Huddersfield Town F.C. season 1987-88

Infobox Football club season
club = Huddersfield Town

season = 1987-88
manager = flagicon|ENG Steve Smith "(until October 6th, 1987)"
flagicon|ENG Malcolm Macdonald "(from October 12th, 1987 until May 4th, 1988)"
chairman = flagicon|ENG Roger B. Fielding
flagicon|ENG Keith Longbottom
league = Division Two
league result = 23rd "(relegated)"
cup1 = FA Cup
cup1 result = Third Round
cup2 = Littlewoods Challenge Cup
cup2 result = First Round
cup3 = Simod Cup
cup3 result = First Round
league topscorer =
Duncan Shearer (10)
season topscorer =
Duncan Shearer (16)
highest attendance = 21,510 vs Manchester City (25 January 1988)
lowest attendance = 2,794 vs Bournemouth (30 April 1988)

Huddersfield Town's 1987-88 campaign is statistically Town's worst ever season in their league history. Town won only 6 league games all season, had their heaviest ever defeat in their history, conceded 100 league goals in the season and finished 19 points adrift of safety and even 14 points behind 2nd-bottom team Reading. Both of the two managers during the season, Steve Smith and Malcolm Macdonald both failed miserably and are regarded as the two worst managers in Town's history.

quad at the start of the season

Review

The start of the season was at the time, the worst in Town's history. The team lost most of their early games and Steve Smith, a hero during his playing days at Leeds Road, was shown the door on October 6th, after the 2-0 defeat at Birmingham City. Malcolm Macdonald replaced Smith a week later, but it wasn't until the end of the month that Town registered their first win, a 2-1 victory at the end-of-season champions Millwall.

However, a week later, Town recorded their biggest ever loss in their history, going down 10-1 against Manchester City at Maine Road. After that embarrassment, Town recovered slightly going on a run of only 1 defeat in 6 matches. However, this proved to be nothing more than a false dawn and Town's chances of survival would shortly become non-existent.

Following their 2-1 win over Plymouth Argyle on December 12, Town would only win 2 matches for the remaining 5 months of the season, they were a 1-0 win at Bradford City and amazingly a 1-0 win against a Manchester City side, who 4 months earlier beat them 10-1. Town finished up with only 28 points, finishing 14 points behind Reading in 23rd place and a further 5 behind the safety zone of 21st placed West Bromwich Albion. Macdonald was sacked just before the last game of the season against Sheffield United. Eoin Hand would replace Macdonald for the new season in the Third Division.

quad at the end of the season

Results

= Division Two =

= Simod Cup =