On 15 August 1908 Huddersfield Town was officially registered as a company and its journey began. Huddersfield Town turn 119 on 15 August 2027. This is the first club in England to win three league titles in a row, and the one that wears a little dog on its chest.

A pub and a plot on Leeds Road

The club was born in a town pub, the Albert, in West Yorkshire. Its first leaders bought a plot on Leeds Road for £500, and the team started out in the North Eastern League.

In 1910 it won a place in the Football League. A few years later, in 1919, it was close to the end, with debts of £25,000 and a plan to move to Leeds.

Supporters raised money and kept the club in town. The following season Huddersfield reached the 1920 FA Cup final and won promotion to the top flight.

From red to three-inch stripes

In its first games the team wore white and then red, according to Historical Football Kits. In 1909 a blue shirt with white shorts was chosen, but the debate over colours went on, with even salmon pink in the running.

In November 1912 the board asked for samples and chose blue and white vertical stripes, three inches wide. Since 1913 they have been the club's identity.

In 1920, at the FA Cup final, the shirt carried for the first time a badge based on the town's coat of arms. In 1922 the Yorkshire rose was added.

Herbert Chapman and three in a row

In 1920 Herbert Chapman arrived as assistant, and in March 1921 he took charge. In 1922 the team won the FA Cup, beating Preston 1-0 with a goal from Billy Smith.

The league titles of 1924, 1925 and 1926 followed, with Cecil Potter completing the third after Chapman left for Arsenal. It was the first club in England to do it, and the three stars on the badge recall it.

Billy Smith also went down in history as the first player to score directly from a corner, in 1924. Alex Jackson, meanwhile, hit a hat-trick for Scotland in the 5-1 win over England in 1928.

Denis Law and a terrier mascot

Denis Law's £55,000 move to Manchester City paid for the Leeds Road floodlights in 1961. In the mid-1960s stripes were seen as old-fashioned, and the team wore plain blue with a monogram.

In 1969 the stripes returned, and with them came the nickname "The Terriers". Inspired by Huddersfield Ben, a dog born in the town in 1865 and seen as the founding father of the Yorkshire terrier breed, it was announced by the chairman in the programme for the Bolton game on 27 September 1969.

From Leeds Road to the Premier League

Leeds Road saw a record crowd of 67,037 against Arsenal in 1932 and said goodbye with a 2-1 win over Blackpool on 30 April 1994. Since 1994-95 the team has played at the Kirklees Stadium, which it shares with the town's rugby league club.

In 2012 it went up to the Championship after an 8-7 penalty shoot-out, and in 2017 it reached the Premier League through the play-offs, staying until 2019. In 2025-26 it played in League One, with Castore as its new kit supplier.

Celebrate with us

From the Albert pub to three titles in a row and the three-inch stripes, Huddersfield have written their own page in English football. Happy 119th birthday to the Terriers!

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Photo: the Kirklees Stadium (John Smith's Stadium) in Huddersfield – Mtaylor848, Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.