Plough Lane Plough Lane Plough Lane was a football stadium in Wimbledon, south west London. For nearly eighty years it was the home ground of Wimbledon Football Club, from September 1912 until May 1991, when the club moved their first team home matches to Selhurst Park as part of a groundshare agreement with Crystal Palace. Both clubs' reserve teams then used Plough Lane as their home ground until 1998, when the site was sold to Safeway. Whilst site redevelopment plans were negotiated, the stadium remained derelict for several years until it was finally demolished in 2002. The site then became a private
History of Crystal Palace F.C. new ground. Croydon Common failed to return to business after the war, and it was to their ground known as The Nest which was opposite Selhurst railway station, that the club now moved. Palace finished the season without a win in the last nine games, ending in seventh place, building on that position to finish third the following year. Crystal Palace became a league club in 1920 when the Football League accepted the entire Southern League "en bloc" as associate members in a newly formed Third Division. In their first season as a league club, Palace lost their opening game