Town’s average home league attendance during 2023/24 was the highest in the club’s history, breaking a 47-year-old record.
The Blues’ average crowd at Portman Road as they won promotion back to the Premier League after 22 years away was 28,845.
The previous best was 26,674 during the 1976/77 First Division (top flight) campaign in which Town finished third in the table and qualified for the UEFA Cup.
This is among the facts in the new edition of Dan Botten’s Ipswich Town Miscellany: Blues Trivia, History, Facts and Stats, which is due to be published on August 24th.
Dan will also have a new edition of his other book, Ipswich Town: On This Day, which is quoted each week by Blues legend Russell Osman on Life’s a Pitch TV, published the same day.
Ipswich Town Miscellany, which features a foreword written by Osman’s long-time central defensive partner Terry Butcher, is full of intriguing anecdotes and incredible stats and facts, like the tale of the striker whose shot cleared the stand and hit a horse ploughing a field and the local Cub Scout pack who made tea in the Portman Road centre circle.
Ipswich Town: On This Day, which has a foreword written by Osman, has an entry for every day of the year, from Town's Victorian formation through to the current era under Kieran McKenna and the promotions and relegations, league and cup triumphs, hard-fought derbies and unforgettable European nights along the way.
Both books are now available for pre-order via Amazon, Ipswich Town Miscellany here and Ipswich Town: On This Day here.