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	38	23	8	7	78	40	38	77
2	Middlesbrough	39	20	11	8	59	37	22	71
Promotion Playoffs
3	Ipswich	38	19	12	7	67	39	28	69
4	Millwall	39	20	9	10	53	44	9	69
5	Hull City	38	19	6	13	59	56	3	63
6	Southampton	38	16	12	10	61	48	13	60

7	Wrexham	38	16	12	10	58	50	8	60
8	Derby	39	17	9	13	56	48	8	60
9	Watford	38	14	13	11	50	46	4	55
10	Birmingham	39	14	11	14	48	49	-1	53
11	Swansea	38	15	7	16	44	46	-2	52
12	Preston	39	13	13	13	45	49	-4	52
13	Norwich	38	15	6	17	51	46	5	51
14	Stoke City	39	14	9	16	46	43	3	51
15	Bristol City	38	14	9	15	49	49	0	51
16	Sheffield Utd	38	15	5	18	53	52	1	50
17	QPR	38	14	8	16	49	60	-11	50
18	Charlton	38	12	12	14	36	45	-9	48
19	Blackburn	39	11	10	18	36	49	-13	43
20	Portsmouth	37	10	10	17	36	48	-12	40
21	West Brom	38	10	10	18	39	54	-15	40
Relegation
22	Oxford United	38	9	12	17	36	49	-13	39
23	Leicester	38	11	11	16	51	60	-9	38
24	Sheffield Wednesday	38	1	9	28	23	76	-53	-6

Updated January 1, 2026 4:54 PM