The Huddersfield Town players who are going to leave in 2025 if nothing is done
Huddersfield Town are currently set to lose the majority of their contracted squad at the end of the 2024-25 season.
Transfer talk is the main buzz in football at this time of the year, not contract talk.
Those sometimes more boring moves aren’t often sorted in the Christmas period, but with the number of expiring deals on their books, the Terriers may need to start thinking about them now.
In total, 12 players are poised to leave the John Smith’s Stadium in 2025, and depending on how Huddersfield perform this season, primarily, whether they win promotion or not, that will either end up as a blessing or a curse.
So who are the dozen players who are set to leave? FLW takes a look…
Polish defender Michal Helik has been through all the ups and downs of being a Terrier.
He has stuck with the club following relegation from League One, despite being a top player in 2023-24 with his nine Championship goals, but is now set to leave when this campaign concludes, unless Town activate his one-year extension clause – you’d expect they’d do just that however.
Helik’s central defensive partner Matthew Pearson will also leave Huddersfield in the summer of 2025 if the club don’t make him an offer.
A local lad from nearby Keighley, the 31-year-old is a really solid League One option though, so if he’s not offered a fresh deal, it would be a surprise.
One of the club’s top scorers this season, Josh Koroma will be key to Huddersfield’s promotion if they do manage to achieve it.
Whether he will be there in the aftermath of this potential scenario is another question, but at the age of 26, Koroma still has some good years ahead of him.
Long-serving Terriers striker Danny Ward may be playing his final season in blue and white.
He re-joined the club as a free agent in 2020, having played 130 times in his original full-time stint at the John Smith’s Stadium, but is now in the final six months of his contract, and he hasn’t been scoring the goals needed.
Speaking of brilliant servants to the club, Jonathan Hogg is now into his 11th season with Huddersfield, and it could well be not just the final one of his time with Town, but also in the 36-year-old’s career.
Hogg has been solid and dependable, but you just have to wonder how many more seasons the midfielder has in his legs.
