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	30	17	7	6	63	35	28	58
2	Middlesbrough	30	17	7	6	47	29	18	58
Promotion Playoffs
3	Hull City	30	16	6	8	48	40	8	54
4	Ipswich	29	14	9	6	49	28	21	51
5	Millwall	30	14	8	8	37	36	1	50
6	Wrexham	30	12	11	7	44	37	7	47

7	Derby	30	12	9	9	44	37	7	45
8	Watford	30	11	11	8	39	35	4	44
9	Preston	30	11	11	8	37	34	3	44
10	Bristol City	30	12	7	11	40	36	4	43
11	QPR	30	12	7	11	42	43	-1	43
12	Stoke City	30	12	6	12	34	28	6	42
13	Birmingham	30	11	9	10	41	38	3	42
14	Southampton	30	10	10	10	43	41	2	40
15	Sheffield Utd	30	12	3	15	43	43	0	39
16	Swansea	30	11	6	13	34	37	-3	39
17	Leicester	30	10	8	12	40	45	-5	38
18	Charlton	29	9	8	12	29	38	-9	35
19	Norwich	30	9	6	15	37	42	-5	33
20	Portsmouth	28	8	9	11	27	37	-10	33
21	Blackburn	30	8	8	14	27	38	-11	32
Relegation
22	West Brom	30	9	5	16	32	47	-15	32
23	Oxford United	30	6	9	15	28	41	-13	27
24	Sheffield Wednesday	30	1	8	21	18	58	-40	-7

Updated January 1, 2026 4:54 PM