Crystal Palace F.C.

Crystal Palace Football Club was founded in 1905 by the Crystal Palace Company, the owner of the club, at Crystal Palace, in the Crystal Palace area of ​​London. The company has had an eponymous amateur team since 1861. The new professional team played in the Southern League until 1920 when it joined the Football League Division 3 with many other Southern clubs.

In 1915 the club changed their home ground to Herne Hill in Selhurst and then to their current home ground Selhurst Park in 1924. The first match at the new stadium was against Sheffield Wednesday on 30 August.

Palace, then known as "The Glaziers", played in the lower division until the 1960s. At the time, one of the club's most beloved players was the late Johnny Byrne, the first national team player to leave the then Fourth Division. In 1969 the club was promoted to the 1st division.

The Eagles, as the club's new nickname was called, relegated back to the Third Division in the early 1970s. During Malcolm Ellison's managerial tenure, the company had a reformist atmosphere and at that time, among other things, the traditional colors were changed to the current ones and the mascot was introduced. The team's new colors were copied from FC Barcelona, ​​while the mascot was copied from SL Benfica.

Malcolm "Big Mal" Ellison's first match also saw the debut of Jim Cannon, a young Scot from the club's junior team in a 2-0 victory over rivals Chelsea. During his 16-year career, Cannon played only at Palace - a total of 660 matches, 571 of them in the league.

In the late 1970s, former Chelsea star Terry Venables took charge of Crystal Palace. He promoted the club to Division 1 for two seasons before moving to Queens Park Rangers in early 1981–1982. He was temporarily replaced by assistant coach Ernie Whalley, who, however, did not want to continue with the returned Malcolm Ellison and resigned. However, under Allison, the team did not improve its grip, and major changes soon followed in the organization.

In 1981, Ron Noades, former chairman of Wimbledon, bought himself a majority stake in Crystal Palace. At the same time, he fired Ellison and hired Dario Grad to replace him, who lifted Wimbledon to league level from the conference and promoted it immediately to the 3rd division. However, miracles cannot be done under the Palace City, and he was fired.

Steve Kember was hired as manager but his acumen didn't improve in that time either. The Palace was already in danger of falling, but the victory over the fallen Wrexham kept the streak moving. Kemberin was replaced as head coach at the end of the season by Alan Müllery, but he was not particularly popular with fans due to his connections with the club's bloody enemy Brighton. For two consecutive seasons, Palace were indeed close to falling apart, and after the 1983–1984 season, Mullery replaced Terry Venables as QPR manager. He was replaced by Dario Bassett, Dario Grad's successor at Wimbledon, who, however, unexpectedly resigned after four days to return to Wimbledon.

The new manager of Crystal Palace was 29-year-old Steve Koppell, whose career at Manchester United was cut short due to a knee injury. In partnership with Noades, he redesigned the Palace, culminating in 1989 with the team's promotion to Division 1. However, fans were not entirely happy with Coppell, as the departure of Scottish Palace icon Jim Cannon from the team was considered the price of qualification. in 1988. Cannon left the club in the summer after a 16-year career with the Eagles.

In their first season at the league's top level in 1989-1990, Palace finished 15th but also reached the FA Cup final for the first time in their history. The final was against Manchester United by a team that drew 3–3. In the rematch, ManU won with a score of 1:0.

In the period 1990-1991, Crystal Palace finished third in the 1st division. He also won the Full Members Cup after beating Everton 4–1 in the final. This victory is the only victory in the history of the Cup in the history of the club. During the period 1992-1993, the team sold players on a contract basis, in addition, several key players were injured. The result was relegation, the former 2nd Division, the new 1st Division, and the team failed to play in the Premier League through it in its first season.

Coppell retired at the end of the season following the fall of the Palace. He was replaced by Alan Smith, who served as an assistant manager leading the club in the 1st Division Championship and the Premier League. In the 1994-1995 season, the team reached the semi-finals of both domestic cups, but were once again eliminated from the Premier League cleanly - this time due to an insufficient number of goals scored, when places in the Premier League were reduced to twenty.

Smith was fired a few days after the end of the season, and Steve Coppell returned to coaching. The split also saw the team sell many top players such as Chris Coleman, Eric Young, Richard Shaw, Gareth Southgate, Ian Dowie, John Salako and Chris Armstrong. The Palace's first squad for the 1995–1996 opening match consisted of a very unknown person. At the time, the animal resembling the phoenix bird on the team's crest was replaced with an animal more like Kotka.

Steve Coppell was promoted to a managerial position (professional title of director of football) and Dave Bassett was hired as team manager. Bassett took the team from 16th to third in the final results. The team reached the play-off final but lost 2-1 to Leicester City. In March 1997, Bassett became manager of Nottingham Forest. Koppell returned as manager of Crystal Palace and once again the qualifying play-off side defeated Sheffield United to advance to the Premier League. In the Premier League, the club again only lasted one year before being relegated to the 1st division.

In March 1998, Ron Noades sold a majority stake in the club's computer base to Mark Goldberg with the goal of taking the club to the European level within five years. However, the period 1998-1999 did not go as expected. Goldberg withdrew his financial support for the club, and the club was on the brink of bankruptcy. Venables resigned and Coppell returned to the manager's job again. The final place was in the middle cast, as it was in the 1999-2000 season, although the team had to sell many key players in the midst of an economic disaster.

In July 2000, Simon Jordan, a mobile phone company, bought the nearly bankrupt club and replaced Coppell with Alan Smith, who managed the team from 1993 to 1995. Although finances were now in order and the team reached the semi-finals of the League Cup, Smith was fired in April 2001. Relegation to the 2nd division seemed inevitable. Smith was temporarily replaced by another former Eagles manager, Steve Kember, who, against all expectations and the bookies' ominous odds, saved the team from falling at the expense of Huddersfield Town.

