The Tottenham vs Crystal Palace F.C. matches in the 2025-26 Premier League season produced two of the more dramatic results in the London derby calendar, swinging decisively in opposite directions and capturing everything about the unpredictable nature of both clubs’ campaigns.
The first encounter of the season at Selhurst Park on 28 December 2025 went to Tottenham, with a 1-0 victory sealed by a moment that will live long in the memory of 19-year-old Archie Gray, who headed home his first ever senior goal in the 42nd minute from a floating Pedro Porro cross that caused chaos in the Crystal Palace defence.
Crystal Palace dominated possession at 62 per cent and created several clear-cut chances, but Guglielmo Vicario was largely untroubled despite the pressure, and VAR chalked off two Richarlison finishes in narrow offside calls that further frustrated the home side.
The win moved Thomas Frank’s Tottenham side up to 11th in the table, while Palace remained eighth after their final home game of 2025 in front of 25,186 at Selhurst Park.
The reverse fixture at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 5 March 2026 told an entirely different story, with Crystal Palace inflicting a 3-1 defeat on Spurs in a contest that was shaped decisively by Micky van de Ven’s red card in the 38th minute.
Dominic Solanke had put Tottenham ahead in the 34th minute, but from that point on the match unravelled completely for the home side as Crystal Palace took full advantage of the numerical superiority.
Ismaïla Sarr scored a penalty in the 40th minute before adding a second in first-half stoppage time, with Jørgen Strand Larsen also finding the net as the visitors ran out commanding winners in front of 60,213 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
The result plunged Tottenham deeper into a relegation battle that had become the defining narrative of their season, with the club sitting in the bottom three as the campaign approached its final stretch.
The Tottenham vs Crystal Palace F.C. matches across 2025-26 split evenly but the aggregate score of 4-4 over the two games masked the significance of how each result landed at different points of the campaign.
Looking at the broader picture, Tottenham hold a commanding 38-16 overall head-to-head advantage from 69 meetings between the two clubs, but recent form has shifted strongly in Palace’s favour.
Palace pulled off a notable Premier League double over Spurs in 2024-25, and while Gray’s header in December briefly suggested a response, the March reversal underlined that Crystal Palace under Oliver Glasner have the tactical tools to hurt Tottenham when given the right conditions.
Harry Kane remains the all-time leading scorer in Tottenham vs Crystal Palace F.C. matches with 11 goals across nine appearances, while Son Heung-min sits second with nine, though both have long since departed the club.