Huddersfield Town FC

Huddersfield Town Football Club is an English football club, founded in 1908 and plays in the Football League Championship. The club plays its home games at the John Smiths Stadium, which seats up to about 25,000 supporters. Previously played at home on Leeds Road. The name of the club was changed on February 2, 2005 byHuddersfield Town Association Football Club to Huddersfield Town Football Club.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == The club was admitted to the Football Leaguein 1910. They won, led by trainer Herbert Chapman, the English League title in 1923/24, 1924/25. In season 1925/26 was the club with new trainer Cecil Potter once again champions. They were the first club in England who failed three times in a row state champion.
 * 2 Palmares
 * 3 notable former players
 * 3.1 Dutch
 * 3.2 Belgians
 * 4 Trivia
 * 5 external links

Huddersfield is not as successful in recent years more. The club has been playing years alternating between the second and third division of English football. In the season 2003/04 the club even played a season in the Fourth Division, but with the return of Peter Jackson, trainer immediately managed to promote to the Football League One.

The three seasons thereafter performed Huddersfield unstable. Huddersfield was 9th In the 2004-2005 season, in 2005-2006 they were fourth and they ran out promotion to the Championship just wrong. In the 3rd round of the FA Cup was Huddersfield eliminated by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Season 2006-2007 Huddersfield ended on the 15th place. Huddersfield made a good start in the season 2007-2008, the first two games were won because of Huddersfield was 2nd in the league one. Also this year theFA Cup followed by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. However, in the 5th round after an impressive win over Premiership club Birmingham City in the 3rd round. Trainer Andy Ritchie In April was fired and replaced by Stan Ternent. The club eventually finished 10th.

The 2008-2009 season started dramatically. Stan Ternent on 4 november was fired. New Chairman Dean Hoyle wanted appoint his own choice as a trainer. This was oldNewcastle United midfielder Lee Clark. He brought the club from a disappointing 16th place 9th to a reasonable end position.

Many new players were attracted for the 2009-2010 season. The team was mainly made up of young players. In addition, it is the real breakthrough of The 19-year-old keeper Alex Smithies from the own youth impresses and attracts a lot of attention from the scouts. The club eventually finished as sixth, but lost to Millwall in the play-offs.

After a disappointing elimination in the play-offs were again attracted many players. This time Lee Clark chose especially for experienced former Internationals. Were Joey Gudjonsson, Damien Johnson, Kevin Kilbaneand Alan Lee met. Huddersfield Town was together with Southampton favorite for direct promotion to the Championship. The season 2010/11 began unstable. Halfway through the competition were already 9 games lost, but after Christmas started a glittering array. A club-record of 25 games the club remained undefeated, however this was not enough to finish in the top 2. The club was 3rd with 87 points and once again had to Duke it out in the play-offs. In the semifinal waited two games against Bournemouth. Especially the return in Huddersfield became a real cracker. After 90 minutes it was 2-2 and there had to be extended. Both clubs knew to score, whereby with a final score of 3-3 penalty kicks had to decide a winner. Huddersfield Town won and advanced to the final against Peterborough United at Old Trafford in Manchester. Despite large parts of the match to be the better team they knew not to score. Fifteen minutes before the end made the Peterborough 0-1. Soon it ran out to 0-3 and will next year may come true are Peterborough United in the Championship.In the FA Cup in the 3rd round was narrowly lost to Arsenal in London. the final score was 2-1.

The unbeaten series in the competition was in the season 2011-12 continued. In the end it was Charlton Athletic Huddersfield after finally won 43 games in the League. 2011-12 is the definitive breakthrough for Jordan Rhodes. The previous two seasons he was top scorer of the club, but by his young age he was often on the Bench held. This season, he is the undisputed striker. In the month of October he found 14 x the net. 5 of these were in 2 matches for Jong Scotland. In the match against Sheffield Wednesday on december 17, 2011, he scored all 4 goals for Huddersfield Town in a sensational 4-4 draw. On 6 January know Rhodes even 5 times to score against Wycombe Wanderers. The season he would end up on 40 goals for Huddersfield Town and 8 in 8 games for Jong Scotland.

On 26 May 2012 played Huddersfield in the League One play-off final against Sheffield United. Huddersfield had the best opportunities, but by the good performance of inter alia keeper Steve Simonsen from Sheffield United it came no further than 0-0. On penalty kicks it was decided who would be promoted to the Championship. In the series was the 8-7 for Huddersfield. After all 10 field players from both teams had taken their penalty was up to the keepers to determine it. Alex Smithies shot convincing touch for Huddersfield, Sheffield United keeper Steve Simonsen shot over.

The 2012-2013 season was unstable. Of the first 16 matches were played there 8 won and 3 equal. This allowed the club on a neat 6th place. Of the next 12 games was no contest more won. Thanks to a 6-1 defeat at Leicester City and a 4-0 defeat at Watford was trainer Simon Grayson on January 24, fired. On 14 February 2013 became old Manchester United striker Mark Robins appointed as new coach. However, the results were still changeable, there were fewer major defeats since the trainers Exchange. By the good series at the end of the season of, among others, Peterborough United, Sheffield Wednesday and Barnsley was down to the last round exciting who would degrade. By a defeat of Peterborough could Huddersfield and Barnsley the contest against each other as draw simple knocking out, leaving both clubs were safe for degradation. At the beginning of the season Jordan Rhodes was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a record sum of £ 8 million. ==Palmares<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">English Dutch Champion

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Second Division Champion
 * 1923/24, 1924/25, 1925/26
 * Runner-up: 1926/27, 1927/28, 1933/34

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Third Division play-off winners
 * 1969/70
 * Runner-up: 1919/20, 1953/54

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Champion Fourth Division
 * 1994/95, 2011/12

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Play-off winners
 * 1979/80

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">FA Cup
 * 2003/04

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Charity Shield
 * 1922
 * Runner-up: 1920, 1928, 1930, 1938

<p len="4" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> ==Notable former players<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p len="4" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> ===Dutch<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Belgians<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * 1922
 * Andy Booth
 * Trevor Cherry
 * Jimmy Glazzard
 * Joey Gudjonsson
 * Lukas Jutkiewicz
 * Kevin Kilbane
 * Denis Law
 * Alan Lee
 * Victor Metcalfe
 * Jimmy Nicholson
 * Anthony Pilkington
 * Jordan Rhodes
 * Marcus Stewart
 * John Thorrington
 * Hughie Turner
 * Ray Wilson
 * Frank Worthington
 * Dean Gorré
 * Kenneth Magat
 * Clyde Wijnhard
 * Nico Vaesen
 * Billy Smith scored the first goal directly from a corner in England.
 * The first club was Huddersfield Town in England 3 consecutive Dutch title.
 * Iain Dunn scored the first Golden Goal in Britain. As a result, Huddersfield won 3-2 in the extension of Lincoln City on 30 november 1993.
 * Gary Taylor-Fletcher scored, on 8 August 2006, in the 3-0 victory of Hudderfield on the Rotherham United 3-0. This goal was the 500,000th League goal in the English leagues.