Nickname(s) The Wanderers Chairman Keith Lloyd Arena/Stadium SEH Sports Ground | Ground Capacity 1,000 Founded 1980 Manager Glenn Read | |
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Full name Ipswich Wanderers Football Club 2015–16 Eastern Counties League Premier Division, 15th League Eastern Counties Football League First Division | ||
Ipswich Wanderers Football Club is an English football club based in Ipswich. They are currently members of the Eastern Counties League Premier Division and play at Humber Doucy Lane in Rushmere, Ipswich.
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History
The club was established as an under-14 boys team and based in Bramford near Ipswich in 1980 and two years later they entered the lowest division of the Ipswich Sunday League. Managed by Colwyn Rowe, sponsorship resulted in a name change during 1988 to Loadwell Ipswich F.C.. In the same year they became founder members of Division One of the Eastern Counties League. The club was renamed Ipswich Wanderers in 1989.
The club finished the 1997–98 as Division One champions, nine points clear of Maldon Town, losing only three league games all season. Their first season in the Premier Division was a struggle and they were saved from relegation only by the merger of Sudbury Town and Sudbury Wanderers. However, they won the East Anglian Cup, defeating St Neots Town in the final.
The club was relegated back to Division One on the last day of the 2002–03 season. Former Ipswich Town player Jason Dozzell was appointed in his first coaching post the following season, and in 2004–05 the club won the division and were promoted back to the Premier Division, finishing the season with a 26-game unbeaten run, collecting 28 points from the last 10 games and not conceding a goal in the last 6.
The 2007–08 season saw the club relegated back to Division One as they finished bottom of the table, conceding 119 goals in the process.
In 2012–13 the club won the Suffolk Senior Cup for the first time, beating local rivals Whitton United on penalties in the final at Portman Road. In 2013–14 the club were promoted to the Premier Division.