Crystal Palace vs. Bournemouth: Head-to-head record and past meetings after Jean-Philippe Mateta's Premier League hat-trick

Two sides who have upset the top-six apple cart in the Premier League played out a dramatic 3-3 draw on Saturday afternoon, when a hat-trick from Jean-Philippe Mateta rescued a point for Crystal Palace against Bournemouth.

Eli Junior Kroupi struck a first-half brace to give Andoni Iraola's men a lead that would have seen them shoot to the top of the table - at least temporarily - but Mateta was not content with being outdone by his 19-year-old compatriot.

The Eagles striker missed a number of big chances in the opening 45, yet he scored twice in five minutes around the hour mark to level the clash.

However, the entertainment did not stop there, as the Cherries' Ryan Christie netted what he thought was the winner in the 89th minute, only for Mateta to complete his trio from the penalty spot deep into second-half stoppage time.

After the weekend's exhilarating showdown, Sports Mole looks at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between Palace and Bournemouth.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 82

Crystal Palace wins: 28

Draws: 22

Bournemouth wins: 32

Crystal Palace and Bournemouth never clashed in the top flight of English football during the 20th century, but the two sides have almost exclusively met in the Premier League since the turn of the millennium and have now locked horns on 82 occasions.

The head-to-head record is unsurprisingly extremely even, although Bournemouth do edge the wins counter ever so slightly with 32 successes compared to Palace's 28, while another 22 matches have ended all square.

In April 2025, Oliver Glasner and Andoni Iraola shook hands on a 0-0 draw after a controversial red card for Eagles defender Chris Richards.

Sticking with the dull theme, the two sides also played out a goalless draw at the Vitality Stadium on Boxing Day 2024, but Bournemouth did the double over Palace in the 2023-24 Premier League season.

After prevailing 2-0 and 1-0 in that campaign and a double 0-0 in 2024-25, Bournemouth made it four straight Premier League clean sheets against Palace, their joint-longest run against a single team in the competition (also four against Swansea City between 2016 and 2018).

However, perhaps the clubs were saving all of the drama for their most recent meeting in October 2025, when Jean-Philippe Mateta scored a hat-trick in a 3-3 draw at Selhurst Park.

During that clash, the Cherries raced into a two-goal lead that they held until half time, before Mateta pulled the score back to 2-2 with a five-minute second-half double, Ryan Christie put Iraola's men in front once again in the 89th minute, and the Eagles' talismanic striker notched his third from the spot in the 97th minute to rescue a point.

Regardless, the tables have well and truly turned in this fixture, as while Bournemouth have now gone unbeaten in five straight games, Palace previously won five Premier League matches in a row between May 2019 and May 2023, keeping clean sheets in four of them.

The Eagles also shut out Bournemouth in a September 2020 EFL Cup clash, which ended 0-0 before an epic penalty shootout where the Cherries won 11-10 after both goalkeepers - Wayne Hennessey and Asmir Begovic - failed to convert from 12 yards.

That encounter remains the only time that Crystal Palace and Bournemouth have faced one another in a domestic cup competition, as all of their other 81 meetings have come in league action.

Interestingly, both teams' biggest victories in this fixture were by a 6-1 scoreline - Bournemouth winning by that margin in 1926 and Palace just two years later - although the Cherries also prevailed 5-0 in a 1950 Third Division game.