- Simon Jordan
Simon Jordan (born 24 September 1967, Thornton Heath, United Kingdom) is the chairman and owner of Crystal Palace Football Club, a football club who are, as of the 2006-2007 season, in the Championship, the second level of English football.
- Ron Noades
Ron Noades is a British businessman. Married to Novello, his second wife, he has two sons and a daughter from his present marriage - Ryan, Ross and Kelly-Jane. From his first marriage, to Sue, he has a son, Matthew, and daughter, Justine. In his time, he has been chairman of Southall FC, Wimbledon FC who he led into the Football League in 1977, Crystal Palace FC and Brentford FC. Between 1981 and 1998, as Crystal Palace Football Club Chairman, …
- Mark Goldberg
Mark Goldberg is the current manager of Bromley, an English association football club currently playing in the Isthmian League Premier Division. Goldberg originally made his fortune in the recruitment industry, becoming a millionaire. In 1997, he was linked with purchasing FA Premier League club Crystal Palace, a club he has been a big fan of, from long-time chairman Ron Noades. At first this was thought to be simply speculation but soon developed into a serious story.
- Clinton Morrison
Clinton Morrison (born May 14, 1979 in Wandsworth, London, U.K.) is an English-born professional footballer of Jamaican, Irish and Trinidadian Heritage who currently plays for Crystal Palace F.C.. Morrison, a centre forward, plays his international football for Ireland due to his grandmother being from Dublin.
- Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson (born 10 February 1981 in Bedford) is a professional English footballer who plays for Everton in the Premiership as a striker. His previous clubs are Birmingham City and Crystal Palace.
- Marcus Bent
Marcus Bent (born 19 May 1978 in Hammersmith, London) is an English footballer, who in a short career has managed to play for several different professional sides. He currently plays for Charlton Athletic. He attended St Paul's College in Sunbury-on-Thames and graduated through the Brentford F.C. youth ranks, usually playing as a forward. He played his first senior game at Bury on 17 August 1996, and scored his first senior goal on 10 September the same year, …
- Ben Watson
Ben Watson (born July 9 1985 in London, England) is an English footballer who plays for Crystal Palace in The Championship. He wears the number 14 shirt and is a midfielder. Ben Watson made his debut aged 17 in April 2003, he gave a good performance and kept his place in the side for the final four games of the season. He made 16 appearances in the 2004/2005 season and has made a regular place for himself in the first team. He has represented England in the under-21s team.
- Dougie Freedman
Douglas "Dougie" Freedman (born May 25 1974, in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish footballer who plays for Crystal Palace in The Championship. He wears the number 9 shirt and is a striker.
- Alan Pardew
Alan Scott Pardew (born, 18 July 1961 in Wimbledon, London) is an English football manager and beforehand a player. As a player, he was a steady, hardworking midfielder, most notably playing for Crystal Palace and Charlton Athletic. On 24 December 2006, he was appointed Charlton Athletic manager on a three and a half year deal. He has previously managed Reading and West Ham United.
- Alan Smith
Alan Smith was an English football manager who began his coaching career as Steve Coppell's assistant at Crystal Palace. When Palace suffered relegation from the Premiership in 1993, Coppell resigned and Smith moved up to the manager's seat. Smith achieved instant success at Selhurst Park, as his side won the Division One championship, but 1994-95 was a difficult season in which the club's survival chances were sabotaged by a shortage of goals.
- Mark Hudson
Mark Hudson (born March 30 1982 in Guildford) is an English footballer who plays for Crystal Palace in The Championship. He wears the number 5 shirt and is a centre half. Hudson began his career with Fulham but never managed to establish himself in the first team. He spent two months on loan at Oldham Athletic while Iain Dowie was manager there. After Dowie moved to Crystal Palace, Hudson moved back to Fulham where he now began to get small amounts of first team football.
- Mark Hudson
Mark Alexander Hudson (born March 30 1982 in Guildford, England) is an English footballer who plays for Crystal Palace in The Championship. He wears the number 5 shirt and is a centre half. Hudson began his career with Fulham but never managed to establish himself in the first team. He spent two months on loan at Oldham Athletic while Iain Dowie was manager there.
- Teddy Sheringham
Edward Paul "Teddy" Sheringham MBE (born April 2, 1966 in Highams Park, London) is a veteran English footballer currently playing for Colchester United. Sheringham plays as a striker, and has had an exceptionally successful career at club level, winning almost every domestic honour available with his clubs (most notably 'The Treble' with Manchester United and becoming a "Legend" with Tottenham Hotspur). Sheringham also represented England at international level.
