3 WAT

0 BIR

WAT 3

0 BIR

Watford
-
Birmingham

Championship, Round 25
Thursday, January 1, 2026 3:00 PM
Vicarage Road

Result

3-0

Match Recap

T. Ince 9'

T. Ince 38'

T. Ince 60'

Match Events

Second Half 3 - 0

78'

Paik Seung-Ho

Yellow Card

77'

Lewis Koumas

Keshi Anderson

K. Baah

T. Ince

77'

Moussa Sissoko

Othmane Maamma

70'

N. Mendy

I. Louza

69'

68'

M. Ducksch

K. Furuhashi

Vivaldo

L. Kjerrumgaard

64'

63'

Lyndon Dykes

Yellow Card

62'

Eiran Joe Cashin

Alex Cochrane

T. Ince

Nestory Irankunda

60'

Nestory Irankunda

G. Chakvetadze

46'

Lyndon Dykes

Willum Thor Willumsson

46'

Marc Leonard

A. Sampsted

First Half 2 - 0

M. Pollock

Yellow Card

43'

T. Ince

Goal

38'

T. Ince

G. Chakvetadze

Match Statistics

Ball Possession

45%

55%

Total Shots

Shots on Goal

Corners

Expected Goals (xG)

1.54

0.40

Match Information

Information	Value
League	Championship
Season	Championship 2025/26
Round	Round 25
Date	January 1, 2026
Time	15:00
Venue	Vicarage Road
Result	3 - 0

Lineups

Watford

1. E. Selvik Egil Selvik

25. J. Abankwah James Abankwah

6. M. Pollock M. Pollock

3. M. Alleyne Max Alleyne

16. M. Bola Marc Bola

42. O. Maamma Othmane Maamma

5. H. Kyprianou Hector Kyprianou

10. I. Louza I. Louza

7. T. Ince T. Ince

8. G. Chakvetadze G. Chakvetadze

9. L. Kjerrumgaard L. Kjerrumgaard

9. K. Furuhashi K. Furuhashi

14. K. Anderson Keshi Anderson

18. W. T. Willumsson Willum Thor Willumsson

16. P. Roberts P. Roberts

8. P. Seung-Ho Paik Seung-Ho

24. T. Iwata Tomoki Iwata

20. A. Cochrane Alex Cochrane

6. J. Robinson J. Robinson

5. P. Neumann Phil Neumann

23. A. Sampsted A. Sampsted

25. J. Beadle James Beadle

Birmingham

Substitutes

Watford

Birmingham

Unused Players

Watford

Birmingham

Form before the match

Watford

Birmingham

Previous Fixtures

Championship 2025/26

December 1, 2025

Birmingham

Watford

Championship 2023/24

March 16, 2024

Birmingham

Watford

September 16, 2023

Watford

Birmingham

Championship

	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Promotion
1	Coventry	45	27	11	7	93	45	48	92
2	Ipswich	44	22	14	8	75	45	30	80
Promotion Playoffs
3	Millwall	45	23	11	11	62	49	13	80
4	Middlesbrough	45	22	13	10	70	45	25	79
5	Southampton	44	21	13	10	77	53	24	76
6	Wrexham	45	19	13	13	67	63	4	70

7	Hull City	45	20	10	15	68	65	3	70
8	Derby	45	20	9	16	66	57	9	69
9	Norwich	45	19	8	18	62	54	8	65
10	Birmingham	45	17	12	16	56	55	1	63
11	Swansea	45	17	10	18	54	58	-4	61
12	Preston	45	15	15	15	54	59	-5	60
13	Bristol City	45	16	11	18	57	59	-2	59
14	QPR	45	16	10	19	61	70	-9	58
15	Sheffield Utd	45	17	6	22	64	65	-1	57
16	Watford	45	14	15	16	53	61	-8	57
17	Stoke City	45	15	10	20	51	54	-3	55
18	Portsmouth	45	14	12	19	48	63	-15	54
19	Charlton	45	13	14	18	43	55	-12	53
20	Blackburn	45	13	13	19	42	55	-13	52
21	West Brom	45	13	14	18	47	56	-9	51
Relegation
22	Oxford United	45	11	14	20	45	57	-12	47
23	Leicester	45	11	16	18	57	68	-11	43
24	Sheffield Wednesday	45	1	12	32	27	88	-61	-3

Updated January 1, 2026 4:54 PM