Ipswich Town Football Club sustainability score: 22/100
Better than 0% of Professional Sports Clubs
Below expectations starts at 31. The highest score on SINK is 71.
Ipswich Town Football Club is a professional football club based in Suffolk, England, competing in the English Football League Championship. Founded in 1878, the club operates Portman Road stadium with approximately 30,000 capacity and runs year-round training facilities.
More about Ipswich Town Football Club
The club returned to the Premier League in 2024 after a 22-year absence but was relegated after one season.
Founded 1878Head office GBStaff ~500Revenue ~£141M (2024/25 est.)Website ↗
Ipswich Town FC has published no emissions data, renewable energy plan, or science-aligned climate targets. The club operates a 30,000-seat stadium and training facilities but discloses nothing. Waste recycling exists via contractor; all other environmental metrics are unreported.
Ipswich Town Football Club scores 22/100 (Significant gaps) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. Last verified August 2026.
That places Ipswich Town Football Club joint 945th of 1,023 companies scored, and joint 21st of 22 in Professional Sports Clubs.
What is Ipswich Town Football Club doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Controversies & Red Flags and Resource Use & Waste (8/10, 4/10). Weakest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Carbon Footprint: Supply Chain (1/10, 1/10).
Where Ipswich Town Football Club lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
What would raise this score
- Emissions from its own operationsPublish emissions figures for its own operations, even an estimate from energy bills.
- Emissions from its supply chainAssess where its supply-chain emissions come from.
- Whether its emissions are fallingShow its emissions are falling, even from energy bills or mileage.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations1/10No emissions figures for its own operations, not even an estimate from energy bills.
- Emissions from its supply chain1/10No assessment of where its supply-chain emissions come from.
- Whether its emissions are falling1/10No evidence its emissions are falling, not even from energy bills or mileage.
- How clean its energy is2/10No renewable energy tariff or major efficiency investment shown.
- Its effect on nature2/10No assessment of its effect on nature, and no basic environmental policy.
- How it uses materials and handles waste4/10No verified figures for reuse and recycling across the business.
- Its effect on water2/10No monitoring of water use, or no measures to reduce it.
- Its climate targets2/10No specific targets with dates.
- How openly it reports2/10No published sustainability data, or no one named as responsible for it.
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How is Ipswich Town Football Club's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleHas Ipswich Town Football Club's score changed?
Ipswich Town Football Club's score has been reviewed 2 times and currently stands where it started, at 22.
- 22 → 227 November 2026
Correction, 7 November 2026: removed an unsourced emissions figure. Score unchanged.
- Scored 2222 August 2026
Initial public score 22 (publish-draft)
What evidence is Ipswich Town Football Club's score based on?
15 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
20% of them were published by Ipswich Town Football Club itself; the rest come from independent sources.
12 of 15 sources are independent of the company.
“top-flight newcomer Ipswich Town has no publicly available figures for any scope emissions”
“18 out of the 20 top flight clubs reported their Scope 1 & Scope 2 emissions”
“IPSWICH TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB COMPANY LIMITED - Free company information from Companies House”
“around 61% of a Premier League club's emissions are directly attributed to travel”
“Develop a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions dataset (scope 1, 2 and 3) by the end of Season 2025/26”
“Although Ipswich met the financial and employee criteria in 2024, it fell short the previous year when it featured in League One”
“Fixed asset expenditure was £5.8 million, reflecting the initial costs of upgrading Portman Road for the Premier League”
“installing a building management system which only provides power to rooms when they are in use, fitting low energy light bulbs”
“committed to upholding the highest possible standard of Environmental sustainability in our activities and processes”
“Town link up with Council to tackle pollution and promote sustainability”
“We have a recycling target of over 90% of all wastes we manage through our waste facility”
“The Council installed 21 vibrantly wrapped, football and recycling themed bins in readiness for Ipswich Town's return to the Premier League”
“The SBTi's Target Dashboard lists companies and financial institutions that have set science-based targets, or have committed to developing targets”
“In 2010, the team began its journey to becoming the world's first carbon neutral football club”
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How does Ipswich Town Football Club compare with other professional sports clubs companies?
Ipswich Town Football Club is tied at the bottom of the professional sports clubs pack.
Among the 22 major professional sports clubs brands we've scored, Ipswich Town Football Club is tied =21st of 22, with 1 other.
Who scores higher in Professional Sports Clubs?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above Ipswich Town Football Club.
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