Ipswich Town v West Ham United
Premier League, Portman Road, Sunday 25 May 2025, 4pm BST
West Ham United are set for their 38th and final Premier League match of the 2024/25 season with a trip up the A12 to face Ipswich Town on Sunday afternoon.
The Hammers will be hoping to bounce back to winning ways and end on the highest possible note at Portman Road, with last Sunday's 2-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest a tough pill to swallow at the end of what has been an overall disappointing campaign.
Victory in Suffolk will be the sole aim this weekend then, with Graham Potter’s side looking to complete a league double over the Tractor Boys, having ran out 4-1 winners in the teams’ reverse fixture at London Stadium in October, and ensure UEFA Europa Conference League winners Aaron Cresswell, Vladimír Coufal, Łukasz Fabiański and Danny Ings receive a fitting send-off as they wear a West Ham shirt for the final time.
Ipswich are heading back to the EFL Championship, having been relegated in their first season back in the top flight since 2001/02, after winning back-to-back promotions from League One under manager Kieran McKenna.
The Tractor Boys will surely be playing for pride, and trying to give their fans something to smile about, while with the likes of top scorer Liam Delap among their ranks, they do possess quality with the potential to hurt any opposition.
As the build-up to matchday continues, scroll down below to find all the information you need ahead of kick-off...
Tickets…
West Ham fans are advised that the Club’s allocation of 3,000 tickets have sold out.
The first 90% of tickets sold out to Bondholders, Away Scheme Members and Season Ticket Holders with 30+ Loyalty Points. The remaining 10% (300 tickets) were then made available by a ballot process to Season Ticket Holders who had yet to purchase for this fixture. This ballot closed at 12noon on Tuesday 6 May.
Travel…
For West Ham United supporters living in Essex or north east London, getting to Ipswich is a fairly simple task by either road or rail.
If you are driving, simply get onto the northbound A12 and stay on it until the Copdock interchange with the A14 just south of Ipswich. Take the A1214 London Road into town until you reach a Sainsbury’s supermarket, then turn right onto West End Road. After half-a-mile, you’ll find the stadium!
Parking is available in Portman Road itself, West End Road (postcode IP1 2DZ) or at Ipswich railway station (IP2 8AL), but you need to be early to guarantee a space.
If you park there or take the train, the ground is ten minutes’ walk from Ipswich railway station. Services run from London Liverpool Street at .08 and .30 past the hour and stop at Stratford. After the game, services leave Ipswich at .11 and .41 past the hour.
How To Follow…
Sunday’s 4pm kick-off will NOT be broadcast live in the UK, but will be shown across the world by the Premier League’s international broadcast partners.
If you live outside the UK, click HERE for details of Premier League listings in your territory.
You can follow the action via our live blog on whufc.com and our app, and across our social media channels. We will also have highlights and exclusive reaction for you after the final whistle on our website and social media.
Live audio commentary will be available in the UK on BBC Radio London, and worldwide on our official website and app.
Team News…
Graham Potter will hold his pre-match press conference on Friday afternoon. However, we do know that long-term absentees Michail Antonio (leg) and Crysencio Summerville (hamstring) will miss the game.
Meanwhile, goalkeeper Łukasz Fabiański, defenders Aaron Cresswell and Vladimír Coufal and forward Danny Ings will be looking for minutes on what is their final game as West Ham players, with the quartet set to depart when their contracts expire at the end of the 2024/25 season.
Ipswich Town are set to be without a number of their players due to injury issues, including Arijanet Muric, Conor Townsend, former Hammer Kalvin Phillips, Chiedozie Ogbene, Jaden Philogene, Wes Burns and Sammie Szmodics.
We are West Ham. United
As West Ham United prepare for their final Premier League fixture of the season against Ipswich Town on Sunday, the Club is proud to stand in support of football as a game for everyone.
West Ham United has a zero-tolerance approach to any form of discrimination. Equality, equity, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of the Club and we are committed to continue to ensure that everyone feels welcome to attend our fixtures in a safe environment.
All forms of discriminatory chanting, including homophobic chanting, is unacceptable behaviour that has no place in football and has criminal consequences. West Ham United will take the strongest possible action against any individual found to be engaging in such behaviour, including potential lifetime bans and referral to the police.
