Huddersfield Town

Huddersfield Town
	Huddersfield Town
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Basic data
Surname	Huddersfield Town Association Football Club
Seat	Huddersfield , England
founding	August 15, 1908
Colours	Blue White
president	Phil Hodgkinson
Board	Dean Hoyle
Website	htafc.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Carlos Corberan
Venue	John Smith's Stadium
Places	24,500
league	EFL Championship
2019/20	18th place

Huddersfield Town (officially: Huddersfield Town Association Football Club ) is an English football club from the city of Huddersfield in the county of Yorkshire , was established in 1908th He spent most of his club history in the two top leagues in the country. In 2017/18 and 2018/19 the club played in the top division of English football, the Premier League .

Huddersfield Town had its most successful time in the 1920s, when it was three times in a row champions and twice runners-up, and the club also won the FA Cup . For a long time he was unable to build on his previous successes and remained in the lower leagues of the English football system.

The team's nickname is The Terriers . The club traditionally plays in blue and white vertical striped jerseys and white shorts. The home games have been played at John Smith's Stadium since 1994 , until then Leeds Road was their home ground .

Club history

Huddersfield was accepted into the English Football League in 1910 and was the first club to win the English championship (1923/24, 1924/25, 1925/26) under manager Herbert Chapman in three consecutive years . The Terriers also won the FA Cup on April 29, 1922 (1-0 against Preston North End ) and the Charity Shield that same year . Between the two world wars, they made it to the FA Cup final four more times (1920, 1928, 1930, 1938), but without winning the cup. After Huddersfield Town was more than the first sixty years of his league membership always first or second class, you rose in 1973 for the first time in the Third Division . In 1975, he was even relegated to fourth class.

It used to be played in the traditional stadium on Leeds Road , where the club record that is still valid today was set in the FA Cup game against Arsenal on February 27, 1932 with 67,037 spectators. In 1994, the move to the more modern, but much smaller Alfred McAlpine Stadium , which was later renamed John Smith's Stadium .

In the 2005/06 season, the team finished fourth in Football League One , thus reaching the play-off games for promotion to the Football League Championship . Despite a 1-0 away win at Barnsley FC , the team was eliminated in the semi-finals because the second leg was lost 3-1 on their own place.

On November 9, 2015, the club's management signed the German-American David Wagner as the successor to the previously dismissed coach Chris Powell . Wagner is the club's first coach born outside the UK. The coach's new game philosophy was dubbed "The Wagner Revolution" or "Klopp Clone" in the English press. The 2015/16 season ended Huddersfield Town in 19th place and thus secured relegation. At the beginning and in the course of the following 2016/17 season , a total of six German-born players and a Slovenian who had previously played for Wagner's previous team Borussia Dortmund II were signed .

After 45 years, the club returned to the top division of England with a 4-3 win after a penalty shoot-out against Reading FC in the play-off final on May 29, 2017 and the associated promotion to the 2017/18 Premier League . In addition to coach Wagner, there were also five German-born players in the squad for the final. Christopher Schindler converted the decisive penalty after Danny Ward had previously saved two penalties. At the end of the season, the team reached 16th place in the league in the Premier League.

In the following season, 2018/19 , relegation was sealed after the 32nd matchday. The interim replacement for head coach Wagner, Jan Siewert , could not save Huddersfield, who had been in the relegation battle since the beginning of the season. Since Derby County in the 2007/08 season , no team has been relegated as early as this.

Squad of the 2018/19 season

As of February 1, 2019

No.	Nat.	Surname	birthday	in the team since	Contract until
goal
01	Denmark	Jonas Lössl	76977164225 ♠0Feb. 1, 1989	2018	2021
12	England	Ben Hamer	76928326100 ♠Nov 20, 1987	2018	2021
13	England	Joel Coleman	77232517850 ♠26 Sep 1995	2016	2020
Defense
02	England	Tommy Smith (C)	77100422350 ♠Apr 14, 1992	2012	2020
05	Netherlands	Terence Kongolo	77171865550 ♠Feb 14, 1994	2018	2022
15th	Germany	Chris Lion	76984513200 ♠Apr 16, 1989	2016	2020
25th	Denmark	Zanka	77023862775 ♠Apr 23, 1990	2017	2020
26th	Germany	Christopher Schindler	77024420925 ♠Apr 29, 1990	2016	2021
27	Slovenia	Jon Gorenc Stanković	77246285550 ♠Jan. 14, 1996	2016	2020
33	Switzerland	Florent Hadergjonaj	77188330975 ♠July 31, 1994	2017	2021
37	Germany	Erik Durm	77103213100 ♠May 12, 1992	2018	2019
midfield
06th	England	Jonathan Hogg	76968698950 ♠0Dec 6, 1988	2013	2020
07th	Netherlands	Juninho Bacuna	77305170375 ♠0Aug 7, 1997	2018	2021
08th	Denmark	Philip Billing	77260890475 ♠June 11, 1996	2014	2020
10	Australia	Aaron Mooy	77038002575 ♠Sep 15 1990	2017	2020
19th	United States	Daniel Williams	76980792200 ♠0March 8 1989	2017	2019
21st	England	Alex Pritchard	77141074275 ♠0May 3, 1993	2018	2021
29	Morocco	Abdelhamid Sabiri	77277355900 ♠Nov 28, 1996	2017	2020
42	England	Jason Puncheon	76875301850 ♠June 26, 1986	2019	2019
Storm
09	Congo Democratic Republic	Elias Kachunga	77101166550 ♠Apr 22, 1992	2017	2020
11	France	Adama Diakhaby	77263309125 ♠05th July 1996	2018	2021
16	England	Karlan Grant	77309170450 ♠Sep 18 1997	2019	2022
18th	Belgium	Isaac Mbenza	77251681000 ♠0March 8 1996	2018	2019
20th	Belgium	Laurent Depoitre	76968791975 ♠0Dec. 7, 1988	2017	2019
24	Benin	Steve Mounié	77194098525 ♠29 Sep 1994	2017	2021