Leicestervs.Crystal Palace

This will be the 20th straight meeting between the two in the Premier League, despite the two clubs having shared history in the lower leagues.

Both have enjoyed their best spell in their respective histories across the last decade, with this match up becoming commonplace in the top flight.

Here, Sports Mole takes an in-depth look at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between the two sides.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 80

Leicester wins: 30

Draws: 22

Crystal Palace wins: 28

While Palace have been the one side to avoid relegation over the last decade, Leicester are the dominant force in this fixture, with just one defeat in the last nine head-to-heads.

That solitary defeat was fatal in Leicester's hopes of avoiding relegation back in 2022-23 though, with Jean-Philippe Mateta scoring an injury-time winner in Roy Hodgson's first game after returning for a second spell at Selhurst Park.

It was Mateta again who scored an injury-time goal in the most recent meeting at Selhurst too, salvaging a point for Palace after Leicester had gone 2-0 up in an early-season encounter in the 2024-25 campaign.

Overall though, it has not been a good fixture for Palace of late, despite their mini spell of dominance between 2017 and 2019, where they managed to do the double over Leicester in back-to-back seasons - scoring 13 goals across the four wins.

The mid-1990s represented a wild ride for these two clubs, and they shared similar adventures.

Both were relegated from the Premier League in the 1994-95 season, with home and away wins for Palace not enough to spare them from the drop, despite finishing 16 points above the Foxes.

The following season, the two faced off in the second-tier playoff final, with Leicester coming out 2-1 winners after extra time to earn an instant return to the Premier League under Martin O'Neill, with Steve Claridge netting the winner with the last kick of the game.

Palace would make amends by winning promotion themselves the next season, meaning the two met again in the 1997-98 PL campaign, but a 3-0 defeat at home to Leicester in the April put one of the final nails in the Eagles' coffin as they were instantly relegated, finishing bottom.

A few years later, Leicester also dropped back into the second tier, taking four points off Palace on the way to automatic promotion, but they would still go on to meet many times in the late 2000s and early 2010s in the Championship.

Before that though, Leicester were League Cup winners in 2000, and beat Palace to kickstart that run to the final, winning a second-round replay 4-2 at Filbert Street after a 3-3 draw at Selhurst.

The very next season though, it was Palace who dumped the holders out, winning 3-0 at Filbert Street, despite playing in the division below at the time.

Palace and Leicester's history goes back to the interwar period, when they shared a division for four seasons, with the Foxes winning all four home games, and even two on the road.

The two would not meet again until the 1970s, with both clubs competing in the top flight between 1971 and 1973, and Leicester going unbeaten across those four meetings, but the head-to-head record between them has become more even over the recent decades.

Last 20 meetings

Sep 14, 2024: Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester (Premier League)

Apr 01, 2023: Crystal Palace 2-1 Leicester (Premier League)

Oct 15, 2022: Leicester 0-0 Crystal Palace (Premier League)

Apr 10, 2022: Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace (Premier League)

Oct 03, 2021: Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester (Premier League)

Apr 26, 2021: Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace (Premier League)

Dec 28, 2020: Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester (Premier League)

Jul 04, 2020: Leicester 3-0 Crystal Palace (Premier League)

Nov 03, 2019: Crystal Palace 0-2 Leicester (Premier League)

Feb 23, 2019: Leicester 1-4 Crystal Palace (Premier League)

Dec 15, 2018: Crystal Palace 1-0 Leicester (Premier League)

Apr 28, 2018: Crystal Palace 5-0 Leicester (Premier League)

Dec 16, 2017: Leicester 0-3 Crystal Palace (Premier League)

Apr 15, 2017: Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester (Premier League)

Oct 22, 2016: Leicester 3-1 Crystal Palace (Premier League)

Mar 19, 2016: Crystal Palace 0-1 Leicester (Premier League)

Oct 24, 2015: Leicester 1-0 Crystal Palace (Premier League)

Feb 07, 2015: Leicester 0-1 Crystal Palace (Premier League)

Sep 27, 2014: Crystal Palace 2-0 Leicester (Premier League)

Apr 20, 2013: Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester (Championship)

Last 10 Premier League meetings

Sep 14, 2024: Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester

Apr 01, 2023: Crystal Palace 2-1 Leicester

Oct 15, 2022: Leicester 0-0 Crystal Palace

Apr 10, 2022: Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

Oct 03, 2021: Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester

Apr 26, 2021: Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

Dec 28, 2020: Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester

Jul 04, 2020: Leicester 3-0 Crystal Palace

Nov 03, 2019: Crystal Palace 0-2 Leicester

Feb 23, 2019: Leicester 1-4 Crystal Palace Written by

Andrew Delaney