The Austrian declared upon his arrival at Selhurst Park in February 2024: "I'm really convinced that we’ll reach our goal, that we can improve as a team, that we can improve individually – and then that we’ll enjoy our time together.”
Safe to say, Oliver – we did.
Although it's hard to quantify his achievements, we'll do our best by summing up some of Glasner's most impressive Palace statistics, below...
Years for Palace without a major honour – and then three in the space of 13 months.
Three
Glasner became the third manager of an English club to lift a major European trophy in their last game in charge, after Keith Burkinshaw at Tottenham (1984 UEFA Cup) and Maurizio Sarri at Chelsea (2019 Europa League).
Matches in charge for the Austrian, yielding 51 wins – the...
Second
Highest win percentage (42.15%) of any manager leading the Eagles in solely the top-flight.
Goals scored during Glasner's reign – an average of...
Goals per game.
Goals conceded in all competitions – meaning Palace had a...
+40
Goal difference during Glasner's reign.
Four
Since Glasner's appointment in February 2024, only four other Premier League sides (Arsenal, Man City, Liverpool and Everton) conceded fewer Premier League goals than the Eagles' 116.
Since Glasner’s first game against Burnley, only Arsenal (40) and Manchester City (35) had more clean sheets in the league than Palace’s 28.
Five
Only five other teams picked up more Premier League away points than Palace's 60 under Glasner: Arsenal (89), City (81), Liverpool (71), Forest (64) and Chelsea (63).
Two
Incredibly, there were only two teams who ever managed to defeat Glasner's Palace in knockout football: Arsenal (in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals in 24/25 and 25/26) and Macclesfield (in this season's FA Cup).
Palace's Premier League points tally in our 2024/25 FA Cup-winning season surpassed our previous highest points in the competition, 49 – which was achieved in the 2023/24, 2018/19, and 1992/93 (42-game) campaigns.
Five
There were only five league defeats on the road last season – the Eagles' best-ever top-flight record.
Minutes played on the road without conceding between December 2024 and April 2025 – a run which incorporated six straight away wins without conceding.
Ten
Palace's run saw us match our previous club-record of 10 away league games unbeaten – a best in the top-flight, but achieved on four previous occasions in lower divisions.
Another Premier League club record set in – for consecutive matches in the competition we had scored in (between our 2-1 win over Southampton on 29th December, and our 5-2 loss at City in April 2025).
Straight home Premier League matches unbeaten, between February and November 2025 – another club record.
First
Ever Austrian manager to win the FA Cup, and the first to win the Community Shield.
Second
Ever Austrian manager to lift two European trophies (after Ernst Happel).
That was the last time a team won a trophy in their first campaign in major European competition since 1988, when KV Mechelen won the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup – truly a generational victory for Palace!
The last time an English team (Nottingham Forest) accomplished that same achievement.
Palace are also the first ‘new’ English side to lift a major European trophy since Everton lifted the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1984/85.
Palace have become the 12th different English club to win a major UEFA men's club competition (after Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Ipswich Town, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Nottingham Forest, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United).
Not once
Did Palace trail at half-time, in 17 games in Europe this season.
First
Palace topped the competition for a plethora of team statistics in the Conference League this season, including goals scored (26), kilometres covered (1735.52) and clean sheets (six).
Nine
Victories for Palace in their 15 matches in the Conference League proper (excluding qualifiers) – a record total of wins by a team in their debut season in major European competition. Dominant!
In Glasner's first third-of-a-season in charge, his team's 29 goals in his first 14 games helped Palace break our record for the most goals scored in a Premier League season (57), and obliterate our record tally in a top-flight campaign, previously set back in 1992 (with 53).
Palace enjoyed a club-record 19-game unbeaten run between April and October 2025 - of the 19 games, seven matches were against the Premier League's traditional ‘big six’ clubs.
It was the longest unbeaten run in Europe’s top five leagues at the time by some distance - and included nine clean sheets.
It was also the joint-longest unbeaten run of any non-'Big Six' English club since the formation of the Premier League's formation in 1992 (with Wimbledon’s 19 in 1996).
Five
Only five other English clubs have won more major trophies (Man City and Man United with 24; Chelsea with 20; Arsenal with 17; and Liverpool with 16) than Crystal Palace in the 21st century.
Countless
"Moments for our lives" – thank you, Oliver.