Crystal Palace have announced the appointment of former England manager Roy Hodgson as their new manager on a two-year deal.
The former Three Lions boss replaces Frank de Boer, who was sacked on Monday after just 77 days and five matches in charge of the Eagles.
Roy Hodgson has been out of work since he stepped down from the England job last summer, after embarrassing loss to Iceland in the round of 16 stages at Euro 2016.
The 70-year-old – who is the oldest man ever to be appointed manager by a Premier League team – has previously managed Blackburn Rovers, Fulham, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion in the top-flight.
“I am very excited to be back in club football and it is a long while since I have enjoyed the day to day sessions of training,” Hodgson said upon his appointment yesterday.
“This is very much the club of my boyhood and I remember in my youth watching the club from the terraces at the Holmesdale Road end which gave me such fond memories.
“In those days I had dreams of playing for the team, then as a coach you think about coaching the team and a lot has happened in between times.”
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Hodgson added that the Eagles, who are yet to win any points in the Premier League this season and sit bottom of the table, are a club with “huge potential”.
“It is very rewarding to find myself here now, in different times, as the Palace manager at a club that I have always loved and admired with a huge potential,” he added.
“We are the club of south London, with an enormously large fan base. The ambitions here are realistic and there is an enormous potential for growth and I hope we can achieve our goals.”
Ray Lewington will join the former England boss at Selhurst Park, having previously worked alongside him at England and Fulham. The appointment of a first team coach is also expected to announced as soon as possible.
Palace acted quickly to replace De Boer, who was sacked after just 77 days in charge of the team. De Boer’s time with the Eagles was the shortest Premier League managerial tenure in terms of games, with this past two jobs lasting a combined 162 days.
Roy Hodgson is the club’s seventh permanent manager in the past six years.