2025–26 Watford F.C. season

The 2025–26 season is the 127th season in the history of Watford and their fourth consecutive season in the Championship. The club are participating in the Championship, the FA Cup, and the EFL Cup.

Prior to the season starting, Paulo Pezzolano was appointed as the new Head Coach.^[1]

Date	Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Ref.
1 July 2025[a]	GK	Nathan Baxter	Bolton Wanderers	Free	[2]
1 July 2025[b]	LB	Marc Bola	Samsunspor		[3]
1 July 2025[c]	DM	Hector Kyprianou	Peterborough United		[4]
5 July 2025	CF	Vivaldo Semedo	Udinese	Undisclosed	[5]
11 July 2025	RW	Othmane Maamma	Montpellier		[6]
18 July 2025		Nestory Irankunda	Bayern Munich	€4,000,000	[7][8]
30 July 2025	LW	Remerio Moulton	Brighton & Hove Albion	Free	[9]

Date	Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Ref.
19 June 2025	CB	Francisco Sierralta	Auxerre	£1,500,000	[10][11]
15 July 2025	CF	Mileta Rajović	Legia Warsaw	£2,600,000	[12][13]
29 July 2025	CB	Antonio Tikvić	Preußen Münster	£610,000	[14][15]
4 August 2025		Ryan Porteous	Los Angeles	£750,000	[16][17]
6 August 2025	RB	João Ferreira	Saint-Étienne	£2,600,000	[18][19]

Income: ≈ £8,060,000 (all fees converted into GBP)

Date	Pos.	Player	From	Date until	Ref.
30 June 2025	CB	James Abankwah	Udinese	31 May 2026	[20]
16 July 2025	CF	Luca Kjerrumgaard			[21]
22 July 2025	LB	Caleb Wiley	Chelsea		[22]
8 August 2025	CB	Max Alleyne	Manchester City		[23]

Date	Pos.	Player	To	Date until	Ref.
27 June 2025	RW	Michael Adu-Poku	Barrow	31 May 2026	[24]
30 June 2025	GK	Myles Roberts	Walsall		[25]
15 July 2025	CB	James Clarridge	Aldershot Town	1 January 2026	[26]
29 July 2025	CF	Jorge Hurtado	Millonarios	31 May 2026	[27]
12 August 2025	GK	Daniel Bachmann	Deportivo La Coruña		[28]

Date	Pos.	Player	Subsequent club	Join date	Ref.
30 June 2025	CB	George Abbott	Górnik Łęczna	12 July 2025	[29][30]
	CM	Freddie Buers			[29]
	CB	Aidan Coyne			[29]
	CM	Zak Fraser-Grante			[29]
	CM	Ignacio Garcia-Romero			[29]
	DM	Luigi Gaspar			[29]
	CB	Ali Gould			[29]
	CB	Angelo Ogbonna			[29]
	LM	Prince Sikiru			[29]
	CF	Jake Watkiss			[29]

Date	Pos.	Player	Contract until	Ref.
22 July 2025	CM	Hayden Barrett	30 June 2026[a][b]	[31]
	LM	Marats Galajevs	30 June 2027[a][b]	[31]
	CB	Tom Georgiou		[31]
	RB	Conrad Hunt	30 June 2026[a][b]	[31]
	CF	Jonathan Lawson		[31]
	GK	Sam Morris	30 June 2027[a][b]	[31]
	CF	Kash Odiase		[31]
	CM	Omar Sanghrajka		[31]
	RW	Kristian Shevchenko	30 June 2026[a][b]	[31]
	CF	Max Smith	30 June 2027[a][b]	[31]
	RB	Ollie Stephenson		[31]
	LB	Raul Vancea		[31]

On 30 May, Watford announced their first two pre-season friendlies, against Boreham Wood and Leyton Orient.^[32] Ten days later, a third fixture was added against AFC Wimbledon.^[33] A home friendly was later announced, against Deportivo La Coruña.^[34]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

On 26 June, the Championship fixtures were released.^[36]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

Watford were drawn at home to Norwich City in the first round.^[38][39]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

As of match played 16 August 2025

Players with no appearances are not included on the list

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	League		FA Cup		EFL Cup		Total		Discipline
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Egil Selvik	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0
2	DF		Jeremy Ngakia	2	0	0	0	0+1	0	2+1	0	0	0
3	DF		Max Alleyne	0+1	0	0	0	1	0	1+1	0	0	0
4	DF		Kévin Keben	2	0	0	0	0+1	0	2+1	0	0	0
5	MF		Hector Kyprianou	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	1	0
7	FW		Tom Ince	0+1	0	0	0	1	0	1+1	0	0	0
9	FW		Luca Kjerrumgaard	2	2	0	0	0+1	0	2+1	2	0	0
10	MF		Imran Louza	2	0	0	0	0+1	0	2+1	0	0	1
16	DF		Marc Bola	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0
17	MF		Moussa Sissoko	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
18	FW		Vivaldo Semedo	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
20	FW		Mamadou Doumbia	1+1	0	0	0	0	0	1+1	0	0	0
24	MF		Tom Dele-Bashiru	0+1	0	0	0	1	0	1+1	0	0	0
25	DF		James Abankwah	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
34	FW		Kwadwo Baah	1+1	0	0	0	0+1	1	1+2	1	1	0
39	MF		Edo Kayembe	1+1	0	0	0	1	0	2+1	0	2	0
43	FW		Jack Grieves	0+1	0	0	0	1	0	1+1	0	0	0
45	DF		Ryan Andrews	0+1	0	0	0	1	0	1+1	0	0	0
66	FW		Nestory Irankunda	1+1	0	0	0	1	0	2+1	0	0	0