Crystal Palace announce new club crest | OneFootball

Crystal Palace are changing their crest to celebrate the club's 1861 origins and its historic role in the development of modern football.

The new crest will feature 1861, the year the original team was set up by cricketers from the Crystal Palace Club, replacing 1905 on the badge, the year when the professional club was founded. The remainder of the crest will remain unchanged.

Formed in the grounds of the Crystal Palace, the club took part in the earliest FA meetings to agree the rules of the sport and played in the first FA Cup 150 years ago.

Following extensive research into newly digitised 19th century newspapers and other archives, a direct lineage has been established between the amateur team and the professional club set up by the Crystal Palace Company in the early 20th century, making it the oldest league club in existence still playing professional football.