1991–92 Crystal Palace F.C. season


During the 1991–92 English football season, Crystal Palace competed in the Football League First Division.

Season summary

The 1991–92 season for Crystal Palace was somewhat anticlimactic football-wise, but controversial in another way. A statement by Ron Noades, which he claimed was reported out of context, stunned Palace's many black players. Noades had apparently claimed that black players didn't play hard enough in winter, but that they made up for it at the end of the season. Although he later stated that he was describing a general attitude amongst managers in earlier decades, and that this was not his own opinion, many of Palace's black players began planning to leave, the most notable departure being that of Ian Wright to Arsenal for £2.5 million in September.
Palace finished 10th in the First Division, having never looked in danger of relegation, but they never challenged the leading pack and would be among the 22 founder members of the new FA Premier League for the 1992–93 season. However, they would be without the services of another key player - Mark Bright - who was sold to Sheffield Wednesday. The Yorkshire club had just finished third in the league and qualified for the UEFA Cup, and were looking more likely to be chasing honours than a Palace side who were now looking like a thin shadow of what they had been a year or two earlier.

Final league table

Results

Crystal Palace's score comes first

Legend

Football League First Division

FA Cup

RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorers
R34 January 1992Leicester CityA0–119,613

League Cup

RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorers
R2 1st leg25 September 1991Hartlepool UnitedA1–16,697Bright
R2 2nd leg8 October 1991Hartlepool UnitedH6–1 9,153
R329 October 1991Birmingham CityA1–117,270Gray
R3R19 November 1991Birmingham CityH1–110,698
R3R23 December 1991Birmingham CityH2–111,384Gray, Thorn
R417 December 1991Swindon TownA1–010,044Gray
QF8 January 1992Nottingham ForestH1–114,941
QFR5 February 1992Nottingham ForestA2–418,918

Full Members Cup

RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorers
R222 October 1991Southend UnitedH4–2 7,185
R326 November 1991Queens Park RangersA3–24,492
S Area SF10 December 1991ChelseaH0–18,416

Squad

Transfers

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