FIFA FINAL VERDICT ;Newly Promoted Ipswich Town has been Demoted For Placing Bet Against Huddersfield Match.
FIFA FINAL VERDICT: Ipswich Town, who had just been promoted, was demoted for betting on the Huddersfield match.
After spending 22 years outside of the top division, Ipswich Town has been promoted to the Premier League.
The Tractor Boys, who were runners-up to Plymouth in League One the previous season, defeated Huddersfield 2-0 at Portman Road to earn their second consecutive promotion.
Kieran McKenna’s side already had a three-point advantage over third-placed Leeds going into the final game of the season and only needed a draw to secure promotion from the Championship.
Ipswich became the first club since Southampton in 2012 to gain back-to-back promotions from the third tier to the Premier League, while the result sealed Huddersfield’s relegation to League One.
Thousands of Ipswich fans gathered outside the ground before kick-off with some setting off smoke bombs and flares.
The expectant home crowd watched their team pin the opposition in their own half in the opening 20 minutes and Ipswich should have taken the lead following a breakaway in the 25th minute.
But the dominant display saw the Tractor Boys go 1-0 up two minutes later from a well-worked move where Conor Chaplin found Wes Burns unmarked in the box and the Welshman fired home to a huge raw from the crowd.
