The lads played as smartly as they looked at times, enjoying several promising passages against Charlton Athletic in an eventual 2-2 draw.

Jesurn Rak-Sakyi opened the scoring with his determined pressure on visiting 'keeper Craig MacGillivary resulting in a deflected goal.

After Charlton pulled level, another Academy player in Scott Banks restored Palace's lead before the visitors again regained parity.

Released on Monday evening, the third kit pays homage to the club's founding in 1861, with subtle touches such as the Crystal Palace building emblazoned across the shirt. You can see how it looks in the gallery above.

**It is available to [buy online here](https://shop.cpfc.co.uk/pumakit/third-kit-2122/) and in-store now.**

Crystal Palace walked-out to supporters at Selhurst Park in their special edition third kit on Tuesday evening, with the 1861-inspired designs looking as impressive in the flesh as they do online.

Gallery: Eagles don eye-catching third kit for first time

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As people pore over the new designs, it can be hard to keep track of the reactions.

We've pulled together some of the best below.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="und" dir="ltr">🔥🔥🔥 <a href="https://t.co/YhHytMSCl2">https://t.co/YhHytMSCl2</a></p>&mdash; Jeffrey Schlupp (@Jeffrey_Schlupp) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jeffrey_Schlupp/status/1419688720970756105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Now I like this <a href="https://twitter.com/CPFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CPFC</a> 🔥🔥🔥</p>&mdash; Darren Ambrose (@DarrenAmbrose84) <a href="https://twitter.com/DarrenAmbrose84/status/1419675374955515912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Loving the 1861 Palace kit! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cpfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cpfc</a> <a href="https://t.co/8oEg87nsns">pic.twitter.com/8oEg87nsns</a></p>&mdash; Julian Chenery (@julianchenery) <a href="https://twitter.com/julianchenery/status/1419677199477755905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Oh goodness 😍 <a href="https://t.co/aPQ2P2Q0Aa">https://t.co/aPQ2P2Q0Aa</a></p>&mdash; The Eagles Beak (@TheEaglesBeak) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheEaglesBeak/status/1419678710060494850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Take a bow, design team.</p>&mdash; New York Eagles (@NYEagles) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYEagles/status/1419675904859648001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Wow! This year’s kits are looking amazing. Thought the yellow one was class but this is immense!</p>&mdash; Peter Howard (@PeterHoward01) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeterHoward01/status/1419677168003698688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Beautiful. Potential to be up there with some of our finest ever kits 😍</p>&mdash; Paul Jempson (@PaulGDJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulGDJ/status/1419678895402594314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What a thing of beauty this is!!!! <a href="https://t.co/5sOK2uXq70">https://t.co/5sOK2uXq70</a></p>&mdash; Conner Agar (@ConAgar22) <a href="https://twitter.com/ConAgar22/status/1419678586261344260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Several supporters picked up on the kit's finer details, such as the 1861 stamp on the back, and the Crystal Palace building emblazoned across the front.

You can [find out more about the little touches here](https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/club/story-behind-the-kit-explaining-third-kit-designs-and-details/2021-07-26/).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It’s the small details for me 🤩 <a href="https://t.co/sjjQLurmOM">https://t.co/sjjQLurmOM</a></p>&mdash; Mike Kelleher (@MikeKelleher01) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeKelleher01/status/1419677737371983874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It&#39;s the small details that make a kit 😍 <a href="https://t.co/ZhfRqvu2hz">pic.twitter.com/ZhfRqvu2hz</a></p>&mdash; Sean CPFC (@SH20CPFC) <a href="https://twitter.com/SH20CPFC/status/1419674543849885706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">That’s actually so nice, blacked out badge is beautiful <a href="https://t.co/jGVDMVKcck">https://t.co/jGVDMVKcck</a></p>&mdash; amesy (@cpfcames) <a href="https://twitter.com/cpfcames/status/1419678673603530752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

And one made an optimistic prediction. Let's hope the lads have their shooting boots on...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">1861 to celebrate our new kit.</p>&mdash; Dom🦅 (@DomCPFC) <a href="https://twitter.com/DomCPFC/status/1419707105230168071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Crystal Palace's newly released third kit has sparked an impressive reaction from fans and the wider footballing world, with a range of supporters, including popular YouTuber Yung Filly, suggesting it's the best we've ever had.

