About Eagles Through The Ages - A Brief History Of Crystal Palace F.C.
Crystal Palace Football Club have been in existence for 120 years. For most of them, nothing much happened. Then, in May 2025, they won the FA Cup for the first time in their history.
Eagles Through the Ages tells the full story — from the club's founding in 1905 in the grounds of the original Crystal Palace building, through the wilderness years in the Fourth Division, the Malcolm Allison rebrand that turned the Glaziers into Eagles, the Venables era, the FA Cup final of 1990, two administrations, the fans who saved the club, the Wilfried Zaha decade, and the May afternoon at Wembley when Eberechi Eze scored the only goal against Manchester City and Crystal Palace finally won something.
Ten episodes. 120 years. One club from South London that refused, repeatedly and against considerable odds, to stop existing.
Episode Episode 10 : Into Europe The Season Crystal Palace Changed Forever (August 2025 – May 2026)
Crystal Palace began the 2025–26 season as FA Cup holders and ended it as European champions. In between: a Europa League demotion on ownership grounds, Eberechi Eze's departure to Arsenal on the morning of the club's first ever European fixture, a Community Shield won on penalties against Liverpool, and Jean-Philippe Mateta heading Crystal Palace's first ever European goal against Fredrikstad FK at a packed and emotional Selhurst Park. What followed was a Conference League campaign that took...
27 Jul 2026
Episode 9 : Eagles and Seagulls The Story of English Football's Strangest Rivalry Duration (1974–2025)
Crystal Palace and Brighton are forty miles apart. There is no shared territory, no disputed geography, no natural reason for hostility. Roy Hodgson, who grew up in Croydon in the 1950s, recalls no awareness of Brighton as rivals at all. The enmity between the two clubs was not inevitable. It was created, on a specific evening in December 1976, by a referee's decision about encroachment, a saved penalty, a thrown cup of coffee, and a man who pulled loose change from his pocket and threw it on...
13 Jul 2026
Episode 8 : The Decade That Made Crystal Palace Zaha, Survival, Heartbreak, and History (2013–2025)
On the 17th of May, 2025, Crystal Palace Football Club won the FA Cup. It was the first major trophy in the club's 120-year history. The goal was scored by Eberechi Eze, a player raised ten minutes' walk from Selhurst Park who had been rejected by Arsenal as a youth. The manager was an Austrian who had been in charge for fifteen months. The opponent was Manchester City, six-time Premier League champions, who had twenty-two shots and seventy-eight percent of the ball. This episode covers the t...
22 Jun 2026
Episode 7 : The Yo-Yo Years Cantona, Chaos, Two Administrations, and the Fans Who Saved a Club (1993–2013)
In 1995, Eric Cantona kicked a Crystal Palace supporter in the chest at Selhurst Park. It was the most famous incident in the fixture's history, but it was not the most important thing that happened to Crystal Palace that decade. The most important things were the two administrations, the sale of Selhurst Park that didn't happen, the goal Dougie Freedman scored at Stockport that kept the club in the Football League, the Cardiff playoff final of 2004, and the moment in 2010 when four men agree...
23 May 2026
Episode 6 Wrighty & Brighty — Steve Coppell, Ian Wright, and the Day Crystal Palace Nearly Won the FA Cup Duration: 30 minutes (1981–1991)
Steve Coppell arrived at Crystal Palace in 1984 with no managerial experience and a set of weightlifting equipment. Over the next decade he built something that had never existed at the club before: a team with a genuine identity, a style of play, and two strikers — Ian Wright and Mark Bright — who belonged in any company in English football. This episode covers the Coppell years in full: the unlikely survival battles, the FA Cup run of 1990 that took Palace to Wembley to face Manchester Unit...
8 May 2026
Episode 5 : The Team of the Eighties - Terry Venables, the Birth of the Brighton Rivalry, and a Night at the Top of English Football Duration( 1976–1980)
Episode 5: The Team of the Eighties Terry Venables, the Burnley Night, and One Week at the Top of English Football (1976–1981) In the summer of 1976, two former Tottenham teammates were appointed as rival managers on the same stretch of road. Terry Venables took the Crystal Palace job. Alan Mullery took the Brighton job. What followed was one of the most intense personal and professional rivalries in English football history — and it began, specifically, on a freezing night at Stamford Brid...
29 Apr 2026
Episode 4: The Glaziers Become Eagles Bert Head, Malcolm Allison, and the Birth of an Identity (1964–1976)
For most of their history, Crystal Palace had been the Glaziers — a name inherited from the glass industry surrounding the Crystal Palace building. In 1973, Malcolm Allison changed that. He changed the kit, changed the name, and changed the idea of what the club could be. The Eagles were born. This episode covers the era of transformation: Bert Head's steady promotion to the First Division in 1969, the first taste of top-flight football, and then the arrival of the extraordinary, maddening, v...
31 Mar 2026
Episode 3 : The Wilderness Years Two Decades in the Shadows of English Football (1945–1966)
Crystal Palace spent almost twenty years after the Second World War in the lower reaches of English football, twice in danger of losing their place in the Football League altogether. By 1958, when the Football League was reorganised into four divisions, they were placed in the newly formed Fourth Division — as low as it was possible to go and still be a professional club. This episode covers the long post-war obscurity: the re-election applications, the sparse crowds, the managers who came an...
6 Mar 2026
Episode 2 : Survival, Selhurst and the Shadow of War - From the Trenches to the Third Division (1915–1939)
Crystal Palace emerge from the First World War into a transformed football landscape — and a transformed club. The Crystal Palace ground is commandeered by the military during the war and never returned to the club as a viable football home; the Navy uses it as a training depot, and it is effectively lost. In 1924, the club makes one of the defining decisions in its history: the move to Selhurst Park in Norwood. The episode traces the interwar years — a period of grinding, unglamorous struggl...
6 Mar 2026
Episode 1 : The Birth of the Palace 1861, the FA, and the Oldest Question in Football (1861–1914)
Look at a modern Crystal Palace shirt. The badge says 1861. It said 1905 for most of the club's history — and then in 2022, after five years of archival research by historian Peter Manning, the club changed it. The Football Association reviewed the same evidence and declined to agree. The question of when Crystal Palace Football Club was actually founded remains, officially, unresolved. This episode follows the full story. It begins in 1857 with a cricket club formed by the Crystal Palace Com...
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