    ipswich town football club (; also known as ipswich, the blues, town, or the tractor boys) is an english professional association football team based in ipswich, suffolk. as of the 2014â15 season, they play in the football league championship, having last appeared in the premier league in 2001â02. the club was founded in 1878 but did not turn professional until 1936, and was subsequently elected to join the football league in 1938. they play their home games at portman road in ipswich. the only fully professional football club in suffolk, they have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with norwich city in norfolk, with whom they have contested the east anglian derby 138 times since 1902. ipswich won the english league title once, in their first season in the top flight in 1961â62, and have twice finished runners-up, in 1980â81 and 1981â82. they won the fa cup in 1977â78, and the uefa cup in [[1
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