- Mark Kennedy
Mark Kennedy is a footballer who plays for Crystal Palace and his position is winger or midfielder. He wears the number 15 shirt. Kennedy began his career in south-east London, at Millwall, and impressed hugely, eventually joining Liverpool for £2.3million, in 1995. Having developed further at Anfield (a development which included a loan spell back in the capital with Queens Park Rangers), Kennedy saw fit to move back to the capital to Wimbledon, for £1.75million, …
- Stephen Hunt
Stephen Patrick Hunt (born 1 August 1981 in County Laois, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish footballer. His position is left midfield, and he plays professionally for Reading. He previously played for Brentford and Crystal Palace. His younger brother, Noel Hunt, is also a footballer, and plays for Dundee United.
- Simon Davey
Simon Davey (born 1 October 1970 in Swansea) is the manager of Barnsley. As a player he was a midfielder at Swansea City, Carlisle United, Preston North End and Darlington. He was appointed full-time manager of Barnsley FC on December 31 2006, after a spell as caretaker manager following Andy Ritchie's dismissal. As a footballer, his successes including two Division Three titles with Carlisle in 1995 and Preston a year later. In his first season as Barnsley FC manager, …
- Shefki Kuqi
Shefki Kuqi is a Finnish footballer of Kosovar Albanian origin. He currently plays for Crystal Palace in The Championship. Kuqi is a big and strong striker who wears the number thirty-two shirt, and is known more for his determination than technical skill. He is the older brother of Njazi Kuqi. Kuqi started his playing career with Mikkelin Kissat shortly after emigrating to Finland. He later played for Mikkelin Palloilijat, HJK and FC Jokerit in Finland's Veikkausliiga.
- Mikel Arteta
Mikel Amatriain Arteta (born March 26 1982 in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) is a professional Spanish footballer. He is an attacking midfield player, currently playing in the English Premiership for Everton.
- Darren Ward
Darren Philip Ward (born September 13, 1978 in Kenton, Harrow) is an English footballer who plays for Wolverhampton Wanderers in The Championship as a defender.
- Wayne Routledge
Wayne Neville Routledge (born January 7 1985 in Sidcup, London)) and attended "The Archbishop Lanfranc School" (Croydon) is an English footballer, who currently plays for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur after completing his season long loan spell at Fulham. He plays as a midfielder predominantly on the right wing but can also play on the left. He has represented England at under-16, under-19 and under-21 level.
- Tom Soares
Thomas "Tom" Soares (born July 10 1986 in Reading) is an English footballer who plays for Crystal Palace in The Championship. He wears the number 19 shirt and is a midfielder. His brother Louie is also a footballer, playing for Conference side Aldershot Town. Tom Soares is acknowledged to be an exciting midfield talent amongst many football managers and pundits and has now also made his debut for the England U21 side.
- Glen Little
Glen Matthew Little (born 15 October 1975, Wimbledon, England) is an English footballer. His position is right midfield, and he plays professionally for Reading. He previously played for Burnley, Bolton Wanderers, Derry City, Glentoran and Crystal Palace.
- James Scowcroft
James Scowcroft (born 15 November, 1975, Bury St Edmunds) is a footballer who plays for Crystal Palace in The Championship. He wears the number 8 shirt and is a striker. He started his career as a youth at Ipswich Town and progressed to become the regular first team centre forward, gaining five England Under 21 caps in the process. From 1994 to 2001 he played over 200 games for the club, …
- Jobi McAnuff
Joel Joshua Frederick "Jobi" McAnuff (born November 9, 1981 in Edmonton, England) is an Anglo-Jamaican professional footballer currently playing for Watford, in the Championship.
- Alan Irvine
Alan Irvine (born July 12th, 1958 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a former footballer. He is currently the assistant manager at English Premier League football club Everton, who he made eighty appearances for as a player in the early 1980s. He also played for Crystal Palace, Dundee United and Blackburn Rovers. After retiring from playing the game, Irvine returned to Goodison Park eighteen years later to join the coaching staff.
- Dele Adebola
Bamberdele "Dele" Adebola (born June 23, 1975 in Lagos) is a Nigerian footballer, who currently plays as a striker for Coventry City.
- Carl Fletcher
Carl Neil Fletcher (born 7 April 1980 in Surrey Heath, England) is a Welsh professional football player, who plays for Crystal Palace. He wears the number 7 shirt, plays as a midfielder, and is also Palace Captain. Fletcher started his career at English club Bournemouth, making his debut in February 1998 as a 17-year-old. He made 185 league starts for the south-coast club, …
- Ade Akinbiyi
Adeola (Ade) Peter Oluwatoyin Akinbiyi (born October 10, 1974 in Hackney, London) is an England born Nigerian footballer. He is a striker for Burnley in the Championship.
