Huddersfield Town Association Football Club is a professional football club based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, which compete in the EFL Championship.
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27 Facts About Huddersfield Town
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Huddersfield Town reached the Premier League with three successful play-off campaigns: from Division Three in 2004, from League One in 2012, and then from the Championship in 2017.
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Huddersfield Town went into liquidation in 1912, after which a new limited company was formed to take over the club's assets.
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Huddersfield Town were reportedly £25,000 in debt in 1919, and attendances fell to around 3,000.
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Huddersfield Town is regarded as the first manager to successfully employ the counter-attack.
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Huddersfield Town employed a wide-ranging scouting network to find the right players for his tactical system.
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Huddersfield Town only conceded 28 goals and never conceded more than two per game; the first time a team accomplished this feat.
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Huddersfield Town were defeated in 1930 by Chapman's Arsenal, and in 1938 by Preston North End after extra time, which was the first FA Cup Final to be broadcast on television.
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Huddersfield Town had two horseshoes nailed to his office wall for luck.
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Huddersfield Town continued to play in the second tier during the 1960s.
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Huddersfield Town finished just outside the promotion places the following season.
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Huddersfield Town reached the 1994 Football League Trophy Final, but lost against Swansea City on penalties.
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Huddersfield Town was replaced by Lou Macari, who was unable to halt the slide as relegation to the third tier followed at the end of the season.
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Huddersfield Town set a Football League record of 43 matches unbeaten, which was previously set by Nottingham Forest, in November 2011.
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Huddersfield Town led Town to the play-off Final against Sheffield United.
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Huddersfield Town avoided relegation on the last day, after a draw with Barnsley.
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Huddersfield Town became the second club, after Blackpool, to have won all three divisional play-offs.
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Wagner left the club by mutual consent in January 2019, and was replaced by Borussia Dortmund II manager Jan Siewert, but Huddersfield Town were relegated in March with six matches remaining.
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Huddersfield Town stuck with the same principal design until 1966, when Scottish manager Tom Johnston introduced all-blue shirts.
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In 2000, Huddersfield Town changed its badge to a circular design, but that was never popular with the fans, and soon returned to the heraldic-style badge.
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In 2019, Huddersfield Town agreed to have Paddy Power shirt sponsorship in a striking beauty queen style diagonal sash design.
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Huddersfield Town returned to a updated version of their heraldic-style crest in 2019.
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Huddersfield Town were the first team to have played at each of the four professional levels of English football at two different grounds.
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Huddersfield Town hold the better head-to-head record against City; 21 matches have been won, 17 drawn, and 14 lost.
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Huddersfield Town have a rivalry with Cambridgeshire club Peterborough United, largely fuelled by the play-off meetings in 1992 and 2011.
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In 1926, Huddersfield Town became the first English team to win the First Division title in three consecutive seasons, a feat not surpassed to this day, although it has been equalled by Arsenal, Liverpool, and on two occasions by Manchester United.
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Huddersfield Town were the second team, after Blackpool, to have won all three divisional play-offs.
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