Vicarage Road
Vicarage Road is a stadium in Watford, United Kingdom that opened in 1921. Its recorded capacity is 22,220.
Key facts
Vicarage Road is a stadium in Watford, United Kingdom that opened in 1921. Its recorded capacity is 22,220. It is owned by Watford F.C.. The venue does not currently carry a sponsor name. Current tenants are Wealdstone, Saracens, Hartford, Watford F.C., Hanham Athletic F.C..
- Location
- Watford, United Kingdom
- Type
- Stadium
- Capacity
- 22,220
- Opened
- 1921
- Status
- Active
- Current owner
- Watford F.C.
- Naming rights
- No current sponsor name
- Name changes
- 0
- Playing surface
- Hybrid grass
Vicarage Road is at latitude 51.649928, longitude -0.401606, in Watford, United Kingdom. The marker is drawn from the recorded coordinates. The building outline appears here once OpenStreetMap footprint geometry is available for this venue.
Data table for this chart
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Latitude | 51.649928 |
| Longitude | -0.401606 |
| City | Watford |
| Region | Watford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| OpenStreetMap object | Not recorded |
| Footprint geometry | Not yet exported by the pipeline |
Technology
| Feature | Recorded as | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface | Hybrid grass | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
See the venue technology guides for how these work.
Naming rights
No naming history is recorded for this venue.
Ownership and operation
| Role | Organization | Period | Status | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owner | Watford F.C. | 1922 to present | Current | Wikidata statement | Source |
Tenants
| Tenant | Competitions | Period | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wealdstone | EFL Championship | Present | Current | Source |
| Saracens | EFL Championship | Present | Current | Source |
| Hartford | EFL Championship | Present | Current | Source |
| Watford F.C. | EFL Championship | 1922 to present | Current | Source |
| Hanham Athletic F.C. | EFL Championship | 1922 to present | Current | Source |
Recorded changes
16 changes to this venue have been recorded by the monthly pipeline runs.
| Date | Table | Field | From | To | Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 October 2026 | venue_competitions | (created) | not set | 1019 | 2026-10 |
| 2 October 2026 | venue_features | (created) | not set | 1014 | 2026-10 |
| 24 September 2026 | org_aliases | (deleted) | Watford | not set | 2026-09 |
| 24 September 2026 | venue_roles | (deleted) | 33129 | not set | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 33130 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 33129 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | org_aliases | (created) | not set | 1667 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | opened_year | 1922 | 1921 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | capacity | 22000 | 22220 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_revid | not set | 1373097652 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_title | Vicarage_Road | Vicarage Road | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 18413 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 18412 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 5834 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 5833 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 5832 | 2026-09 |
Sources and licenses
Every ownership, naming and sponsorship row on this page carries the URL it was derived from. The site as a whole is built from these sources:
- Wikidata: CC0 1.0. Data from Wikidata, released under CC0 1.0 Universal.
- OpenStreetMap: ODbL 1.0. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0). See https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.
- Wikipedia: CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from Wikipedia, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Row-level sources used for this venue: