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Selhurst Park is a football stadium in Selhurst, in the London Borough of Croydon, England, which is the home ground of Premier League club Crystal Palace.^[1]

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Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Croydon
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Wimbledon F.C.

AFC Wimbledon

AFC Wimbledon is an English professional association football club based in Merton, London. Selhurst Park and AFC Wimbledon are Wimbledon F.C..

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Apple TV

Apple TV is a digital media player and microconsole developed and marketed by Apple.

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Apple TV+ is an American subscription OTT streaming service owned and operated by Apple Inc. Launched on November 1, 2019, it offers a selection of original production film and television series called Apple Originals.

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Archibald Leitch

Archibald Keir Leitch (27 April 1865 – 25 April 1939) was a Scottish architect, most famous for his work designing football stadiums throughout Great Britain and Ireland.

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Arthur Wait

Arthur John Wait (5 April 1910 — 27 June 1981) was an English builder and life president and former chairman of Crystal Palace F.C. Wait was a local builder who joined the board of Crystal Palace F.C. as a director sometime between 1948 and 1950.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Boleyn Ground

The Boleyn Ground, often referred to as Upton Park, was a football stadium located in Upton Park, East London. Selhurst Park and Boleyn Ground are English Football League venues, football venues in London and Premier League venues.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.

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Burnley F.C.

Burnley Football Club is a professional football club based in Burnley, Lancashire, England.

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Charlton Athletic F.C.

Charlton Athletic Football Club is a professional association football club based in Charlton, south-east London, England.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.

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Crystal Palace F.C.

Crystal Palace Football Club (commonly referred to as simply Palace) is a professional football club based in Selhurst in the Borough of Croydon, South London, England.

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Crystal Palace National Sports Centre

The National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace in south London, England is a large sports centre and outdoor athletics stadium. Selhurst Park and Crystal Palace National Sports Centre are Crystal Palace F.C. and football venues in London.

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Cycle polo

Cycle polo, bicycle polo, or bike polo (polo-vélo in French; Radpolo in German) is a team sport, similar to traditional polo, except that bicycles are used instead of horses.

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EFL Championship

The English Football League Championship, known simply as the Championship in England and for sponsorship purposes as Sky Bet Championship, is the highest division of the English Football League (EFL) and second-highest overall in the English football league system, after the Premier League, and is currently contested by 24 clubs.

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EFL League Two

The English Football League Two, simply known as League Two in England and for sponsorship purposes as Sky Bet League Two, is the third and lowest division of the English Football League (EFL) and fourth-highest tier overall in the English football league system.

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The England national football team have represented England in international football since the first international match in 1872.

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The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in England, with five teams from Wales, one from Guernsey, one from Jersey and one from the Isle of Man also competing.

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Everton F.C.

Everton Football Club is a professional association football club based in Liverpool, England.

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Floodlight

A floodlight is a broad-beamed, high-intensity artificial light.

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The Football League First Division was a division of the Football League in England from 1888 until 2004.

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The Football League Fourth Division was the fourth-highest division in the English football league system from the 1958–59 season until the creation of the Premier League prior to the 1992–93 season.

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The Football League Second Division was the second level division in the English football league system between 1892 and 1992.

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GrassMaster

GrassMaster is a hybrid grass sports playing field surface composed of natural grass combined with artificial fibres.

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HBOS

HBOS plc is a banking and insurance company in the United Kingdom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking Group, having been taken over in January 2009.

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Hillsborough disaster

The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal crowd crush at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, on 15 April 1989.

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Industrial action

Industrial action (British English) or job action (American English) is a temporary show of dissatisfaction by employees—especially a strike or slowdown or working to rule—to protest against bad working conditions or low pay and to increase bargaining power with the employer and intended to force the employer to improve them by reducing productivity in a workplace.

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Jumbotron

A jumbotron, sometimes referred to as jumbovision, is a video display using large-screen television technology (video wall).

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Kassam Stadium

The Kassam Stadium (also known as Grenoble Road) is the home of Oxford United Football Club, and is named after the ground's owner and former chairman of the football club, Firoz Kassam. Selhurst Park and Kassam Stadium are English Football League venues.

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This is a list of football stadiums in England, ranked in descending order of capacity.

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List of stadiums in the United Kingdom by capacity

The following is a list of stadiums in the United Kingdom with a capacity of 5,000 or more.

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Lists of stadiums

The following are lists of stadiums throughout the world.

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Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group plc is a British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009.

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London Borough of Croydon

The London Borough of Croydon is a London borough in south London, part of Outer London.

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London Welsh RFC

London Welsh Rugby Football Club (Clwb Rygbi Cymry Llundain) was a rugby union club formed in 1885.

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London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR (known also as the Brighton line, the Brighton Railway or the Brighton)) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1922.

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Lord Mayor of London

The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London, England, and the leader of the City of London Corporation.

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Mark Goldberg is an entrepreneur and English football club chairman and manager.

