Ipswich Town
Squad cost ratio (SCR) for the 2026/27 season: the Orange Ledger's independent estimate for the Premier League's 1 March 2027 test, updated as new data arrives.
Where the revenue goes
Costs exceed revenue by £14.6m
- Player and head-coach wages £84.3m
- Transfer amortisation £83.7m
- Agents' fees £7.9m
- Head-coach fees to other clubs £1.4m
- Remaining revenue
The squad costs the same £177.4m in both rings; only what it is measured against changes. Adding the three-year average profit on player sales (£18.4m a year) to revenue takes the ratio from 109.0% to 97.9%, so selling players is worth 11.1 points to Ipswich Town under the rule.
Squad costs and revenue: the Orange Ledger's estimate for the 1 March 2027 test, rolled forward from the 2024/25 accounts; three-year average of player-sale profit. The 85% tick marks the rule's limit on each ring.
Filed accounts, 2024/25
- Revenue, £m
- 153.7
- Profit before tax, £m, as filed
- (10.9)
- Net assets, £m
- 115.3
Premier League, nearest group accounts as filed at Companies House, read twice. Losses and net liabilities in brackets.
20 seasons of finances →How the SCR is built
Estimate for the 1 March 2027 test, £m
| Player and head-coach wages | 84.3 |
| Transfer fees, spread over contracts | 83.7 |
| Agents' fees | 7.9 |
| Head coach's fee to another club, spread over his contract | 1.4 |
| Squad costs | 177.4 |
| Revenue counted by the rule | 162.8 |
| Three-year average profit on player sales | 18.4 |
| Revenue plus averaged sale profit | 181.2 |
| SCR under the rule | 97.9% |
| Before player-sale profit | 109.0% |
SCR = squad costs ÷ (revenue counted by the rule + three-year average profit on player sales).
Latest filed accounts
2024/25, year to 30 June 2025, £m
| Turnover | 155.4 |
| Tickets | 11.2 |
| Commercial | 29.0 |
| Merchandise | 7.6 |
| League distributions and tv | 107.6 |
| Staff costs, all employees | 77.1 |
| Transfer fees written off (amortisation) | 29.8 |
| Profit on player sales | 15.4 |
| Squad book value (player registrations) | 95.0 |
Ipswich Town Football Club Company Limited (company) (company 00315421), as filed at Companies House. The SCR uses the club's accounts, rolled forward to 2026/27.
SCR 2026/27 articles
- Summer window Ipswich Town's squad cost ratio: £186m of signings and the first three-year commercial average 25 September 2026
Figures are from the latest completed checkpoint. They are the Orange Ledger's estimates, not official figures. Ipswich Town's finances, season by season · All 20 clubs.
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