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Football club mural contest offers cash prize

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Alice Cunningham/BBC A view of the finished mural last year. Kieran McKenna and players of the team are painted celebrating. Fans are painted below them watching on.Alice Cunningham/BBC
This mural at the top of Portman Road, on the side of a shop on Norwich Road, was painted for the 2024-25 Premier League season, but it was painted over after relegation

A £2,000 cash prize is being offered as part of a competition to design a mural for Ipswich Town's football stadium.

The club, together with local tourism group All About Ipswich, is inviting people to design a large mural that will be placed outside Portman Road stadium.

A spokesperson said it wanted a "bold, creative design that celebrates the spirit of Ipswich and/or Ipswich Town FC".

The final design will cover approximately 170 square metres and will be installed by the start of the 2026-27 football season.

Richard Haugh/BBC Pink wooden hoardings surround a car park. A top of a grandstand and two floodlights are on the horizon beyond the hoardings.Richard Haugh/BBC
The new mural will be installed on wooden hoardings at the car park on Portman Road

The club said the mural would be placed on wooden hoardings at the Portman Road car park and would transform "a key town centre site into a vibrant and proud display of civic and club identity".

People are encouraged to submit the design as a 2D image in a PDF or JPEG format with a 200-word description outlining the inspiration and how the design fits the brief.

Submissions must be in by 17:00 GMT on 15 February and all designs will be reviewed before being shortlisted by a panel.

The final shortlist will be put to a vote by Town club members and season ticket holders.

The winning entrant will receive the £2,000 reward.

The club said: "The final design will be professionally printed on to Dibond panels (not sprayed directly on to the wood) and installed on the hoardings by an All About Ipswich team."

The rear of the Sir Bobby Robson statue on Portman Road, Ipswich. It is on a plinth, surrounded by scarfs and flags. There are lots of Ipswich Town fans on Portman Road itself, with the rear of the Cobbold Stand behind them.
Portman Road already has three statues of club greats outside the stadium, including one of Sir Bobby Robson

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