In the 2001-2002 season, Steve Bruce took over as manager, leaving his job at Wigan after just seven weeks. The season started well, but four months later Bruce moved to Birmingham City, which negatively affected his popularity at Selhurst Park. Palace fans gave him the nickname Judas. Brusen was replaced by Trevor Francis, his predecessor at Birmingham. Under Francis, the Palace failed to perform very well, resulting in a middle cast at the final table.

The following season was also difficult, and Francis resigned in March. He was again replaced by former Eagles manager Steve Kember. Kember led Palace to victory in the opening game of the 2003-04 season, but surprisingly the result was overwhelming and he was eliminated in November. Interim arrangement Keith Simons coached for a month before former Northern Ireland player Ian Dowie entered the ring. Prior to his palace contract, Dowie managed Oldham Athletic.

By April, Ian Dowie had lifted Palace out of the qualifying spots for the playoffs. In the final round of the season on Sunday, May 9, Palace needed to draw with Coventry to qualify for the Premier League, but the team lost the match with a score of 2: 1. Exit to the playoffs completely depended on the outcome of the match "West Ham" - "Wigan". West Hamina's handicap, which came in the 90th minute and took two points in a row from Wigan, secured sixth place for Palace.

In the first play-off semi-final at Selhurst Park on 14 May, Crystal Palace beat Sunderland 3-2. Palace dominated the first half of the second half, but Sunderland scored two late in the first 45 minutes. By the second half, changes were made in the palace. He was replaced by Darren Powell. scored in the last minute. Luckily for the palace, the play-off did not follow the usual European goal that would have allowed Sunderland to continue the game, but the match was extended. No goals were scored in extra time, so the decision was made in a penalty shoot-out. In the penalty shootout, the advantage changed and sudden death was decided. Sunderland goalkeeper Mart Pum blocked two shots. Jeff Wheatley could have increased the lead of the guests if his free kick had been slightly lower.

In the play-offs at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 29 May 2004, West Ham United settled with Palace. Palace won the fight 1–0 with a goal from captain Neil Schipperley to advance to the Premier League.

Although manager Ian Dowie made many wise decisions and many Palace players such as Aki Riihilahti and Andy Johnson, who scored 21 league goals, gave it their all, this time the team's Valio cigarette only lasted one season. Crystal Palace achieved the dubious honor of being the only team to have been eliminated from the Premier League a record four times at the time.

The 2010 CPFC consortium quickly appointed George Burley as the new Palace manager. However, a poor start to the following season saw the club stuck at the bottom of the table by December. On 1 January 2011, after a 0–3 loss to Millwall, Burghley was sacked and his assistant Dougie Friedman named as interim manager. Just over a week later, Friedman was promoted to full-time manager. Palace moved up the table and, having secured a 1–1 draw at Hull City on 30 April, the club were safe from relegation with one game of the season to go. After another year and a half as manager, Friedman left to manage Bolton Wanderers on 23 October 2012.

In November 2012, Ian Holloway became the new Palace manager. He brought the club back to the Premier League after an eight-year absence with a 1-0 win over Watford in the Championship play-off final at the new Wembley, but resigned in October 2013. Tony Pulis, and manager Neil Warnock's unsuccessful second tenure, former Palace player Alan Pardew was confirmed as the new manager in January 2015. In his first full season, Pardew led the club to the 2016 FA Cup. Final, their first in 26 years. Palace faced Manchester United, whom they lost to in the 1990 final, and the Eagles were disappointed again, losing 1–2 after extra time. In December 2016, Pardew was sacked and replaced by Sam Allardyce, who kept the club in the Premier League but unexpectedly resigned at the end of the season. On 26 June 2017, Palace appointed former Dutch international Frank de Boer as their first permanent foreign manager, who was sacked just 77 days after the club lost their first four league games at the start of the 2017–2017 season. 18 season without scoring in any of them. His replacement, Roy Hodgson, was named the next day. Palace finished eleventh in the Premier League in Hodgson's first season, twelfth in 2018–19 and fourteenth the following season.

On 18 May 2021, the club announced that Hodgson would leave at the end of the 2020–21 season at the end of his contract. In his last season at the club, he finished in fourteenth place. On 4 July 2021, Palace appointed former Arsenal player Patrick Vieira as their new manager on a three-year deal.

Crystal Palace play their matches at Selhurst Park, the stadium is located in the London suburb of Selhurst, in the Borough of Croydon, close to where the famous Crystal Palace, the exhibition hall used at the Great Exhibition, stood from 1851 until 1936. . It seats just over 26,000 spectators. The land on which the stadium now stands was purchased in 1922 by the Brighton Railway Company for £2,570. The stadium (designed by Scottish architect Archibald Leitch) was built by the firm of Humphreys of Kensington (regularly used by Leitch) for around £30,000 and was formally opened by the Lord Mayor of London on 30 August 1924. At that time, the stadium had only one stand (the current Main Stand), but it was left unfinished due to strikes. Crystal Palace and Sheffield Wednesday played the first match with 25,000 fans in attendance, the match ended up being won by Sheffield 1–0.

Two years later, in 1926, England played an international match against Wales at the stadium. England also hosted other amateur matches there, as well as other sports such as boxing and cricket, as well as music concerts (during the 1980s). In addition, it hosted two football matches at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The stadium's largest attendance was in 1979, when nearly 51,000 people attended the match between Crystal Palace and Burnley, which Crystal Palace won 2-0 to become Football League Second Division champions. This record surpassed the previous one set in 1961 in Crystal Palace's match against Millwall, en la Four Division (actual Football League Two).