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Watford
Watford
Full name Watford Football Club
Nickname(s) The Hornets
The Golden Boys
Yellow Army
The 'Orns
Founded 1881
Ground Vicarage Road
(Capacity: 21,577)
Owner Flag of Italy Gino Pozzo
Chairman Flag of England Scott Duxbury
Manager Flag of England Tom Cleverley (Interim)
Current League Championship 
2022-23 Championship, 13th
Website Club home page
Watford 2023-24 homeWatford 2023-24 awayWatford 2023-24 third
Football current event Current season

Watford Football Club is a football club based in Hertfordshire, England, which plays in the EFL Championship, the second level of English football. Founded in 1881 as Watford Rovers, the club entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1886, and the Southern League a decade later. After finishing the 1914–15 season as Southern League champions under the management of Harry Kent, Watford joined the Football League in 1920. The club played at several grounds in its early history, before moving to a permanent location at Vicarage Road in 1922, where it remains to this day. Watford spent most of the following half century in the lower divisions of The Football League, changing colours and crest on multiple occasions.

England manager Graham Taylor's tenure at the club saw Watford scale new heights. Between Taylor's appointment in 1977 and departure in 1987, Watford rose from the Fourth Division to the First Division. The team finished second in the First Division in the 1982–83 season, competed in the UEFA Cup in 1983–84, and also reached the 1984 FA Cup Final. Watford experienced a decade of decline between 1987 and 1997, before Taylor returned as full-time manager, leading the team to successive promotions from the renamed Second Division to the Premier League for one season in 1999-2000. The club experienced a further one season stint in the top division of English football during the 2006–07 season, under Aidy Boothroyd's management. After eight years, Watford are once again competing in the Premier League 2015–16 season, after clinching promotion from the Football League Championship in the 2014–15 season.

Players[]

Current squad[]

As of 1 February 2024
No. Position Player
1 Flag of Austria GK Daniel Bachmann (captain)
2 Flag of England DF Jeremy Ngakia
3 Flag of Chile DF Francisco Sierralta
4 Flag of Netherlands DF Wesley Hoedt
5 Flag of Scotland DF Ryan Porteous
6 Flag of Northern Ireland DF Jamal Lewis (on loan from Newcastle)
7 Flag of England FW Tom Ince
8 Flag of England MF Jake Livermore
9 Flag of Denmark FW Mileta Rajović
11 Flag of Canada MF Ismaël Koné
12 Flag of Sweden MF Ken Sema
No. Position Player
15 Flag of England DF Mattie Pollock
16 Flag of Georgia MF Giorgi Chakvetadze
18 Flag of Colombia MF Yáser Asprilla
19 Flag of Ivory Coast FW Vakoun Bayo
24 Flag of Nigeria MF Tom Dele-Bashiru
25 Flag of Nigeria FW Emmanuel Dennis (on loan from Nottingham Forest)
26 Flag of England GK Ben Hamer
37 Flag of Brazil FW Matheus Martins (on loan from Udinese)
39 Flag of DR Congo MF Edo Kayembe
42 Flag of England DF James Morris
45 Flag of England DF Ryan Andrews

Out on loan[]

No. Position Player
10 Flag of Morocco MF Imran Louza (at Lorient until 30 June 2024)
13 Flag of Portugal DF João Ferreira (at Udinese until 30 June 2024)
17 Flag of Colombia FW Jorge Cabezas Hurtado (at Gillingham until 30 June 2024)
No. Position Player
28 Flag of Nigeria FW Samuel Kalu (at Lausanne-Sport until 30 June 2024)
34 Flag of Germany FW Kwadwo Baah (at Burton Albion until 30 June 2024)
Flag of England FW Ashley Fletcher (at Sheffield Wednesday until 30 June 2024)

Under-21s and Academy []

Main article: Watford F.C. Under-23s and Academy

Players to have made a first-team appearance for Watford in 2022–23.

No. Position Player
49 Flag of England FW Michael Adu-Poku
54 Flag of England FW Tobi Adeyemo
No. Position Player
59 Flag of England FW Jack Grieves

Club alumni[]

Former players[]

Main article: Watford F.C. players

Managers[]

Main article: Watford F.C. managers

External links[]

Watford FC
Watford Football Club

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Watford FC
Watford F.C. squad - 2023–24

Foster •  Ngakia •  Rose •  Etebo •  Troost-Ekong •  Louza •  King •  Cleverley •  Deeney •  10 João Pedro •  11 Masina •  12 Sema •  14 Chalobah •  15 Cathcart •  16 Gosling •  17 Fletcher •  18 Gray •  19 Hughes •  20 Quina •  21 Femenía •  22 Success •  23 Sarr •  24 Dele-Bashiru •  25 Dennis •  26 Bachmann •  27 Kabasele •  29 Hernández •  31 Sierralta •  32 Pollock •  33 Kucka •  34 Baah •  35 Elliot •  36 Hungbo •  37 Perica •  38 Navarro • 

Manager:  Flag of Serbia Slaven Bilić
Watford FC
Watford Football Club - Managers

Goodall (1903–10) • Kent (1910–26) • Pagnam (1926–29) • McBain (1929–37) • Findlay (1938–47) • Bray (1947–48) • Hapgood (1948–50) • Gray (1950–51) • Green (1951–52) • Goulden (1952–55) • Paton (1955–56) • Goulden (1956) • McBain (1956–59) • Burgess (1959–63) • McGarry (1963–64) • Furphy (1964–71) • Kirby (1971–73) • Keen (1973–77) • Taylor (1977–87) • Bassett (1987–88) • Harrison (1988–90) • Lee (1990) • Perryman (1990–93) • Roeder (1993–96) • Taylor (1996) • Jackett (1996–97) • Taylor (1997–2001) • Vialli (2001–02) • Lewington (2002–05) • Boothroyd (2005–08) • Mackay (2008) • Rodgers (2008–09) • Mackay (2009–11) • Dyche (2011–12) • Zola (2012–13) • Sannino (2013–14) • Garcia (2014) • McKinlay (2014) • Jokanović (2014–15) • Flores (2015–16) • Mazzari (2016–17) • Silva (2017–18) • Gracia (2018–19) • Sánchez Flores (2019) • Pearson (2019–20) • Ivić (2020) • Xisco (2020–21) • Ranieri (2021–22) • Hodgson (2022) • Edwards (2022) • Bilić (2022–23) • Wilder (2023) • Ismaël (2023) •

Watford FC
Watford F.C. seasons

2015-16 · 2016-17 · 2017-18 · 2018-19 · 2019-20 · 2020-21 · 2021-22 · 2022-23 · 2023-24 ·

Watford
Watford F.C. squad seasons

1984-85 · 1987-88 · 1996-97 · 2013-14 · 2014-15 · 2015-16 · 2016-17 · 2017-18 · 2018-19 · 2019-20 ·

Watford Football Club - Match seasons

2016-17

Football League Championship EFL Championship 2023–24

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