Oliver Glasner's Eagles – ahead of their trip to Leipzig for a first-ever European Final – will be hoping to sign off 25/26's domestic commitments with a victory, when they host newly-crowned champions Arsenal at Selhurst Park.
Four of Palace's recent fantastic final-day victories
As Crystal Palace prepare for the final day of the Premier League campaign this Sunday, it's time to look back at four of our favourite recent results from the final day of the season...
The match will also see Palace bid a fond farewell to their FA Cup-winning match, as he takes to the Selhurst Park dugout one last time.
Indeed, Selhurst will hope for a repeat of some of the results below, to end the season in style...
2022 - Palace 1-0 Manchester United
Wilfried Zaha's revenge against Manchester United on the final day of 2021/22, as the May sunshine in South London proved the perfect setting for the Eagles to finish on a high.
Palace's first victory over Man Utd in the Premier League era, this result made it six straight clean sheets at Selhurst Park to round off a phenomenal campaign.
2019 - Palace 5-3 Bournemouth
A five-star performance to finish the 2018/19 campaign.
Palace took the lead through Michy Batshuayi's brace, before Jefferson Lerma – playing in red and black rather than red and blue – got one back.
Patrick van Aanholt and Andros Townsend added goals in the second-half to cancel out any thought of a Bournemouth revival, while the Eagles made it a club-record 14 wins in a Premier League season – finishing with what was then a record 49 points (since surpassed in 24/25, with 53).
1991 - Palace 3-0 Manchester United
Another victory over Man Utd, this time in the old First Division.
Palace’s greatest-ever season had already encompassed a trip to Wembley – a 4-1 win over Everton in the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final – as well as wins over Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and Leeds United, and Ian Wright’s glorious hat-trick to shut down Plough Lane’s farewell.
Spearheaded by the goals of ‘Wright & Bright’ – who struck 25 and 15 goals respectively in all competitions – but boasting a plethora of promising talents across the entire pitch, Steve Coppell’s side grew into a top-flight force to be reckoned with.
The Eagles took the lead after just three minutes when Gary Walsh fumbled a corner, and Wright turned home from close-range to net his 25th goal of the season.
On the hour mark, up stepped John Salako.
“It was a funny one really,” he explained. “I needed a couple of goals in that last game against Man Utd to get my goal bonus, but with Wrighty and Brighty you weren’t allowed to shoot – it was all about them!
“That last game, I went into it with the mentality that I was going to get a couple of goals and get my bonus, and right from the off Brighty was just moaning. He wasn’t happy and nor was Ian either.
“I ended up getting my two goals and I think Wrighty came up to me and apologised after, but I think Brighty didn’t speak to me for about three weeks…”
What was until recently inarguably Palace’s greatest-ever season, finished in style. We're blessed to have experienced glory again so recently.
2024 - Palace 5-0 Aston Villa
Perhaps we ought to have seen it coming, though, given how Glasner's side finished off the 2023/24 campaign.
It was this game at Selhurst Park in May 2024 which saw so many statistical records tumble, as Palace smashed five goals past Aston Villa on an extraordinary final day of the season.
Jean-Philippe Mateta became the first man since Yannick Bolasie in April 2015 to score a Premier League hat-trick for the club – a first-ever home Premier League in Palace's history (and first in the top-flight since Mike Flanagan's in October 1980).
The result made it six wins in seven to round off the Premier League season, and secured Palace just their second top-half finish in the competition.
The demolition saw Palace not only broke their record for the most goals scored in a Premier League season (netting 57 times), but obliterated their record tally in a top-flight campaign, previously set back in 1992 (with 53).
A sign, truly, of greater glories to come. Time, then, to thank Glasner for the Premier League memories – and hope for just one more from Germany..
Match Details
Crystal Palace v Arsenal
- Sunday, 24th May
- 16:00 BST
- Premier League
- Selhurst Park
- Live audio commentary on Palace TV+.