Crystal Palace top scorers of all time

Crystal Palace Football Club is an English football club based in South Norwood, London and plays in the English Premier League. The club is named after the Crystal Palace building and has a picture of it in its logo.

One of the most interesting things about Crystal Palace is that although the club was officially founded in 1905, it claims that the club's first football team was the original Crystal Palace amateur football team, first founded in 1861. If we accept this claim correctly, Crystal Palace is the oldest professional football club in the world!

In the following, we will briefly review the history of Crystal Palace Club, then we will provide a list of

Crystal Palace top scorers of all time

, and then share the personal and professional backgrounds of each of these Crystal Palace top goal scorers ever.

Crystal Palace top scorers of all time

Before we get into the list of Crystal Palace highest goal scorers of all time, we will have a brief look at the history, foundation and honors of Crystal Palace Club.

History, foundation and honors of Crystal Palace Club

As mentioned above, Crystal Palace Football Club is a professional football club based in Selhurst, South London, England and currently plays in the English Premier League.

Foundation history of Crystal Palace

club was officially founded in 1905, but they claim that the club's first football team was the original Crystal Palace amateur football team, first founded in 1861. If we accept this claim correctly, Crystal Palace is the oldest professional football club in the world!

This amateur club was a founding member of the Football Association of England in 1863 and advanced to the semi-finals in the first round of the FA Cup in 1871–72, but was temporarily inactive after the 1875–1875 Cup.

Crystal Palace returned to football in 1905 and joined the Football League in 1920.

Since 1964, they have only been relegated once for three seasons, from 1974 to 1977, but have since returned to the Premier League.

The club was relegated from the Premier League once again in 1998 and then suffered several financial problems, but they were able to solve these problems and return to the competition with all their might, so that in the 2016 FA Cup, they reached the final and finished second after losing to

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The colors of the club's uniform were claret and blue until 1973, but since then they have worn shirts with red and blue vertical stripes.

Crystal Palace has a long and fierce rivalry with

. The competition between these teams is known as the M23 Derby.

Honors of Crystal Palace F.C. 

Among the honors and achievements of Crystal Palace Club we can mention:

League

• Highest finish: 3rd place, 1990–91

• Champions (2): 1978–79, 1993–94

• Runners-up (1): 1968–69

• Play-off winners (4): 1988–89, 1996–97, 2003–04, 2012–13

• Play-off runners-up (1): 1995–96

• Champions (1): 1920–21

• Runners-up (4): 1928–29 (South), 1930–31 (South), 1938–39 (South), 1963–64

• Runners-up (1): 1960–61

English top tier (currently the Premier League)

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English second tier (currently the EFL Championship)

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English third tier (currently EFL League One)

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English fourth tier (currently EFL League Two)

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Cup

• Runners-up (2): 1989–90, 2015–16

• Winners (1): 1990–91

• Winners (2): 1976–77, 1977–78

• Runners-up (2): 1991–92, 1996–97

FA Cup

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Full Members Cup

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FA Youth Cup

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Wartime

• Champions (1): 1940–41

• Champions (1): 1939–40

South Regional League

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South League 'D'

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Regional

• Runners-up (1): 1913–14

• Champions (1): 1905–06

• Champions (1): 1906–07

• Runners-up (1): 1905–06

• Runners-up (1): 1958–59

• Winners (3): 1912–13, 1913–14, 1920–21

• Runners-up (6): 1919–20, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1931–32, 1937–38, 1946–47

• Winners (3): 1996–97, 2000–01, 2001–02

Southern Football League Division One

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Southern Football League Division Two

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United League

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Southern Professional Floodlit Cup

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London Challenge Cup

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Surrey Senior Cup

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Crystal Palace top scorers of all time!

