List of Ipswich Town F.C. records and statistics

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 top tier of English football.

Mick Mills, holder of the record number of appearances for Ipswich Town

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.

Honours

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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]

Player records

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Appearances

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Most appearances

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Competitive, professional matches only, appearances as substitutes in brackets.[13]
# Name Years League FA Cup League Cup Other[14] Total
1   Mick Mills 1966–82 588 (3) 57 (5) 43 (1) 49 (0) 737 (9)
2   John Wark 1975–84
1988–90
1991–96
533 (6) 55 (1) 42 (1) 40 (0) 670 (8)
3   Mick Stockwell 1982–2000 464 (42) 28 (3) 42 (5) 21 (3) 555 (53)
4   Paul Cooper 1973–86 447 (0) 45 (0) 43 (0) 40 (0) 575 (0)
5   George Burley 1973–85 394 (0) 43 (0) 35 (0) 28 (0) 500 (0)
6   Tommy Parker 1946–56 428 (0) 37 (0) 0 (0) 10 (0) 475 (0)
7   Billy Baxter 1960–70 409 (0) 23 (1) 22 (0) 5 (0) 459 (0)
8   John Elsworthy 1949–64 398 (0) 27 (0) 6 (0) 4 (0) 435 (0)
9   Luke Chambers 2012–21 377 (0) 6 (0) 10 (1) 3 (0) 396 (1)
10   Jason Dozzell 1984–93
1997
320 (20) 22 (0) 29 (1) 22 (0) 393 (21)

Goalscorers

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Top goalscorers

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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]

Competitive, professional matches only, appearances including substitutes appear in brackets.[13]
# Name Years League FA Cup League Cup Other[14] Total
1   Ray Crawford 1958–63
1965–68
204 (320) 5 (18) 0 (10) 9 (6) 218 (354)
2   John Wark 1974–83
1987–89
1991–96
135 (539) 12 (56) 25 (43) 18 (40) 190 (678)
3   Ted Phillips 1953–63 161 (269) 9 (12) 7 (5) 6 (7) 181 (295)
4   Tom Garneys 1951–58 123 (248) 20 (25) 0 (0) 0 (0) 143 (273)
5   Paul Mariner 1976–83 96 (260) 19 (31) 8 (28) 12 (28) 135 (339)
6   Trevor Whymark 1969–78 75 (261) 2 (21) 9 (20) 18 (33) 104 (335)
7   Eric Gates 1973–84 73 (296) 8 (26) 8 (29) 7 (27) 96 (378)
8   Tommy Parker 1946–56 86 (428) 7 (37) 0 (0) 2 (10) 95 (475)
9   Alan Brazil 1977–82 70 (154) 6 (20) 3 (17) 1 (21) 80 (210)
10   Jason Dozzell 1983–92
1997
52 (340) 12 (22) 3 (30) 4 (22) 72 (414)

International caps

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John Wark, the first Ipswich player to score in the World Cup finals

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.

Transfers

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Firsts

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Record transfer fees paid

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No. Name Fee Paid to Date Notes
1   Omari Hutchinson £20m   Chelsea 30 June 2024 [28]
=2   Jacob Greaves £15m   Hull City 12 July 2024 [29]
=2   Liam Delap £15m   Manchester City 13 July 2024 [30]
=2   Jack Clarke £15m   Sunderland 24 August 2024 [31]
5   Dara O'Shea £12m   Burnley 25 August 2024 [32]

Record transfer fees received

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No. Name Fee Received from Date Notes
1   Connor Wickham £12m   Sunderland 11 June 2011 [33]
2   Tyrone Mings £9.2m   AFC Bournemouth 25 June 2015 [34][35]
3=   Kieron Dyer £6m   Newcastle United 15 July 1999 [36]
3=   Richard Wright £6m   Arsenal 5 July 2001 [37]
5=   Titus Bramble £5m   Newcastle United 14 July 2002 [38]
5=   Martyn Waghorn £5m   Derby County 8 August 2018 [39]

Managerial records

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Bobby Robson, longest serving manager
  • First manager in the professional era: Mick O'Brien (managed the club for 39 games from May 1936 to August 1937).[40]
  • Longest serving manager: Bobby Robson (managed the club for 709 games from January 1969 to August 1982).[41]

Club records

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Goals

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Points

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Matches

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Firsts

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  • First match: Ipswich Town 6–1 Stoke Wanderers, a friendly at Broom Hill, 2 November 1878.[43]
  • First league match: Ipswich Town 4–1 Tunbridge Wells Rangers, Southern League at Portman Road, 29 August 1936.[44]
  • First FA Cup match: Ipswich Town 2–0 Reading, first qualifying round, 4 October 1890.[45]
  • First European match: Floriana 1–4 Ipswich Town, European Cup, preliminary round, 18 September 1962.[46]
  • First League Cup match: Ipswich 0–2 Barnsley, first round, 11 October 1960.[47]

Record wins

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Record defeats

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Record consecutive results

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  • Record consecutive wins: 9 (from 28 November 1981 to 23 January 1982).[59]
  • Record consecutive defeats: 10 (from 4 September 1954 to 16 October 1954).[59]
  • Record consecutive games without a defeat: 21 (from 11 February 2023 to 19 August 2023).[59]
  • Record consecutive games without a win: 23 (from 28 August 1963 to 14 December 1963).[59]

Attendances

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European statistics

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Record by competition

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Competition Played Won Drawn Lost Goals
for
Goals
against
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

Record by location

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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.[62] The team's absence from such tournaments in recent years had seen the record overtaken by AZ Alkmaar,[63] whose home undefeated run was finally broken by Everton in 2007.[64]

Location Played Won Drawn Lost Goals
for
Goals
against
Portman Road 31 25 6 0 84 12
Away venues 31 11 6 14 36 49
Total 62 36 12 14 120 61

European attendance records

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  • Highest home attendance: 33,663 against Barcelona, 23 October 1977.[65]
  • Lowest home attendance: 13,440 against Skeid Oslo, 3 October 1979.[65]
  • Highest away attendance: 100,000 against Barcelona, 21 March 1979.[65]
  • Lowest away attendance: 2,971 against Avenir Beggen, 15 August 2002.[65]

References

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General

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  4. ^ Now known as Football League One.
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