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Cliff Holton has scored the most goals for Watford in a single season; 48 in all competitions in the 1959–60 season, including 42 in the Football League. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Eddie Mummery 's five-goal haul against Newport County on 5 January 1924 is the club record for goals scored by a player in a Football League match. [ 5 ]
Paul Atkinson, Mo Johnston and Neil Price all featured for Watford in the 1984 FA Cup Final. Nick Wright scored the opening goal in Watford's 2–0 win over Bolton in the 1999 Football League First Division play-off final, a game that Israel international Alon Hazan also participated in.
Watford joined the Football League in 1920, and since then have won the Third Division twice, [n 1] and the Fourth Division once. They have achieved promotion to the top level of English football on four occasions; as runners-up of the Second Division in 1981–82, and winners of the play-off final (often considered the richest game in football ...
It includes all players who have played at least one competitive game, progressed through the club's youth system, or were once a professional footballer at the club. It does not include players who only appeared for Watford in wartime competitions; these players should instead be placed in the subcategory, Category:Watford F.C. wartime guest ...
On 2 January 2006, Watford won 2–1 at Kenilworth Road in the Championship, followed by a 1–1 draw between the sides, on 9 April 2006, a point that secured Watford's place in the 2006 Championship play-offs, from which they eventually won promotion to the Premier League for the second time, beating Leeds United, 3–0, at the Millennium ...
Watford Rovers became West Herts in 1891, and joined the Southern League for the 1896–97 season. The team started to change from one composed entirely of amateurs to one including paid professionals. In 1898, West Herts amalgamated with Watford St Mary's to form a new club, Watford Football Club. [1]
He turned professional in September 1964, and went on to make 419 competitive appearances for Watford in the Football League, FA Cup and Football League Cup. He was part of the side that achieved promotion to the Second Division in 1968–69, [2] and in 1970 played in Watford's first ever FA Cup semi final, against Chelsea. [3]
Players who came up just short of the 200 mark include Chris Chilton, Peter Doherty, Gary Lineker, Jack Smith, Freddie Steele and Andrew Wilson. Horace Barnes , Tony Brown and Bobby Charlton are the only midfielders to have scored over 200 goals in English football.