Ipswich Town Football Club are an English professional association football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk. The club was founded in 1878 and turned professional in 1936. Ipswich have played at all professional levels of English football and have participated in European football since the 1960s. The team currently plays in the second tier of English football.
This list encompasses the major honours won by Ipswich Town, records set by the club, their managers and their players, and details the club's European performances. The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first-team competitions. It also records notable achievements by Ipswich players on the international stage, and the highest transfer fees paid and received by the club. Attendance records at Portman Road, the club's home ground since 1884, are also included in the list.
Ipswich Town have won honours both domestically and in European Cup competitions. The club has won the English League Championship (1961–62) and the FA Cup (1978) and, in European competition, won the UEFA Cup in 1980–81. Their last senior league honour was the Football League Second Division title in 1992. [1]
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# | Name | Years | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Other [14] | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 1966–82 | 588 (3) | 57 (5) | 43 (1) | 49 (0) | 737 (9) |
2 | ![]() | 1975–84 1988–90 1991–96 | 533 (6) | 55 (1) | 42 (1) | 40 (0) | 670 (8) |
3 | ![]() | 1982–2000 | 464 (42) | 28 (3) | 42 (5) | 21 (3) | 555 (53) |
4 | ![]() | 1973–86 | 447 (0) | 45 (0) | 43 (0) | 40 (0) | 575 (0) |
5 | ![]() | 1973–85 | 394 (0) | 43 (0) | 35 (0) | 28 (0) | 500 (0) |
6 | ![]() | 1946–56 | 428 (0) | 37 (0) | 0 (0) | 10 (0) | 475 (0) |
7 | ![]() | 1960–70 | 409 (0) | 23 (1) | 22 (0) | 5 (0) | 459 (0) |
8 | ![]() | 1949–64 | 398 (0) | 27 (0) | 6 (0) | 4 (0) | 435 (0) |
9 | ![]() | 2012–21 | 377 (0) | 6 (0) | 10 (1) | 3 (0) | 396 (1) |
10 | ![]() | 1984–93 1997 | 320 (20) | 22 (0) | 29 (1) | 22 (0) | 393 (21) |
Ray Crawford is the all-time top goalscorer for Ipswich Town. In the 1970–71 season, he became the first footballer to score hat-tricks in the Football League, League Cup, FA Cup and European Cup. [17]
# | Name | Years | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Other [14] | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 1958–63 1965–68 | 204 (320) | 5 (18) | 0 (10) | 9 (6) | 218(354) |
2 | ![]() | 1974–83 1987–89 1991–96 | 135 (539) | 12 (56) | 25 (43) | 18 (40) | 190(678) |
3 | ![]() | 1953–63 | 161 (269) | 9 (12) | 7 (5) | 6 (7) | 181(295) |
4 | ![]() | 1951–58 | 123 (248) | 20 (25) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 143(273) |
5 | ![]() | 1976–83 | 96 (260) | 19 (31) | 8 (28) | 12 (28) | 135(339) |
6 | ![]() | 1969–78 | 75 (261) | 2 (21) | 9 (20) | 18 (33) | 104(335) |
7 | ![]() | 1973–84 | 73 (296) | 8 (26) | 8 (29) | 7 (27) | 96(378) |
8 | ![]() | 1946–56 | 86 (428) | 7 (37) | 0 (0) | 2 (10) | 95(475) |
9 | ![]() | 1977–82 | 70 (154) | 6 (20) | 3 (17) | 1 (21) | 80(210) |
10 | ![]() | 1983–92 1997 | 52 (340) | 12 (22) | 3 (30) | 4 (22) | 72(414) |
Ipswich Town turned professional in 1936, and the first player to be capped by a national side received his call-up as recently as 1952. Many of the records in this section were established during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Ipswich achieved success unparalleled in the club's history. [1] This section refers only to caps won while an Ipswich Town player.
No. | Name | Fee | Paid to | Date | Notes |
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1 | ![]() | £20m | ![]() | 30 June 2024 | [27] |
2 | ![]() | £4.75m | ![]() | 17 August 2001 | [19] |
3 | ![]() | £4.5m | ![]() | 18 August 2000 | [28] |
4 | ![]() | £3.1m | ![]() | 16 August 2001 | [29] |
5 | ![]() | £3m | ![]() | 23 November 2001 | [30] |
No. | Name | Fee | Received from | Date | Notes |
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1 | ![]() | £12m | ![]() | 11 June 2011 | [31] |
2 | ![]() | £9.2m | ![]() | 25 June 2015 | [32] [33] |
3= | ![]() | £6m | ![]() | 15 July 1999 | [34] |
3= | ![]() | £6m | ![]() | 5 July 2001 | [35] |
5= | ![]() | £5m | ![]() | 14 July 2002 | [36] |
5= | ![]() | £5m | ![]() | 8 August 2018 | [37] |
Competition | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals for | Goals against |
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European Cup | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 5 |
European Cup Winners' Cup | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
UEFA Cup | 52 | 30 | 10 | 12 | 98 | 53 |
Total | 62 | 36 | 12 | 14 | 120 | 61 |
Ipswich's record at Portman Road is peerless in European football. For 45 years, Ipswich held the record for the longest unbeaten run of games at home in European competition. [60] The team's absence from such tournaments in recent years had seen the record overtaken by AZ Alkmaar, [61] whose home undefeated run was finally broken by Everton in 2007. [62]
Location | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals for | Goals against |
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Portman Road | 31 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 84 | 12 |
Away venues | 31 | 11 | 6 | 14 | 36 | 49 |
Total | 62 | 36 | 12 | 14 | 120 | 61 |
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