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Crystal Palace FC Women
Also known as: Crystal Palace Football Club Women
ID: team_140537
About
Crystal Palace Football Club Women, formerly known as Crystal Palace Ladies Football Club, is a women's association football club based in South London, England, which competes in the Women's Super League, the highest level of English women's football, after gaining promotion from the Championship at the end of the 2023–24 season The club play their home matches at Hayes Lane, after forming a partnership with Bromley in 2014. History The club was formed in 1992 as Crystal Palace Ladies, and initially played non competitive matches against local teams. However since 2003, the club has risen up the pyramid, and had their first success winning the South East Combination Women's Football League in 2003–04, and later had their first cup success beating Chelsea in the Surrey FA County Cup final in 2011. Palace reached the FA Women's Premier League in 2013–14. The club won the Division One title in 2015–16 after going the whole season unbeaten and also won the Surrey FA County Cup that same season beating AFC Wimbledon in the final. In 2018, The Guardian newspaper claimed that female reserve team players had to pay £250 annual subscription fees. The Crystal Palace F.C. men's star first team player Wilfried Zaha, who had just signed a new contract made "a substantial financial contribution" to help subsidise the club's female section. In 2019, Crystal Palace Ladies featured in Harry's Heroes: The Full English, a television documentary shown on ITV. They lost 1–0 to a team of male former professional footballers, despite their opponents being in advanced middle age and/or obese. On the 10 June 2019, the club announced it was changing its identity and would play as "Crystal Palace FC" in recognition of the growing trend within the women’s game to move away from the term "Ladies".
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Hayes Lane is a football stadium in Bromley, Greater London, England. Located between Bromley town centre and Hayes, it is the home of Bromley F.C., and also used by Cray Wanderers and Crystal Palace Women. The current capacity of the ground is 5,000, of which 1,300 is seated and 2,500 covered. Bromley moved to Hayes Lane in 1938 from their previous ground, also on the same road. It initially featured a 2,500-seat stand on one side of the pitch, with the remainder of the pitch surrounded by banking. The ground was opened by Stanley Rous on 3 September 1938, with Walthamstow Avenue winning 6–1. The record attendance at the ground of 10,798 was set on 24 September 1948 for a friendly game between Bromley and a Nigeria XI. Floodlights were installed in 1960, and were formally switched on for a game between Japan and an Isthmian League XI on 27 September. The banking was later replaced by concrete terracing, with both ends of the pitch later covered. The original stand burned down in October 1992, and was replaced by a much smaller 320-seat stand, which was opened the following year. Seats obtained from the London Aquatics Centre were installed behind one goal to meet ground grading regulations after promotion to the National League. In April 2017, the club announced that work would begin on construction of a 1,450-seat stand at the south end of the ground, and that the playing surface would be converted from grass to 3G. The stand was officially opened on 20 July 2019 and named in honour of former club chairman Glyn Beverly.
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