List of Ipswich Town F.C. records and statistics

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

Ipswich Town 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 plays in the second tier of English football, the Championship.

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

Ipswich Town have won honours both domestically and in European Cup competitions. The team 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]

European

Domestic

League titles

Cups

Player records

Appearances

Most appearances

Competitive, professional matches only, appearances as substitutes in brackets.[9]
# Name Years League FA Cup League Cup Other[10] Total
1England Mick Mills1965–82588 (3)57 (5)43 (1)49 (0)737 (4)
2Scotland John Wark1974–83
1987–89
1991–96		533 (6)55 (1)42 (1)40 (0)670 (8)
3England Mick Stockwell1982–2000464 (42)28 (3)42 (5)21 (3)555 (53)
4England Paul Cooper1973–86447 (0)45 (0)43 (0)40 (0)575 (0)
5Scotland George Burley1973–85394 (0)43 (0)35 (0)28 (0)500 (0)
6England Tommy Parker1946–56428 (0)37 (0)0 (0)10 (0)475 (0)
7Scotland Billy Baxter1960–70409 (0)23 (1)22 (0)5 (0)459 (0)
8Wales John Elsworthy1949–64398 (0)27 (0)6 (0)4 (0)435 (0)
9England Jason Dozzell1983–92
1997		320 (20)22 (0)29 (1)22 (0)393 (21)
10Wales Doug Rees1947–60356 (0)29 (0)2 (0)0 (0)387 (0)

Goalscorers

Top goalscorers

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.[13]

Competitive, professional matches only, appearances including substitutes appear in brackets.[9]
# Name Years League FA Cup League Cup Other[10] Total
1England Ray Crawford1958–63
1965–68		204 (320)5 (18)0 (10)9 (6)218 (354)
2Scotland John Wark1974–83
1987–89
1991–96		135 (539)12 (56)25 (43)18 (40)190 (678)
3England Ted Phillips1953–63161 (269)9 (12)7 (5)6 (7)181 (295)
4England Tom Garneys1951–58123 (248)20 (25)0 (0)0 (0)143 (273)
5England Paul Mariner1976–8396 (260)19 (31)8 (28)12 (28)135 (339)
6England Trevor Whymark1969–7875 (261)2 (21)9 (20)18 (33)104 (335)
7England Eric Gates1973–8473 (296)8 (26)8 (29)7 (27)96 (378)
8England Tommy Parker1946–5686 (428)7 (37)0 (0)2 (10)95 (475)
9Scotland Alan Brazil1977–8270 (154)6 (20)3 (17)1 (21)80 (210)
10England Jason Dozzell1983–92
1997		52 (340)12 (22)3 (30)4 (22)72 (414)

International caps

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

Firsts

Record transfer fees paid

# Name Fee Paid to Date Notes
1Italy Matteo Sereni£4.8mItaly Sampdoria17 August 2001[15]
2Iceland Hermann Hreiðarsson£4.5mEngland Wimbledon18 August 2000[23]
3Nigeria Finidi George£3.1mSpain Real Mallorca16 August 2001[24]
4England Marcus Bent£3mEngland Blackburn Rovers23 November 2001[25]
5England Marcus Stewart£2.75mEngland Huddersfield Town1 February 2000[26]

Record transfer fees received

# Name Fee Received from Date Notes
1England Connor Wickham£12mEngland Sunderland11 June 2011[27]
2England Tyrone Mings£8mEngland Bournemouth25 June 2015[28]
3=England Kieron Dyer£6mEngland Newcastle United15 July 1999[29]
3=England Richard Wright£6mEngland Arsenal5 July 2001[30]
5England Titus Bramble£5mEngland Newcastle United14 July 2002[31]

Managerial records

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).[32]
  • Longest serving manager: Bobby Robson (managed the club for 709 games from January 1969 to August 1982).[33]

Club records

Goals

Points

Matches

Firsts

  • First match: Ipswich Town 6–1 Stoke Wanderers, a friendly at Broom Hill, 2 November 1878.[35]
  • First league match: Ipswich Town 4–1 Tunbridge Wells Rangers, Southern League at Portman Road, 29 August 1936.[36]
  • First FA Cup match: Ipswich Town 2–0 Reading, first qualifying round, 4 October 1890.[37]
  • First European match: Floriana 1–4 Ipswich Town, European Cup, preliminary round, 18 September 1962.[38]
  • First League Cup match: Ipswich 0–2 Barnsley, first round, 11 October 1960.[39]