The list of the

highest goal scorers in Crystal Palace of all time

is as follows:

• Peter Simpson: Years: 1929–1935, Goals: 165, Appearances: 195, Goals per game: 0.85

• Edwin Smith: Years: 1911–1920, Goals: 124, Appearances: 192, Goals per game: 0.65

• Ian Wright: Years: 1985–1991, Goals: 117, Appearances: 277, Goals per game: 0.42

• Mark Bright: Years: 1986–1992, Goals: 113, Appearances: 286, Goals per game: 0.40

• Clinton Morrison: Years: 1997–2002/2005-2008, Goals: 113, Appearances: 316, Goals per game: 0.36

• Dougie Freedman: Years: 1995–1997/2000-2008, Goals: 108, Appearances: 368, Goals per game: 0.29

• George Clarke: Years: 1925–1933, Goals: 106, Appearances: 299, Goals per game: 0.35

• Johnny Byrne: Years: 1956–1962/ 1967–1968, Goals: 101, Appearances: 259, Goals per game: 0.39

• Albert Dawes: Years: 1933–1936/1938–1939, Goals: 92, Appearances: 156, Goals per game: 0.59

• Andy Johnson: Years: 2002–2006, Goals: 84, Appearances: 160, Goals per game: 0.53

A brief overview of all-time top goal scorers in Crystal Palace history

In the following, we will have a brief overview of the personal and professional characteristics of the

top scorers in Crystal Palace of all time

!

#1 Peter Simpson

Personal information

• Full name: Peter Simpson

• Date of birth: 13 November 1904

• Place of birth: Leith, Scotland

• Date of death: March 1974 (aged 69)

• Place of death: Croydon, Surrey

• Playing position(s): Striker

Senior career

• Unknown–1925: Team: Leith Amateurs, Appearances: 20, Goals: 15

• 1925–1927: Team: St Bernard's, Appearances: 58, Goals: 78

• 1927–1929: Team: Kettering Town, Appearances: 60, Goals: 100

• 1929–1935: Team: Crystal Palace, Appearances: 195, Goals: 165

• 1935–1937: Team: West Ham United

With 165 total goals, the first player of the list of the

highest goal scorers in Crystal Palace of all time

is Peter Simpson, a Scottish footballer in the 1920s and 1930s who set several goalscoring records.

Born in Leith, Simpson began his career with the local Leith Amateur team. He then joined the St Bernard's team and then the Kettering Town team

In Kettering, Simpson performed so well that the then manager of Crystal Palace caught his eye. Simpson joined Crystal Palace in the summer of 1929.

Simpson made his Crystal Palace debut in the fifth game of the 1929-30 season against Norwich City, scoring a hat-trick. He scored 27 goals in 27 league and cup games that season and ended the season with 36 goals in 34 games.

In the 1930-31 season, he set a new record. In a 7–2 win over Exeter City, Simpson scored six goals. He also scored 46 goals that season, and neither of those two recessions has been broken to date.

Another Simpson record that has yet to be broken is that he has topped the top scorer every time in his first five seasons at Crystal Palace.

In the 1934-35 season, Simpson had a knee injury and never recovered well after recovering. He moved to West Ham United in the summer of 1935.

He scored 19 hat-tricks for Crystal Palace in four years. His record of goals and all his hat-tricks for Crystal Palace are records that have not yet been broken.

The next player in the list of

Crystal Palace top scorers of all time

is Edwin Smith.

#2 Edwin Smith

Personal information

• Full name: Edwin Smith

• Place of birth: Birmingham, England

• Height: 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)

• Playing position(s): Striker

Senior career

• Unknown–1911: Team: Hull City A.F.C.                  

• 1911–1920: Team: Crystal Palace F.C., Appearances: 192, Goals: 124

With 124 total goals, the second player of

top scorers in Crystal Palace of all time

is Edwin 'Ted' Smith, an English footballer who most notably played for Crystal Palace as a striker.

Born in Birmingham, Smith first started his career at Hull and was then spotted by Crystal Palace and was signed in 1911. Smith was regarded as one of Palace's greatest strikers and is their second all-time top goalscorer, with 124 goals.

The next player in the list of

Crystal Palace top scorers of all time

is Ian Wright.

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#3 Ian Wright

Personal information

• Birth name: Ian Edward Wright

• Date of birth: 3 November 1963 (age 56)

• Place of birth: Woolwich, England

• Height: 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)

• Playing position(s): Striker

Senior career

• 1985: Team: Greenwich Borough

• 1985–1991: Team: Crystal Palace, Appearances: 225, Goals: 90

• 1991–1998: Team: Arsenal, Appearances: 221, Goals: 128

• 1998–1999: Team: West Ham United, Appearances: 22, Goals: 9

• 1999: Team: → Nottingham Forest (loan), Appearances: 10, Goals: 5

• 1999–2000: Team: Celtic, Appearances: 8, Goals: 3

• 2000: Team: Burnley, Appearances: 15, Goals: 4

National team

• 1989–1992: Team: England B, Appearances: 3, Goals: 0

• 1991–1998: Team: England, Appearances: 33, Goals: 9

With 117 total goals, the next player in the list of

Crystal Palace highest goal scorers of all time

is Ian Edward Wright, a former English footballer who is currently a sports news commentator on BBC Sport and ITV Sport.

