Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Ipswich Town

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Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Ipswich Town

After two successive away days, we’re back on home soil this weekend with Ipswich Town presenting the Sky Bet Championship opposition on Saturday.

2025-12-12T15:00+00:00

by Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

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12 Dec, 2025

Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Ipswich Town

After two successive away days, we’re back on home soil this weekend with Ipswich Town presenting the Sky Bet Championship opposition on Saturday.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2025-12-12T15:00+00:00

Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Ipswich Town

After two successive away days, we’re back on home soil this weekend with Ipswich Town presenting the Sky Bet Championship opposition on Saturday.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2025-12-12T15:00+00:00

Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Ipswich Town

After two successive away days, we’re back on home soil this weekend with Ipswich Town presenting the Sky Bet Championship opposition on Saturday.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2025-12-12T15:00+00:00

Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Ipswich Town

After two successive away days, we’re back on home soil this weekend with Ipswich Town presenting the Sky Bet Championship opposition on Saturday.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2025-12-12T15:00+00:00

The 3pm GMT kick-off sees Leicester City, who have four points from two games, take on Kieran McKenna’s Tractor Boys, themselves in good form, winning their last two.

Ahead of the clash on Filbert Way, with the help of Dave Smith, Of Fossils & Foxes co-author, we’ve opened up the history books to look at the game through a statistical lens…

Previous Encounters

These two meet for the 75th time, renewing a match-up that started relatively recently by usual standards, in 1961, and is one of most evenly balanced. Both have claimed 27 victories apiece, with meetings spread across the Premier League (or the old First Division), the Championship and cup ties. There are trends which offer a window into the histories of each too; from our double win over the Tractor Boys in the midst of the Club’s record 10-game winning streak in 1962/63, to periods of stubborn stalemate and narrow margins through the 1970s and 80s.

Recent contests have been tight. The last five league meetings have produced three draws and two Leicester wins, including the 2-0 victory at King Power Stadium on the final home game of last season, when Jamie Vardy (above) marked both his 500th and final appearance for the Club with the landmark 200th goal. Earlier trips to Portman Road have been equally tense, with both the Boxing Day and November 2024 clashes over recents campaigns ending level. The broader historical record shows dramatic swings as well – Ipswich’s 6-1 win in 2002 countered a decade later by City’s own 6-0 triumph – yet overall, these fixtures tend to be hard-fought, low-margin affairs.

Landmark Moments & Last Times

Frank Worthington’s hat-trick at Filbert Street in 1974 remains the only treble ever scored in this fixture. Spot-kicks have often played a part, with David Nugent converting Leicester’s most recent in 2012 and standing as the fixture’s top scorer overall with six goals. Own goals, too, have left their imprint, with an unusually high number across the decades. Four players – Malcolm Munro, Tommy Williams, Matt Heath and Leif Davis – have had the rare distinction of inadvertently scoring for both sides in this fixture.

Debuts have featured prominently as well, from Kevin Farmer’s only-ever City appearance to the more memorable introductions of Gary McAllister (above) and Steve Claridge, the latter famously sent out with his name misspelled on his shirt. Red cards have been flashed seven times, the last to a Leicester player being Patrick Kisnorbo in 2007, while Ipswich’s most recent dismissal was Kalvin Phillips in 2024. In the cups, the teams last crossed paths in the 1963 FA Cup and the 1997 League Cup, the latter decided by a single Claridge goal.

Played For Both & Top Scorers

The pathway between Leicester and Ipswich has been well travelled. Over the years, a long list of players have worn both shirts, including Matt Elliott (above), Chris Wood, DJ Campbell, Damien Delaney and Gareth McAuley. Others such as Marcus Bent, James Scowcroft, Richard Stearman, Martyn Waghorn and Sean St. Ledger also contributed to both sides’ fortunes. More recently, George Hirst and Kasey McAteer have represented the modern generation to have crossed the divide, swapping the East Midlands for Suffolk.

The goalscoring honours in this fixture are topped by David Nugent, whose six goals place him clear as Leicester’s most prolific marksman against Ipswich. For the Tractor Boys, John Wark leads the charts with four goals.

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