Eberechi Eze scored the all-important goal in the 16th minute, drilling a fine strike into the bottom corner after a typically blistering Palace counter attack.

Dean Henderson, who survived a potential red card check after touching the ball outside his box, then saved an Omar Marmoush penalty shortly after the half-hour mark, and made several other key interventions as Palace spent much of the match repelling City's advances.

Daniel Munoz thought he had doubled Palace's lead in the second half, but was denied after a the video assistant referee (VAR) revealed Ismaila Sarr had interfered with play from an offside position.

Pep Guardiola's side pushed for a late equaliser to force extra-time, but Palace was able to hold out for 90 minutes plus 10 more of stoppage-time to claim an historic result for the club that was on the verge of liquidation just 15 years ago.

City started on the front foot as it dominated possession, with Henderson called into early action to keep out Erling Haaland's close-range volley and Josko Gvardiol's header.

However, it was caught out by Palace's first attack. Jean-Philippe Mateta collected a long ball from the back, spread it out to Munoz, who fizzed a low cross into the box from the right, with Eze finishing it off first time.

At the other end, Henderson endured an eventful first half. He survived a VAR review after handling the ball outside his box when he pushed it away from Haaland, although it was not deemed to have denied a goalscoring opportunity.

He then made two superb saves to protect Palace's lead. He kept Marmoush's 36th-minute penalty out of the bottom-left corner after Tyrick Mitchell had caught Bernardo Silva in the box before getting a strong left arm behind Jeremy Doku's whipped effort shortly after.

Doku saw a similar shot sail just over the crossbar shortly after the break, but it was Palace that thought it had scored the second goal of the game.

Chris Richards's long throw-in caused chaos in the box, and Munoz's drilled shot hit the offside Sarr. A wrong-footed Stefan Ortega kept it out before the Colombian fired in the rebound, but a VAR review saw the goal disallowed.

Adam Wharton and Munoz both made heroic blocks to keep out Kevin De Bruyne and Nico O'Reilly, respectively, before Henderson twice denied debutant Claudio Echeverri as Palace held out for the victory.

Palace had not had the best luck in previous FA Cup finals, coming unstuck against Manchester United in both 1990 and 2016, but against the other club from the city, it finally found an answer.

Palace is the first English club to win its first major title since Wigan Athletic in the 2012-2013 FA Cup, when it also beat City in the final that year.