Record wins

Record defeats

Record consecutive results

  • Record consecutive wins: 9 (from 28 November 1981 to 23 January 1982).[49]
  • Record consecutive defeats: 10 (from 4 September 1954 to 16 October 1954).[49]
  • Record consecutive games without a defeat: 20 (from 20 December 1980 to 18 March 1981).[49]
  • Record consecutive games without a win: 23 (from 28 August 1963 to 14 December 1963).[49]

Attendances

European statistics

Record by season

Below is Ipswich Town's record in European competitions.[52] As of 2015, they are one of only five English clubs to have won the UEFA Cup now known as the UEFA Europa League, an achievement they accomplished in 1981.[53] John Wark scored 14 goals in that run, equalling the long-standing scoring record in a European competition, set by José Altafini of A.C. Milan in 1962–63;[54] the tally was exceeded by Jürgen Klinsmann who scored 15 in the 1995–96 UEFA Cup.[55]

Season Competition Round Country Club Home
result[56]		 Away
result[56]		 Notes
1962–63 European Cup PR Malta Floriana F.C. 10–0 4–1 [57]
1R Italy A.C. Milan 2–1 0–3
1973–74 UEFA Cup 1R Spain Real Madrid 1–0 0–0 [58]
2R Italy Lazio 4–0 2–4
3R Netherlands FC Twente 1–0 2–1
QF Germany Lokomotive Leipzig 1–0 0–1 [59]
1974–75 UEFA Cup 1R Netherlands FC Twente 2–2 1–1 [60][61]
1975–76 UEFA Cup 1R Netherlands Feyenoord 2–1 2–0 [62]
2R Belgium F.C. Bruges 3–0 0–4
1977–78 UEFA Cup 1R Sweden Landskrona BoIS 5–0 1–0 [63]
2R Spain Las Palmas 1–0 3–3
3R Spain Barcelona 3–0 0–3 [64]
1978–79 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Netherlands AZ 67 Alkmaar 2–0 0–0 [65]
2R Austria SW Innsbruck 1–0 1–1
3R Spain Barcelona 2–1 0–1 [61]
1979–80 UEFA Cup 1R Norway Skeid Oslo 7–0 3–1 [66]
2R Switzerland Grasshoppers 1–1 0–0
1980–81 UEFA Cup 1R Greece Aris Thessaloniki 5–1 1–3 [67]
2R Czech Republic Bohemians Prague 3–0 0–2
3R Poland Widzew Łódź 5–0 0–1
QF France Saint-Étienne 3–1 4–1
SF Germany FC Cologne 1–0 1–0
F Netherlands AZ 67 Alkmaar 3–0 2–4
1981–82 UEFA Cup 1R Scotland Aberdeen 1–1 1–3 [68]
1982–83 UEFA Cup 1R Italy Roma 3–1 0–3 [69]
2001–02 UEFA Cup 1R Russia Torpedo Moscow 1–1 2–1 [70]
2R Sweden Helsingborg 0–0 3–1
3R Italy Inter Milan 1–0 1–4
2002–03 UEFA Cup PR Luxembourg Avenir Beggen 8–1 1–0 [71]
1R Serbia FK Smederevo 1–1 1–0
2R Czech Republic Slovan Liberec 1–0 0–1 [72]
Key
  • PR = Preliminary round
  • 1R = First round
  • 2R = Second round
  • 3R = Third round
  • QF = Quarter final
  • SF = Semi final
  • F = Final

Record by competition

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

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.[73] The team's absence from such tournaments in recent years had seen the record overtaken by AZ Alkmaar,[74] whose home undefeated run was finally broken by Everton in 2007.[75]

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

  • Highest home attendance: 33,663 against Barcelona, 23 October 1977.[76]
  • Lowest home attendance: 13,440 against Skeid Oslo, 3 October 1979.[76]
  • Highest away attendance: 100,000 against Barcelona, 21 March 1979.[76]
  • Lowest away attendance: 2,971 against Avenir Beggen, 15 August 2002.[76]

