Preview: Bromley vs Ipswich Town
12.08.25, 16:51 Updated 12.08.25, 16:56
By all accounts, this EFL Cup encounter represents the biggest club to play Bromley at Hayes Lane in a competitive fixture.
When you drop Ipswich’s name, you’re talking about the First Division champions of 61/62, the FA Cup winners of 77/78, and the UEFA Cup champions of 80/81. Even if Bromley’s new blood see those titles as older than Dad’s Army, they will of course recognise Ipswich as a recently relegated Premier League club.
Their unsuccessful one-season stay in England’s top flight has come with the bonus of relegation parachute payments, which they are using to build a squad capable of achieving an immediate return. For that reason, they are a lot of pundits' promotion favourites.
While they lost Liam Delap to Chelsea, the rest of their squad remains largely intact, and high-profile acquisitions like Chuba Akpom (Ajax), Azor Matusiwa (Rennes), and Jens Cajuste (Napoli) add impressive quality in depth.
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