Kungiyar ta kafa a 1878 amma ba ta zama mai sana'a ba har sai 1936, kuma daga bisani aka zaba don shiga gasar kwallon kafa a 1938. Sun buga wasannin gida a Portman Road a Ipswich. Kungiyar kwallon kafa ta kwararru ne kawai a Suffolk, suna da tsayayyar dindindin da tsayayya da Norwich City a Norfolk, tare da wanda suka yi takara da East Anglian Derby sau 148 tun daga 1902.
Shekara ta 1878