List of Crystal Palace F.C. records and statistics

This article lists the records set by Crystal Palace F.C., their managers and players, including honours won by the club and details of their performance in European competition. The player records section itemises the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made the most appearances in first-team competitions. It also records notable achievements by Palace players on the international stage, and the highest transfer fees paid and received by the club.

Honours and achievements

Domestic competitions

• English first tier (currently the Premier League)
  • Highest finish: 3rd place, 1990–91
• English second tier (currently the EFL Championship)
  • Champions (2): 1978–79, 1993–94
  • Runners-up (1): 1968–69
  • Play-off winners (4) (record): 1988–89, 1996–97, 2003–04, 2012–13
  • Play-off runners-up (1): 1995–96
• English third tier (currently EFL League One)
  • Champions (1): 1920–21
  • Runners-up (4): 1928–29 (South), 1930–31 (South), 1938–39 (South), 1963–64
• English fourth tier (currently EFL League Two)
  • Runners-up (1): 1960–61
• FA Cup
  • Runners-up (2): 1989–90, 2015–16
• Full Members Cup[upper-alpha 1]
  • Winners (1): 1990–91
• FA Youth Cup
  • Winners (2): 1976–77, 1977–78
  • Runners-up (2): 1991–92, 1996–97

Wartime competitions

• Football League South
  • Champions (1): 1940–41
• Football League South 'D' Division
  • Champions (1): 1939–40

Regional competitions

• Southern Football League Division One
  • Runners-up (1): 1913–14
• Southern Football League Division Two
  • Champions (1): 1905–06
• United League[1]
  • Champions (1): 1906–07
  • Runners-up (1): 1905–06
• Southern Professional Floodlit Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 1958–59
• London Challenge Cup[upper-alpha 2]
  • Winners (3): 1912–13, 1913–14, 1920–21
  • Runners-up (6): 1919–20, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1931–32, 1937–38, 1946–47
• Surrey Senior Cup[2]
  • Winners (3): 1996–97, 2000–01, 2001–02

Player records

Appearances

• Youngest first-team player: John Bostock, 15 years, 287 days, v Watford, 29 October 2007[3]
• Oldest first-team player: Jack Little, 41 years, 68 days v Gillingham (away), 3 April 1926[4]
• First substitute: Keith Smith, v Leyton Orient, 28 August 1965[5]

Most appearances

Competitive and professional matches only

No.	Country	Name	Played	Apps	Goals	Position
1		Jim Cannon	1971–1988	663	36	DF
2		Terry Long	1955–1970	480	18	DF
3		Albert Harry	1921–1934	440	55	MF
4		Julián Speroni	2004–2019	400[6]	0	GK
5		John Jackson	1962–1973	393	0	GK
6		Wilfried Zaha	2009–2013 2014-	381	66	FW
7		Dougie Freedman	1995–1997 2000-2008	368	108	FW
8		Nigel Martyn	1989–1996	349	0	GK
9		Simon Rodger	1990–2002	328	12	MF
10		David Payne	1964–1973	326	12	DF

Goalscorers

• Most goals in a season: 54, Peter Simpson, 1930–31[7]
• Most league goals in a season: 46, Peter Simpson, 1930–31[7]
• Most league goals in a top-flight season: 21, Andy Johnson, 2004-2005[7]
• Most goals in a competitive match: 6, Peter Simpson, v Exeter City, Football League Division Three South, 4 October 1930[upper-alpha 3][8]
• Most goals in an FA Cup match: 4, Peter Simpson, v Newark Town, 13 December 1930[9]
• Most goals in a League Cup match: 3
  • Mark Bright, v Southend United, 25 September 1990[9]
  • Ian Wright, v Southend United, 25 September 1990[9]
  • Dwight Gayle, v Walsall, 26 August 2014
  • Dwight Gayle, v Charlton Athletic, 23 September 2015
• Fastest recorded goal: 6 seconds, Keith Smith v Derby County (away), 12 December 1964[9]
• Most hat-tricks, all competitions: 20, Peter Simpson[upper-alpha 4][7]
• Oldest player to score a goal: Kevin Phillips, 39 years 306 days, v Watford, 27 May 2013[10][11]
• Quickest hat-trick in a League match: Kevin Phillips, 8 minutes, 37 seconds v Hull City, 5 March 2013 [upper-alpha 5][12]
• Quickest hat-trick in a Cup match: Danny Butterfield, 6 minutes, 48 seconds v Wolverhampton Wanderers, FA Cup Fourth round Replay, 2 February 2010[13]

