# List of Crystal Palace F.C. managers

The following is a list of managers of Crystal Palace Football Club, from the beginning of the club's official managerial records in 1905 to the present day. Each manager's entry includes the dates of his tenure and the club's overall competitive record (in terms of matches won, drawn and lost).
Palace's most successful manager to date is Steve Coppell, who between 1990 and 1991, took the club to an FA Cup final and helped achieve their highest ever league finish of third place in the top-flight. He also won the Full Members Cup and the club were twice second tier play-off winners under his stewardship. Coppell is also the club's second longest-serving manager after Edmund Goodman, presiding over a total of 565 games from 1984 to 2000 (over four spells). In 2005, he was voted as the manager for Palace's Centenary XI.
Oliver Glasner is the current manager, having been in the role since 2024.

## Key

* All first-team matches in national competition are counted, except the abandoned 1939–40 Football League season and matches in wartime leagues and cups
* Names of caretaker managers are supplied where known and marked †
* Names of player-managers are marked ‡
* Win percentage is rounded to two decimal places

## Managers

Statistics are complete up to and including the match played 8 March 2025.
* Edmund Goodman is Crystal Palace's longest serving manager, taking charge of 613 matches over 18 years.
* Terry Venables, a former Palace player, was manager between 1976 and 1980, helping the club to promotion out of the Third Division and winning the Second Division, as well as from 1998 to 1999.
* Steve Coppell, in charge across four spells between 1984 and 2000, led the club to two promotions, the 1990 FA Cup final, and its highest ever top-flight finish (third) and the Full Members' Cup in 1991.
* Alan Pardew, a former Palace player, was manager between 2015 and 2016, taking the club to the 2016 FA Cup final.
* Roy Hodgson, a former Palace player, was manager from 2017 to 2021 and again from 2023 to 2024, helping establish the club's longest spell in the top-flight.
* Oliver Glasner, the club's current manager since 2024, and the fourth from outside the British Isles.
| Name | Nat. | From | To | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Honours | Notes |
| Name | Nat. | From | To | P | W | D | L | Win% | Honours | Notes |
| Jack Robson | ENG | 1905 | 1907 | 77 | 35 | 18 | 24 | 045.45 | Southern League Division Two championship: 1905–06 | |
| Edmund Goodman | ENG | 1907 | 1925 | 613 | 242 | 166 | 205 | 039.48 | London Challenge Cup winners: 1912–13, 1913–14, 1920–21 Football League Third Division winners: 1920–21 | |
| Alex Maley | SCO | 1925 | 1927 | 83 | 36 | 16 | 31 | 043.37 | | |
| Fred Mavin | ENG | 1927 | 1930 | 132 | 63 | 33 | 36 | 047.73 | | |
| Jack Tresadern | ENG | 1930 | 1935 | 213 | 98 | 44 | 71 | 046.01 | | |
| Tom Bromilow | ENG | 1935 | 1936 | 44 | 23 | 5 | 16 | 052.27 | | |
| R. S. Moyes | ENG | 1936 | 1936 | 23 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 026.09 | | |
| Tom Bromilow | ENG | 1937 | 1939 | 118 | 48 | 35 | 35 | 040.68 | | |
| George Irwin | ENG | 1939 | 1947 | 45 | 15 | 11 | 19 | 033.33 | | |
| Jack Butler | ENG | 1947 | 1949 | 88 | 23 | 24 | 41 | 026.14 | | |
| Ronnie Rooke | ENG | 1949 | 1950 | 62 | 19 | 15 | 28 | 030.65 | | |
| Fred Dawes Charlie Slade | ENG ENG | 1950 | 1951 | 40 | 8 | 10 | 22 | 020.00 | | |
| Laurie Scott | ENG | 1951 | 1954 | 145 | 43 | 41 | 61 | 029.66 | | |
| Cyril Spiers | ENG | 1954 | 1958 | 181 | 52 | 53 | 76 | 028.73 | | |
| George Smith | ENG | 1958 | 1960 | 100 | 42 | 27 | 31 | 042.00 | | |
| Arthur Rowe | ENG | 1960 | 1962 | 132 | 52 | 32 | 48 | 039.39 | Football League Fourth Division promotion: 1960–61 | |
| Dick Graham | ENG | 1962 | 1966 | 150 | 68 | 41 | 41 | 045.33 | Football League Third Division promotion: 1963–64 | |
| Arthur Rowe † | ENG | 1966 | 1966 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 028.57 | | |
| Bert Head | ENG | 1966 | 1973 | 328 | 101 | 96 | 131 | 030.79 | Football League Second Division promotion: 1968–69 | |
| Malcolm Allison | ENG | 1973 | 1976 | 146 | 52 | 45 | 49 | 035.62 | | |
| Terry Venables | ENG | 1976 | 1980 | 189 | 69 | 68 | 52 | 036.51 | Football League Third Division promotion: 1976–77 Football League Second Division championship: 1978–79 | |
