Crystal Palace: ‘Unbelievable’ honor after reaching Conference League final

Crystal Palace They didn’t want to be in the Conference League – now they are one game away from winning it and making more club history.

In one of the great nights, he saw the emotional and aggressive Selhurst Park, the Eagles Shakhtar Donetsk beat Ukraine 2-1 to close out a 5-2 aggregate success in the semifinals.

In the year Their impressive European journey began at Wembley in 2025 at Wembley, winning the FA Cup and Community Shield, where they unsuccessfully appealed to be relegated from the second-tier Europa League to the Conference League.

But since then, Palace has never looked back.

They traveled to Norway, Poland, France, Republic of Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, Italy and on to Poland, with one final stop to go – the final in Germany.

And Palace will complete an unprecedented run of success for the club if they take on Spanish club Rayo Vallecano in Leipzig on Wednesday 27 May, who beat Gary O’Neill’s Strasbourg side 2-0 in the semi-finals.

In the year Only appointed in February 2024, outgoing boss Oliver Glasner is on the brink of a third trophy in an impressive spell.

Even the 51-year-old couldn’t believe what he found.

“I talked to the chairman before the game, he always comes to my office,” Glassner said afterward.

“Did you ever think that we would play in the semi-finals of the European competition?” ‘No,’ he said.

“I didn’t think so when we first talked three years ago,” I said. That’s what you get if you work hard and stick together through tough times – and we’ve got some. When you stick together through tough times, you reap the rewards.”