Huddersfield Town earn Premier League spot & £155 million

Huddersfield Town edged Reading 4-3 in a penalty shootout to secure their place in the Premier League for the first time next season.

The triumph grants Huddersfield immediate promotion to England’s top flight, with the financial benefit for the club reckoned to be around £155 million, and markes the first time they’ll play in the English top flight since 1972.

And it was Huddersfield who nearly struck first early on when Michael Hefele’s free header from close range went well wide of the post in the fifth minute.

Izzy Brown was then guilty of a poor miss five minutes later — Elias Kachunga’s errant shot to the far post finding the Chelsea product who could not steer it in.

Reading’s best chance of the first half came moments later through Lewis Grabban, but his curled right-footed shot from just outside the box could not find the target.

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Reading could have edged ahead just a few minutes after the restart through John Swift, but his low strike from inside the area was kept out by Danny Ward.

Huddersfield had an opportunity to break the deadlock 15 minutes from time that they failed to take when Collin Quaner fired wide from close range after some good work from Aaron Mooy down the right.

Chris Gunter had a chance to win it for Reading in injury time when he met Garath McCleary’s cross at the back post, but he could only send his effort over.

With the game still goalless it moved into extra-time, where 17 minutes passed before the first real chance came about for Reading as McCleary sent a low strike from distance just wide of the target, while Huddersfield’s Nahki Wells was then unable to direct his shot on goal with just four minutes left on the clock.

The game then went to penalties, where misses from Liam Moore and Jordan Obita set the stage for Christopher Schindler to fire Huddersfield into the Prem.