Ipswich Town currently play in the Premier League, in the top tier of English football.
They were founded back in 1878 but did not become a professional football club until 1936.
The club plays at Portman Road which has a capacity of nearly 30,000.
The club have been manged by footballing legends including the likes of Sir Alf Ramsey between 1955 and 1963 and Sir Bobby Robson between 1969 and 1982.
After their relegation to England’s second-tier, the club spent 17-consecutive seasons in the Championship before being relegated to League One (third-tier) in 2019.
The Tractor Boys then spent a total of four seasons playing in the third-tier before achieving promotion to back to the Championship in the 2022/23 campaign under manager Kieran McKenna.
Ipswich ended their 22-year wait for Premier League football after gaining promotion to the top flight following back-to-back promotions at the end of the 2023/24 season.
The club was founded back in 1878 and were originally called Ipswich A.F.C. playing at amateur level. This was until 10 years later in 1888, when they ended up merging with Ipswich Rugby Club and formed Ipswich Town Football Club, which they are still known as today.
This led to success in the local area as they went on to win the likes of the Suffolk Challenge Cup and Suffolk Senior Cup.
In terms of league football, the club began playing in the Norfolk & Suffolk League in 1899 and also the South East Anglian League for a short stint between 1903 and 1906.
They won the East Anglian League in the 1903/1904 campaign and finished as runners up the following season.
Ipswich joined the Southern Amateur League in 1907 and went on to play in this division until 1935.
The club achieved success while in this league, winning it four times in total (1921/1922, 1929/1930, 1932/1933, and 1933/1934).
After playing 23 seasons in the Southern Amateur League, the club became founding members of the Eastern Counties Football League at the end of the 1934/35 campaign.
However, Ipswich Town would only play in this division for one year as they officially became a professional football club a year later in 1936.
The Suffolk-based outfit then went on to join the Southern League for the beginning of the 1936/1937 campaign.
They only spent two seasons playing at this level but it was a very successful first one won the title at the first attempt (1936/37). They then finished third in the following campaign (1937/1938).
On May 30, 1938, Ipswich Town were elected to the Football League just two years after officially becoming a professional club.
They went on to play in the Third Division South from the beginning of the 1938/1939 campaign where club spent eight seasons in this league before gaining promotion by winning the title in the 1953/54 season.
After earning promotion to the Football League Second Division at the end of the 1953/1954 season, the club were immediately relegated back to the Third Division South the following season (1954/55).
The club then spent another two seasons in the Third Division South before once again finishing on top of the table at the end of the 1956/57 campaign to earn promotion back to the Football League Second Division.
Ipswich Town went on to become a stable Second Division club in the late 50s, spending four-consecutive years in the division before winning the league and gaining promotion to the First Division at the end of the 1960/61 season.
In those four years spent in the Second Division between 1957 and 1961, the Tractor Boys finished 8th, 16th, 11th, and then 1st.
In Ipswich Town’s first-ever season in England’s top-flight, they won the league with 56 points, three ahead of second-placed Burnley - the club’s only ever league title to date.
The manager who guided the Tractor Boys to the league title was the man who a few years later would take England to success in the 1966 World Cup - Sir Alf Ramsey.
While Ray Crawford ended the season as the club’s top goalscorer with 37 goals.
In the following 1962/63 season Ipswich competed in the European Cup for the first and only ever time in their history.
Town picked up an emphatic 14-1 aggregate win vs Maltese outfit Floriana in the Preliminary Round before losing to eventual champions and Italian side AC Milan 4-2 on aggregate in the first round.
In April 1963, Ramsey left Ipswich to go manage the England national team
But Ramsey's good work was undone in 1963/64 campaign under new manager Jackie Milburn.
The Tractor Boys were relegated back to the Second Division just two years after winning the First Division title.
They registered their longest winless run in the club's history of 23 league and cup games and were thumped 10-1 by Fulham - their heaviest ever defeat.
They also conceded 121 league goals, the club's highest total in a single season.
Four years after their miserable relegation to the Second Division, Town earned promotion back to England’s top flight by ending the 1967/68 season as league winners, finishing one point ahead of Queens Park Rangers under manager Bill McGarry.
McGarry left Ipswich for Wolves and the club appointed Bobby Robson in January 1969. In his first four seasons in charge, he guided Town to 12th, 18th, 19th, and 13th.
Things would then pick up in the 1972/73 season as the club finished 4th in the First Division and won the short-lived Texaco Cup by beating local rivals Norwich City 4-2 on aggregate in the final.
Then Robson's troops struck gold in the 1978 by lifting their first FA Cup trophy, with a 1-0 win over Arsenal. A reported 100,000 people were in attendance at the old Wembley Stadium as Roger Osborne scored the winner for the Tractor Boys in the 77th minute of the game.
Three years later, one of the greatest successes in the Tractor Boys’ history came when they won the UEFA Cup in the 1980/81 campaign, beating Dutch side AZ Alkmaar 5-4 on aggregate in a two-legged final.
The club won the first-leg 3-0 at Portman Road with a penalty from John Wark and further goals from Frans Thijssen and Paul Mariner.
