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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 1st Nov Watford Middlesbrough
Tue 4th Nov Ipswich Town Watford

Watford Latest Results

Date Home Team Away Team Result
Sat 25th Oct Coventry City Watford 3-1
Wed 22nd Oct Watford West Bromwich Albion 2-1

Championship
Pos Team Pld Pts
1 Coventry City 12 28
2 Middlesbrough 12 25
3 Millwall 12 23
4 Bristol City 12 22
5 Stoke City 12 21
6 Charlton Athletic 12 19
7 Preston North End 12 19
8 Hull City 12 19
9 Queens Park Rangers 12 18
10 Leicester City 12 17
11 West Bromwich Albion 12 17
12 Ipswich Town 11 16
13 Swansea City 12 16
14 Watford 12 15
15 Birmingham City 12 15
16 Wrexham 12 14
17 Derby County 12 14
18 Portsmouth 12 13
19 Oxford United 12 12
20 Southampton 12 12
21 Blackburn Rovers 11 10
22 Sheffield United 12 9
23 Norwich City 12 8
24 Sheffield Wednesday 12 -6

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