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Ipswich Town finances

What the filed accounts show, season by season from 2005/06 to 2024/25: 16 of 20 seasons have a filing in the database; in 4 the club was below the Championship. Figures as filed, not adjusted: on the nearest group that holds the club alone, or on the club company where no such group files; the table names which for each season.

(40)(20)0····(10.9)05/0607/0809/1011/1213/1415/1617/1819/2021/2223/2424/252005/06(3.6)2006/07(1.2)2007/082008/092009/10(14.7)2010/112011/122012/13(9.8)2013/142014/152015/162016/172017/182018/192023/24(55.1)2024/25(10.9)
Profit or loss before tax, £m, for the 16 of 20 seasons with a filing in the database; the latest in orange. A ring marks a season with a filing but no profit figure (10; the table gives the reason). A dot marks a season with no filing in the database.

Revenue and profit, by season

SeasonDivisionAccounts ofRevenue, £mProfit before tax, £mOwner-related gains in it, £m
2005/06ChampionshipClub company10.6(3.6)–
2006/07ChampionshipClub company10.5(1.2)–
2007/08ChampionshipClub company15.8not printed–
2008/09ChampionshipClub company14.7not printed–
2009/10ChampionshipClub company15.6(14.7)–
2010/11ChampionshipClub company17.2not printed–
2011/12ChampionshipClub company15.0not printed–
2012/13ChampionshipClub company13.8(9.8)–
2013/14ChampionshipClub company13.6not printed–
2014/15ChampionshipClub company16.4not printed–
2015/16ChampionshipClub company16.3not printed–
2016/17ChampionshipClub companynot printednot printed–
2017/18ChampionshipClub companynot printednot printed–
2018/19ChampionshipClub companynot printednot printed–
2019/20 to 2022/23Below the Championship: not in the database
2023/24ChampionshipNearest group36.1(55.1)–
2024/25Premier LeagueNearest group153.7(10.9)0.0

Losses in brackets. Profit before tax is as filed. Owner-related gains are the gains from the owner or its companies that the accounts count inside that profit (the hidden-losses record); they are not taken out of it here, and they are read for Premier League seasons only ("–" in a Championship season). Where no figure is shown, the reason is given: "not printed", neither reading found the figure on the pages read; "read once only", only one reading found it; "readings differ", the two readings disagree; "not read", no reading of the filing holds it.

"Accounts of": the nearest group that holds the club alone, or the club company where no such group files or the group's filing does not hold the club for that season. A season whose accounts cover other than 12 months shows its length beside it, from the year ends the database holds for that company; the length is not established for 2024/25, because the database does not hold both year ends of that period for the company whose accounts are shown.

Net assets, debt and owner support, by season

SeasonNet assets, £mBorrowings by lender, £mGoing concern relies on owner
2005/06(7.9)
  • Owner 2.2
  • Banks 5.0
No
2006/07(7.6)
  • Owner 2.6
  • Banks 5.0
Not agreed
2007/08(9.5)
  • Owner 40.5
  • Other shareholders 2.6
  • Banks 1.0
Yes
2008/09(22.2)
  • Owner 43.0
  • Other shareholders 2.1
Yes
2009/10(37.4)
  • Owner 56.5
  • Other shareholders 2.1
Yes
2010/11(40.6)
  • Owner 58.1
  • Other shareholders 2.0
  • Lender type not stated 8.1
Yes
2011/12(56.5)
  • Owner 64.4
  • Other shareholders 1.8
  • Lender type not stated 8.1
Yes
2012/13(66.3)
  • Owner 72.3
  • Other shareholders 1.7
  • Lender type not stated 8.1
Yes
2013/14(73.6)
  • Owner 77.5
  • Other shareholders 1.5
  • Lender type not stated 8.1
Yes
2014/15(66.5)
  • Owner 78.4
  • Lender type not stated 8.1
Yes
2015/16(73.1)
  • Owner 77.0
  • Other shareholders 1.2
  • Lender type not stated 8.1
Yes
2016/17(77.5)
  • Owner 79.9
  • Other outside lenders (bonds included) 1.0
  • Lender type not stated 8.1
Yes
2017/18(82.6)
  • Owner 94.4
Yes
2018/19(86.2)
  • Owner 87.4
  • Other shareholders 0.7
  • Lender type not stated 8.1
Yes
2019/20 to 2022/23Below the Championship: not in the database
2023/24read once only
  • Other related parties 15.0
  • Owner or outside, disputed 0.4
Yes
2024/25115.3
  • Owner under 0.1
  • Owner or outside, disputed 14.6
Yes

Read twice from each filing, as agreed by both readings: Premier League seasons from 2020/21 from the balance-sheet record; Premier League seasons 2005/06 to 2017/18 and every Championship season from the records built on the Championship's method. Each record keeps its own lender types.

Owner
the club's ultimate controlling party, its parent or companies in its group, or a person or company acting for it, as the related-party note shows.
Other shareholders
a shareholder who lends to the club but does not control it.
Other related parties
a lender the accounts show as a related party (a director, a director's relative or company, a connected party) but not as a shareholder or as acting for the owner.
Banks
bank loans and overdrafts.
Other outside lenders
other debt to lenders outside the club: funding secured on central payments, factoring, finance leases, preference shares treated as debt, and lenders the accounts do not name. Marked "(bonds included)" in the records that count bonds and loan notes here too.
Owner or outside, disputed
one reading places the lender with the owner and the other outside it.
Lender type not stated
neither reading of the accounts gives the lender's type.
Going concern relies on owner
"Yes", the directors say the club can carry on because its owner will support it; "Conditional", that support is promised only if something goes wrong, or as a promise not to call existing loans; "No", the directors do not rely on it; "Not agreed", the two readings differ.

From the Orange Ledger's database as of 31 October 2026: figures read from accounts filed at Companies House, not official figures, and the database holds what was read; it does not make it verified. Ipswich Town's squad cost ratio · All clubs.