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| Full name | Ipswich Town Football Club Women | ||
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| Nicknames | The Blues, The Tractor Girls | ||
| Ground | Colchester Community Stadium, Colchester Portman Road, Ipswich | ||
| Capacity | 10,105 (Colchester Community Stadium) 30,056 (Portman Road) | ||
| Owner | Gamechanger 20 Ltd | ||
| Chairman | Mark Ashton | ||
| Manager | Joe Sheehan | ||
| League | Women's Super League 2 | ||
| 2024–25 | FA Women's National League South, 1st of 12 (promoted) | ||
| Website | itfc.co.uk/itfc-women | ||
Ipswich Town Football Club Women is a women's team affiliated withIpswich Town Football Club. The club currently competes in theWomen's Super League 2, the second tier ofwomen's English football, following promotion from theFAWNL South Division as champions in the2024–25 season.
They play their home games atColchester Community Stadium inColchester, the home ofColchester United, while also playing the occasional game atPortman Road. The club wears the traditional home colours of blue shirts with white shorts and blue socks. Like the men's team, they have a long-standing rivalry withNorwich City, against whom they contest theEast Anglian derby, though in recent years the two clubs have been in separate leagues.
It is unknown when the team was founded, but they are credited as being one of the first teams to compete in the newly foundedWomen's Premier League (now defunct) in1991.[1] The league was created to help bring women's regional football to a more national one and to bring it more in line with the male game. At the time, the league was seen as the tier 1 league inwomen's English football. Ipswich would go on to stay in the league for 2 more seasons until they were relegated to theSouthern Division (now theFAWNL South Division) at the end of the1993–94 season.
During theCOVID-19 pandemic all football was stopped and the FA announced that all results for tiers 3–6 of women's football for the 2019–20 season were declared null and void, denying Town promotion despite being top of the league winning 11 out of 14 games and having a +42 goal difference at the time. When the 2020–21 season started, Town carried on their winning ways by winning their opening 4 games and sitting top of the league scoring 18 and conceding no goals before the season was halted again when the country went into another lockdown. After this lockdown and following a consultation from the FA, Town applied for promotion and were successful in their bid.[2] Following promotion back to theFAWNL South Division, the club turned professional in June 2021 when Sophie Peskett signed Ipswich's first professional women's contract.[3] This was soon followed when 8 further players, including Town's leading all-time scorerNatasha Thomas, all signed professional contracts.
On 19 February 2024, it was announced that Ipswich Town Women would play their first ever game atPortman Road for the game on 23 March 2024 againstChatham Town, with all four stands being open for ticket sales.[4] They went on to win the game 5–0 in front of an attendance of 10,173.[5] On 19 November 2024, it was announced that Ipswich Town Women would return to Portman Road for the upcoming game on 23 March 2025 againstPlymouth.[6]
On 27 April 2025, Town went into their final game of the season againstCheltenham Town looking to secure promotion and the title. Already being 3 points ahead of 2nd placeHashtag United and having a far more superior goal difference, promotion looked guaranteed. Town went on to win the match 8–0, winning the league title and secured promotion to theWomen's Super League 2 for the first time in the club's history.[7] On 23 June 2025 it was announced that after more than a decade, Town would be leaving their home ground of Dellwood Avenue inFelixstowe and relocating to theColchester Community Stadium inColchester on a two year deal. Town's head of women's football (Rachel Harris) and chairman (Mark Ashton) announced that the move away from Dellwood Avenue had to be made following the promotion to the Women's Super League 2 and having to meet league standards, but were also working towards securing a permanent home for the women's team in the Ipswich area.[8]
Note: Some club records before the 2003–04 season are missing[9]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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| Position | Name |
|---|---|
| Manager |  Joe Sheehan |
| Assistant Manager | Lauren Phillips |
| First-Team Coach | Phoebe Webb |
| Goalkeeping Coach | Billy Johnson |
| Head of Performance | Nicola Stolworthy |
| Physiotherapists | Kimberley Harding Mia Sibbons |
| Position | Name |
|---|---|
| Head of Women's Football | Rachel Harris |
| Media & Communications Manager | Howard Bloom |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Crystal Palace | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 15 | −1 | 10 | |
| 9 | Durham | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 11 | +1 | 9 | |
| 10 | Sunderland | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 16 | −2 | 9 | |
| 11 | Portsmouth | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 24 | −11 | 9 | |
| 12 | Ipswich Town | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 27 | −20 | 4 | Relegation to theWomen's National League North or South |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | PW | PL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crystal Palace | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 6 | Advanced toknockout stage |
| 2 | Leicester City | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 6 | |
| 3 | London City Lionesses | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 6 | |
| 4 | Ipswich Town | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 0 |
| Women's Player of the Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Ref |
| 2021–22 | Bonnie Horwood | [11] |
| 2022–23 |  Megan Wearing | [12] |
| 2023–24 | Sophie Peskett | [13] |
| 2024–25 | Sophie Peskett | [14] |
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