CRYSTAL Palace made a healthy profit during the club's promotion season – largely thanks to Wilfried Zaha.
The club's trading company, CPFC 2010 Limited, posted a £3.55 million profit for the 2012/2013 season.
According to club accounts posted on Monday on Companies House, the sales of Zaha to Manchester United and Nathaniel Clyne to Southampton accrued the club £14 million.
Without those, the club would have made a loss.
Robert Sutherland, editor of the Five Year Plan fanzine, welcomed the news and said the owners had laid some solid foundations since they took over in 2010.
He said: "Ultimately, if you are a football club, you want to be making a profit. After years of being in the red it's great.
"Even with the new owners, in the first few years we were still losing a significant amount of money so the fact that we are running to a profit is good."
The club spent £2.3 million buying the training ground in Copers Cope Road, Beckenham, in August, meaning all facilities are now owned by the club.
In the director's report it states: "The strategy of the club going forward is to become a sustainable Premiership club whilst continuing to minimise financial risk."
The statements reveal that the club spent £16.25 million on players in the summer after promotion was won.
With Tony Pulis now set to spend more money, Mr Sutherland thinks the owners are still spending sensibly.
He added: "The amount of money spent on players over the summer is probably what you would expect because when you go up you have to spend money on players.
"I imagine the figure for next season will go up because we will be spending money on players over the summer.
"I think the owners trust Tony Pulis. I believe he set a target of 14 points to get to by this stage and we have already exceeded that. I think we would probably have accepted relegation (had Palace been in the same position as a few months ago).
"It is credit to the owners that we did end up getting promoted with a mid-range wage bill and they deserve all the plaudits they are getting."
The accounts also revealed that Ian Holloway and his squad received more than £4 million in bonuses for achieving promotion.
Wages for the entire staff of the club rose from £11.7 million in 2012 to £18.75 million in 2013, with the size of the playing squad and coaching staff also rising dramatically.
