English Football's Tiers

1981 - Journey through English Football’s Tiers

Ipswich have played at all professional levels of English football and have participated in European football since the 1960s. The team currently plays in the top tier of English football. Ipswich Town have won honours both domestically and in European Cup competitions. The club 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. The club qualified for the European Cup where they faced amateur Maltese opposition in the first round before being sent out of the contest by Italian champions A.C.