Despite going on to lose the second-leg 4-2 in Amsterdam’s Olympic Stadium but this mattered little as Town won 5-4 on aggregate overall to win their first and only ever European trophy.
Ipswich also finished as league runners-up in 1981 and 1982, as Robson bowed in July as, just like Alf Ramsey before him, he accepted the job as the England national team manager.
Bobby Ferguson then took charge of the club and guided them to 9th, 12th, and 17th, before they were eventually relegated back to the Second Division at the end of the 1985/86 campaign.
This ended the club’s 18-year stay in the top-flight of English football which remains their longest to date.
The Tractor Boys then spent six years in the Second Division before winning promotion back to England’s top-flight in the brand newly formed Premier League.
They also gained promotion as champions, winning the league with 84 points in total under the management of former West Ham boss John Lyall.
The club’s stint in the Premier League would last three seasons in total before they were once again relegated at the end of the 1994/95 campaign.
During their three years in the Premier League, Town finished 16th, 19th, and finally, 22nd a position which meant they were relegated to the second-tier.
Town went on to spend another five seasons playing in the second-tier of English football, with former player George Burley as manager.
The club finished just outside the play-off places in 7th in their first season back at this level but then went on to lose in the play-off semi-finals in three-consecutive campaigns before eventually winning them in the 1999/2000 season, beating Barnsley 4-2 in the final.
The Tractor Boys’ first season back in the Premier League was a fantastic one as the club finished in 5th, qualifying for the UEFA Cup in the process and winning Burley the manager of the season award.
However, the second season bought no such joy as the club ended the 2001/02 season in 18th and were relegated back to the second-tier.
After their disappointing relegation back to the second-tier, Town stayed there for 17 years.
During this period, they reached the play-offs three times in 2004, 2005, and 2015 but were unable to secure promotion back to the top flight.
At the end of the 2018/19 season, the club were relegated to the League One after finishing bottom of the table under former Norwich manager Paul Lambert - the only man to manage both clubs. It resulted in Ipswich playing in England’s third tier for the first time since 1957.
Lambert was unable to return the club to the Championship and left the club in February 2021.
His replacement Paul Cook also struggled to gain promotion and was sacked in December 2021, after just over nine months in charge. The second shortest serving manager in the club's history after Paul Cook's five months in 2018.
Having been in charge for just over 9 months, Cook is the second shortest serving manager in the club's history
After their 2019 relegation, the Tractor Boys spent four years in League One before eventually gaining automatic promotion back to the Championship under current manager Kieran McKenna when they finished 2nd at the end of the 2022/23 season.
Former Manchester United assistant manager Kieran McKenna took the reins in December 2021 and improved the fortunes of the club.
They won seven of his first ten games in charge and went unbeaten in eleven in February and March, including a club record for not conceding a goal.
Ipswich finished 11th in League One in the 2021/22 season, but stormed up the table in the following season and eventually finished runners-up, following a 19 game unbeaten run. They returned to the Championship for the 2023/24 season after a four year absence.
In the 2023/24 season, the Tractor Boys enjoyed another successive promotion after finishing second on their return to the Championship, one point behind champions Leicester and six points clear of third-placed Leeds.
A 2-0 win over Huddersfield on the final day of the season saw Ipswich Tractor Boys complete a stunning back-to-back promotion as they became the first team since Southampton in 2011 and 2012 to win successive promotions to the top-flight from League One.
McKenna hailed his side’s “amazing achievement” as the club returned to the Premier League for the first time in 22-years.
“Everyone deserves it, the whole town deserves it, the players…for how hard they’ve worked. And the supporters, who’ve followed so loyally for years and have been waiting for a day like this.
“We just set out to be as good as we could possibly be. The closer you get to the end you know you’re within reach of an amazing achievement and we’re so glad we were able to finish off well.”
Ipswich's fierce local rivals are Norwich City, with the two sides playing in the East Anglian Derby, or the Old Farm Derby as some have dubbed it.
Their first match-up came in September 1946 when Ipswich ran out 5-0 winners. In fact, Norwich did not beat Ipswich until the fourth time of asking in 1948, winning 2-1.
In April 2021, Ipswich Town were taken over by an American consortium - Gamechanger 20.
Gamechanger 20, who also own American side Phoenix Rising FC, bought out unpopular owner Marcus Evans, who had been in charge at Portman Road since 2007.
Evans agreed to write off the money the club owes him in exchange for a five per cent share of Gamechangers 2020, who will receive additional finances from the 'Three Lions fund' - a group consisting of investors Brett Johnson, Berke Bakay and Mark Detmer.
Michael O'Leary became club chairman and was joined on the board by Johnson, Ed Schwartz, Bakay and Detmer.
Ipswich made a loss of £12.6 million in the year end June 30 2022, the first season following the Gamechanger 20 takeover.
The loss, which had been wholly expected as the new owners invested in the club both on and off the field, was up on £6.4 million in the previous year, which covered the Covid-hit 2021/22 campaign.
The club made an operating loss of £14.4 million compared with £7.7 in the previous year.
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