Wright has played for well-known clubs, including Crystal Palace, Arsenal and West Ham United. Known for his speed, he was a highly skilled scorer who is Arsenal's second-highest goalscorer of all time and Crystal Palace's third-highest goalscorer ever.

He started his career in radio and television after his retirement.

His honors are as follows:

Crystal Palace

• Football League Second Division play-offs: 1988–89

• Full Members' Cup: 1990–91

Arsenal

• Premier League: 1997–98

• FA Cup: 1992–93, 1997–98

• Football League Cup: 1992–93

• European Cup Winners' Cup: 1993–94

West Ham United

• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1999

Individual

• First Division Golden Boot: 1991–92

• Crystal Palace Player of the Year: 1988–89

• PFA Team of the Year: 1988–89 Second Division, 1992–93 Premier League, 1996–97 Premier League

• Premier League Player of the Month: November 1996

• English Football Hall of Fame: 2005

• Crystal Palace Centenary XI: 2005

• BBC Goal of the Season: 1989-90

• Crystal Palace Player of the Century

• Member of the Order of the British Empire: 2000

• London Football Awards Outstanding Contribution to London Football: 2018

The next player in the list of

Crystal Palace top scorers of all time

is Mark Bright.

#4 Mark Bright

Personal information

• Full name: Mark Abraham Bright

• Date of birth: 6 June 1962 (age 58)

• Place of birth: Stoke-on-Trent, England

• Height: 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)

• Playing position(s): Forward

Youth career

• 1977–1978: Port Vale

Senior career

• 1978–1981: Team: Leek Town

• 1981–1984: Team: Port Vale, Appearances: 29, Goals: 10

• 1984–1986: Team: Leicester City, Appearances: 42, Goals: 6

• 1986–1992: Team: Crystal Palace, Appearances: 227, Goals: 91

• 1992–1997: Team: Sheffield Wednesday, Appearances: 133, Goals: 48

• 1996: Team: → Millwall (loan), Appearances: 3, Goals: 1

• 1997–1999: Team: Charlton Athletic, Appearances: 27, Goals: 10

With 113 total goals, the next player of

Crystal Palace top goal scorers ever

is Mark Abraham Bright, a former English footballer and sports reporter.

He played for

before joining Crystal Palace in 1986, but his playing time at Leicester City was not very successful.

With his arrival at Crystal Palace, his level of play improved by one notch and he became an accurate and serious scorer in this team.

He played for various teams before announcing his retirement shortly before his 38th birthday, and was always a fast and accurate scorer. After retiring from professional football, Bright worked as an expert on various television and radio programs.

His honor list is as follows:

Port Vale

• Football League Fourth Division third-place promotion: 1982–83

Crystal Palace

• Football League Second Division play-offs: 1989

• FA Cup runner-up: 1990

• Full Members' Cup: 1991

Sheffield Wednesday

• Football League Cup runner-up: 1993

• FA Cup runner-up: 1993

Charlton Athletic

• Football League First Division play-offs: 1998

Individual

• PFA Second Division Team of the Year: 1987–88

• Crystal Palace Player of The Year: 1990

The next player in the list of

Crystal Palace top scorers of all time

is Clinton Morrison.