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Millwall F.C.

Millwall Football Club is a professional football club in Bermondsey, South East London, England.

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Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes is a city in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London.

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Molineux Stadium

Molineux Stadium is a football stadium situated in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, has been the home ground of Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers since 1889. Selhurst Park and Molineux Stadium are English Football League venues and Premier League venues.

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Paul Kemsley

Paul Zeital Kemsley (born 17 August 1967) is an English businessman, property developer and media personality.

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Polygon (website)

Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture.

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Pound sterling

Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.

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Premier League

The Premier League is the highest level of the English football league system.

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Premiership Rugby

Premiership Rugby, officially known as Gallagher Premiership Rugby, or the Gallagher Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is an English professional rugby union competition, consisting of 10 clubs, and is the top division of the English rugby union system.

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PwC

PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited is a multinational professional services brand of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand.

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Real Madrid CF

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.

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Relocation of Wimbledon F.C. to Milton Keynes

Wimbledon Football Club relocated to Milton Keynes in September 2003, 16 months after receiving permission to do so from the Football Association on the basis of a two-to-one decision in favour by an FA-appointed independent commission. Selhurst Park and Relocation of Wimbledon F.C. to Milton Keynes are Wimbledon F.C..

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Ron Noades

Ronald Geoffrey Noades (22 June 1937 – 24 December 2013) was an English businessman, best known for his investments in football clubs.

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The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the national governing body for rugby union in England.

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Rugby union

Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Sainsbury's

J Sainsbury plc, trading as Sainsbury's, is a British supermarket and the second-largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom.

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Saint David's Day

Saint David's Day (Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi), or the Feast of Saint David, is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March, the date of Saint David's death in 589 AD.

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Selhurst

Selhurst is an area in the London Borough of Croydon, England, south-south-east of Charing Cross.

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Sheffield Wednesday F.C.

Sheffield Wednesday Football Club is a professional association football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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Simon Jordan

Simon Jordan (born 24 September 1967) is an English businessman and media personality.

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Steve Parish (businessman)

Stephen Parish (born 18 July 1965) is an English businessman who is the co-owner and chairman of the Premier League's Crystal Palace F.C.

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Ted Lasso

Ted Lasso is an American sports comedy-drama television series developed by Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt, and Joe Kelly, based on a character Sudeikis portrayed in a series of promotional media for NBC Sports's coverage of England's Premier League.

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The Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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The Valley (stadium)

The Valley is a 27,111 capacity sports stadium in Charlton, London, England and has been the home of Charlton Athletic Football Club since the 1920s, with a period of exile between 1985 and 1992. Selhurst Park and the Valley (stadium) are English Football League venues, football venues in London and Premier League venues.

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The Wales national football team (Tîm pêl-droed cenedlaethol Cymru) represents Wales in men's international football.

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West Ham United F.C.

West Ham United Football Club is a professional football club based in Stratford, East London, England.

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Wimbledon F.C.

Wimbledon Football Club was an English football club formed in Wimbledon, south-west London, in 1889 and based at Plough Lane from 1912 to 1991.

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Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (commonly referred to as Wolves) is a professional football club based in Wolverhampton, the Black Country, England.

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1948 Summer Olympics

The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom.

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2004–05 Crystal Palace F.C. season

During the 2004–05 English football season, Crystal Palace competed in the FA Premier League, following promotion from the First Division (renamed the Championship) the previous season.

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2005–06 Crystal Palace F.C. season

During the 2005–06 English football season, Crystal Palace F.C. competed in the Football League Championship, following relegation from the FA Premier League the previous season.

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2006–07 Crystal Palace F.C. season

During the 2006–07 English football season, Crystal Palace competed in the Football League Championship.

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2007–08 Crystal Palace F.C. season

The 2007–08 season was Crystal Palace Football Club's third consecutive season in The Championship.

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2008–09 Crystal Palace F.C. season

The 2008–09 season was Crystal Palace Football Club's 4th consecutive season in the Championship, after their play-off defeat in the previous campaign.

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2009–10 Crystal Palace F.C. season

The Crystal Palace F.C. season 2009–10 was Crystal Palace's 5th consecutive season in the Championship, after a 15th-placed finish in the previous campaign.

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2010–11 Crystal Palace F.C. season

The Crystal Palace F.C. season 2010–11 was Crystal Palace's sixth consecutive season in the Championship. The previous season had seen Palace finish one place above the relegation zone, having been deducted ten points for going into administration. The CPFC 2010 consortium completed a takeover of the club in the close season and installed former Scotland manager George Burley as the club's new boss, with club legend Dougie Freedman continuing his role as assistant manager.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selhurst_Park

Also known as Crystal Palace football ground, Selhurst Park football ground.

Selhurst Park, the Glossary

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See also

Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Croydon

Crystal Palace F.C.

Football venues in London

Tourist attractions in the London Borough of Croydon

Venues of the 1948 Summer Olympics

Wimbledon F.C.

References