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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]
Turning professional in 1936, Ipswich joined the Southern Football League before moving into the Football League by gaining entry to Division Three (South) in the 1937–38 season. The club has won the League Championship on a single occasion, the FA Cup once, and the UEFA Cup once. [ 1 ]
Mick Mills holds the record for Ipswich league appearances, having played 741 first-team matches between 1966 and 1982. The club's top league goalscorer is Ray Crawford , who scored 203 goals between 1958 and 1969, while Ted Phillips holds the record for the most league goals scored in a season, 41 in the 1956–57 season in Third Division South .
Ipswich Town Football Club is an English association football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk, which was formed in 1878. The side played amateur football until 1936 when the club turned professional and was elected to the Southern League. Ipswich Town were elected into the Third Division South of the Football League in place of Gillingham on 30 ...
Ipswich Town won their only league title this season, notably being the only team in England to win the title in their first ever season in the top flight (not counting inaugural league champions Preston North End in 1888–89).
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.
Ipswich Town faced Barnsley in the last domestic competitive fixture to be played at the original Wembley Stadium. The match was both teams' first appearance in a First Division play-off final. It was the first time Barnsley had been in the play-offs, having been relegated to the First Division after the 1997–98 season , and finishing mid ...
The 1960–61 season was the 72nd season of competitive football played by Ipswich Town.They finished the season as champions of the Second Division, one point ahead of second-placed Sheffield United, winning promotion to the top flight of English football for the first time in their history.