Crystal Palace Football: Updates, Squad, Predictions and the Eagles' Trophy Years

Crystal Palace are an English football club from south London, founded on 10 September 1905 and based at Selhurst Park since 1924. They won their first major trophy on 17 May 2025 by beating Manchester City 1 to 0 in the FA Cup final, then took the Community Shield in August 2025 and the UEFA Conference League on 27 May 2026. Palace won three trophies between May 2025 and May 2026. Fans following football or soccer can check Palace's fixtures in WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT. Palace are the Eagles, a nickname adopted in the 1970s under Malcolm Allison.

Palace's news, squad and prediction modules bring together the information needed to follow the club from Accra, Lagos, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Kampala. Results and fixture details refresh in the data modules after matches. Alongside those figures, the club's trophy history, Brighton rivalry and African connections give readers a route into the red and blue story.

Which Trophies Did Crystal Palace Win in 2025 and 2026?

Crystal Palace became trophy winners in 2025 after a long history of finals that went the other way. They lost the 1990 FA Cup final to Manchester United after a replay, and United beat them again in the 2016 final. Then, on 17 May 2025, Palace returned to Wembley and beat Manchester City 1 to 0. Eberechi Eze scored after 16 minutes, and Dean Henderson saved a penalty from Omar Marmoush. In August 2025 they beat Liverpool on penalties for the Community Shield, and on 27 May 2026 a 1 to 0 win over Rayo Vallecano brought the Conference League, their first European trophy.

When Oliver Glasner left in 2026, the club appointed Pierre Sage, formerly of Lens, on 15 June 2026. Palace's trophy sequence spanned two seasons: the FA Cup in 2024/25, followed by the Community Shield and Conference League in 2025/26.

Where Is the Latest Crystal Palace News and Transfer Talk?

Palace's live news module brings together results, forthcoming fixtures, availability updates and transfers recorded by the data feed. Read each item with its date and status in mind: a transfer report can describe interest, negotiations or a completed signing. Transfer talk is where many African readers begin, and the question of who is joining comes up in all five of our countries. Treat a deal as done only when it appears as a completed signing, and treat everything else as interest.

How Is the Crystal Palace Squad Set Out?

Palace's squad module groups first team players into goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and forwards. Each entry pairs the player's name with a shirt number, nationality and age. Readers following African connections can begin with nationality, while remembering that a single entry does not describe every player's family heritage or birthplace. Palace have produced players at the highest level, and four of their players (Eze, Marc Guéhi, Henderson and Adam Wharton) were named in England's squad for Euro 2024.

Who Manages and Owns Crystal Palace?

Pierre Sage, formerly of Lens, was appointed Crystal Palace manager on a three year contract on 15 June 2026. Steve Parish remained chairman following Woody Johnson's July 2025 purchase. The American investor Woody Johnson became the largest shareholder, with 43%, when he completed the purchase of John Textor's stake in July 2025.

How Do We Make Crystal Palace Predictions?

Each Palace prediction in the calls module pairs an editorial probability with a reference price and an explanation. The assessment gives greatest weight to player availability and results across several matches. For Palace, the balance between creative options and defensive cover helps explain how those inputs affect a call. Opponents' playing styles and previous meetings provide further context, including for Brighton derbies and cup ties.

A Palace call can miss even when its estimated probability exceeds half. Publishing successful and unsuccessful calls together lets readers assess that uncertainty across the prediction record. The reasoning gives readers in Kumasi, Kampala and elsewhere something concrete to assess before forming their own view. Calls contain no betting links or advice to stake money.

What Time Do Crystal Palace Games Kick Off in Africa, and Where Can You Watch?

The Crystal Palace fixtures list gives match dates and local kick off conversions. For a UK winter fixture starting at 15:00 GMT, the corresponding times are 16:00 WAT for Lagos, 18:00 EAT for Nairobi and Kampala, 17:00 SAST for Johannesburg, and 15:00 GMT for Accra. During British Summer Time, a fixture at the same UK clock time begins one hour earlier in each of those African zones. A winter evening start of 20:00 GMT therefore reaches Kenya and Uganda at 23:00 EAT.

Palace's fixtures module lists viewing information separately for Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa. Check the entry for the individual match because broadcast rights can change between seasons. A short report published after the final whistle also provides a way to catch up on Palace's result.

How Do You Read the Premier League Table for Palace?

Palace's place in the Premier League table (or log) appears in the live standings module. Points determine the order, with goal difference separating clubs level on points before further criteria apply. Compare Palace's points with the clubs around them to understand the size of any gap. The FA Cup victory in 2025 and Conference League victory in 2026 also show why cup results belong alongside league standings when following Palace's European qualification routes.

Where Do Crystal Palace Play, and Who Are Their Rivals?

Crystal Palace play at Selhurst Park, their home since 1924, which holds 25,194. The professional club was founded in 1905 at the Crystal Palace exhibition building, and its roots go back to an amateur club of 1861. The glass building explains the older nickname, the Glaziers. The Eagles name arrived in the 1970s under Malcolm Allison, and in 1973 the club moved from claret and blue to the red and blue vertical stripes that readers recognise today.

Palace were founder members of the Premier League in 1992/93, and their highest league finish is third in the top flight in 1990/91. Their honours include the FA Cup in 2025, the Community Shield in 2025 and the Conference League in 2025/26. The great rivalry is with Brighton and Hove Albion, and it runs hotter than the distance between the two clubs might suggest. To a Lagos reader, it feels like two neighbourhoods across a bridge that have argued for decades about which side has the better market.

Which African Players Have Played for Crystal Palace?

Following Palace's African connections starts with distinguishing nationality, international representation, birthplace and family heritage. Those details describe different parts of a player's background and should be checked separately.

Use the nationality entries in Palace's squad module to find African connections within the listed squad. Historical player profiles need dated career information, including arrival and departure years, to distinguish former Palace players from those listed in the squad.