Pride of Anglia - Ipswich Town Football Club

1959/60

From left to right John Elsworthy, Larry Carberry, Ted Phillips and Jimmy Leadbetter model the home strip first worn during the 1959/60 season.

Blue shirts with white V neck and sleeves. White shorts and socks with blue and white hoops.

Club Sponsor: Not Applicable.

Kit Manufacturer: Unknown

1964/65

Colin Viljoen pictured in Towns return to the top flight in 1968 in the home strip that was first introduced four years earlier at the start of the 1964/65 season.

Solid blue shirts with round neck collar and solid white shorts. The shirt included the club badge for the first time since the late fifties.

The original club badge has appeared in various guises since 1878, one of the earlier designs is show below ...

Club Sponsor: Not Applicable.

Kit Manufacturer: Unknown

1972/73

Johnny Miller (foreground) and Ian Collard sport the home strip introduced in August of 1972.

The shirt design was modified several times during the course of the season with changes to the neck and sleeves.

Trevor Whymark (inset) wears a version with white collar and cuffs and Mick Lambert (lower right) sports a version with white v-neck fill, collar and cuffs.

All designs made a number of appearances during the course of this and the following season, but the version sported by Lambert was used predominantly and would continue to be used until the end of 1974/75 season.

All of the shirts variations included a newly redesigned club badge ...

Club Sponsor: Not Applicable

Kit Manufacturer: Unknown

1975/76

Out with the white V-neck fill and back to the design worn above by Whymark (above) ready for the 1975/76 championship campaign.

Mick Mills (right) sports the latest version.

Club Sponsor: Not Applicable

Kit Manufacturer: Unknown

1977/78

George Burley and Mick Mills in the new home strip and Brian Talbot and Roger Osborne in the change colours of black and white.

Paul Mariner and Clive Woods model new tracksuits in the foreground (note the trendy flares on the tracksuit bottoms !).

Club Sponsor: Not Applicable

Kit Manufacturer: Adidas

1978/79

Mick Lambert (right) wearing the new home strip for the 1978/79 season. "FA Cup Winners 1978" is embroidered under club badge.

George Burley (below) in the new away strip also issued at the start of the 1978/79 campaign and with same embroidery under badge as the home strip.

Both designs would be worn through to the end of the 1980/81 Season.

A "one-off" strip was used for the FA Charity Shield game with Nottingham Forest at Wembley, complete with "FA Charity Shield 1978" embroidered under club badge. Identical to the new home strip in every other aspect.

Club Sponsor: Not Applicable

Kit Manufacturer: Adidas

1981/82

Steve McCall (right) wearing the new home kit introduced at the start of the 1981/82 season.

Complete with "UEFA Cup Winners 1981" embroidered under the club badge, the design would be worn for the next two seasons.

Club Sponsor: Pioneer (although their logo did not appear on the shirt for games televised by BBC or ITV). The three year deal with the Japanese Hi-Fi giant was worth £400,000.

Kit Manufacturer: Adidas

This orange and black kit, we believe, was only aired once in public. Modelled here by Mick Mills the outfit was worn for the FA Cup tie against Luton Town at Kenilworth Road on Saturday, January 23, 1982.

1983/84

George Burley (right) pictured in the home kit for the 1983/84 season.

Almost identical to that worn the previous two seasons but with the "UEFA Cup Winners 1981" embroidery removed.

Club Sponsor: Pioneer

Kit Manufacturer: Adidas

1984/85

Russell Osman (away) & Terry Butcher (home) model the kits worn during the 1984/85 season.

Club Sponsor: Pioneer.

Sponsorship deal extended through to the end of the season for an additional £100,000 with performance bonuses.

Kit Manufacturer: Adidas

1985/86

Ian Cranson (right) in the home strip introduced at the beginning of 1985/86 season.

Identical to that worn the previous season but with Radio Orwell, the new club sponsor, emblazoned across the shirt

Club Sponsor: Radio Orwell become official club sponsor after conclusion of four deal with Pioneer.

Kit Manufacturer: Adidas

1986/87

Mich D'Avray (right) in action in the home kit introduced at the start of the 1986/87 season.

Club Sponsor: Fisons

Kit Manufacturer: Adidas

This very swish red version of Adidas’ manufactured Town kits actually featured a blue stripe in between the white stripes on the sleeves and shorts – similar to the style favoured by the French national side. This was worn at least once and oddly enough at Oakwell, Barnsley (we’re not sure why the Tykes were not playing in their usual red strip), on Saturday, February 27, 1988.

Many thanks to Richard Dines at www.truecoloursfootballkits.com for the image and details.

1988/89

Kit design the same as the previous two years but with "Centenary Season 1888-1988" decal underneath club badge (Pictured David Lowe).

Club Sponsor: Fisons

Kit Manufacturer: Adidas

1989/90

New home and away kits featured in an Umbro advertisement.

Club Sponsor: Fisons

Kit Manufacturer: Umbro

1992/93

Town celebrate the inaugural season of the Premier League by introducing not one, not two, but three new strips.

