Crystal Palace FC Women

Crystal Palace Football Club Women, formerly known as Crystal Palace Ladies Football Club, is a women's association football club based in South London, England, which competes in the Women's Super League, the highest level of English women's football, after gaining promotion from the Championship at the end of the 2023–24 season The club play their home matches at Hayes Lane, after forming a partnership with Bromley in 2014. History The club was formed in 1992 as Crystal Palace Ladies, and initially played non competitive matches against local teams. However since 2003, the club has risen up the pyramid, and had their first success winning the South East Combination Women's Football League in 2003–04, and later had their first cup success beating Chelsea in the Surrey FA County Cup final in 2011. Palace reached the FA Women's Premier League in 2013–14. The club won the Division One title in 2015–16 after going the whole season unbeaten and also won the Surrey FA County Cup that same season beating AFC Wimbledon in the final. In 2018, The Guardian newspaper claimed that female reserve team players had to pay £250 annual subscription fees. The Crystal Palace F.C. men's star first team player Wilfried Zaha, who had just signed a new contract made "a substantial financial contribution" to help subsidise the club's female section. In 2019, Crystal Palace Ladies featured in Harry's Heroes: The Full English, a television documentary shown on ITV. They lost 1–0 to a team of male former professional footballers, despite their opponents being in advanced middle age and/or obese. On the 10 June 2019, the club announced it was changing its identity and would play as "Crystal Palace FC" in recognition of the growing trend within the women’s game to move away from the term "Ladies".