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- 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.
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This is a list of Crystal Palace F.C. seasons in English and European football, from their first official season in 1905–06 up to the 2023–24 season. It details the club's achievements in senior league and cup competitions, European competitions and the top scorers for each season.
Crystal Palace were inaugural champions of the newly formed Third Division in 1920–21, which was also their first season in the Football League and so became one of only a small group of clubs to have achieved the feat of winning a Football League Division at the first time of asking.
- Origins and Formation
- Southern League
- The Football League
- Rising Through The Divisions
- The Coming of The Eagles
- Steve Coppell Era
- Ups and Downs
- Two Administrations
- Back Among The Elite
- External Links
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...
The newly-formed professional club applied to join the Second Division of the Football League, but were rejected and forced to settle for a place in the Southern League Second Division. To increase the number of club fixtures, Palace also joined the mid-week United League, where they won their first recorded match as a professional club, 3–0 away a...
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 go...
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....
Despite relegation, the 1973–74 season started with much optimism among the Palace supporters. Malcolm Allison had a strong recent record as a coach, having won trophies with Manchester City as an assistant to Joe Mercer in the late 1960s. Allison or 'Big Mal' as he was nicknamed in the press, had a flamboyant personality which was something of a c...
The former Manchester United and England winger Steve Coppell was appointed as Crystal Palace's new manager for the 1984–85 season. Coppell's playing career had been cut short by a knee injury, and assisted by former Palace player Ian Evans, he worked on rebuilding the club, signing the then unknown Ian Wright from non-league Greenwich Borough and ...
Alan Smith immediately guided Palace back to the Premier League as runaway champions of the second tier, with striker Chris Armstrong top-scoring with 23 league goals. During this period the club badge was changed, with the image of the bird on it replaced by one which the chairman Ron Noades felt more closely resembled that of an eagle. The follow...
The club's European venture was brief, entering the UEFA Intertoto Cup in the Third Round with a tie against Samsunspor of Turkey, Palace lost 0–4 on aggregate. Terry Venables had returned to the club for a second spell after being appointed head coach, but the dream of success for the 1998–99 season quickly turned sour due to owner Mark Goldberg b...
The CPFC 2010 consortium, consisting of businessmen Steve Parish, Martin Long, Stephen Browett and Jeremy Hosking, appointed former Scotland boss George Burley as the club's new manager for the 2010–11 season, with Dougie Freedman remaining as his assistant. Palace were short on players, with several members of the squad from the previous season ha...
Crystal Palace have only ever won a league trophy in a handful of their seasons as a professional club so far. The Eagles’ list of honours also features titles from multiple divisions, having topped a table in the second and third tiers.
C rystal Palace FC become a member of the Football League in 1920, after 15 years in the Southern League. They reached the Division One for the first time in 1969 and the best position was achieved in 1991 with a third place.
SeasonLeaguePositionPoints2018-19Premier League12492017-18Premier League11442016-17Premier League13412015-16Premier League1542Ten seasons in the Southern League First Division, interrupted by the outbreak of World War I, would follow for Crystal Palace. A change to the footballing pyramid then saw the Football League place the Eagles in the newly-formed Division Three in 1920.
Crystal Palace can draw an established link back to the Crystal Palace football team established in 1861, which played its first match in March 1862. The connection makes Palace the oldest league club in existence still playing professional football, and founder members of both the Football Association and FA Cup.
