Crystal Palace vs Bristol City match guide
Crystal Palace face Bristol City in Club Friendlies on Saturday, October 3, 2026, with kick-off scheduled for 11:30 UTC.
This is a club friendly — a non-competitive fixture that carries no league points or trophy. Clubs use these games, most often in the pre-season summer window, to build match fitness, trial new signings and rotate squads, so line-ups can change heavily and managers frequently make wholesale substitutions at half-time.
For a global audience that means a start time of 12:30 in London, 07:30 on the US East Coast and 21:30 in Sydney — the full city-by-city conversion is in the kick-off table further down this page.
Friendlies are rarely picked up by the big national broadcasters. Coverage, when it exists, tends to sit on a club's own streaming channel, a pre-season tournament's official platform or a regional broadcaster — so the availability shown below can be thinner than for a competitive match.
We update this fixture as confirmed line-ups, venue details and territory-by-territory coverage come in.