Crystal Palace's spectacular 2025 – in numbers!

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As New Year's Eve draws nigh, we take a look back on a year that had it all for Crystal Palace supporters: trophies, trips to Wembley, European football, and records broken galore. Here are the headline stats from arguably the greatest-ever year in our history...

Two

Major trophies, the first in our history: the 2025 FA Cup, and 2025 FA Community Shield, both sealed at Wembley.

55

competitive matches played this calendar year: 25 in the latter half of 2024/25, and 30 so far this season.

27

Wins for the Eagles inside 90 minutes – make it 29, if you include penalties! Without, it's a win percentage of...

49%

In essence, Palace have won just under every other game this year – impressive.

Sixth

Palace's Premier League form in 2025 (59 points) would place them sixth in the calendar league table, behind only Manchester City (80 points), Arsenal (80), Aston Villa (76), Liverpool (71) and Chelsea (63).

Second

Our Away Premier League form has been truly exceptional: only Arsenal (37) have accrued more points on the road than us (34) in 2025.

16

Of our 55 games this year have been draws (not counting shootouts), with just 12 losses – on average tasting defeat just once a month.

59

Premier League points accrued in total (33 from January to May last season, and 26 so far this campaign).

53

The point we collected on our final day of the 2024/25 season, against Liverpool at Anfield, saw us finish with a club-record 53 points for the season, surpassing our previous highest points total in the Premier League era (49 – in the 2023/24, 2018/19, and 1992/93 campaigns).

10

Of our 19 Premier League away games in 2025 have been victories.

84

Goals scored by Palace this calendar year in all competitions: 44 in the latter half of last season (averaging 1.76 per game), and 40 so far this season (1.33 per game).

55

Goals conceded by Palace in 2025: 25 between January and May (averaging 1 per game), and 30 between August and December (also 1 per game).

19

Goals scored by Jean-Philippe Mateta this year – our top scorer in 2025.

24

Clean sheets kept by the Eagles this calendar year – 12 apiece either side of the summer. Dean Henderson was in goal for 20 of those matches.

560

Minutes played away from home without conceding between January and our trip to Southampton in April – an unprecedented run.

Four

The number of times Ismaïla Sarr hit the net at Wembley Stadium in 2025.

164

Years between the club being founded and lifting the FA Cup for the very first time.

540

Minutes played by Chris Richards in the victorious FA Cup run – the only Palace player to play every minute of every tie.

1

1 goal conceded across the entire FA Cup run – a remarkable defensive effort from every player in red and blue, with five clean sheets out of six games, three coming against Premier League opposition.

2010

By brilliantly saving Omar Marmoush’s penalty in the Final, Dean Henderson became the first goalkeeper to save a spot-kick in normal time of an FA Cup Final since Petr Cech in the 2010 contest between Chelsea and Portsmouth.

1921

The year the last time Palace had beaten Manchester City in an FA Cup tie – at least before 2025!

4373

Days between Joel Ward helping Palace win promotion in the 2013 Championship play-off final – and lifting the FA Cup with the Eagles at Wembley.

85

Days separating Palace’s TWO Wembley wins! Not a bad summer…

Six

Palace players played every minute of both the FA Cup Final and the Community Shield win.

Dean Henderson, Maxence Lacroix, Chris Richards, Daniel Muñoz, Ismaïla Sarr and Ebere Eze all completed that particular feat.

Access All Over | Community Shield Victory!

Four

Years since the last time a first-time FA Cup winner went on to triumph in the Community Shield.

Leicester City achieved the feat with a win over Manchester City – their winning goal coincidentally a late penalty.

50

It had been 50 years – half a century – since the last time a debutant won the Community Shield, when Derby County defeated West Ham in their first appearance.

Then Crystal Palace came along.

19

Matches unbeaten in all competitions between April and October, between away defeats to Manchester City and Everton. That was a club-record unbeaten run, surpassing our previous best 18 games between February and August 1969.

176

Days that unbeaten run lasted – just a week shy of six months exactly. At the time, it was by some distance the longest sequence in Europe's top-five leagues, with Bayern Munich second on nine matches.

Three

Times we faced Premier League champions Liverpool in that run, drawing twice (with one of them being a Community Shield win on penalties) and winning once. We also twice defeated Aston Villa 3-0, and faced Manchester City (a victorious FA Cup final) and London rivals Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham United all once each.

Nine

Clean sheets in that run.

Three out of three

2025 is the first year Palace have ever won three out of three away games against a single opponent (Fulham) in an individual calendar year.

We also won three times against Aston Villa (albeit once on neutral territory) – by three clear goals on each occasion.

Six in a row

Our FA Cup quarter-final win against Fulham in March was the first time we had ever won six consecutive away wins in all competitions in club history.

13

Despite arriving in defeat, goals from Ebere Eze and Chris Richards in a 5-2 loss at Manchester City in April meant we had scored in 13 consecutive Premier League games – a run stretching back to our final game of 2024.

Prior to that, our previous best had been 11 games.

10

Prior to our loss at home to Larnaca in October, we were on the second-longest unbeaten run at home (five wins, five draws) in all competitions in our history.

Indeed, many of the games in that run were part of a club-record...

12

Home Premier League games in a row without defeat, a run ended by Manchester United last month.

First-ever

Top-flight league double against Brighton & Hove Albion was secured back in April, with a 2-1 win at Selhurst Park.

We also secured a first-ever league double against Tottenham the following month with a 2-0 win in North London.

600

Back in January, the Eagles celebrated our 600th Premier League game with a 2-0 win at West Ham United.

1,000

Our win over Burnley earlier this month marked our 1,000th match in the top-flight.

16 years, 194 days

Joel Drakes-Thomas earlier this month became our fourth-youngest player of all-time, and the youngest Englishman to feature in the UEFA Conference League, beating out Chelsea’s Reggie Walsh by two days.

Two days later, at 16 years and 194 days old, he became our youngest ever Premier League player when he featured against Leeds United (breaking the record set by David Ozoh in January 2023).

First-ever

Matches in a major European competition were played by Crystal Palace earlier this season: Mateta the goalscorer in our opening qualifier against Fredrikstad in August.

Could another piece of history await us in Leipzig in 2026? New Year – bring it on!

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