Huddersfield Town F.C. season 1988-89

Infobox Football club season
club = Huddersfield Town

season = 1988-89
manager = flagicon|IRL Eoin Hand
chairman = flagicon|ENG Keith Longbottom
league = Division Three
league result = 14th
cup1 = FA Cup
cup1 result = Third Round
cup2 = Littlewoods Challenge Cup
cup2 result = First Round
cup3 = Sherpa Van Trophy
cup3 result = Area Quarter-Final
league topscorer =
Craig Maskell (28)
season topscorer =
Craig Maskell (33)
highest attendance = 15,543 vs Sheffield United (7 January 1989)
lowest attendance = 2,216 vs Scunthorpe United (13 December 1988)

Huddersfield Town's 1988-89 campaign was a fairly unsuccessful campaign following the disastrous relegation the previous season. Under the leadership of former Ireland manager Eoin Hand, but a disastrous end to the season saw Town finish 14th, just 6 points and 7 places above the relegation zone.

quad at the start of the season

Review

Following the disastrous campaign orchestrated by Steve Smith and Malcolm Macdonald the previous season, it was up to former Ireland manager Eoin Hand and assistant Peter Withe to try and recover Town's perilous position in the 3rd tier of English football. At the start of the season, Town seemed to register a loss and a win every alternate week. Although new signing Craig Maskell (bought using the money funded by the sale of Duncan Shearer during the close-season.) started to score the goals that would try to bring Town up to the play-off spots.

The season did not bring much joy to the Town fans probably still reeling from relegation the previous season, although Town did bring some joy with some good results during January and February, as well as a narrow defeat by soon-to-be promoted Sheffield United in the FA Cup restored some pride to the beleaguered fans.

Also during the season Town recorded their biggest ever away league victory - a 6-0 thrashing of Bury at Gigg Lane. Bizarrely, Town would lose 6-0 at Bury the following season. In the last 7 games, Town lost 5 of them and drew the other 2. But, on a positive note, Craig Maskell broke a post-war goalscoring record of 32 goals set by Jimmy Glazzard in the 1954-55 season, by scoring his 33rd goal of the season in the last game of the season at home to Wigan Athletic.

quad at the end of the season

Results

= Division Three =

= Sherpa Van Trophy =