'Best we've ever had': Your top reactions to new third kit

160 YEARS OF CRYSTAL PALACE

The sky blue and white half and half shirt is based on the colours and design worn by the first ever team from the Crystal Palace Club, which was set up by cricketers who wanted to keep fit during the winter months. 

The CPFC 1861 logo on the back of the shirt recognises the club’s pivotal role in developing modern football as the oldest league club in existence still playing professional football. 

The club was only the second organised football team to be set up in London and, after playing its first official game the following March, seven of its members were involved in founding the Football Association in 1863 and agreeing the rules of the sport, as documented in the original FA minutes book. 

In 1871 it played an important role in establishing the FA Cup, football’s oldest cup competition, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary.

Also featured on the shirt is a silhouette of the original Crystal Palace, the giant cast-iron and glass structure which was moved to Sydenham after hosting the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. The 200-acre site was owned and operated by the Crystal Palace Company, which set up the cricket club in 1857, from which the football team was born. It played in blue and white as a nod to the colours of the Crystal Palace. A special edition blackout crest features on the shirt and shorts.

Crystal Palace’s place in footballing history emerged after five years of research by historian Peter Manning, who established the unbroken connection between the original amateur team and the professional club founded in 1905. 

Although the team stopped playing matches for several years in the late 19th century, the professional club’s 1906 handbook acknowledged its historical links to the amateur club, proudly listing some of its early amateur England internationals from the 1870s.

Peter Manning said: “The Crystal Palace football team that played under that name at the Crystal Palace started off as an amateur team in blue and white and eventually became the professional team, owned by the Crystal Palace Company, playing in red and blue in 1905. The football club, Crystal Palace and Crystal Palace Company are all part of the same DNA.

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“Charles Alcock’s football annual, which is a valuable primary source, listed the club’s colours as blue and white and if you look at old colour prints of the Crystal Palace at the time, they show the iron work painted in a light blue and white. Some of the written descriptions of the Crystal Palace say that it was painted in such a way it almost blended in with the sky.”

Crystal Palace Chairman Steve Parish said: “As a lifelong supporter of Crystal Palace, I was proud to discover that our history dates all the way back to the Victorian cricketers of 1861 and that we played a central role in the very first FA meetings, which shaped the game we all love. I am delighted that we are finally recognising our unique history in this very special 1861-inspired kit”.

The historic kit will be worn for the first time in tomorrow’s pre-season friendly against Charlton Athletic at Selhurst Park (6pm kick-off with tickets available, and live on Palace TV+). 

The 1861-inspired Crystal Palace third kit is [available now online here](https://shop.cpfc.co.uk/pumakit/third-kit-2122/), and in-store in the three Club Shops from 9am on Tuesday, 27th July.

Crystal Palace have today launched a new special edition third kit which celebrates the origins of the club 160 years ago.

Crystal Palace honour 1861 origins in new kit 

It is based on the colours and design worn by the first team from the Crystal Palace Club, with a sky blue and white half-and-half pattern and a range of subtle touches to commemorate our history.

Here’s what you need to know on the new third kit, celebrating 160 years of Crystal Palace.

### The claim ###

In April 2020, Crystal Palace staked a claim to being the world's oldest league club in existence still playing professional football after new research found a direct connection to the team established in 1861, who were founder members of the Football Association.

Historian Peter Manning showed how the Crystal Palace Company formed a football club in 1861 to keep its cricketers fit in the winter months. This club went on to become founder members of the FA and played organised matches between 1862-1875.

Crystal Palace stopped playing organised games in 1875 – likely due to the damage it caused the cricket pitches – but continued to play cricket. Football resumed in 1895 when the Crystal Palace Company built a stadium to host the FA Cup finals, but the amateur club failed to attract large enough crowds.

