Nahki Wells’s Huddersfield Town have confirmed that Mark Lillis will take temporary charge of the Sky Bet Championship club after Mark Robins’s departure as manager.

Robins left Huddersfield by mutual consent after his team’s 4-0 defeat against Bournemouth at home in their Championship opener at the weekend.

Lillis, the club’s academy manager, will team up with Steve Thompson, the assistant coach, and Steve Eyre, the first-team coach, until Robins is replaced.

Malky Mackay, the former Cardiff City manager, and Steven Pressley, who is presently in charge of Coventry City, have both been linked with the post, having previously worked with Ross Wilson, Huddersfield’s head of football operations.

Huddersfield take on Sky Bet League One side Chesterfield away in the first round of the Capital One Cup today.

“As a Club — staff, players and fans alike — we have to pull together and move on,” Lillis told the Huddersfield Examiner.

“Due to the integration of the club’s first team and academy set-up at PPG Canalside, the players see me every day.

“That makes it as smooth a transition for them as possible, which is a positive.

“We have a cup game at Chesterfield on Tuesday, which is an important one for the club and players after the performance and result on Saturday. We must go into the cup game to win and play how we can. A win could kick-off a run.

“I know the fans will get behind the players if they put a shift in and we’ve challenged the players to do that.”

Lillis, 54, and former Rochdale manager Eyre, 42, had a spell in caretaker charge before Robins’s arrival in February 2013. Thompson, 49, a former assistant manager of Blackpool, arrived at the club as part of a coaching reshuffle this close-season.