2015–16 Crystal Palace F.C. season

The 2015–16 season was Crystal Palace's third consecutive season in the Premier League and their 110th year in existence. The club participated in the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup. They finished 15th in the Premier League and were runners-up in the FA Cup for the second time in their history. The season covers the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.

Overview
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 * FA Cup
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Pre-season friendlies
On 28 May 2015, Crystal Palace announced their first pre-season friendly ahead of the 2015–16 season against Fulham. On 8 June 2015, a second fixture against Dagenham & Redbridge was added to the schedule. On 12 June 2015, Palace announced they will travel to Germany to play Union Berlin on 18 July 2015. A fourth friendly against Barnet was announced on 19 June 2015.

Matches
The fixtures for the 2015–16 season were announced on 18 June 2015 at 9am.

FA Cup
In the third round of the 2015–16 FA Cup, Crystal Palace were drawn to play away against fellow Premier League side Southampton on 9 January 2016. At St Mary's Stadium, Crystal Palace won 2–1 with goals from Joel Ward and Wilfried Zaha. In the fourth round, they were drawn at home against Premier League Stoke City. At Crystal Palace's Selhurst Park, they won 1–0 with a goal from Zaha. in the fifth round they were drawn away at Premier League Tottenham Hotspur. At White Hart Lane, Crystal Palace won 1–0 with a goal from Martin Kelly. In the quarter final, Crystal Palace were drawn away at Football League Championship team Reading. At the Madjeski Stadium, Crystal Palace won 2–0 with goals from Yohan Cabaye and Fraizer Campbell to reach the semi-final for the first time in 21 years. Crystal Palace drew Premier League Watford in the Wembley semi-final, in a repeat of the 2013 Football League Championship play-off final. Crystal Palace won 2–1 due to goals from Yannick Bolasie and Connor Wickham. In the final, Crystal Palace opened the scoring through Jason Puncheon after 78 minutes, though Juan Mata equalised for Manchester United within 3 minutes to send the game to extra-time. Although United had Chris Smalling sent off, Palace could not force a winner, instead conceding the winning goal to Jesse Lingard with 10 minutes left.

League Cup
Crystal Palace entered the competition in the second round and were drawn at home against Shrewsbury Town. The third round draw was made on 25 August 2015 live on Sky Sports by Charlie Nicholas and Phil Thompson. Palace were drawn at home to Charlton Athletic.

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Appearances and goals

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