The Club can also face disciplinary action if any of its supporters are found to have engaged in this behaviour, which is not representative of the West Ham United fanbase and will not be tolerated by the Club.
To report any incidents during or after Sunday’s match, either follow Ipswich Town's reporting procedures at Portman Road or contact West Ham United at [email protected]. Please provide as much information as possible, including the stand, row, seat number, description of the offender and incident.
We are proud of the diverse and inclusive values that our Club and community stand for. We ask all Hammers supporters attending Sunday’s match to reflect those values - and to back the team with passion, pride and respect.
Opposition…
The 2024/25 Premier League season will likely be remembered as a mixed bag of highs and lows by Ipswich Town fans, with their fortunes having largely been defined by narrow losses and fine margins.
The Tractor Boys are heading back to the EFL Championship, having been relegated in their first season back in the top flight since the 2001/02 campaign, after a 3-0 defeat to Newcastle on 26 April.
The challenge of staying in the Premier League is easier said than done, and despite spending in excess of £100 million to bolster the squad, it just wasn't to be for Ipswich this season.
In nine of their 19 games throughout the first half of term, they took the lead, and subsequently ended the calendar year of 2024 with an historic 2-0 win at home against Chelsea.
However, since then, they have been on something of a downward spiral, in terms of results, which has ultimately resulted in relegation back to the second tier.
Their Premier League return might have been a brief one, that ended with four games to spare, but Ipswich can be proud of their efforts, having won back-to-back promotions from League One under manager Kieran McKenna.
Meanwhile, the form of Liam Delap has been one of the main highlights too, with the Manchester City academy graduate having scored 12 goals in his first full season in the division, including against West Ham at London Stadium in October.
All is not lost for Ipswich, and the club that endured 15 largely fruitless seasons in the Championship and was once floundering in League One until McKenna took over in December 2021, now returns to the second tier in very positive shape. Certainly, you would have thought that a Premier League return won't take 22 years this time around!
Previous Meetings…
This weekend’s game will mark the first competitive meeting between West Ham and Ipswich at Portman Road since the Tractor Boys ran out 5-1 winners in the EFL Championship on 31 January 2012.
We have been to Portman Road four times previously in the Premier League and never lost, drawing 1-1 on the first three occasions in December 1993, April 1995 and October 2000, then winning 3-2 in October 2001, when Paolo Di Canio, Frédéric Kanouté and 19-year-old substitute Jermain Defoe were on target.
There have been some particularly historic encounters involving the two outfits, with an Alan Taylor brace earning the Irons a 2-1 FA Cup semi-final replay win over Ipswich in April 1975, ahead of our final triumph a few weeks later.
West Ham also got the better of Ipswich in the second-tier play-off semi-finals in 2004 and 2005, going on to earn promotion in the latter.
The Hammers did not visit Portman Road for a competitive fixture until November 1954, when Dave Sexton, John Dick and Jimmy Andrews scored in a 3-0 Second Division victory for Ted Fenton’s Irons.
That remains our joint-biggest win there, having been matched by a 3-0 First Division success in March 1984, when Paul Hilton, Tony Cottee and an own-goal by England defender Terry Butcher secured three points for future Ipswich manager John Lyall’s Hammers.
Match Officials…
Referee: Tim Robinson
Assistant Referees: Mark Scholes and Steve Meredith
Fourth Official: Sam Allison
VAR: Matt Donohue
Assistant VAR: Mat Wilkes
Tim Robinson has been confirmed as the referee for Sunday’s Premier League match away at Ipswich Town.
One of the top-flight’s newest regular officials, Robinson took charge of his first match in the division in December 2019, a 1-0 win for Burnley over Newcastle United, and was promoted to Professional Game Match Officials Limited's (PGMOL) Select Group 1 ahead of the 2023/24 season.
The West Sussex native has refereed 14 top-tier matches this season, giving out 64 yellow cards and two red cards. He will referee a West Ham Premier League game for the third time this season at Portman Road, having also taken charge of the Hammers’ draws away at Fulham in September and at home to AFC Bournemouth in April. He also held the whistle during our 2-1 FA Cup defeat at Aston Villa in January.
Previously, Robinson took charge of the EFL League One Play-Off final in 2022/23, as Sheffield Wednesday beat Barnsley 1-0 after extra-time at Wembley.
For more information about the officials, click HERE.
