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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 25th Apr Middlesbrough Watford
Sat 2nd May Watford Coventry City

Watford Latest Results

Date Home Team Away Team Result
Tue 21st Apr West Bromwich Albion Watford 3-0
Sat 18th Apr Watford Sheffield United 0-2

Championship
Pos Team Pld Pts
1 Coventry City 44 89
2 Ipswich Town 43 79
3 Millwall 44 79
4 Southampton 44 76
5 Middlesbrough 44 76
6 Wrexham 44 70
7 Hull City 44 70
8 Derby County 44 66
9 Norwich City 44 64
10 Birmingham City 44 60
11 Swansea City 44 60
12 Bristol City 44 59
13 Queens Park Rangers 44 58
14 Sheffield United 44 57
15 Watford 44 57
16 Preston North End 44 57
17 Stoke City 44 55
18 West Bromwich Albion 44 52
19 Blackburn Rovers 45 52
20 Portsmouth 44 51
21 Charlton Athletic 44 50
22 Oxford United 44 44
23 Leicester City 44 42
24 Sheffield Wednesday 44 -3

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