2017–18 Ipswich Town F.C. season

Ipswich Town 2017–18
Club information
Manager	Mick McCarthy
League Season information
Cup placements
FA Cup	TBA
EFL Cup	Second Round
Season statistics
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The 2017-2018 season was Ipswich Town F.C.'s 16th consecutive season in the EFL Championship in their 140th year of existence. Along with competing in the Championship they will also compete in the FA Cup and EFL Cup. They finished 16th out of a possible 24th in the Championship last season.

The season covered the period from 1 July 2017 - 30 June 2018.

Transfers

Transfers in

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Fee
2017	CF		Martyn Waghorn	Rangers	£990,000
2017	CF		Joe Garner	Rangers	£990,000
2017	CM		Tom Adeyemi	Cardiff City	Free
2017	DM		Emyr Huws	Cardiff City	Undisclosed
2017	RB		Dominic Iorfa	Wolves	Loan
2017	AM		Bersant Celina	Manchester City	Loan
2017	CB		Callum Connolly	Everton	Loan

Transfers out

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Fee
2017	CB		Paul Digby	Mansfield Town	Free
2017	CB		Christophe Berra	Hearts	Free
2017	CB		Steven Taylor	Peterborough United	Free
2017	CF		Brett Pitman	Portsmouth	Undisclosed

Championship

League table

2017–18 Football League Championship table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Wolves  (C) (P)	46	30	9	7	82	39	+43	99	Promotion to the Premier League
2	Cardiff City  (P)	46	27	9	10	69	39	+30	90
3	Fulham  (P)	46	25	13	8	79	46	+33	88	Qualification to the Championship Play-offs
4	Aston Villa	46	24	11	11	72	42	+30	83
5	Middlesbrough	46	22	10	14	67	45	+22	76
6	Derby County	46	20	15	11	69	48	+21	75
7	Preston North End	46	19	16	11	58	45	+13	73
8	Millwall	46	19	15	12	56	45	+11	72
9	Brentford	46	18	15	13	62	52	+10	69
10	Sheffield Utd	46	20	9	17	62	55	+7	69
11	Bristol City	46	17	16	13	67	58	+9	67
12	Ipswich Town	46	17	9	20	57	60	−3	60
13	Leeds United	46	17	9	20	59	64	−5	60
14	Norwich City	46	15	15	16	49	60	−11	60
15	Reading	46	14	15	17	59	60	−1	57
16	Queens Park Rangers	46	15	11	20	58	70	−12	56
17	Nottm Forest	46	15	8	23	51	65	−14	53
18	Hull City	46	11	16	19	70	70	0	49
19	Birmingham City	46	13	7	26	38	68	−30	46
20	Reading	46	10	14	22	48	70	−22	44
21	Bolton Wanderers	46	10	13	23	39	74	−35	43
22	Barnsley  (R)	46	9	14	23	48	71	−23	41	Relegation to League One
23	Burton Albion  (R)	46	10	11	25	38	81	−43	41
24	Sunderland  (R)	46	7	16	23	52	80	−28	37

Updated to games played on 26 May 2018
Source: EFL.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Result summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
5	4	0	1	9	6	+3	12	2	0	1	3	2	+1	2	0	0	6	4	+2

Last updated: 19 August 2017
Source: BBC

Results by matchday

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46
Ground	H	A	A	H	H
Result	W	W	W	W	L
Position	8	4	3	2	2

Last updated: 19 August 2017.
Source: Statto.com
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Lose; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

On 21 June 2017, the league fixtures were announced.

1 5 August 2017	Ipswich Town	1–0	Birmingham City	Ipswich
15:00 BST	Garner  50'			Stadium: Portman Road Attendance: 18,153 Referee: Tim Robinson

2 12 August 2017	Barnsley	1-2	Ipswich Town	South Yorkshire
15:00 BST	Bradshaw  15'		McGoldrick  53' Waghorn  70'	Stadium: Oakwell Attendance: 12,009 Referee: Geoff Eltringham

3 15 August 2017	Millwall	3-4	Ipswich	Millwall
19:45 BST	Wallace  1' O'Brien  36' Elliott  80'		Garner  4' Waghorn  34', 45+3' Spence  88'	Stadium: The Den Attendance: 11,919 Referee: James Linington

4 19 August 2017	Ipswich Town	2-0	Brentford	Ipswich
15:00 BST	Waghorn  35' Garner  51'			Stadium: Portman Road Attendance: 15,348 Referee: Oliver Langford

5 26 August 2017	Ipswich Town	0-2	Fulham	Ipswich
15:00 BST			Kebano  35' Fonte  51'	Stadium: Portman Road Attendance: 16,844 Referee: Paul Tierney

EFL Cup

On 16 June 2017, the first round draw took place with a trip to Luton Town announced.

First round 8 August 2017	Luton Town	0-2	Ipswich Town	Luton
19:45 BST			McGoldrick  34', 90+3'	Stadium: Kenilworth Road Attendance: 4,610 Referee: Andy Haines

Second round 8 August 2017	Crystal Palace	2-1	Ipswich Town	London
19:45 BST	McArthur  76', 84'		Celina  90+1'	Stadium: Selhurst Park Attendance: 8,187 Referee: Andy Davies