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| Full name | Crystal Palace Football Club Women | |||
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| Nickname | The Eagles | |||
| Founded | 1992 | |||
| Ground | VBS Community Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 5,013 | |||
| Chairman | Steve Parish | |||
| Manager | Jo Potter | |||
| League | Women's Super League 2 | |||
| 2024–25 | WSL, 12th of 12 (relegated) | |||
| Website | cpfc.co.uk/women | |||
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Crystal Palace Football Club Women is awomen's association football club based inSouth London, England, which competes in theWomen's Super League 2, the second tier ofEnglish women's football. The team, known as the "Eagles", is affiliated to themen's equivalent.
The club play its home matches at theVBS Community Stadium inSutton, South London, as well as select matches atSelhurst Park. They previously played atHayes Lane, the home ground ofBromley F.C., between 2014 and 2023.
The club was formed in 1992 as Crystal Palace Ladies F.C.. Since 2003, the club has risen upEngland's football pyramid, winning theSouth East Combination Women's Football League in 2003–04, and they later achieved their first cup success defeatingChelsea in theSurrey FA County Cup final in 2011. Palace won theLondon and South East Women's Regional Football League title in 2013–14, gaining promotion to theFA Women's National League regional section. They won the South East Division One title in2015–16, after going the whole season undefeated. The club also won the Surrey FA County Cup that same season againstAFC Wimbledon in the final.
In 2018, Palace were given semi-professional status, and secured a Tier 2 license, allowing them to become a founding member of theFA Women's Championship, the second highest tier in women’s football.[1] Then in 2019, it was announced by the club they would play under the name "Crystal Palace F.C." instead of "Crystal Palace Ladies F.C.", following the growing trend within the women's game at that time to move away from the term "Ladies".[2]
Following mixed results in their first three years in the Women's Championship, Palace recorded back-to-back top-five finishes in the 2021–22 and 2022–23 seasons.[3] It was around this time that the club officially became part of the CPFC Limited group in June 2022, and they received full professional status in 2023, followed by the securing of a Tier 1 license in April 2024, which would allow their eventual entry into theWomen's Super League (WSL).[4]
In the summer of 2023, the club appointed Grace Williams,[5] as Head of Women’s Football, andLaura Kaminski,[6] as Head Coach. This resulted in Palace gaining promotion to the Women's Super League as champions at the end of the2023–24 Championship season. The club scored 55 goals – and conceded just 20 – in 22 matches. It also marked Palace’s inaugural promotion to the top-flight of women’s football.[7] The promotion was sealed with a final-day draw againstSunderland atSelhurst Park, in front of a record crowd of 6,796.[8]
However, the club's inaugural season in the top-flight ended in huge disappointment finishing in bottom place and returning to the WSL2. Following their relegation,Jo Potter was appointed as manager on 24 June 2025.[9]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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| Chairman |  Steve Parish[11] |
| Head of women's football | Grace Williams[5] |
| Manager | Jo Potter |
| Assistant Manager | Adam Jeffrey[12] |
| Goalkeeping Coach |  Daniel Matraszek |
| Physical Performance Coach |  Chico Lyons |
| Physiotherapist | Tadej Citti |
In 2019, the Palace Women team featured in the first episode ofHarry's Heroes: The Full English, a documentary broadcast on the ITV television network. They played a team of male former professional footballers losing the match 1–0.[13]
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