Watford FC

Watford ended their 1995 - 96 League campaign strongly with 13 points from their final 6 games, including 15 goals scored in successive home games against Port Vale, Reading and Grimsby Town. Unfortunately form earlier in the season had not been so strong and...

Global music megastar Sir Elton John, a diehard Watford FC fan born in neighbouring Pinner, lived a childhood dream when he became Chairman of the club in 1976. Sir Elton, alongside manager Graham Taylor, transformed Watford into 'The Original Family Club' and oversaw the...

A historic season for Watford who reached the FA Cup final for the first time in the club’s history. Curiously their toughest fixture came early on in the Third Round when it took two hard fought games to overcome near rivals Luton Town. Subsequent...

Led by Graham Taylor, under the ownership of Elton John, Watford followed up their second-place finish in the First Division with the club’s first venture into Europe and finishing the season with a visit to Wembley for an FA Cup Final. Having defeated Kaiserslautern...

Two relegations in the early 1970s took Watford back to the fourth tier of the English game for the first time since 1960. Under manager Mike Keen the club briefly bottomed out and sat last in the entire Football League, but the 1976 -...

A well-established top flight side for much of the 1980s, the 1986-87 season saw Watford achieve a respectable 9th placed League finish. The main talking point of their season came in the FA Cup however as the Hornets battled past Maidstone, Walsall, Chelsea and...

The mid-1990s were a challenging period for Watford as the club struggled to regain its place in the top division, a position it had enjoyed so much in the previous decade. Seasons under managers Steve Perryman and Glenn Roeder typically ended in the lower...