Kieran McKenna to take his Ipswich Town squad to Felixstowe & Walton United to kick-off 2023/24 pre-season campaign in all-ticket match
Newly-promoted Sky Bet Championship club Ipswich Town are set to kick-off their pre-season warm-up matches against hosting Suffolk Non-League side Felixstowe & Walton United on Saturday, July 1 (1pm).
The game against Stuart Boardley’s Step 4 outfit will take a similar format to last season’s successful visit to Needham Market, with two 30-minute halves followed by a concluding penalty shootout.
Attendance is set to be capped at 2,100 at the AGL Arena - which also serves as the home of Ipswich Town Women - and has been designated all-ticket, with a priority system in place.
Felixstowe season ticket holders and other affiliates will be able to purchase tickets in person from the Dellwood Avenue ground from a week today (Tuesday, June 13) before general sale begins via the club’s online ticketing system from Friday, June 16.
Further details, as well as a link for online sales, are set to be announced in the coming days but tickets will be priced at £10 for adults, £6 for concessions (16-17 and 65+) and accompanied U16s at £2.
A full range of bars, catering options and additional entertainment will be available on the day, while details on how junior fans can apply to be a mascot is also set to be released in the coming days.
Felixstowe, who finished sixth in the Pitching In Isthmian League North Division to just miss out on the play-offs, recently announced the addition of former Ipswich Town professional Jack Ainsley from Stowmarket Town who was also followed to the AGL Arena by the Old Gold & Blacks captain Tom Bullard.
News of Town’s opening pre-season fixture comes after it was announced yesterday the Championship club will play two pre-season games on Saturday, July 22. Kieran McKenna's squad will be in action at two League One outfits in Cambridge United at the Abbey Stadium (12pm) before heading to fellow newly-promoted side Stevenage (3pm).
Those two matches will come a week after the Blues return from a week-long training camp in Austria, after Slovakian side Spartak Trnava announced that they would be playing a friendly against Town on Saturday, July 15. Ipswich are yet to confirmed that fixture, however, which is set to have a published location within Austria.
Ipswich Town pre-season, 2023/24 so far:
Saturday, July 1 - Felixstowe & Walton United (a) - 1pm
Saturday, July 15 – Spartak Trnava (n – in Austria tbc)
Saturday, 22 July - Cambridge United (a) - 12pm
Saturday, 22 July - Stevenage (a) - 3pm
