Kjell Inge Røkke stadium, which got the nickname "Røkkeløkka" (English: "The Røkke Park"). Some estimates suggest that he has spent about NOK 400 million funding the club. Røkke, along with his business partner Bjørn Rune Gjelsten, also bought into Wimbledon Football Club in the late 1990s, becoming a joint owner of the team in 2000. The following year, with the side homeless since leaving their Plough Lane ground in 1991 and playing at Crystal Palace's Selhurst Park stadium in Croydon, southeast London, Røkke and Gjelsten, along with chairman Charles Koppel and businessman Pete Winkelman agreed to relocate the team from London to Milton
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