| Ernie Walley † | WAL | 1980 | 1980 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 016.67 | | |
| Malcolm Allison | ENG | 1980 | 1981 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 011.11 | | |
| Dario Gradi | ENG | 1981 | 1981 | 30 | 7 | 3 | 20 | 023.33 | | |
| Steve Kember | ENG | 1981 | 1982 | 30 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 026.67 | | |
| Alan Mullery | ENG | 1982 | 1984 | 98 | 31 | 27 | 40 | 031.63 | | |
| Steve Coppell | ENG | 1984 | 1993 | 442 | 179 | 113 | 150 | 040.50 | Football League Second Division play-off winners: 1988–89 Full Members' Cup winners: 1990–91 | |
| Alan Smith | ENG | 1993 | 1995 | 108 | 48 | 25 | 35 | 044.44 | Football League First Division championship: 1993–94 | |
| Steve Coppell (2) | ENG | 1995 | 1996 | 32 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 028.13 | | |
| Dave Bassett | ENG | 1996 | 1997 | 60 | 29 | 15 | 16 | 048.33 | | |
| Steve Coppell (3) | ENG | 1997 | 1998 | 51 | 16 | 13 | 22 | 031.37 | Football League First Division play-off winners: 1996–97 | |
| Attilio Lombardo | ITA | 1998 | 1998 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 028.57 | | |
| Ron Noades Ray Lewington † | ENG ENG | 1998 | 1998 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 000.00 | | |
| Terry Venables | ENG | 1998 | 1999 | 31 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 035.48 | | |
| Steve Coppell (4) | ENG | 1999 | 2000 | 40 | 17 | 6 | 17 | 042.50 | | |
| Alan Smith | ENG | 2000 | 2001 | 55 | 14 | 18 | 23 | 025.45 | | |
| Steve Kember † | ENG | 2001 | 2001 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | | |
| Steve Bruce | ENG | 2001 | 2001 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 061.11 | | |
| Terry Bullivant Steve Kember † | ENG ENG | 2001 | 2001 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 025.00 | | |
| Trevor Francis | ENG | 2001 | 2003 | 78 | 28 | 22 | 28 | 035.90 | | |
| Steve Kember | ENG | 2003 | 2003 | 23 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 030.43 | | |
| Kit Symons † | WAL | 2003 | 2003 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 033.33 | | |
| Iain Dowie | NIR | 2003 | 2006 | 123 | 50 | 29 | 44 | 040.65 | Football League First Division play-off winners: 2003–04 | |
| Peter Taylor | ENG | 2006 | 2007 | 60 | 21 | 16 | 23 | 035.00 | | |
| Neil Warnock | ENG | 2007 | 2010 | 129 | 47 | 39 | 43 | 036.43 | | |
| Paul Hart | ENG | 2010 | 2010 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 021.43 | | |
| George Burley | SCO | 2010 | 2011 | 25 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 028.00 | | |
| Dougie Freedman | SCO | 2011 | 2012 | 90 | 32 | 27 | 31 | 035.56 | | |
| Curtis Fleming † Lennie Lawrence † | ENG IRL | 2012 | 2012 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 050.00 | | |
| Curtis Fleming † | IRL | 2012 | 2012 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | | |
| Ian Holloway | ENG | 2012 | 2013 | 46 | 14 | 14 | 18 | 030.43 | Football League Championship play-off winners: 2012–13 | |
| Keith Millen † | ENG | 2013 | 2013 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 025.00 | | |
| Tony Pulis | WAL | 2013 | 2014 | 28 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 042.86 | | |
| Keith Millen † | ENG | 2014 | 2014 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 033.33 | | |
| Neil Warnock (2) | ENG | 2014 | 2014 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 017.65 | | |
| Keith Millen † | ENG | 2014 | 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 000.00 | | |
| Alan Pardew | ENG | 2015 | 2016 | 87 | 35 | 13 | 39 | 040.23 | | |
| Sam Allardyce | ENG | 2016 | 2017 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 037.50 | | |
| Frank de Boer | NED | 2017 | 2017 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 020.00 | | |
| Roy Hodgson | ENG | 2017 | 2021 | 162 | 54 | 37 | 71 | 033.33 | | |
| Patrick Vieira | FRA | 2021 | 2023 | 74 | 22 | 25 | 27 | 029.73 | | |
| Paddy McCarthy† | IRL | 2023 | 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 000.00 | | |
| Roy Hodgson (2) | ENG | 2023 | 2024 | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 031.58 | | |
| Paddy McCarthy† | IRL | 2024 | 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 000.00 | | |
| Oliver Glasner | AUT | 2024 | Present | 48 | 23 | 12 | 13 | 047.92 | |