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#5 Clinton Morrison

Personal information

• Full name: Clinton Hubert Morrison

• Date of birth: 14 May 1979 (age 41)

• Place of birth: Tooting, England

• Height: 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)

• Playing position(s): Forward

Youth career

• 1996–1998: Crystal Palace

Senior career

• 1998–2002: Team: Crystal Palace, Appearances: 157, Goals: 61

• 2002–2005: Team: Birmingham City, Appearances: 87, Goals: 14

• 2005–2008: Team: Crystal Palace, Appearances: 124, Goals: 41

• 2008–2010: Team: Coventry City, Appearances: 91, Goals: 21

• 2010–2012: Team: Sheffield Wednesday, Appearances: 54, Goals: 7

• 2011: Team: → Milton Keynes Dons (loan), Appearances: 6, Goals: 3

• 2012: Team: → Brentford (loan), Appearances: 8, Goals: 0

• 2012–2014: Team: Colchester United, Appearances: 65, Goals: 4

• 2014: Team: Long Eaton United, Appearances: 3, Goals: 1

• 2014–2016: Team: Exeter City, Appearances: 45, Goals: 1

National team

• 2000: Team: Republic of Ireland U21, Appearances: 2, Goals: 0

• 2001–2006: Team: Republic of Ireland, Appearances: 36, Goals: 9

With 113 total goals, the next player of the list of

all-time top goal scorers in Crystal Palace history

is Clinton Hubert Morrison, a former English professional footballer who played as a striker during his professional football career.

Morrison started his football career with the local team Crystal Palace and is the fifth top scorer in the history of this old club.

Although he was born in England, but he represented the Republic of Ireland 36 times at full international level, scoring 9 goals, and made their squad for the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Morrison has been working as a pundit since his retirement.

The next player in the list of

Crystal Palace top scorers of all time

is Dougie Freedman.

#6 Dougie Freedman

Personal information

• Full name: Douglas Alan Freedman

• Date of birth: 25 May 1974 (age 46)

• Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland

• Height: 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)

• Playing position(s): Forward

Club information

• Current team: Crystal Palace (sporting director)

Youth career

• 1992–1994: Queens Park Rangers

Senior career

• 1994–1995: Team: Barnet, Appearances: 47, Goals: 27

• 1995–1997: Team: Crystal Palace, Appearances: 94, Goals: 31

• 1997–1998: Team: Wolverhampton Wanderers, Appearances: 30, Goals: 11

• 1998–2000: Team: Nottingham Forest, Appearances: 70, Goals: 18

• 2000–2008: Team: Crystal Palace, Appearances: 239, Goals: 64

• 2008: Team: → Leeds United (loan), Appearances: 11, Goals: 5

• 2008–2010: Team: Southend United, Appearances: 36, Goals: 6

National team

• 1994–1995: Team: Scotland U21, Appearances: 8, Goals: 2

• 2001–2002: Team: Scotland, Appearances: 2, Goals: 1

Teams managed

• 2011–2012: Crystal Palace

• 2012–2014: Bolton Wanderers

• 2015–2016: Nottingham Forest

With 108 total goals, the next player in the list of

highest goal scorers in Crystal Palace of all time

is Dougie Freedman, a former Scottish player who played as a striker during his career. He has been the sports director of Crystal Palace since December 2019.

During his professional football career, he played for various clubs, including Crystal Palace, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Nottingham Forest and Southend United, and after retiring from professional football, he started working as a football manager.

His honors are as follows:

Crystal Palace

• Football League First Division play-offs (2): 1997, 2004

Individual

• Barnet Player of the Year (1): 1994–95

• Football League Third Division PFA Team of the Year (1): 1994–95

• Crystal Palace Player of the Year (1): 2001-02

• Football League First Division PFA Team of the Year (1): 2001–02

• Football League First Division Player of the Month (1): August 2003

• Football League One Player of the Month (1): April 2008

• Football League Championship Manager of the Month (2): September 2012, April 2013

The next place in the list of

Crystal Palace top scorers of all time

is George Clarke.

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#7 George Clarke

Personal Information

• Full Name: George Clarke

• Birth Place: Bolsover, England

• Signed From: Aston Villa (May 1925)

• Sold To: QPR (June 1 1933)

• Playing position: Midfielder

With 106 total goals, the next player in the list of

top scorers in Crystal Palace of all time

is George Clarke, a former English professional footballer who played as a striker during his professional football career.

Not much is known about his career or personal life, but Crystal Palace Club records that he played in 299 games during his tenure between 1925 and 1933, scoring 106 goals for this club.

The next player in the list of

Crystal Palace top scorers of all time

is Johnny Byrne.