Top: Geraint Williams in the home strip and Craig Forrest (inset) in the goalkeepers kit.

Bottom: Micky Stockwell in the away strip and Gavin Johnson (inset) in the alternate away strip.

Club Sponsor: Fisons

Kit Manufacturer: Umbro

1994/95

Club advert (right) showing new home and away kits introduced at the start of the 94/95 league campaign.

Club Sponsor: Fisons

Kit Manufacturer: Umbro

1995/96

Neil Gregory (right) and Tony Vaughan (below) wearing new home and away kits. The shirts feature the Greene King wordmark and the newly revamped club crest:

Club Sponsor: Greene King

Kit Manufacturer: Core

1996/97

Ian Marshall (right) models yet another away kit with Greene King wordmark replaced by Abbot Ale logo.

Club Sponsor: Greene King

Kit Manufacturer: Punch

1997/98

Kieron Dyer (right) models the new home kit.

Club Sponsor: Greene King

Kit Manufacturer: Punch

1998/99

Paul Mason (right) wearing the new orange and navy blue away strip.

Club Sponsor: Greene King

Kit Manufacturer: Punch

1999/00

James Scowcroft (right) in the new home strip introduced at the start of the 1999/00 league campaign.

Club Sponsor: Greene King

Kit Manufacturer: Punch

2000/01

Fabian Wilnis (right) in the away strip introduced at the start of the 2000/01 Premiership campaign.

Club Sponsor: Greene King

Kit Manufacturer: Punch

2001?

This red shirt was produced for the club (in 2001 we believe) as a second spare kit in case Town had a clash of away kits although it was never used. Since this design there have been three further 'one off' kits produced - an all-black kit used at Blackburn in 2002 and two white kits for the games at Crystal Palace in 2003 and 2004.

Off on a slight tangent but in a league game against Brighton on the South Coast in October 1938, Town played in red and white hoops! Possibly the first time Ipswich have ever played in red. In the programme notes published for the next home game, the author writes: "Our boys looked rather strange in their borrowed plumes. We took two changes with us, the white shirts with the blue sleeves and the new narrow black and white bands, but neither were acceptable to the referee because Brighton are blue and white stripes. So we played in red and white hoops, a set of jerseys given to the Albion by Arsenal".

Club Sponsor: Greene King

Kit Manufacturer: Punch

2001/02

Wayne Brown (right) in home strip introduced for the 2001/02 season, and (below) TXU Energi advertisement showing away strip with new sponsor logo.

Away strip features new sponsor logo but otherwise unchanged from that launched at the beginning of the 2000/01 season.

A one-off all-black strip (inset below) was introduced for the away fixture with Blackburn Rovers.

Club Sponsor: TXU Energi

Kit Manufacturer: Punch

2002/03

New maroon and dark-blue away strip introduced at the beginning of the 2002/03 season.

Club Sponsor: TXU Energi

Kit Manufacturer: Punch

2003/04

The new home kit for the 2003/04 season (top), and re-issued away strip (middle), both now sporting the logo of sponsors Powergen.

A one-off all-white strip (right bottom) was introduced for the away fixture with Crystal Palace.

Club Sponsor: Powergen

Kit Manufacturer: Punch

2004/05

Orange is back! The new away strip for 2004 through 2006.

Club Sponsor: Powergen

Kit Manufacturer: Punch

2005/06

New home strip for 2005 through 2007.

With no second change strip to hand for the game at Sheffield Wednesday (December 2005), Town were forced to combine shirt and shorts from their home and away strips to produce the awful combination pictured to right (the black shorts normally worn with the orange away shirt clashing with those of the Owls). Nasty!

Club Sponsor: Powergen

Kit Manufacturer: Punch

2006/07

New home strip for 2006-07 (top) and new away strip for 2006 through 2008 (middle), both sporting the logo of sponsor E-on. A third all-black strip (bottom) was also introduced to avoid clashing with the blue-and-white home kits of a number of Championship sides.

Club Sponsor: E-on

Kit Manufacturer: Punch

2007/08

The Punch brand comes to an end as Town and Mitre agree a four-year partnership that will see the British sports brand supply the Club with home and away kits, training and bench wear until May 2011. Fan's are given the chance to select the design of the first kit from a choice of three modeled (top picture) by Billy Clarke (left), Gavin Williams (centre) and Sammy Moore (right). The pin-striped design (below) gets 12,500 votes and will be worn for the next two seasons.

Club Sponsor: E-on

Kit Manufacturer: Mitre

2008/09

Alan Lee sports the new away shirt for the 2008-09 season in a promotional photo. The E-on logo did not appear on the final design as their sponsorship deal ended in May 2008.

Club Sponsor: Marcus Evans

Kit Manufacturer: Mitre

...and here are the home and away shirts with the Marcus Evans insignia.

2009/10

Club Sponsor: Marcus Evans

Kit Manufacturer: Mitre

2010/11

Town have worn an all black kit on a number of occassions over the past few years but this is the first time that such a strip will be the first choice for away games. Captain Jon Walters models the latest version.

Club Sponsor: Marcus Evans

Kit Manufacturer: Mitre