Huddersfield Town F.C. season 2004-05

Infobox Football club season
club = Huddersfield Town

season = 2004–05
manager = flagicon|ENG Peter Jackson
chairman = flagicon|ENG Ken Davy
league = League One
league result = 9th
cup1 = FA Cup
cup1 result = First Round
cup2 = Carling Cup
cup2 result = First Round
cup3 = LDV Vans Trophy
cup3 result = Second Round
league topscorer =
Paweł Abbott (26)
season topscorer =
Paweł Abbott (27)
highest attendance = 17,292 vs Sheffield Wednesday (29 March 2005)
lowest attendance = 3,831 vs Morecambe (28 September 2004)

Huddersfield Town's 2004-05 campaign was their first competitive campaign in the restructured Coca-Cola League One. They finished 9th with 70 points, just one point less than Hartlepool United in 6th, the lowest playoff position.

quad at the start of the season

Review

Town beat Stockport County on the opening day, but then failed to score in their next 4 games, including a 1-0 defeat to Leeds United in the first round of the Carling Cup at Elland Road. victories away at eventual champions Luton Town and at home over runners-up Hull City but also included two derby defeats against Bradford City. However, a disastrous mid-season spell of form (including seven successive away league defeats and having Efe Sodje stripped of the captaincy after his red card against Blackpool in the LDV Vans Trophy) saw the side slump and in real danger of a relegation battle.

Jon Worthington was made captain after the Blackpool game, but then Huddersfield gained a recovery in form with the loan signing of Luke Beckett from Sheffield United, but he was then recalled by Sheffield in mid-February.

The team were in deep trouble in mid-March, with relegation being a big possibility, but the play-offs were still possible, although Town had to win all their final 10 games to have a realistic chance of reaching the play-offs and all was going well, until Town played Colchester United at the Galpharm Stadium. With 1 minute to go, Town were leading 2-1, but then a goalkeeping error by Paul Rachubka (signed earlier in the season from Charlton Athletic) let Colchester equalise the game. That proved to be fatal, Town did win all the other 9 games and they missed out on the play-offs by one point.

quad at the end of the season

Results

Coca-Cola League One

LDV Vans Trophy