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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 14th Mar Stoke City Watford
Sat 21st Mar Watford Leicester City

Watford Latest Results

Date Home Team Away Team Result
Tue 10th Mar Sheffield Wednesday Watford 1-1
Sat 7th Mar Watford Wrexham 0-0

Championship
Pos Team Pld Pts
1 Coventry City 37 77
2 Middlesbrough 37 69
3 Millwall 37 68
4 Ipswich Town 36 65
5 Hull City 37 63
6 Wrexham 37 60
7 Southampton 36 54
8 Derby County 37 54
9 Watford 36 52
10 Birmingham City 37 52
11 Swansea City 38 52
12 Bristol City 37 50
13 Sheffield United 37 49
14 Preston North End 37 49
15 Norwich City 36 48
16 Stoke City 37 48
17 Charlton Athletic 37 47
18 Queens Park Rangers 37 47
19 Portsmouth 36 40
20 Blackburn Rovers 37 39
21 Leicester City 37 38
22 Oxford United 37 38
23 West Bromwich Albion 37 37
24 Sheffield Wednesday 37 -6

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