So a new limited company was set up to form a professional club in 1905, and the Crystal Palace Company bought enough shares to have a controlling interest – the same business which owned the side in 1861.

When the professional club published its first handbook in 1906, having joined Division 2 of the Southern League, it listed some of the internationals who had previously represented Crystal Palace, including Alex Morten in 1873 and Arthur Savage and Charles Eastlake Smith in 1876, showing that they recognised themselves as a continuation of the original amateur team.

### The kit ###

Crystal Palace’s third kit has been launched for the 160th anniversary of the club’s founding in 1861, and is based on the strips worn by the first ever team.

The colours, Manning explains, reflect those of the Crystal Palace building; “painted in such a way it almost blended in with the sky”. We know the team wore blue and white because Charles Alcock’s football annual – the primary source of information on Victorian football – stated it so. Indeed, Alcock later went on to represent Palace.

Alcock also went into detail on the configuration of shirts at the time, which were typically one of four styles: bars, hoops, stripes or half-and-half. Alcock would describe the bars, hoops and stripes in detail, but said nothing of Palace’s common approach – simply “blue and white”.

“If it was anything other than half and half it would have been mentioned,” Manning confirms.

The original Crystal Palace building is emblazoned across the front of the shirt.

The club crest has also been modified to a blacked-out special edition.

PUMA remain the club's kit manufactures for 2021/22.

The CPFC 1861 stamp, found on the back of shirts.

160 YEARS OF CRYSTAL PALACE: THE DETAILS

### The details ###

This kit is covered in small, subtle touches paying homage to Crystal Palace’s history.

Perhaps most strikingly, the original Crystal Palace building is emblazoned across the front of the shirt, going from top to bottom much like the eagle does on the new away kit.

The club crest has also been modified to a blacked-out special edition, blending in smartly with the wider designs.

Then, on the back of the shirt, supporters will find a CPFC 1861 stamp and the black trim running across the collar and hems.

The 1861-inspired Crystal Palace third kit is [available online here now](https://shop.cpfc.co.uk/pumakit/third-kit-2122/), and in-store in the three Club Shops from 9am on Tuesday, 27th July.

Crystal Palace’s newly-released third kit is a special edition design that celebrates the club’s 160-year-old origins.

Story behind the kit: Explaining third kit designs and details

Vicente Guaita and co will be sporting the green PUMA outfit between the sticks at Selhurst Park this season, which you can purchase now online and in club stores from Friday.


The away shirt features a stylish pink design, which could make its first competitive appearance at Stamford Bridge in Palace’s pre-season opener against Chelsea on Saturday, August 14th. 

Guaita kept eight clean sheets across the last campaign, winning both the Player of the Season and Player’s Player of the Season awards.

He and Jack Butland are [joined by Remi Matthews](https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/announcement/goalkeeper-remi-matthews-joins-the-eagles/2021-07-13/) as Palace’s goalkeeping cohort for the upcoming season. 

Check out the new kits at the club shop [by clicking HERE](https://shop.cpfc.co.uk/pumakit/gk-kit-2122/)!


With the new Premier League season just around the corner, Palace have released their brand new goalkeeper kits – available to shop online NOW.

Palace reveal new Goalkeeper Kits for 21/22

The [stylish new collection](https://shop.cpfc.co.uk/pumarange/puma-mens/training-wear/) comes in stripped-back versions in both red (coaches collection) and blue (players collection), and will be worn by the first-team, Women and Academy players throughout the week in training.

For you, the shirts are an eye-catching new look for summer gym sessions and the jackets and sweatshirts mean you can rep club colours on those more British of summer evenings…

The entire training range is now available to buy both online and in-store at Palace’s three Club Shops. It is the perfect way to get set for 21/22 or to get ahead of the crowd in prepping your new matchday outfit, so [check out the new designs here](https://shop.cpfc.co.uk/pumarange/puma-mens/training-wear/)!

Crystal Palace have launched their PUMA training wear for the 21/22 season, modelled by first-team players Tyrick Mitchell and Jairo Riedewald.

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