Huddersfield Town

Also written as Huddersfield.

The club

Huddersfield Town were founded on 15 August 1908 and play in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Their home is the Kirklees Stadium, opened in 1994 when the club left Leeds Road, currently sponsor-named the Accu Stadium and holding 24,121. They are the Terriers, a nickname adopted in 1969, and play in blue and white stripes, a combination first worn in 1913. Kevin M. Nagle, an investor from El Dorado Hills, California, bought the club in June 2023. In 2026/27 they are in EFL League One, the third tier, for a third consecutive season.

Recent seasons

Huddersfield were twentieth in the Championship in 2020/21 with 49 points. Under Carlos Corberan they then finished third in 2021/22 with 82 points from 46 games, 23 wins, 13 draws and 10 defeats, and reached the play-off final at Wembley on 29 May 2022, losing to Nottingham Forest. The fall from there was fast. They were eighteenth in 2022/23 with 53 points, and in 2023/24 they finished bottom of the Championship, twenty-third, with 45 points from a season of 9 wins, 18 draws and 19 defeats, and went down.

Two seasons in League One have not produced a way back. They were tenth in 2024/25 with 64 points, and ninth in 2025/26 with 67 points from 46 games, 18 wins, 13 draws and 15 defeats, 74 goals scored and 64 conceded. Lee Grant managed until 17 January 2026, with 36 matches and a win rate of just under 42 per cent, and Liam Manning replaced him on 20 January 2026. Leo Castledine was top scorer with 10 league goals and 12 in all competitions. The club went out of the FA Cup in the first round, reached the third round of the EFL Cup and the quarter-finals of the EFL Trophy. The best home performance was a 5-0 win over Port Vale on 26 December 2025; the biggest crowd was 22,052 against Manchester City in the EFL Cup on 24 September 2025.

Honours and landmarks

Huddersfield are one of only a handful of English clubs to have won three consecutive league championships, taking the First Division in 1923/24, 1924/25 and 1925/26, the first club in England to do so. They won the FA Cup in 1922. Herbert Chapman built that side before leaving for Arsenal, where he did it again. The club set a Football League record of 43 matches unbeaten in 2011. Promotion to the Premier League came through the play-offs in 2017, ending a 45-year absence from the top flight.

Record league goals in a season: 35, by Sam Taylor in Division Two in 1919/20 and George Brown in Division One in 1925/26. George Brown and Jimmy Glazzard each scored 142 for the club. Billy Smith made 520 appearances between 1914 and 1934. The record fee received is £15m for Philip Billing to Bournemouth in July 2019; the record paid is reported as £11.44m for Steve Mounie from Montpellier in July 2017. One durable piece of club folklore: the Leeds Road floodlights were paid for out of the £55,000 Manchester City spent on Denis Law in 1961, and were known as the Denis Law Lights.

The all-time record attendance, which was set at Leeds Road, could not be established from the sources read. The record at the current stadium is given as 23,678 against Liverpool in the FA Cup third round, a 2-0 defeat, dated 12 December 1999.

Notable scorelines

Record win: 10-1 against Blackpool in Division One on 13 December 1930. Record defeat: 1-10 against Manchester City in Division Two on 7 November 1987.

Head-to-head notes

Huddersfield do not publish all-time head-to-head records, and none were found for their 2026/27 opponents. Their traditional rivals are Leeds United and Bradford City, in the West Yorkshire derby. In the sequence relevant to this season, the EFL Cup first round pairs them away to Preston North End on 8 August 2026, and they have been drawn in Northern Group H of the EFL Trophy with Doncaster Rovers, Rochdale and Liverpool under-21s. Their opening three League One fixtures are against AFC Wimbledon, Milton Keynes Dons and Cambridge United.

Right now (2026/27)

Martin Drury was appointed manager on 27 May 2026. The summer window was busy at both ends. In came midfielder Ethan Brierley from Brentford for an undisclosed fee on 30 June, striker Ashley Fletcher from Blackpool on a free on 1 July, right-back Ilias Bronkhorst from Excelsior on 3 July, left-back Dylan Tawodzera from Sheffield United on 8 July, winger Derensili Sanches Fernandes, also from Excelsior, on 21 July, and striker Jahkyah Ebanks-Blake from Cambridge United on a free on 28 July. Left-back Ruben Roosken went to Oxford United for an undisclosed fee on 15 June, and both senior goalkeepers left on 1 July, Jacob Chapman to St Mirren and Lee Nicholls to Preston North End. Striker Alfie May was loaned to Doncaster Rovers on 19 June and Dion Charles to Blackpool on 27 June.

Pre-season was uneven: a 3-1 defeat to Birmingham City in Portugal on 10 July, a 2-1 win at AFC Fylde on 18 July, defeats to Sheffield United (3-1) and Fleetwood Town (2-1) on 21 July, then a 3-1 win over Oldham Athletic on 24 July and a 3-1 win at Middlesbrough on 25 July, with Blackburn Rovers to come on 1 August. The League One season starts at home to AFC Wimbledon on 15 August 2026, then Milton Keynes Dons away on 22 August and Cambridge United away on 29 August.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huddersfield_Town_A.F.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Huddersfield_Town_A.F.C._seasons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_Huddersfield_Town_A.F.C._season https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%9326_Huddersfield_Town_A.F.C._season https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026%E2%80%9327_Huddersfield_Town_A.F.C._season https://www.stevesfootballstats.uk/huddersfield_town_club_record.html

Researched and written for not4quarters. Where a fact could not be established from the sources read, this page says so rather than guessing.