Huddersfield City have sacked head coach Michael Duff following their fourth defeat in 5 League One matches.
Saturday’s 1-0 loss at Bristol Rovers proved to be Duff’s closing match in cost because the Terriers dropped out of the play-off locations with 10 video games of the season to go.
Duff, 47, had been in cost for 10 months, having succeeded Andre Breitenreiter in Could 2024 after Huddersfield’s relegation from the Championship.
“This isn’t a call I’ve taken evenly,” Huddersfield proprietor and chairman Kevin Nagle advised the membership web site., exterior
“I actually like Michael as an individual and I understand how diligently he has labored for the membership since he was appointed as head coach in the summertime, so we have all been determined for him to succeed.
“Nonetheless, our outcomes on the pitch because the flip of the 12 months have merely not been adequate.”
Following an inconsistent begin to the season, City went on a run of 16 League One matches with out defeat between October and January – which included 10 victories – catapulting them from fifteenth to fourth within the league.
Since then, the Yorkshire outfit have stuttered – successful three and dropping seven of their previous 11 league outings – resulting in Duff’s dismissal on Sunday morning.
Huddersfield have confirmed academy supervisor and former participant Jon Worthington will take cost of the membership’s remaining fixtures this marketing campaign.
On his interim appointment, Worthington stated: “Huddersfield is my membership, and I am honoured to be teaching the primary group between now and the top of the season.
“Now we have 10 vital matches to return with loads of factors remaining to play for and each chance nonetheless open to us.”
It will likely be ex-club captain Worthington’s second spell answerable for City, having beforehand acted as interim boss in early 2024 throughout a spell through which the Terriers gained two video games and misplaced two following the sacking of Darren Moore.
Huddersfield had been relegated to League One final season after 5 consecutive seasons within the Championship following a two-year stint within the Premier League.
They at present sit in seventh in League One, two factors exterior of the play-off positions.
