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  1. Crystal Palace F.C. was an amateur football club formed in 1861 who contributed to the development of association football during its formative years. They were founder members of the Football Association in 1863, and competed in the first ever FA Cup competition in 1871–72.

  2. Oct 6, 2021 · It is important to keep the Crystal Palace Company in mind because they are the constant link throughout this story that traces our history back to 1861. When the new Crystal Palace opened in June 1854 it was much larger than the original and was set in 200 acres of parkland (now Crystal Palace Park).

  3. Crystal Palace Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Selhurst, South London, England. Although formally created as a professional outfit in 1905 at the site of the famous Crystal Palace Exhibition building, the club's origins can be traced as far back as 1861.

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  5. 1861: Find out more. We have a legitimate claim to be the oldest professional league club still in existence. — Steve Parish, Chairman. An 1863 FA minutes book, as Crystal Palace are shown as one of the organisation's founding clubs. The Crystal Palace, on the site of Palace's original home.

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  6. Apr 21, 2020 · Everything you might have missed from Palace's 1861 claim. 21 Apr 2020. Crystal Palace has outlined its claim as the world's oldest football club still playing professionally after comprehensive evidence uncovered links between the professional side from 1905 and the amateur club founded in 1861.

  7. Dec 15, 2004 · The original Crystal Palace FC (1861-76) December 15 2004. Palace Pioneers. There was a Crystal Palace FC that existed before the current club and it helped lay down the foundations of football for the world. The team was formed by cricketers from Crystal Palace Cricket Club and old public schoolboys from the local villages of Penge and Sydenham.

  8. The Crystal Palace F.C. squad (1905–06). Palace remained in the Southern League up until 1914, their one highlight the 1907 shock First Round victory over Newcastle United in the FA Cup.