IPSWICH TOWN
Premier League, Portman Road, Sunday 25 May 2025, 4pm BST
West Ham United complete the 2024/25 Premier League season with a trip up the A12 to Suffolk to face Ipswich Town.
The Hammers will play at Portman Road in a competitive fixture for the first time since losing 5-1 there in the EFL Championship in January 2012, and the first time in the Premier League since winning 3-2 there in October 2001.
The Tractor Boys are heading back to the Championship themselves, having been relegated in their first season back in the top-flight since that 2001/02 season, but can be proud of their efforts, having won back-to-back promotions from League One under impressive manager Kieran McKenna.
McKenna’s squad includes two former Hammers in Ben Johnson and Kalvin Phillips, while young centre-forward Liam Delap has scored 12 Premier League goals, including one at London Stadium earlier this season.
How to get there…
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 (post code 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.