24 Facts About Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk, England.

Ipswich Town received a knighthood for "services to football" in 1967.

Two years after winning the league title, Ipswich Town slipped down to the Second Division in 1964, conceding 121 league goals in 42 games – one of the worst-ever defensive records in English senior football.

Ipswich Town regularly featured in the top five of the league and in the UEFA Cup.

Major success came in 1978 when Ipswich Town beat Arsenal at Wembley Stadium to win their only FA Cup trophy.

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Ipswich Town led the top division for most of the season and were on course to win a second league title plus FA Cup and European honours.

However, injuries and fixture congestion took its toll and Ipswich Town ultimately came runners up to Aston Villa and were semi finalists in the FA Cup.

Under Ferguson, Ipswich Town finished mid-table twice, but worsening performances meant that they began to struggle in the top division.

Ipswich Town were then managed by John Duncan for three years until he was replaced by former West Ham United boss John Lyall in May 1990, with Ipswich still in the Second Division.

Ipswich Town performed well in the Premiership in their first season with Burley's side finishing in an impressive fifth place—being pipped by Liverpool on the last day of the season for a place in the Champions League.

Ipswich Town was replaced temporarily by Chris Hutchings for a single match in a caretaker role, before former Wolves boss Mick McCarthy was appointed full-time on 1 November 2012.

Ipswich Town was replaced until the end of the season by Bryan Klug as a caretaker manager and Ipswich finished the season in 12th.

Ipswich Town finished the season in 11th place, the club's lowest finish since 1953.

Shirts worn by players of Ipswich Town did not sport a crest until the mid-1960s, when they adopted a design based on the Ipswich coat of arms, featuring a gold lion rampant guardant on a red background on the left half and three gold ramparts on a blue background on the right half.

One of Ipswich Town's nicknames is The Blues, stemming from their traditional kit.

Since turning professional, Ipswich Town have used a number of away colours, including white, orange, red and black vertical stripes, claret and green, cream and black vertical stripes and dark blue and claret.

In 1981, Ipswich Town announced a sponsorship deal with Japanese-based electronics company Pioneer Corporation, who became the first official sponsors of the club.

Since then Ipswich have had multiple kit sponsors, including Suffolk-based brewing company Greene King from 1995 to 2001, and the energy companies TXU Energi, Powergen and E ON.

On 14 June 2022, Ipswich Town announced that the club had signed a 4-year contract with Umbro to become the new kit manufacturers for both the Men's and Women's teams, marking the first time since 1995 that Ipswich Town's kits were made by Umbro.

Between 1878 and 1884, Ipswich Town played at two grounds in the town, Broomhill and Brook's Hall, but in 1884, the club moved to Portman Road and have played there ever since.

At their new home, Ipswich Town became one of the first clubs to implement the use of goal nets, in 1890, but the more substantial elements of ground development did not begin until, in 1901, a tobacco processing plant was built along the south edge of the ground.

On 31 March 2012, in conjunction with celebrations of the 50th anniversary of Ipswich Town winning the 1st Division on their 1st attempt, the South Stand was renamed in honour of Ipswich and England's former manager Sir Alf Ramsey.

Ipswich Town still maintain an undefeated home record in European competition.

For 45 years, Ipswich Town held the record for the longest unbeaten run of games at home in European competition, with a run of 31 home matches undefeated.