Ipswich Town Football Club Ipswich Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. They play in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. The club was founded in 1878 but did not turn profession ...

is an English

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club founded in 1878. In 2007, the club created a

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into which a number of personnel associated with the club are inducted every year. The inaugural members,

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Mick Mills Michael Dennis Mills MBE (born 4 January 1949) is an English former footballer who played for Ipswich Town, Southampton and Stoke City. He managed Stoke City, Colchester United and Birmingham City. During his career he achieved Ipswich To ...

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and

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, were selected in 2007 by a ballot of former Ipswich players. , five of the Hall of Fame's inductees are club record holders. England international Crawford remains Ipswich Town's all-time top scorer, with 203 goals between 1958 and 1969. Allan Hunter, inducted in 2009, is the most internationally capped player while at Ipswich, having played for

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47 times while at the club. England international Mills is the club's all-time appearance record-holder having played 741 competitive matches. Phillips is the club's all-time season top-scorer, scoring 46 goals in the 1956–57 season when Ipswich played in the

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(inducted 2008) is the earliest player to represent Ipswich to be inducted into the Hall of the Fame, having played for the club from 1949 to 1964, while

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international

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(inducted 2014) is the most recent representative of the club to be inducted. The inductees include six posthumous members, amongst them managers

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who led the club to back-to-back division titles in the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons before going on to manage England to victory in the

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, and John Lyall who took Ipswich into the inaugural Premier League in 1992.

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