Top goalscorers

Peter Simpson is the all-time top goalscorer for Crystal Palace. He was their leading goalscorer for five consecutive seasons, from 1929–30 to 1933–34.[7]

Competitive, professional matches only. Goalscorers with an equal number of goals are ranked with the highest to lowest goals per game ratio.

#	Country	Name	Played	Goals	Apps	Position	Goals per game
1		Peter Simpson	1929–1935	165	195	FW	0.85
2		Edwin Smith	1911–1920	124	192	FW	0.65
3		Ian Wright	1985–1991	117	277	FW	0.42
4		Mark Bright	1986–1992	113	286	FW	0.40
5		Clinton Morrison	1997–2002 2005-2008	113	316	FW	0.36
6		Dougie Freedman	1995–1997 2000-2008	108	368	FW	0.29
7		George Clarke	1925–1933	106	299	MF	0.35
8		Johnny Byrne	1956–1962 1967–1968	101	259	FW	0.39
9		Albert Dawes	1933–1936 1938–1939	92	156	FW	0.59
10		Andy Johnson	2002–2006	84	160	FW	0.53

International caps

This section refers only to international caps won by players during their time at Palace.

• First capped player: Billy Davies for Wales, v Scotland, 7 March 1908, Dundee[9]
• First capped player for England: Horace Colclough, v Wales, 16 March 1914, Cardiff[9]
• Most capped player: 45, Wayne Hennessey, Wales[14]
• Most capped player for England:
  • 9, Kenny Sansom[9]
  • 9, Geoff Thomas[9]
• First player to play in the World Cup Finals: Gregg Berhalter, 2002, United States
• First player to score in the World Cup Finals: Mile Jedinak, 2014, Australia[15]

Record transfer fees paid

#	Pos:	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
1	FW	Christian Benteke	Liverpool	£27,000,000 (~ £32,000,000)	August 2016	BBC Sport
2	DF	Mamadou Sakho	Liverpool	£26,000,000	August 2017	BBC Sport
3	DF	Patrick van Aanholt	Sunderland	£14,000,000	January 2017	BBC Sport
4	MF	Andros Townsend	Newcastle United	£13,000,000	July 2016	BBC Sport
5	MF	Luka Milivojevic	Olympiacos F.C.	£11,000,000	January 2017	GOAL
6	MF	Yohan Cabaye	Paris Saint-Germain	£10,000,000 (~ £12,800,000)	July 2015	BBC Sport
7	DF	James Tomkins	West Ham	£10,000,000	July 2016	BBC Sport
8	FW	Alexander Sørloth	FC Midtjylland	£9,000,000	January 2018	BBC Sport

Record transfer fees received

#	Pos:	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
1	RB	Aaron Wan-Bissaka	Manchester United F.C	£45,000,000 (~ £50,000,000)	June 2019	https://bbc.in/2xjFwcB
2	FW	Yannick Bolasie	Everton	£25,000,000	August 2016	BBC Sport
3	MF	Wilfried Zaha	Manchester United	£10,000,000 (~ £15,000,000)	January 2013	BBC Sport
4	FW	Dwight Gayle	Newcastle United	£10,000,000	July 2016	BBC Sport
5	FW	Andrew Johnson	Everton	£8,600,000	May 2006	BBC
6	FW	Chris Armstrong	Tottenham Hotspur	£4,500,000	June 1995	The Independent
7	FW	Clinton Morrison	Birmingham City	£4,250,000 (player exchange)[upper-alpha 6]	July 2002	BBC Sport

