West Ham United vs Crystal Palace Tickets

London Stadium replaced Upton Park as the home of West Ham United in 2016.

This ground was built ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games and it is one of the largest sporting venues in the UK. During the 2023/24 season, the London Stadium had an average attendance of 62,438.

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West Ham United vs Crystal Palace History

These clubs first shared a pitch in 1906, in the Southern League. It wasn’t until the 1921/22 season that they met in the Football League for the first time.

West Ham & Crystal Palace clashed in the 1914 FA Cup, their first-ever meeting in this competition. The Hammers were 2-0 winners of this Second Round tie at Upton Park, before losing to the eventual runners-up Liverpool.

Following the 1922/23 campaign of the old Second Division, West Ham & Crystal Palace didn’t cross paths again for almost 50 years. That spell came to an end in 1969, when the teams first contested a top-flight fixture.

Crystal Palace were relegated from the First Division in 1973, before returning six years later having even dropped down to the Third Division in that time. In 1981, the Eagles once again dropped out of the first tier of the Football League.

In 1989, Crystal Palace were promoted to the First Division while WHUFC had been relegated to the Second Division. CPFC remarkably claimed a third-place finish in the 1990-91 season and subsequently became a founding member of the Premier League the following year.

After both teams dipped in & out of the top flight, they finally shared a Premier League fixture in 1994/95. West Ham won this fixture, 1-0, with ex-Scotland midfielder Don Hutchison scoring the decisive goal.

These are two extremely popular clubs in the English capital and, as such, there is a fair selection of individuals who have represented both West Ham & Crystal Palace.

• Alan Pardew was a Crystal Palace player for four years until 1991. He later spent two years as manager of the Eagles, guiding them to the FA Cup final in 2016. Pardew had also previously served as WHUFC manager for three years until the end of 2006.

• Ian Wright is best known for his time with Arsenal, having made more than 250 appearances for the Gunners. The former England striker played for CPFC before moving to Arsenal, and he signed for West Ham upon leaving Highbury in 1998.

• Victor Moses was aged 11 when he joined the Crystal Palace Academy. He was just 16 when he made his senior debut for the Eagles in 2007, before going on to play for the likes of Chelsea & Liverpool. In 2015/16, during his time at Chelsea, the Nigeria winger completed a loan switch to West Ham.

• In 2016, James Tomkins swapped the claret & blue of West Ham for the blue & red of Crystal Palace in a deal worth £10m. Two years later, Cheikhou Kouyate moved in the same direction for a similar transfer fee.

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West Ham United vs Crystal Palace Head-to-Head

This fixture ended goalless in the 2011/12 Championship, as the teams met in the second tier of the English football pyramid for the first time in 33 years.

In 2013/14, Crystal Palace completed a league double over the Hammers in the top flight for the first time ever. The Eagles repeated this feat in the 2019/20 & 2022/23 seasons.

There was a five-goal thriller in this fixture during the 2018/19 season, as WHUFC claimed a 3-2 victory.

The teams played out a 2-2 draw at the London Stadium in 2021/22. The following season, Michael Olise scored deep into stoppage time to hand CPFC a precious 2-1 win over their city rivals.

In the 2023/24 campaign, West Ham & Crystal Palace clashed in the Premier League for an 11th successive term.

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