Ipswich Town on path to Women’s Super League, says Maria Boswell
Ipswich Town Women are on an “inevitable” trajectory to promotion to the Women’s Super League, according to club captain Maria Boswell.
The Tractor Girls finished ninth in WSL2 last season following promotion to the second tier in 2025, and were in the fourth tier as recently as 2021., external
Under the management of former men’s team player David Wright, appointed to the role in April, the Blues are third after five games of the 2026-27 campaign.
“I don’t think there’s any ceiling to what we can go on and achieve. For me, I just see it [promotion to the WSL] 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.
“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.”
Boswell joined Ipswich’s academy in 2019 and was named captain as a 20-year-old in 2023.
The club started this season with draws against Nottingham Forest and Southampton, before winning consecutive league games against Leicester City, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Sheffield United.
On Sunday they will host second-placed Sunderland at Colchester Community Stadium.
“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 [promotion to the WSL],” said Boswell.
“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.
“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.”
