Crystal Palace 3-1 Norwich City: result and report

Championship · Friday 26 December 2008

Result

Crystal Palace 3-1 Norwich City

Championship · Friday 26 December 2008, 13:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Crystal Palace 3-1 Norwich City: match report

Crystal Palace won against Norwich City 3-1 in the Championship on Friday 26 December 2008. It was 2-1 at half-time.

José Fonte opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from José Fonte (6'), José Fonte (31') and Danny Butterfield (90'). Norwich City scored through Gary Doherty (19').

Discipline: Crystal Palace received 4 yellow cards; Norwich City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 7th on 37 points from 24 and Norwich City 20th on 26 points from 24. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 15th with 57 points, and Norwich City 22nd with 46.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Crystal Palace wins, 4 draws and 1 for Norwich City.

Going into the match Crystal Palace's last five read D-W-W-W-D and Norwich City's W-L-L-W-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · José FonteCrystal Palace · 1-0
  • 19'Goal · Gary DohertyNorwich City · 1-1
  • 31'Goal · José FonteCrystal Palace · 2-1
  • 44'Yellow card · Shaun DerryCrystal Palace
  • 56'Yellow card · Mark FotheringhamNorwich City
  • 58'Yellow card · John OsterCrystal Palace
  • 78'Yellow card · Nick CarleCrystal Palace
  • 81'Yellow card · José FonteCrystal Palace
  • 90'Goal · Danny ButterfieldCrystal Palace · 3-1

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Crystal Palace 4, draws 4, Norwich City 1.