Managerial records

• First manager: John Robson, managed the club from 1905-1907, encompassing 77 games.
• Longest serving manager: Edmund Goodman, managed the club from 1907-1925, encompassing 613 matches excluding wartime competition.
• Most successful manager: Steve Coppell, who took the club to an FA Cup final, third place in the top flight and won the Full Members Cup. He managed the club from 1984–93, 1995–96, 1997–98, and 1999-2000, encompassing 565 matches in total.

Club records

Positions

• Highest League Finish: 3rd in the Old First Division (now Premier League) 1990–91 season
• Lowest League Finish:
  • Southern League: 1st in the Southern League Division Two, 1905-06 season
  • Football League: 24th in the Old Division Three South, 1950-51
• Highest League Position: 1st in the Old First Division, 29 September 1979 – 6 October 1979
• Lowest League Position: 20th in the Old Fourth Division, 2 September 1959

Goals

• Most league goals scored in a season: 110, Division Four, 1960–61
• Fewest league goals scored in a season: 31, Premier League, 2019-20
• Most league goals conceded in a season: 86, Division Three South, 1953–54
• Fewest league goals conceded in a season:
  • Southern League; 14, Division Two, 1905–06
  • Football League; 24, Division Two, 1978–79

Points

• Most points in a season:

Two points for a win: 64, Division Four, 1960–61

Three points for a win: 90, Division One, 1993–94

• Fewest points in a season:

Two points for a win: 19, Division One, 1980–81

Three points for a win: 33, Premier League, 1997–98

Firsts

• First match: New Brompton 0–3 Crystal Palace, a United Counties League game, 1 September 1905
• First FA Cup match: Crystal Palace 7–0 Clapham, 7 October 1905, Crystal Palace Stadium
• First Southern League match: Crystal Palace 3–4 Southampton Reserves, 2 September 1905, Crystal Palace Stadium
• First Football League match: Merthyr 2–1 Crystal Palace, 28 August 1920
• First match at Herne Hill Velodrome: Crystal Palace 1–2 Southampton, 3 March 1915
• First match at The Nest:
  • Friendly; Crystal Palace 4–1 Millwall, August 1918
  • London Combination; Crystal Palace 4–2 Queens Park Rangers, 14 September 1918
  • Southern League; Crystal Palace 2–2 Northampton Town 30 August 1919
• First match at Selhurst Park: Crystal Palace 0–1 Wednesday, 30 August 1924
• First European match: Crystal Palace 0–2 Samsunspor, 19 July 1998, Selhurst Park
• First League Cup match: Darlington 2–0 Crystal Palace, 12 October 1960

Record wins

• Record league win: 9–0 v Barrow, 10 October 1959[upper-alpha 7]
• Record FA Cup win: 7–0
  • v Clapham, 7 October 1905
  • v Luton Town, 16 January 1929
• Record League Cup win: 8–0 v Southend United, 25 September 1990
• Record European win: N/A
• Record Friendly win: 13–1 v GAK Graz, 16 July 2014

Record defeats

• Record league defeat home: 0–7 v Liverpool, 19 December 2020
• Record league defeat away: 0–9 v Liverpool, 12 September 1989
• Record FA Cup defeat: 0–9 v Burnley (away), 10 February 1909
• Record League Cup defeat: 0–5
  • v Nottingham Forest (away), 1 November 1989
  • v Liverpool (away), 24 January 2001
• Record European defeat: 0–2
  • v Samsunspor (home), 19 July 1998
  • v Samsunspor (away), 25 July 1998

Record consecutive results

This section applies to league matches only.

