Following the Reading game, the Crystal Palace made an official announcement on 10th February.
‘The general manager, Mr. Henry James Buckland, states that, owing to the Admiralty being in occupation of the Crystal Palace, it was decided some weeks ago by the Commodore that it would not be possible for the proposed programme for 1915 to take place, therefore the whole of the year’s \[Crystal Palace\] fixtures were cancelled.
'Further, the various buildings have now been cleared of everything of interest to the public, and the Crystal Palace completely turned into a Royal Naval depot. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have now issued public instructions that the general public are to be excluded from the palace and grounds from to-day’.
So, football would also end. The F.A. Cup Final was moved to Manchester and Crystal Palace Football Club would now have to find a new home. It was the end of over 50 years of Crystal Palace football at Sydenham.
The club’s directors received several offers to provide a temporary home for the football club, including from neighbours Millwall, but after a meeting on 15th February it was decided to finish the season on the pitch at the Burbage Road, Herne Hill cycle track, which had been vacated by Isthmian League side, West Norwood.
With the war dragging on, at the end of the 14/15 season the Football Association announced that all League and Cup football would be suspended until the War was over.
When the War was over in 1918, the F.A. Cup Final did not return to the Crystal Palace and nor did the Crystal Palace Football Club, moving instead to The Nest (now the site of the Selhurst Motive Power Depot) and then, in 1924, to Selhurst Park where we have been for the last 100 years.