Huddersfield Town fixtures 2025/26: Tricky runs identified as Terriers learn opponents

The EFL have released their fixtures for the upcoming season

Huddersfield Town will kick off the new season at home to Leyton Orient on Saturday 2nd August, and will conclude the season with a trip to newly-promoted Wimbledon.

Terriers fans may be pleased to learn they have an away trip to Blackpool in August, while the first West Yorkshire derby of the season will be played away to Bradford City in mid-September.

Town will be at home on Boxing Day as Darren Moore’s Port Vale come to Town’s newly-renamed Accu Stadium, with Northampton visiting Huddersfield three days later.

Easter features a visit from Reading on Good Friday and a trip to Leyton Orient on Easter Monday.

Town have meanwhile been drawn at home to Leicester City in the first round of the Carabao Cup.

The Terriers will also face Harrogate Town, Mansfield Town, and Newcastle United U21s in the group stage of the Vertu Trophy. Full fixtures and dates that competition are yet to be announced, but the first game of that competition will take place in week commencing 1st September. Last season, all the group stage games were played in the run-up to international dates.

Huddersfield Town fixtures 2025/26

Fixtures are subject to change, but the fixtures in full are as follows. (An asterisk* indicates potential disruption depending on international call-ups.)

• Sat 2 August: Leyton Orient (H)

• Sat 9 August: Reading (A)

• Midweek of Wed 13 August: Carabao Cup first round: Leicester City (h)

• Sat 16 August: Blackpool (A)

• Tue 19 August: Doncaster Rovers (H)

• Sat 23 August: Stevenage (H)

• Sat 30 August: Barnsley (A)

• week commencing 1 September: Vertu Trophy matchday one

• * Sat 6 September: Peterborough United (H)

• Sat 13 September: Bradford City (A)

• Sat 20 September: Burton Albion (H)

• Sat 27 September: Exeter City (A)

• Sat 4 October: Stockport County (H)

• * Sat 11 October: Luton Town (A)

• Sat 18 October: Bolton Wanderers (H)

• Sat 25 October: Wycombe Wanderers (A)

• Weekend of Sat 1 November: FA Cup first round

• Sat 8 November: Plymouth Argyle (H)

• * Sat 15 November: Cardiff City (A)

• Sat 22 November: Mansfield Town (A)

• Sat 29 November: AFC Wimbledon (H)

• Tue 9 December: Northampton Town (A)

• Sat 13 December: Wigan Athletic (H)

• Sat 20 December: Rotherham United (A)

• Fri 26 December: Port Vale (H)

• Mon 29 December: Northampton Town (H)

• Thu 1 January: Lincoln City (A)

• Sun 4 January: Exeter City (H)

• Sat 10 January: Stockport County (A)

• Sat 17 January: Burton Albion (A)

• Sat 24 January: Bradford City (H)

• Tue 27 January: Luton Town (H)

• Sat 31 January: Peterborough United (A)

• Sat 7 February: Blackpool (H)

• Sat 14 February: Stevenage (A)

• Tue 17 February: Doncaster Rovers (A)

• Sat 21 February: Barnsley (H)

• Sat 28 February: Wigan Athletic (A)

• Sat 7 March: Rotherham United (H)

• Sat 14 March: Port Vale (A)

• Tue 17 March: Lincoln City (H)

• Sat 21 March: Plymouth Argyle (A)

• * Sat 28 March: Cardiff City (H)

• Fri 3 April: Reading (H)

• Mon 6 April: Leyton Orient (A)

• Sat 11 April: Wycombe Wanderers (H)

• Sat 18 April: Bolton Wanderers (A)

• Sat 25 April: Mansfield Town (H)

• Sat 2 May: AFC Wimbledon (A)

Cup dates

Vertu Trophy

• TBC — first game week commencing 1st September

Carabao Cup

• Midweek of Wed 13 August: First round

• Midweek of Wed 27 August: Second round

• Midweek of Wed 17 September and Wed 24 September: Third round

• Midweek of Wed 29 October: Fourth round

• Midweek of Wed 17 December: Fifth round

• Midweek of Wed 14 January and Wed 4 February: Semi-finals

• Midweek of Sun 22 March: Final

FA Cup

• Weekend of Sat 1 November: First round

• Weekend of Sat 6 December: Second round

• Weekend of Sat 10 January: Third round

• Weekend of Sat 14 February: Fourth round

• Weekend of Sat 7 March: Fifth round

• Weekend of Sat 4 April: Sixth round

• Weekend of Sat 25 April: Semi-finals

• Sat 16 May: Final

Where are Huddersfield Town’s tough runs?

It’s always hard to say without knowing who’s going to be good and who isn’t…but the bookies’ odds offer at least some guide of who’s expected to be decent this season.

Looking at it now, Town’s worst run of the season unquestionably looks to be from the beginning of October to the middle of November, when they are scheduled to face Stockport, Luton, Bolton, Wycombe, Plymouth and Cardiff all in a row…although Town’s games against Luton and Cardiff could well end up being moved for international call-ups in the end.

With Town rated as fourth-favourites this season, that run potentially gives them six of the rest of the eight best-fancied sides to tackle all in a row.

Town’s spell towards the end of the season also looks fairly tough. They have Plymouth (a) and Cardiff (h) just before Easter (when they face Reading at home and Leyton Orient away), followed by Wycombe (h) and Bolton (a).

The flipside of all that, of course, is that on paper, Town’s opening run of fixtures look reasonably average, while their festive period looks especially generous.

Game’s not played on paper, though, is it…