Selhurst Park

Crystal Palace had been pursuing the site as early as 25 February 1919, and in 1922 bought the former brickfield from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company for £2,750. The Scottish architect Archibald Leitch designed the ground, and Humphreys of Kensington, a firm he used often, built it for around £30,000. The Lord Mayor of London opened it on 30 August 1924, when there was only one stand - the present Main Stand - and industrial action had left even that unfinished; Palace lost 0-1 to The Wednesday in front of 25,000. On St David's Day in 1926 England played Wales there.

Selhurst Park staged two matches of the 1948 Summer Olympics, and over the years also hosted England amateur internationals, boxing, bicycle polo in the late 1940s, and cricket and music concerts in the 1980s. Floodlights arrived in 1953, on poles around the three sides of terracing and four roof-mounted installations on the Main Stand. Nine years later they were replaced by pylons in each corner and six installations on the Main Stand roof; Real Madrid marked the occasion by playing under the new bulbs, a coup for a third-division club and Real's first match in London.

The ground was left undeveloped until Palace reached the First Division for the first time in 1969. The new stand was named for Arthur Wait, the chairman who had overseen the club's rise from the Fourth Division to the First during the 1960s; a builder by trade, he was often seen working on the site himself. The Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 required the Holmesdale Road terrace, the home supporters' preferred end, to be divided into three sections.

The record crowd came in 1979, when 51,482 saw Palace beat Burnley 2-0 to take the Second Division championship. In the summer of 1981 the Main Stand enclosure was refitted with seating, and the club sold the back of the Whitehorse Lane terrace and the land beside it to Sainsbury's for £2m to relieve its financial problems, halving the size of that end.

Charlton Athletic moved in as tenants in 1985, the two clubs becoming the first in the Football League to agree such a ground-share, and the following year the Palace chairman Ron Noades bought the stadium from the club to raise revenue. After the Taylor Report into the Hillsborough disaster, the lower half of the Arthur Wait Stand was made all-seater in the summer of 1990 with Football Trust grant aid. Wimbledon replaced Charlton as tenants in 1991, the year forty-eight executive boxes were built above the Whitehorse Lane terrace on the roof of the Sainsbury's supermarket; the lowest attendance recorded at a Premier League match, 3,039, was for Wimbledon against Everton on 26 January 1993. The Holmesdale terrace was demolished in 1994 and replaced a year later by a two-tiered stand holding 8,500.

When Mark Goldberg bought Crystal Palace in 1998 he acquired the club but not the ground, which Noades kept; Simon Jordan took a ten-year lease on it when he became chairman in 2000. Jordan said in October 2006 that he had bought the freehold from Noades's company Altonwood for £12m, but he never held it or any interest in it, and why he claimed otherwise is unknown - the freehold in fact belonged to Selhurst Park Limited, a joint venture between HBOS and Paul Kemsley's Rock property group. A twenty-five-year lease at £1.2m a year was granted to the club in April 2008; Rock went into administration in June 2009, and in June 2010 the CPFC 2010 consortium bought both club and stadium, reuniting them in one company for the first time since 1998.

Croydon Council approved plans on 19 April 2018 to replace the 1924 Main Stand with a three-tier structure seating 13,500, built over the old one before it is removed, taking the ground to 34,000 and fronted in glass in reference to the original Crystal Palace. Work was to begin in summer 2019 and finish for the 2021-22 season, but was delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic and by the club's academy project at Beckenham, completed in 2021, and then by opposition to demolishing houses in nearby Wooderson Close, settled when the club agreed in law to provide replacement homes for the residents. Croydon Council re-approved the scheme in August 2024, demolition began in June 2026 and completion is proposed for the early part of 2029.

Crystal Palace own the ground and play their Premier League football there. On 15 June 2024 about 15,000 people watched Chris Billam-Smith defend his WBO cruiserweight title there against the hometown boxer Richard Riakporhe.