#8 Johnny Byrne

Personal information

• Full name: John Joseph Byrne

• Date of birth: 13 May 1939

• Place of birth: West Horsley, Surrey, England

• Date of death: 27 October 1999 (aged 60)

• Place of death: Cape Town, South Africa

• Height: 1.74 m (5 ft 8.5 in)

• Playing position(s): Striker

Youth career

• Epsom Town

• Guildford City

• Crystal Palace

Senior career

• 1956–1962: Team: Crystal Palace, Appearances: 203, Goals: 85

• 1962–1967: Team: West Ham United, Appearances: 156, Goals: 79

• 1967–1968: Team: Crystal Palace, Appearances: 36, Goals: 5

• 1968–1969: Team: Fulham, Appearances: 19, Goals: 2

• 1969–1973: Team: Durban City, Appearances: 69, Goals: 22

• 1980: Team: Hellenic, Appearances: 1, Goals: 0

National team

• 1961–1962: Team: England under-23, Appearances: 7, Goals: 4

• 1961–1965: Team: England, Appearances: 11, Goals: 8

With 101 total goals, the next player in the list of

Crystal Palace highest goal scorers ever

is John Joseph Byrne, a professional English footballer who played as a striker.

He was nicknamed "Budgie" because of his constant gossip among Crystal Palace fans.

Byrne has played for Epsom Town, Guildford, Crystal Palace, West Ham United and Fulham.

After retiring, he coached various clubs in South Africa for many years.

The next player in the list of

Crystal Palace top scorers of all time

is Albert Dawes.

#9 Albert Dawes

Personal information

• Full name: Albert George Dawes

• Date of birth: 23 April 1907

• Place of birth: Frimley Green, Surrey

• Date of death: 23 June 1973 (aged 66)

• Place of death: Goring-by-Sea, Sussex

• Playing position(s): Forward

Senior career

• 1929–1933: Team: Northampton Town, Appearances: 164, Goals: 82

• 1933–1936: Team: Crystal Palace, Appearances: 105, Goals: 75

• 1936–1938: Team: Luton Town

• 1938–1939: Team: Crystal Palace, Appearances: 44, Goals: 16

• 1939–Unknown: Team: Aldershot

With 92 total goals, the next player of our list of

Crystal Palace top goal scorers ever

is Albert George Dawes, an English professional footballer who played for Northampton Town and Crystal Palace as a forward.

He also played one first-class cricket game for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club against Derbyshire in 1933.

Albert's younger brother was Fred Dawes, who also played professionally for both Crystal Palace and Northampton Town.

And finally, the last player in the list of

Crystal Palace top scorers of all time

is Andy Johnson.

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#10 Andy Johnson

Personal information

• Full name: Andrew Johnson

• Date of birth: 10 February 1981 (age 39)

• Place of birth: Bedford, England

• Height: 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)

• Playing position(s): triker

Youth career

• Luton Town

• –1998    Birmingham City

Senior career

• 1998–2002: Team: Birmingham City, Appearances: 83, Goals: 8

• 2002–2006: Team: Crystal Palace, Appearances: 140, Goals: 74

• 2006–2008: Team: Everton, Appearances: 61, Goals: 17

• 2008–2012: Team: Fulham, Appearances: 86, Goals: 13

• 2012–2014: Team: Queens Park Rangers, Appearances: 20, Goals: 2

• 2014–2015: Team: Crystal Palace, Appearances: 0, Goals: 0

National team

• 2005–2007: Team: England, Appearances: 8, Goals: 0

With 84 total goals, the last player of our list of

all-time top goal scorers in Crystal Palace history

is Andy Johnson,

Andrew Johnson (born 10 February 1981) is a former English professional footballer who played as a striker during his professional football career.

He has played for Birmingham City, Crystal Palace, Everton, Fulham and Queens Park Rangers.

Some of his honors are:

Birmingham City

• Football League First Division play-offs: 2002

• Football League Cup runner-up: 2000–01

Crystal Palace

• Football League First Division play-offs: 2004

Individual

• Premier League Player of the Month: October 2004, September 2006

• PFA Team of the Year: 2004–05 Premier League

• Crystal Palace Player of the Year: 2003–04, 2004–05

In this article we had a brief look on the

Crystal Palace Premier League top scorers of all time

. In the next articles we will review other top players of Crystal Palace Club and their honors and achievements.

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