Man City v Crystal Palace Hospitality Tickets & Packages

The Etihad Stadium Hospitality Dress Code

At the Etihad Stadium, guests are wanted to feel that ‘warm welcome’ from the staff. The dress code for Man City home games at the Etihad Stadium is smart casual, which is great for those in need of an action-packed day. The Etihad Stadium strictly prohibits:

• Tracksuits
• Caps
• Shorts
• Offensive clothing and away tops are strictly prohibited

However, the clothing listed below is acceptable

• Jeans
• Smart, clean trainers
• Home jersey tops

Please be aware that these rules do not apply to children under the age of 12 years old.

Manchester City, led by their Spanish Head Coach Pep Guardiola, are set to welcome Oliver Glasner’s Crystal Palace side to the iconic Etihad Stadium, which is located in the heart of the City of Manchester, during the 2025/26 Premier League season.

A victory here for City against their South London counterparts would certainly give them a boost and some vital momentum going into their next few matches in the league. This win would also see them take a crucial step closer to realising their ambition for the current campaign, which is to reclaim the title after losing out to Liverpool last term.

The incumbent Head Coach of Manchester City Football Club is, of course, Pep Guardiola, who has been in charge of the Cityzens since the start of the 2016/17 season, following his trophy-laden tenure at the club. He took over from his Chilean predecessor Manuel Pellegrini, who took charge of the remainder of the 2015/16 season following the announcement of Pep’s imminent arrival back on Monday, 1st February 2016.

The most recent full season in charge for Guardiola and his City team was indeed the 2024/25 campaign, where, coming into it, they were the defending English champions looking to retain their crown once again. Instead, the Cityzens had to settle for a 3rd place finish in the end, failing to retain the title, after finishing with 71 points from their 38 games in total. They lost out on the title to Arne Slot’s Liverpool, with Arsenal finishing second with just 3 points between Mikel Arteta’s side and City in the end.

On a positive note, they still qualified for the 2025/26 edition of the highly prestigious UEFA Champions League.

Throughout his career to date as the Head Coach of Manchester City, Pep Guardiola has led them to as many as 18 trophies. This includes 6 Premier League titles (2017/18, 2018/19, 2020/21, 2021/22/ 2022/23 & 2023/24), 2 FA Cups (2018/19 & 2022/23), 4 Carabao Cup titles (2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20 & 2020/21), 3 FA Community Shield titles (2018, 2019 & 2024), 1 UEFA Champions League title (2022/23), 1 UEFA Super Cup title (2023), and finally 1 FIFA Club World Cup (2023).

Moving on to Crystal Palace, their Austrian Head Coach, Oliver Glasner, has been in charge of the Eagles since he succeeded Roy Hodgson in the Selhurst Park hot seat on Monday, 19th February 2024. He initially took charge of the final few months of the 2023/24 campaign which saw him guide Palace to safety with what was a very respectable 10th place finish with 49 points from their 38 games.

Last season (2024/25) was the first full season in charge of the South London Club for their current Head Coach Oliver Glasner. Palace did finish lower down the league than the season before but with more points in what was a 12th place finish with as many as 53 points to their name.

They also made history by winning the club’s first-ever piece of major silverware when they were able to beat City 1 – 0 in the 2025 FA Cup Final under the arch at the iconic and historic Wembley Stadium thanks to a winning goal in the early stages of the first half from attacking midfielder Eberechi Eze (16’). This also secured them European Football for the very first time in the club’s history as a result of this win as well.

The last time that these two clubs faced each other in the Premier League was back on Saturday 12th April 2025 at the iconic Etihad Stadium, and it was an emphatic, ruthless, and a well deserved 5 – 2 triumph for hosts Manchester City following their goals, which came from the likes of Kevin De Bruyne (33’), Omar Marmoush (36’), Mateo Kovacic (47’), James McAtee (56’), and Nico O’Reilly (79’).

Meanwhile, Palace’s two goals in the game on that day came from senior England International Eberechi Eze (8’) and the club’s American central defender Chris Richards (21’), with both of their goals coming in the early stages of the first half.

Overall, Manchester City and Crystal Palace have met competitively in all competitions on no less than 74 occasions, and it is City who currently has the most wins in this fixture so far with 39 compared with the Eagles’ total of 18 victories against the Cityzens. There have also been as many as 17 draws between these two clubs to date, as of the time of writing.

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