as early as 1861. They became one of the original founder members of the Football Association in 1863 and competed in the first ever FA Cup competition in 1871–72, reaching the semi-finals where they lost to the Royal Engineers. In 1895, the Football Association found a new permanent venue for the FA Cup Final at the sports stadium situated inside the Palace grounds. It was ten years later that the owners of the exhibition building decided to form a new professional football club to play at the Cup Final venue. They stayed here until 1915, when the club were forced to leave due to the outbreak of the First World War. In 1924, they moved to their current home at Selhurst Park.
Palace joined the Football League in 1920, and have overall spent the majority of their league history 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. The club's highest ever league finish to date is third place in the old First Division, now known as the Premier League, achieved in the 1990–91 season. Palace were denied a place in Europe at the end of that season only because of the partial UEFA ban on English clubs at that time following the Heysel Stadium disaster. The club became founder members of the Premier League in 1992. 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 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. Palace have also been FA Cup finalists twice, losing to Manchester United on both occasions in 1990 and 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.<\/P>","686A4807662B110DEF267ED94EA5AF8C":"Austria","7B11A9E5D141DF5785F9EF965C7D588D":"Eintracht Frankfurt,VfL Wolfsburg,LASK Linz,SV Ried,FC Liefering,Red Bull Salzburg","D818D0DBB58D9A673E378E57E02D444F9E96A907729BB512":"1905-9-10","9874ED9F3729871C766BB9BF72DD3990":"2024-2-20","50DCDC085A8BF7E4518E56CD69FC7EB2":"25,486","9262149CB11F269E":"London","A7F9B63E25A659E5":"Crystal Palace","B52BFE7EA0432304":"info@cpfc.co.uk","8524B53828524224755A552E6AAA1E77":"Eintracht Frankfurt","C6E00DEB351621C4":"112","A9113A766E3C872ED6E5814BC86CB140":"181cm","D5AF1249DEAE15446FB07F95BE07BAC61FCF1CF21901A599":"1","D99F4C61777FBED8":"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Selhurst+Park+london+ENGLAND&sll=52.62194,1.309862&sspn=0.001794,0.005665&ie=UTF8&ll=51.398269,-0.085047&spn=0.001844,0.005665&t=h&z=18","0357E9507AE48270":"1","89F75C88F810F7B54F1BC067C7848CF5":"Selhurst Park","93E993D54869F4B8":"35230","92DC52DD0D4041625C68AA7C024C7F67":"England","D5AF1249DEAE15440A9E01742A8A4E92":"385900000.00","761C3792446BE5ED2EFE4C1CAFC95D68":"1974-8-28","00E1A43DD023DEC2DFC0A799EF9025A4":"","3D9B31C67DFDD0FC8C73053EF2ADBD66":"
League English third tier (currently EFL League One) English fourth tier (currently EFL League Two) CUP Full Members Cup Oliver Glasner is an Austrian professional football manager for VfL Wolfsburg. He was former player who played as a defender for Austrian Football Bundesliga side SV Ried.<\/P> In 2012, he became part of the managing staff of Red Bull Salzburg. In July 2012, he became assistant coach of Roger Schmidt in the first squad. After a successful stint at Salzburg, he was appointed head coach of his former team SV Ried. Glasner won his first match as head coach 3–2 against SC\/ESV Parndorf in the first round of the Austrian Cup and won his first league match 3–1 against Wiener Neustadt.<\/P> Starting with 2019–20 Bundesliga season, he is managing VfL Wolfsburg.<\/P>","0C852134AA40B2DD":"1","4268BF6963F167300062241A864D4973":"Selhurst Park South Norwood London SE25 6PU","937DE1BE2366A0DF":"http:\/\/www.cpfc.co.uk\/","e_index":1};
English top tier (currently the Premier League)
<\/STRONG>Highest finish 3rd place: 1990–91
English second tier (currently the EFL Championship)
<\/STRONG>Champions (2): 1978–79, 1993–94
Runners-up (1): 1968–69
Play-off winners (4): 1988–89, 1996–97, 2003–04, 2012–13
Play-off runners-up (1): 1995–96<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Champions (1): 1920–21
Runners-up (4): 1928–29, 1930–31 (Third Division South), 1938–39 (Third Division South), 1963–64<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Runners-up (1): 1960–61<\/P>
FA Cup
<\/STRONG>Runners-up (2): 1990, 2016<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Winners (1): 1991<\/P>","729294714CECF588":"Record League Victory:<\/STRONG> 9-0 v Barrow, Fourth Division, 10 October 1959
Record Cup Victory:<\/STRONG> 8-0 v Southend United, League Cup Second Round, 25 September 1989
Record Defeat:<\/STRONG> 0-9 v Liverpool, First Division, 12 September 1989
Record Cup Defeat:<\/STRONG> 0-9 v Burnley, FA Cup Second Round replay, 10 February 1909
Longest FA Cup Runs:<\/STRONG> Final (replay), 1990, Semi-Finals 1976, 1995
Longest League Cup Run:<\/STRONG> Semi-finals, 1995, 2001
Longest Unbeaten Run:<\/STRONG> 18 Games, February 1968 in the Old Second Division (now Championship) - October 1968 in the Football League Second Division (the run was split over two seasons where Palace achieved promotion)
Highest League Scorer in Season:<\/STRONG> Peter Simpson, 46, Third Division South, 1930\/31
Most League Goals in Total Aggregate:<\/STRONG> Peter Simpson, 153, 1930 - 1936
Fastest Hat-trick:<\/STRONG> 11 mins. v Grimsby by Dougie Freedman, First Division, 5 March 1996
Highest Number of League Hat-tricks:<\/STRONG> 18, by Peter Simpson, 1929 - 1933
Highest Number of Aggregate Hat-tricks:<\/STRONG> 19, by Peter Simpson, 1929 - 1933
Most Internationals Caps (while at club):<\/STRONG> Aki Riihilahti, 35 (66), Finland
First Player to Appear in a World Cup Match:<\/STRONG> Gregg Berhalter, 2002, United States
Most Appearances (any competition):<\/STRONG> Jim Cannon, 660, 1973 - 1988
Youngest League Player:<\/STRONG> John Bostock, 15 years and 287 days, v Watford, at Selhurst Park (Championship, 29 October 2007)
Record Transfer Fee Received:<\/STRONG> £8,600,000 from Everton for Andrew Johnson, May 2006
Record Transfer Fee Paid:<\/STRONG> £2,750,000 to Strasbourg for Valerien Ismael, January 1998
Record Attendance:<\/STRONG> 51,482 v Burnley, Second Division, 11 May 1979
Highest league position<\/STRONG> 1st in the First Division, 29 September 1979 - 6 October 1979
Highest league finishing position<\/STRONG> 3rd in the Old First Division (now Premier League) (1990-91 season)","6A881B134CC16CFA535D54FE36142BBC":"Crystal Palace","0284C3E6252CDEEA":"Oliver Glasner","E4FAE8AE56FCFFF1DC7AFC02ACE5DEE8":"18","76E4AF6D9D682B9E33C3CEBB0A099E01":"72kg","2C96C5176EAF712DA7D4D953D3793B1F":"Oliver Glasner","500D9C7B9500177D0E53F89F378715C8":"