• Record consecutive wins: 8, 9 February - 26 March 1921
• Record consecutive Premier League wins: 5, 29 March – 19 April 2014
• Record consecutive draws: 5
  • 28 March – 16 April 1921
  • 30 December 1978 – 24 February 1979
  • 21 September – 19 October 2002
• Record consecutive defeats: 8
  • 18 April – 19 September 1925
  • 1 January – 14 March 1998
  • 21 May – 30 September 2017
• Record consecutive matches without a defeat: 18, 22 February - 13 August 1969
• Record consecutive top-division matches without a defeat: 10, 25 August – 27 October 1990
• Record consecutive matches without a draw: 24, 31 December 1960 – 26 August 1961
• Record consecutive matches without a win: 20, 3 March - 8 September 1962
• Record consecutive clean sheets: 6, 1 September 1920 – 25 September 1920
• Record consecutive matches without a clean sheet: 24, 30 September 1998 – 20 February 1999
• Record consecutive matches scoring: 24, 27 April 1929 – 21 December 1929
• Record consecutive matches without scoring: 9, 19 November 1994 – 2 January 1995

Home

• Record consecutive home wins: 12, 19 December 1925 – 28 August 1926
• Record consecutive home draws: 7
  • 24 March 1962 – 1 September 1962
  • 28 November 1998 – 13 February 1999
• Record consecutive home defeats: 6
  • 10 April 1925 – 12 September 1925
  • 10 January 1998 – 11 April 1998
  • 3 January 2016 – 19 March 2016
• Record consecutive home matches without a defeat: 32, 28 February 1931 – 17 September 1932
• Record consecutive home matches without a draw: 17, 17 February 1981 – 19 January 1982
• Record consecutive home matches without a win: 16, 4 May 1997 – 11 April 1998
• Record consecutive home clean sheets: 8
  • 28 December 1963 – 18 March 1964
  • 13 November 2010 – 19 February 2011
• Record consecutive home matches without a clean sheet: 19, 20 January 1951 – 17 November 1951
• Record consecutive home matches scoring: 36, 17 November 1928 – 6 September 1930
• Record consecutive home matches without scoring: 4
  • 3 March 1951 – 31 March 1951
  • 26 November 1994 – 31 December 1994
  • 7 February 2002 – 9 March 2002
  • 20 November 2004 – 26 December 2004

Away

• Record consecutive away wins: 5, 20 December 2003 – 7 February 2004
• Record consecutive away draws: 6, 18 November 1978 – 10 March 1979
• Record consecutive away defeats: 10
  • 1 April 1980 – 25 October 1980
  • 8 November 1980 – 7 March 1981
• Record consecutive away matches without a defeat: 10
  • 22 December 1928 – 1 April 1929
  • 26 December 1968 – 28 April 1969
  • 23 August 1975 – 6 December 1975
  • 18 November 1978 – 3 April 1979
• Record consecutive Premier League away matches without a defeat: 5, 28 December 2014 – 28 February 2015
• Record consecutive away matches without a draw: 18
  • 3 October 1960 – 19 August 1961
  • 12 April 1986 – 17 March 1987
• Record consecutive away matches without a win: 31, 15 March 1980 – 3 October 1981
• Record consecutive away clean sheets: 4
  • 27 December 1949 – 4 February 1950
  • 9 December 1978 – 10 March 1979
  • 8 December 2007 – 12 January 2008
• Record consecutive away matches without a clean sheet: 30, 22 March 1980 – 3 October 1981
• Record consecutive away matches scoring: 22, 17 March 1928 – 1 April 1929
• Record consecutive away matches without scoring: 8, 11 November 1950 – 24 February 1951

Attendances

This section applies to attendances at Selhurst Park, where Palace have played their home matches since the start of the 1924-25 season. Attendance figures from the club's early days are approximate. Palace's highest attendance for a match outside of Selhurst Park is 88,619, v Manchester United at the 2016 FA Cup Final on 21 May 2016.

