The 2014-15 Premier League season and Julian Speroni’s testimonial match will live long in the memory of Palace fans, but many have already turned their attention to the new season.

It has an earlier start in just 10 weeks - Saturday August 8 - thanks to the league being moved forward earlier to allow for a possible England UEFA Euro 2016 campaign.

Palace co-owner Stephen Browett is also thinking about next season, but has a few other appointments before the league kicks-off - not least involving something close to his heart - the Crystal Palace beer festival.

“We’re hoping for about 3,000 people,” said Browett about the event tomorrow at Selhurst Park.

“We’ve got Jim Cannon, Julian Speroni, Dave Madden, Keith Millen and a few other people coming along.

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“It will be a real end of season party. Apart from being a beer festival, it’s a time for Palace fans to let their hair down, but the break is not long is it?

“We have some pre-season friendlies to sort out and I think Steve (Parish) is going to be busy with a few transfers, with a bit of luck - Alan has talked about three signings maybe, I don’t think we need a massive amount of changes - I think we’ve got a very, very good team.”

That very good team finished in their joint-second highest-ever top flight finish in English football - 10th - and Browett himself admits that the next league challenge will be the hardest to date.

“Every year since we’ve owned the club we’ve finished higher than the previous year so I’m not sure if we can keep that going,” he joked.

“It’s been fantastic, but it’s very hard to get into the top six with Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur - they’ve got so much money.

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“Southampton and Stoke are teams that have done fantastically well and we could be potentially be as good, as big a club as they are, so the ultimate target would be seventh place probably.

“But if we could finish seventh, eighth, ninth, 10th or 11th next season that would be brilliant.”

To finish higher than this season would mean that the Eagles would have to improve their poor home form, which saw them win just six games at Selhurst Park.

“Clearly our pitch has been a problem this season,” said Browett. “We spent £1m last summer with drainage, undersoil heating and a fibre sand layer but it didn’t really work properly.

“So we are investing in a new pitch which will hopefully fix it, it’s expensive, but our new pitch is going to be a Desso (Grassmaster) one which quite a few clubs in the Premier League have it’s a hybrid fibre grass, but they’re supposed to be the best.”

Home fans will be hoping the new surface will have the desired effect and Browett was overjoyed with the response to the new season ticket offer, which, at the time of writing, has all but sold out.

He said: “Last season we sold 16,400 season tickets, but this year we set a limit of 17,000 and we’ve already sold 15,800, so we only have 1,200 seats left.

“We set the limit at 17,000 as we want to keep a couple of thousand back for people who have jobs and have to work on a Saturday, or work midweek and who can’t commit to a season ticket.

“We’ve got two and a half months until the season starts so we’re pretty confident we’ll sell out.”