The following season saw the club reach their first FA Cup Final for 26 years. Manchester United would again be the opposition, who Palace lost to in the 1990 final. Palace would suffer disappointment again losing 1–2 after extra-time. Pardew was sacked on 22 December 2016 after a poor run of results and the following day Sam Allardyce was appointed as the new manager of the club signing a 2½-year contract. Allardyce left the club two days after the end of the 2016–17 season due to personal reasons. On 26 June 2017, former Dutch international Frank de Boer signed a three-year deal to become the club's first permanent foreign manager, but was sacked after losing all of his first four games. He was replaced by former England manager Roy Hodgson, who at the age of 70 became the oldest appointee in Premier League history. However poor results continued for a few more games, and Palace achieved the unenviable record of the worst start to a season in English football history with seven successive defeats and no goals scored. Despite their nightmare start the club eventually finished in a respectable eleventh place in the Premier League at the end of the 2017–18 season. This was followed by twelfth and fourteenth-place finishes in the following two seasons. After another fourteenth place finish in the 2020–21 season, Hodgson left the club upon the expiration of his contract.