Crystal Palace vs. Brighton & Hove Albion: Head-to-head record and past meetings

The second M23 derby of the 2025-26 Premier League season took place at the Amex Stadium on Sunday, with Crystal Palace claiming a 1-0 victory over Brighton & Hove Albion.

Ismaila Sarr's goal on the hour mark proved the winner for the Eagles, who finally brought an end to their 12-game winless run across all competitions.

Meanwhile, Brighton have now won just one of their last 12 Premier League fixtures, as well as failing to triumph in any of their last five league outings.

Here, Sports Mole takes a closer look at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between Brighton and Crystal Palace.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 145

Crystal Palace wins: 54

Draws: 41

Brighton wins: 50

One of English football's most misunderstood rivalries, hostility between the fans of Crystal Palace and Brighton grew in the mid-1970s, when both were battling for promotion out of the third tier, with huge attendance figures for that level and crowd trouble gaining notoriety.

That ill-feeling eventually spilled over into the staff, when Brighton manager Alan Mullery had to be escorted off the field at Stamford Bridge after losing the second replay of their FA Cup first round tie in 1976, before entering the Palace dressing room and criticising manager Terry Venables and his squad.

Mullery and Venables led the respective clubs to the top flight by the end of 1970s, and the 1979-80 and 1980-81 campaigns remained the only two occasions where the clubs played in the top flight together, until Brighton's promotion in 2017.

Brighton won three of the four meetings in those two seasons, including doing the double over the Eagles when they finished bottom and were relegated in 1981.

Meetings were few and far between from that point on, but the two were both in the Championship when Brighton moved into the Amex in 2011, with Palace recording a 3-1 win just a month into the season at the new home of their rivals.

That was the same scoreline that Palace won by in the 2024-25 edition of the fixture at the Amex in December 2024, with Ismaila Sarr proving influential in another 3-1 success.

Sarr once again proved the different for the Eagles in the Amex meeting in 2025-26, scoring the sole goal in a 1-0 win for Crystal Palace.

Those victories continued a fine run of form for Palace at the Amex, where they also won in remarkable circumstances during the behind-closed-doors campaign of 2020-21, when Christian Benteke scored a 95th-minute winner to hand the Eagles a 2-1 victory, despite having just 25% possession, zero corners, and being outshot 25 to three by the Seagulls.

It often proved impossible to separate the sides in recent head-to-heads at Selhurst Park though, with five straight encounters all ending 1-1 on Palace's home pitch between 2019 and 2023, including the dramatic draw in September 2021, when Neal Maupay netted a 95th-minute equaliser for Albion, but the Eagles ended that streak with a 2-1 win in April 2025.

Arguably the most important meetings between the clubs came in the Championship playoffs in 2013, though, when Palace won 2-0 at the Amex to advance to the final at Wembley, where they achieved promotion to the top flight after almost a decade away.