References

General

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Specific

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  2. ↑ Until 1992, the top division of English football was the Football League First Division; since then, it has been the Premier League.
  3. ↑ Now known as the Football League Championship.
  4. ↑ Now known as Football League One.
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  6. ↑ Jason Dozzell is the youngest player ever to have played in the top tier of English football (in the defunct First Division) however Connor Wickham is currently the youngest player for the club.
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  9. 1 2 Hayes, Dean (2006). The Who's Who of Ipswich Town. Breedon Books. pp. 185–191. ISBN 1-85983-515-5.
  10. 1 2 The "Other" column constitutes goals and appearances (including those as a substitute) in the FA Charity Shield, the European Cup, the European Cup Winners' Cup, the UEFA Cup, the Anglo-Italian Cup, the Texaco Cup and the Full Members Cup.
  11. 1 2 Hayes, Dean (2006). The Who's Who of Ipswich Town. Breedon Books. p. 181. ISBN 1-85983-515-5.
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  18. ↑ John Wark scored on his international debut.
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  28. ↑ "Bournemouth sign defender Tyrone Mings from Ipswich for £8m". BBC Sport. 25 June 2015. Archived from the original on 28 June 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  29. ↑ "Kieron Dyer". Sky Sports. Retrieved 29 January 2008.
  30. ↑ "Arsenal complete Wright signing". BBC Sport. 5 July 2001. Retrieved 31 January 2008.
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  33. ↑ "Bobby Robson". Pride of Anglia. Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved 10 September 2007.
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  36. ↑ "Season: 1936–37 Southern League". Pride of Anglia. Archived from the original on 13 February 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2008.
  37. 1 2 3 "All-Time FA Cup Record". Pride of Anglia. Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. Retrieved 29 January 2008.
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  39. ↑ "All-Time League Cup Record". Pride of Anglia. Archived from the original on 5 July 2008. Retrieved 29 January 2008.
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  41. ↑ "Ipswich Town 7–0 West Bromwich Albion". Pride of Anglia. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
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  43. ↑ "Notts County 0–6 Ipswich Town". Pride of Anglia. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
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  48. ↑ "Chelsea 7–0 Ipswich". BBC Sport. 9 January 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
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  54. ↑ "Altafini reflects on Milan marvel". UEFA. 18 September 2007. Archived from the original on 27 February 2008. Retrieved 30 January 2008.
  55. ↑ "Jurgen Klinsmann – The Coach". MasterCard. Retrieved 30 January 2008.
  56. 1 2 Ipswich Town score is given first in each result.
  57. ↑ Ipswich Town qualified for the 1962–63 European Cup by winning the 1961–62 First Division.
  58. ↑ Ipswich Town qualified for the 1973–74 UEFA Cup by finishing fourth in the 1972–73 First Division.
  59. ↑ Ipswich Town lost 4–3 on penalties.
  60. ↑ Ipswich Town qualified for the 1974–75 UEFA Cup by finishing fourth in the 1973–74 First Division.
  61. 1 2 Ipswich Town lost on the away goals rule.
  62. ↑ Ipswich Town qualified for the 1975–76 UEFA Cup by finishing third in the 1974–75 First Division.
  63. ↑ Ipswich Town qualified for the 1977–78 UEFA Cup by finishing third in the 1976–77 First Division.
  64. ↑ Ipswich Town lost 3–1 on penalties.
  65. ↑ Ipswich Town qualified for the 1978–79 European Cup Winners' Cup by winning the 1978 FA Cup.
  66. ↑ Ipswich Town qualified for the 1979–80 UEFA Cup by finishing sixth in the 1978–79 First Division.
  67. ↑ Ipswich Town qualified for the 1980–81 UEFA Cup by finishing third in the 1979–80 First Division.
  68. ↑ Ipswich Town qualified for the 1981–82 UEFA Cup by winning the 1981 UEFA Cup.
  69. ↑ Ipswich Town qualified for the 1982–83 UEFA Cup by finishing second in the 1982–83 First Division.
  70. ↑ Ipswich Town qualified for the 2001–02 UEFA Cup by finishing fifth in the 2000–01 Premier League.
  71. ↑ Ipswich Town qualified for the preliminary round of the 2002–03 UEFA Cup via the UEFA Fair Play ranking system.
  72. ↑ Ipswich lost 4–2 on penalties to Slovan Liberec in the second round of the 2002–03 UEFA Cup.
  73. ↑ "Ipswich edge out Liberec". BBC Sport. 31 October 2002. Archived from the original on 6 May 2004. Retrieved 23 January 2008.
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