• Highest attendance: 51,482 11 May 1979 v Burnley
• Highest FA Cup attendance: 45,384 10 Mar 1965 v Leeds Utd
• Lowest attendance: 2,165 18 December 1935 v Newport County
• Highest seasonal average league attendance: 29,900, Division 1 1969-70
• Lowest seasonal average league attendance: 6,440, Division 2 1984-85

Crystal Palace in Europe

Record by season

Crystal Palace's scores are given first in all scorelines.

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent		Home leg	Away leg	Notes	Refs
			Country	Club
1998	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Third round	Turkey	Samsunspor	0–2	0–2	[upper-alpha 8]	[17]

European attendance records

• Highest home attendance: 11,758 v Samsunspor, 19 July 1998
• Lowest home attendance: 11,758 v Samsunspor, 19 July 1998
• Highest away attendance: Unknown
• Lowest away attendance: Unknown

Notes

1. This was a cup competition held from 1985 to 1992. It was also known under its sponsored names of the Simod Cup from 1987 to 1989 and the Zenith Data Systems Cup from 1989 to 1992. The competition was created after the Heysel Stadium disaster, when English clubs were banned from European competition, as an additional competition for clubs in the top two divisions.
2. This was a tournament organised by the London FA. It was first contested in 1908, and other than during the World Wars, was contested every season until 1974, when the tournament was disbanded.
3. Amateur Sidney Sanders scored 6 in the 10-1 defeat of Reading, 4 March 1916 in the inter-war competitions, but is not considered part of official records.
4. Includes Simpson's 6 goals against Exeter City as a double hat-trick
5. Hat-trick completed either side of Half Time Period
6. The transfer also included Andrew Johnson (footballer) in exchange from Birmingham to Palace
7. During the First World War Crystal Palace won 10–1 v Reading, 4 March 1916, but this, as with all other inter-war competitions, is not considered part of official records.
8. Clubs were invited to enter the Intertoto club during the preceding season. The Premier League club finishing in the highest position who had not otherwise qualified for Europe were accepted into the competition. Despite finishing twentieth Palace were entered after the other applicant, Aston Villa, qualified for the UEFA cup.[16]

References

General

• King, Ian (2012). Crystal Palace: The Complete Record 1905-2011. Derby Books Publishing Company Limited. ISBN 978-1-78091-221-9.
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Specific

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4. King, pp. 256-269 & 544-5
5. "Palace Pioneers: Keith Smith". 7 September 2010. Archived from the original on 25 June 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
6. http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=24948
7. "Top Scorers". Crystal Palace Football Club. 4 July 2012. Archived from the original on 4 June 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
8. Byfiled, Terry (2 July 2012). "Hat-Tricks". Crystal Palace Football Club. Archived from the original on 4 June 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
9. King, p. 441
10. Nunns, Hector (6 March 2013). "Top 40: Goal machine Kevin Phillips aims to keep Ryan Giggs out of the record books". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
11. Fletcher, Paul (27 May 2013). "Crystal Palace 1 – 0 Watford". BBC Sport. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
12. "Crystal Palace 4 2 Hull". BBC. Archived from the original on 27 June 2013. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
13. https://thesefootballtimes.co/2018/08/09/danny-butterfield-and-the-least-likely-hat-trick-in-english-football-history/
14. "INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS". cpfc.co.uk. 17 October 2018. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
15. "Jedinak Breaks Palace Record". cpfc.co.uk. Crystal Palace FC. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
16. Tongue, Steve (21 June 1998). "Football: Kongsvinger singing in the Valleys". The Independent. Archived from the original on 4 June 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
17. Bright, Christian (27 July 1998). "Venables Out Of Europe InterToto Cup: Samsunspor 2 Crystal palace 0 (Agg 4 0)". The Guardian. p. (sport section) 8.

External links

• Crystal Palace F.C. official site