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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. The stadium was designed by Archibald Leitch and opened in 1924. It has hosted international football, as well as games for the 1948 Summer Olympics.
The National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace in south London, England is a large sports centre and outdoor athletics stadium. It was opened in 1964 in Crystal Palace Park, close to the site of the former Crystal Palace Exhibition building which had been destroyed by fire in 1936, and is on the same site as the former FA Cup Final venue which was used here between 1895 and 1914.
In 2011, proposals were put forward to move the club back to their original home at the Crystal Palace National Stadium, [84] but after the club gained promotion to the Premier League in 2013, there has been a renewed focus on redeveloping Selhurst Park into a 40,000 seater stadium. [85]
The Crystal Palace triathletes club is also based here. [50] Since the London 2012 Olympics, the status of the stadium and aquatics centre as the main facilities for their sports in London has been superseded by the London Aquatics Centre and Olympic Stadium. This led to Crystal Palace F.C. submitting plans to rebuild the stadium as a 40,000 ...
Stadium Capacity Location Country Tenants Sport Image 1: Wembley Stadium: 90,000 [1] London: ... Crystal Palace F.C. Association football 44: Odsal Stadium: 26,019 ...
Croydon Common Athletic Ground, commonly referred to as the Nest, was a football stadium in Selhurst, south London. The original occupiers of the ground were Croydon Common F.C., the Robins, [1] who occupied it from 1908 to 1917. It was also the home ground of Crystal Palace F.C. from 1918 until 1924.
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The first plan of 2007 was initially estimated to cost around £300 million, [28] raised to around £400 million in 2009 for a revised plan, [112] then to £430 million in 2012. [113] Phase 1 of this plan was projected to cost £45 million, Phase 2 which includes the construction of the stadium at £305 million, and Phase 3 at £80 million. [113]