Selhurst Park Selhurst Park Selhurst Park is an association football stadium located in the London suburb of Selhurst in the Borough of Croydon. It is the home ground of Crystal Palace Football Club playing in the Premier League. The stadium was designed by architect Archibald Leitch and opened in 1924. The stadium has hosted one international football match as well as games for the 1948 Summer Olympics. Part of the stadium incorporates a branch of Sainsbury's. The stadium was shared by Charlton Athletic F.C. from 1985 until 1991 and then by Wimbledon F.C. from 1991 until 2003. In 1922 the site, a
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