Eight Huddersfield Town players who returned for second spells after Will Boyle's return

When Will Boyle rejoins Huddersfield Town next month in a free transfer from Cheltenham Town, he will be taking a well-trodden path of former Terriers stars.

It was announced earlier this month that the 26-year-old Town academy graduate would be re-joining Carlos Corberan's side this summer, five-and-a-half years after he swapped West Yorkshire for the South West.

In the intermittent years, Boyle has established himself as a seasoned Football league defender, helping Cheltenham to the League Two title last year, where he was named in the PFA League Two Team of the Year.

And after making the step up to League One seamlessly, helping the Robins achieve survival in the third tier, Boyle will now return to Huddersfield on a two-year contract as he takes another step up to the Championship.

Boyle isn't the first player to re-join Huddersfield for a second spell, though. Here, Yorkshire Live takes a look at eight players who have made the return to Huddersfield over the years.

When Smith left the club in 1977 only six men sat ahead of him in the club’s all-time appearance table: he'd made 380 of them in total.

His return to the club two years later was primarily as a member of the backroom staff, but at age 35 he made one outing at left-back in an FA Cup first-round tie away to Workington in November 1981 to draw level on appearances with Bill McGarry.

Smith continued in his various coaching and scouting roles thereafter and later become the only Huddersfield-born man ever to manage the Huddersfield Town men’s team.

Regarded as a future England international when he departed for Newcastle United in 1983, the right-back almost immediately suffered an ankle injury that kept him out for the entirety of what was meant to be his