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
Crystal Palace F.C. (1861) had been founded in 1857 by the Crystal Palace Company and played on the same pitch within Crystal Palace Park. Although both the cricket club and football club were amateur, they formed part of the Crystal Palace Company’s commercial enterprise, which was intended to generate revenue. Membership of the club was by subscription only, at a price of one guinea per season, and spectators who wished to watch the games had to pay the one-shilling entrance-fee into Crystal Palace Park. The football club’s players were not company-employees; typical membership was formed from wealthy upper-middle-class businessmen, men who could afford the