Club captain Maria Boswell said Ipswich Town Women are on an "inevitable" trajectory to promotion to the Women's Super League. Ipswich are third after five games of the 2026-27 campaign and will host second-placed Sunderland on Sunday at Colchester Community Stadium.
Boswell's view on promotion
"I don't think there's any ceiling to what we can go on and achieve. For me, I just see it as inevitable," 23-year-old Boswell told BBC Radio Suffolk.
"The way the club's going I don't see it as any other option whether it's this year, or whether it's in five years' time," she said.
"I think that is where this club will naturally belong and fall into just with the intent of the owners and the investment we've had and where they see the club. I don't see it happening any other way and I do hope that I'm part of it when it does happen," she said.
Club progress in recent years
Ipswich Town Women were in the fourth tier as recently as 2021. After promotion to the second tier in 2025, they finished ninth in WSL2 last season. David Wright was appointed manager in April.
Boswell joined Ipswich's academy in 2019 and was named captain in 2023 as a 20-year-old.
Start to the season
Ipswich Town Women opened the season with draws against Nottingham Forest and Southampton before consecutive league wins over Leicester City, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Sheffield United.
"We've brought in such good players and I think looking around we kind of got to end of pre-season and decided that there was no reason why we shouldn't strive for that," Boswell said.
Approach before Sunday's game
"I think it's about coming in with that in the back of your mind but not letting it kind of get too ahead of yourself or cloud everything else you do," Boswell said.
"It's just about coming in training with the intent that we do every single session and then hopefully going out on a Sunday and putting in performances that earn us the three points which at the moment we're doing, but it's not given that that just naturally continues just because it's how we started," she said.