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The club was founded as an amateur side in 1878 and were known as Ipswich A.F.C. until 1888 when they merged with Ipswich Rugby Club to form Ipswich Town Football Club. [4] The team won a number of local cup competitions, including the Suffolk Challenge Cup and the Suffolk Senior Cup . [ 5 ]
Ipswich Town were elected to The Football League on 30 May 1938 by a margin of just two votes, [1] at the expense of Gillingham, initially playing in the Third Division South. [13] The club's last competitive match before the league was suspended due to the Second World War was a 1–1 draw with local rivals, Norwich City . [ 13 ]
Playford Road was officially opened in 2001. In addition to multiple pitches, the initial development of the training ground also included a dome housing an indoor pitch, with new buildings also being constructed including a canteen, players' lounge, parents' lounge, recreation room, classroom, changing rooms and office accommodation.
Alf Ramsey led Ipswich in their first season in Europe.. Ipswich's first appearance in European football came in the 1962–63 season.Under the management of Alf Ramsey, Ipswich had won back-to-back league titles and as such qualified for the 1962–63 European Cup in which they were drawn against Maltese club Floriana F.C. in the preliminary round.
The rapid expansion of Ipswich during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and the establishment of a garrison in the town in 1793 [6] increased the market for Cobbold ale. Third-generation brewer, John Cobbold (1746-1835) took full advantage, acquiring several old Tudor properties in the town and the surrounding area which he ...
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The 2000–01 season was the 122nd season of competitive association football and fourth season in the Premier League played by Ipswich Town, an English football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk. Their third-place finish in the Football League First Division in 1999–2000 season and victory in the play-off finals secured Ipswich Town a place in ...