Huddersfield Town were charged more for policing than Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham combined last season.

It cost West Yorkshire Police £663,044 to pay for officers at Huddersfield matches in 2017/18, new figures have revealed.

The club have been invoiced for £291,777 of that total - 44%.

However, London’s biggest clubs were charged just a fraction of that cost.

The Metropolitan Police spent £1.2m covering Tottenham Hotspur games, the most of any club in the capital.

Spurs were invoiced just £61,935 by the Met though - 4.7 times less than the Terriers were charged by West Yorkshire Police.

Chelsea were invoiced for £103,802 to go towards the £936,253 cost of covering their games, which works out at 2.8 times less than what Town were charged.

Arsenal were charged £123,878 (2.4 times less than Huddersfield), while West Ham were charged £106,311 (2.7 times less than Huddersfield).

Under current rules, clubs are only obliged to pay for policing in the stadium and on their land, leading to the taxpayer picking up most of the bill.

The John Smith's Stadium

Huddersfield’s most expensive game was the February 17 visit of Manchester United.

That game had an overall police cost of £69,597 and the club were invoiced £30,098.

Meanwhile, Leeds United were charged more for policing than all London clubs combined last season.

It cost West Yorkshire Police £815,087 to pay for officers at Leeds United matches in 2017/18.

The club have been invoiced for £572,779 of that total - 70%. London’s biggest clubs were charged just a fraction of that cost.

Leeds’ most expensive game in terms of police costs was the April 7 clash with Sunderland.

Policing that game cost West Yorkshire Police £70,053.

The game against Millwall was the next most expensive (£67,433) followed by Sheffield United (£67,173) and Aston Villa (£66,462).

West Yorkshire Police sent their largest invoice for the Middlesbrough game. The Boro clash cost United £47,863.

The Millwall, Sheffield United and Villa games all cost the club £47,238 each.