Town Begin Season At Middlesbrough - Ipswich Town News
Town will face Middlesbrough away on the opening day of the 2010/11 npower Championship season. The first week of the season will see Blues supporters spend most of the time on the road with a trip to Exeter in the first round of the Carling Cup confirmed yesterday.
After the visits to the Riverside on Saturday 7th August and St James’ Park in midweek, Burnley are the first visitors to Portman Road on the following Saturday. Town visit George Burley’s Crystal Palace a week later with a home game against Bristol City completing the August fixtures.
September sees a visit to Portsmouth, QPR and Cardiff making the trip to Portman Road and ends with games at Scunthorpe’s Glanford Park and Reading's Madejski Stadium.
The derbies against Norwich City are currently scheduled for Saturday 27th November at Carrow Road and Saturday 23rd April at Portman Road. The former is likely to move to a lunchtime kick-off the next day as is usually the case, but the home match may not be able to switch as it is scheduled for the Easter weekend with a game at Swansea due to be played on the Monday.
Watford visit Suffolk on Boxing Day, while the Blues travel to Coventry’s Ricoh Arena on New Year’s Day.
Town’s run-in sees April start with Burnley away, Palace and Middlesbrough at home, Bristol City away, the Easter games against Norwich and Swansea, then Preston at home and finally Leicester away on Sunday 8th May.
Nightmare midweek trips are kept to a minimum, the Exeter Carling Cup game aside, although there is a visit to Derby on Tuesday 1st February.
Town's full fixture list can be found here
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