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Crystal Palace Football Club is a professional football club based in Selhurst, London, that plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. They were founded in 1905 at the famous Crystal Palace Exhibition building and played their home games at the FA Cup Final stadium situated inside the historic Palace grounds. The club were forced to leave the Palace in 1915 due to the outbreak of the First World War, and played at nearby Herne Hill Velodrome and the Nest until 1924, when they moved to their current home at Selhurst Park. Since 1964, Palace have mostly played in the top two leagues of English football and have had seven separate spells in the top flight. Their most successful to date came in the late 1980s and early 1990s during which they achieved their highest ever league finish of third place in the top flight in the 1990–91 season. Palace were denied a place in Europe at the end of that season because of the partial UEFA ban on English clubs at that time following the Heysel Stadium disaster. It was also during this period that the club reached the 1990 FA Cup Final. The club became one of the founding members of the Premier League. Palace reached another FA Cup final in 2016. The club have also won two second tier titles and a record four play-off finals resulting in promotion to the top flight. The club's traditional kit colours were originally claret and blue, but in 1973 they decided to change to the red and blue vertical stripes now worn today. Palace have a fierce rivalry with Brighton & Hove Albion, with whom they contest the M23 derby and also share rivalries with fellow South London clubs Millwall and Charlton Athletic.
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