- Mikael Forssell
Mikael Kaj Forssell (born March 15 1981 in Steinfurt, Germany) is a Finnish footballer who currently plays for Birmingham City who are in England's FA Premier League. Considered one of the most talented Finnish footballers of all time, Forssell made his Veikkausliiga debut for HJK at the age of just 16. His goal-scoring form for Finland's youth teams made him a target for a host of Europe's top clubs, …
- Michael Hughes
Michael Hughes is a Northern Irish footballer who plays for Coventry City. He is a midfielder. Hughes' career began with Manchester City as a trainee. In August 1992, he moved to RC Strasbourg for a fee of £450,000. During his four years at Strasbourg, Hughes spent two successful years on loan to West Ham United. In July 1996, Hughes made the move to West Ham permanent. In the process, he became the first player to change clubs for free on a Bosman ruling.
- Shaun Derry
Shaun Derry (born 6 December 1977 in Nottingham) is an English professional footballer currently playing for Leeds United. He is one of the fan's favourite at Elland Road. Derry is known for his hard-tackling and aggressive midfield style. Leeds fans used to sing "Derry's Gonna Get Ya" whenever Shaun made a crunching tackle or looked in the mood to do so. However, his hard man image was ruined during the 2005-2006 season when he sported an alice band among locks of long, …
- Leon Best
Leon Best born 19 September 1986 is an English born footballer, with Coventry City. He is a powerful, tall striker who is good at holding up the ball and whose pace makes him a major threat on the break. As a young player, Leon started his career at Notts County before being signed as a trainee by then Premiership club Southampton. He made his professional debut against Newcastle on his 18th birthday in 2004. A loan spell at Q.P.R. followed later in the 2004-05 season.
- Paul Ifill
Paul Ifill (born October 20 1979 in Brighton, England) is an English/Barbadian football player, who currently plays in the midfield for Crystal Palace, where he wears the number 11 shirt.
- Fitz Hall
Fitz Hall (born December 20 1980, Walthamstow, London, UK) is an English footballer who plays for Wigan Athletic of the Premiership. Hall is a central defender who can also play as a central midfielder. He is nicknamed "One Size", as a pun on the phrase 'One Size Fits All'. Hall originally began as a West Ham United youth but was released at the age of 15, on the same day as Paul Konchesky, Bobby Zamora (who have both returned to the East London club) and Jlloyd Samuel, …
- Julian Gray
Julian Raymond Gray is an English football player, currently playing for Coventry City. He began his career with Arsenal as a trainee. After a few seasons he made the switch across London to join Crystal Palace for £500,000 in 2000. He is an attacking left winger and can also play as an auxiliary striker and lately has been learning full back duties so he can help out by playing in defence.
- Leon Cort
Leon Terence Anthony Cort is a professional footballer currently playing for Crystal Palace. He is a defender who wears the number 6 shirt. He is of Guyanese descent. Leon joined Palace in June 2006 from Hull City, following his former manager Peter Taylor to the south London club, which he lives within ten miles of. The transfer fee was £1,250,000 - Hull City's largest ever transfer fee, and their first ever to exceed a million pounds.
- Leon McKenzie
Leon Mark McKenzie (born 17 May, 1978 in Croydon) is a professional footballer who currently plays for Coventry City. He is the son of former British and European boxing champion Clinton McKenzie and nephew of flyweight boxing champion Duke McKenzie and politician and retired boxer Winston McKenzie.
- Jimmy Smith
James "Jimmy" Smith (born 7 January, 1987 in Newham, England) is a professional footballer, currently under contract at Chelsea F.C.. He is an attacking-midfielder by trade and made his first appearance for the Chelsea first team in the last game of the 2005-06 Premiership season, coming on as a substitute for Ricardo Carvalho against Newcastle United. He had been part of the Chelsea Academy for nearly three years when he was first called into the First Team, …
- Emmerson Boyce
Emmerson Orlando Boyce (born September 24 1979 in Aylesbury) is an English footballer who plays for Wigan Athletic in the Premier League. Emmerson Boyce moved to Crystal Palace in July 2004. His contract had expired at his old club Luton Town and after a short trial he made the move on a free transfer. He had become a firm favourite with Palace fans, and had established a place in the first team at right back. He was such a hit with the fans, …
- Tony Craig
Tony Craig (born 20 April 1985 in Greenwich, London) is a footballer who currently plays for Crystal Palace of The Championship. Craig initially came through the youth ranks at Millwall, and made his Lions debut away at Nottingham Forest late in the 2002-03 season. He had a short loan spell at Wycombe Wanderers midway through the 2004-05 season, before returning to Millwall. At the start of the 2007-08 season, however, …