Crystal Palace vs Manchester City tickets Premier League

Coming so early in the campaign, this second-matchday meeting set the tone before either side had properly settled into the season, and it opened matchday 2 of the Premier League on Friday 28 August 2026 at 8pm. Crystal Palace hosted their first home game of the year at Selhurst Park, the compact 25,456-seat ground in south London, welcoming a Manchester City side that had already got the better of them at this same venue only weeks earlier, a 4-1 win, having also taken a 3-0 result off the Eagles at this ground the previous December. Two clubs of very different scale, then, but the fixture carried its own edge in the intimate confines of Selhurst, an early Friday-night test with points already worth chasing.