Former MK Dons striker Rhys Healey leaves Huddersfield Town after contract terminated

Former MK Dons striker Rhys Healey has left Huddersfield Town after player and club mutually agreed to terminate his contract.

Healey had been under contract with the Terriers for the upcoming 2026/27 season, but an agreement has been arranged for the 31-year-old to leave the club a year early and explore options elsewhere.

The striker has been affected by injury since joining the Yorkshire club from Watford in 2024, making just 22 appearances in all competitions, scoring 5 goals and not making a competitive appearance for the club since February 2025. He also made just one appearance in a loan spell in League Two for Barrow in the 2025/26 season, with his spell in Cumbria disrupted by injury.

In a statement, Huddersfield said, “Rhys Healey has today departed the Club with immediate effect after reaching an agreement to terminate his contract by mutual consent. All at Huddersfield Town wish Rhys the very best for the future.”

Healey had previously played for MK Dons for 2 seasons, scoring 21 goals in 41 appearances with the club. He had first joined the club on loan from Cardiff City in the 2018-19 season, but returned to Wales in January 2019.

In the summer 2019 transfer window, Healey would make a full transfer to Stadium MK, winning the club’s Player’s Player of the Year award for his work in the 2019-20 season before leaving in the summer 2020 transfer window to join French side Toulouse.

Healey scored 40 goals in 3 seasons with Toulouse, but saw his momentum severely stalled when he missed most of the 2022-23 season with a serious knee injury, and he was allowed to move to Watford on a free transfer in 2023.