Huddersfield Town's rich history in play-off finals ahead of Forest Wembley showdown

Huddersfield Town’s trip to Wembley on Sunday afternoon is the sixth play-off final they have faced as a club, and on the whole their record in those games takes some beating. Only Blackpool have made more appearances or won more finals (appeared in eight, won six) than the Terriers, who have lost just one of their previous five finals.

Town also hold the distinction of being the only team to have won play-off finals in all three divisions of what is now the EFL without scoring…though of course they have also progressed up a league by scoring twice in a final on top of that, too.

Here are how those teams of yesteryear have fared when opportunity has previously come knocking on the grandest stage of a Wembley play-off final…and a Millennium Stadium play-off final…and an Old Trafford play-off final that we’d all rather pretend never happened.

That’s League One to our younger readers and Division Three to our older readers, confusingly. Look, it’s the third tier. Turns out we had the numbering right in the first place. Why do people always have to mess with everything?

In any case, Huddersfield Town’s first play-off final would be the only time (to date!) that they have managed to score a goal prior to a penalty shootout. Andy Booth provided that for Town at what Neil Warnock was surely thinking was the best possible time, right before the break – only for soon-to-be summer signing Marcus Stewart to almost immediately volley in an equaliser for Rovers.

Chris Billy struck again for Town nine minutes from time off Booth’s knockdown, with Steve Francis heroically tipping a Marcus Browning effort over the bar and seeing another Stewart effort cannon off the woodwork to ensure the Terriers moved up to the second tier.

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