Huddersfield Town have sacked head coach Michael Duff following their fourth defeat in five League One matches.
Saturday’s 1-0 loss at Bristol Rovers proved to be Duff’s final match in charge as the Terriers dropped out of the play-off places with 10 games of the season to go.
Duff, 47, had been in charge for just 10 months, having succeeded Andre Breitenreiter in May 2024 after Huddersfield’s relegation from the Championship.
“This is not a decision I have taken lightly,” Huddersfield owner and chairman Kevin Nagle told the club website., external
“I really like Michael as a person and I know how diligently he has worked for the club since he was appointed as head coach in the summer, so we’ve all been desperate for him to succeed.
“However, our results on the pitch since the turn of the year have simply not been good enough.”
Following an inconsistent start to the season, Town went on a run of 16 League One matches without defeat between October and January – which included 10 victories – catapulting them from 15th to fourth in the league.
Since then, the Yorkshire outfit have stuttered – winning just three and losing seven of their last 11 league outings – leading to Duff’s dismissal on Sunday morning.
Huddersfield have confirmed academy manager and former player Jon Worthington will take charge of the club’s remaining fixtures this campaign.
On his interim appointment, Worthington said: “Huddersfield is my club, and I’m honoured to be coaching the first team between now and the end of the season.
“We have 10 important matches to come with plenty of points remaining to play for and every possibility still open to us.”
It will be ex-club captain Worthington’s second spell in charge of Town, having previously acted as interim boss in early 2024 during a spell in which the Terriers won two games and lost two following the sacking of Darren Moore.
Huddersfield were relegated to League One last season following five consecutive seasons in the Championship in the wake a two-year stint in the Premier League.
They currently sit in seventh in League One, two points outside of the play-off positions.
