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 into the Southern League. Ipswich Town were elected into Division Three of the Football League in place of Gillingham F. C. on 30 May 1938. The club experienced league success during the early 1960s, winning the FA League Championship in 1961–62, one season after winning promotion from the Second Division. Two decades later, under the guidance of Bobby Robson, the club achieved success both in the FA Cup and in European competition, won the UEFA Cup in 1981.
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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 into the Southern League. Ipswich Town were elected into Division Three of the Football League in place of Gillingham F. C. on 30 May 1938. The club experienced league success during the early 1960s, winning the FA League Championship in 1961–62, one season after winning promotion from the Second Division. Two decades later, under the guidance of Bobby Robson, the club achieved success both in the FA Cup and in European competition, won the UEFA Cup in 1981. The team moved to Portman Road, the current ground, in 1884, and would share, until 1936, the facilities with the East Suffolk Cricket Club who had played there since 1855. In 1888 the club merged with Ipswich Rugby Club to form Ipswichtown F.C. In 1903 they entered a team into the new South East Anglian League and were its inaugural champions. In 1907, Ipswich became founder members of the Southern Amateur League and won the title on the last day of the season. In 1936 local businessman Leonard Thompson threatened to lead a breakaway from the amateur club to create an entirely separate professional club. Mick O’Brien was appointed as the club’s first professional manager. The first game at Portman road resulted in a 4–1 win against Tunbridge Wells Rangers and the club went on to win the following season’s Southern League in their first season as a professional side.
In 1990 Ipswich finished fourth in the World Cup and were world champions in 1966. In the same year, they also won the Suffolk Senior Cup and the Ipswich Charity Cup. In 1998, they were runners-up in the Norfolk & Suffolk League and finished second in the Suffolk Challenge Cup. They were also winners of the Suffolk County Cup in the same season. The Club won the league a further three times, in 1929–30, 1932–33 and 1933–34, before becoming members of The Football League at the end of the 1934–35 season. They won the League Cup in 1999 and 2000, and were runners up in 2001 and 2002. In 2002, they won the Southern Premier League and the Suffolk League. In 2004, they became the first English club to win three successive promotions to the Premier League. They have also won two FA Cups, the first of which came in the 1986–87 season, and the other in the 1991–92 season. Their biggest ever victory during the 1880–81 season was a 15–0 defeat of East Stamford with one player, John Knights, registering a treble hat trick; both achievements remain club records. In 1890 the club entered the qualifying rounds of the FA cup for the first time and was knocked out in the final qualifying round by the 93rd Highlanders. In 1885, Nathanael Fromanteel Cobbold was elected as a vice-president of the club. Following his sudden death, the position was then held by his nephew John Dupuis Cobbold.
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