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Club Details: Watford

Watford Football Club was founded in 1881, and their home ground is Vicarage Road Stadium. Their nicknames include The Hornets, The Golden Boys and also the Yellow Army.

Club Name:

Club Address:

Watford

Vicarage Road
Watford
Hertfordshire
WD18 0ER

Telephone:

01923 223023

Stadium / Home Ground: Vicarage Road Stadium

Stadium:

Capacity:

Address:

Vicarage Road Stadium

22,200

Vicarage Road, Watford, WD18 0ER

Other Details

Club Founded:

Team Colours:

1881

Yellow and Black

Away Travel Info: Vicarage Road Stadium

By Car

From the North:

Join the M25 and follow until Junction 20. Exit and follow signs for Hempstead Road, follow Hempstead Road into central Watford.

Follow the large roundabout system at the end of Hempstead Road and exit towards Rickmansworth A412.

Follow this road for 1/4 mile and turn left at the end of the underpass. Go through two traffic lights and turn left into The Hornets at the East end of Vicarage Road.

From the South:

Join the M25 and head north past M4/Heathrow, then past the M40 Oxford Exit at Junction 16. Take the exit at Junction 18. The slip road goes up to a bridge going across the motorway, turn left towards Rickmansworth.

Head down into Rickmansworth until you arrive at a large roundabout near Rickmansworth BR station. Turn left here along the A412 towards Watford. Follow signs into Croxley Green.

Continue straight over at the two roundabouts past Croxley, then take the fifth right exit on to Harwood Road. Continue straight down, heading straight over the traffic lights, until you come to the end of the road.

At the end turn left and you will now be on Vicarage Road, continue for a few hundred metres and you will see the ground on your right hand side.

By Train and Tube

The nearest station is Watford High Street, a ten minute walk away from the ground. Watford Junction train station is about a 20 minute walk.

Parking

There is no parking available for fans at the ground and street parking is exclusively restricted for local residents by way of matchday permits.

Parking is not permitted in Watford General Hospital.

Watford town centre has several car parks, the easiest of which for access to Vicarage Road is Church Car Park on the inside of the ring-road, opposite the turn-off into Vicarage Road.

All town centre car parks are within a ten minute walk of Vicarage Road.

There is also an additional car parking option in the Town Centre at Royalty House (on King Street, just off the High Street). Other possibilities are Watford Grammar School for Girls, Cassiobury Park Avenue, and Fishers Industrial Estate off Wiggenhall Road.



Watford Latest Fixtures

Date Home Team Away Team
Sat 3rd May Watford Sheffield Wednesday

Watford Latest Results

Date Home Team Away Team Result
Sat 26th Apr Blackburn Rovers Watford 2-1
Mon 21st Apr Portsmouth Watford 1-0

Championship
Pos Team Pld Pts
1 Leeds United 45 97
2 Burnley 45 97
3 Sheffield United 45 89
4 Sunderland 45 76
5 Bristol City 45 67
6 Coventry City 45 66
7 Millwall 45 66
8 Blackburn Rovers 45 65
9 Middlesbrough 45 64
10 West Bromwich Albion 45 61
11 Swansea City 45 60
12 Sheffield Wednesday 45 57
13 Watford 45 56
14 Norwich City 45 54
15 Queens Park Rangers 45 53
16 Portsmouth 45 53
17 Oxford United 45 52
18 Stoke City 45 50
19 Derby County 45 49
20 Preston North End 45 49
21 Luton Town 45 49
22 Hull City 45 48
23 Plymouth Argyle 45 46
24 Cardiff City 45 44

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