'This might be unpopular' - Claim made on Huddersfield Town's club badge | OneFootball

There's been a social media debate about Huddersfield Town's badge this week, but FLW's fan pundit doesn't see what all the fuss is about.

This article is part of Football League World's 'Terrace Talk' series, which provides personal opinions from our FLW Fan Pundits regarding the latest breaking news, teams, players, managers, potential signings and more…

With three straight victories since the decision to replace Lee Grant with Liam Manning in January, 2026 has taken an upward swing for Huddersfield Town.

Consecutive wins against Bradford City, Luton Town and Peterborough United have solidified their 6th-place spot in the League One table, and there's now a six-point buffer between themselves and the teams below them.

But football supporters love to have something to complain about, so attention has shifted from a team that was misfiring under Grant to the subject of the possibility of changing the club's badge. Fans tend to attach a great importance to this form of identity. Indeed, as the BBC reported in July 2025, one of the powers that will be held by the incoming Independent Football Regulator will be, "Protections for key club heritage aspects like home shirt colours and club badges and stadium moves."

"I'm probably in the minority" - Huddersfield pundit unconcerned by badge debate

FLW have spoken to our Huddersfield Town fan pundit Graeme Rayner about the Terriers badge debate, and Graeme is broadly unconcerned by it all: "This might be unpopular or controversial, but I couldn't really care less about the badge. There have been various iterations of it through the years, and it's never really bothered me."

Graeme feels that what is on the badge isn't as important as the players putting in a shift for what it represents: "The one that's actually on the shirt at the moment is fine. Some people have an issue the logo of a sideways sitting terrier that's stylised and is on a lot of the merch. A lot of people don't like it, but my view is that I couldn't care less, really, what's on the badge, so long as the players are playing for it. As long as the players are committed to representing whatever the badge looks like really well."

And considering the issues that Huddersfield faced under the managership of Lee Grant, he's relieved that the fans have something relatively trifling to be debating online: "If at the moment the worst thing that people can do is talk about the various iterations of the badge over the years and moan about it, then maybe things have taken a turn for the better recently, because over the last few weeks we haven't been able to moan about what's been happening on the pitch or what's been happening in the transfer window. So maybe it's a sign of positivity that people are actually being energised and exercised by something different."

But none of this means, of course, that our Terriers fan pundit doesn't have an opinion on what should be on the club's badge: "What's important to be on the badge? The words "Huddersfield Town", a terrier with a football, because that's the tradition, and three stars because we won the league three times in a row. That's really what I care about. In terms of what it looks like, I just don't think it's that important. I think there are bigger things to worry about, though I realise I'm probably in the minority over that."

Being the first club to become the champions of England three times in a row is a badge of honour for Terriers fans

Although the Independent Football Regulator may have a power of veto over changes to club badges, the truth is almost all clubs do change them from time to time, and always have.

This is the same at Huddersfield as anywhere else. Since 1920, Huddersfield have had 11 different variants of their club badge, and some of them have been fairly idiosyncratic.

The current one has been in use by the club since 2019, but one of the key details that our fan pundit feels is important to feature, the three stars commemorating their three consecutive League titles in the 1920s, is in a somewhat reduced state in the middle of the badge, rendering it quite easy to miss altogether.

These titles mark the club's place in the history of the game. The Huddersfield Town team of 1924, 1925 and 1926 was the first to win the Football League Championship for three consecutive seasons, a feat that has only been repeated by Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United (twice) and Manchester City since.

City finally broke the record by winning it for four straight seasons in 2024, but the very fact that Huddersfield were the first to do so means that it's an achievement of which Terriers fans remain justifiably proud, especially with this year marking the centenary of the last of those three title wins. It is, therefore, a literal badge of honour for both the club and their fans, and it's somewhat surprising to see that the three stars which mark it are in a somewhat diminished position on the current version.

But ultimately, it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that any discussion of a subject like this will be largely forgotten should Liam Manning manage to secure Huddersfield Town a place back in the Championship, come the end of this season. It's early days yet, but on the pitch, Terriers fans have had something to smile about since Manning's arrival at the club. Marking that centenary with promotion would be an ideal way to honour what was a truly exceptional achievement.