Watford Football Club are an English association football club, based in Watford

Watford

Watford is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, situated northwest of central London and within the bounds of the M25 motorway. The borough is separated from Greater London to the south by the urbanised parish of Watford Rural in the Three Rivers District.Watford was created as an urban...

, Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...

. Since the club's formation as Watford Rovers in 1881, there have been a total of 29 managers. Three managers, Len Goulden

Len Goulden

Leonard Arthur Goulden was an English footballer. His son Roy was also a footballer.-Playing career:Born in Hackney, London, Goulden began his career with Chelmsford City, before moving to Leyton and then West Ham United in 1933...

, Neil McBain

Neil McBain

Neil McBain was a Scottish professional footballer and football manager. He remains the oldest player to appear in an English Football League match.-Playing career:...

 and Malky Mackay

Malky Mackay

Malcolm George "Malky" Mackay is a Scottish football manager and former player, who played as a central defender. He is currently the manager of Cardiff City. Mackay began his playing career in Scottish football, with Queen's Park and Celtic. He joined English side Norwich City in 1998, remaining...

, have taken charge of the club on two separate occasions, while Graham Taylor had three stints as manager of the club. The statistics in the following table account for the league games of each manager.

Correct

Name	Nationality	From	To	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Win %	Notes
				246	90	63	93	347	358	36.59
				484	187	121	176	661	663	38.64
				126	45	28	53	204	239	35.71
				336	137	71	128	591	516	40.77
				114	50	25	39	179	152	43.86
				35	11	7	17	45	66	31.42
				88	29	27	32	102	107	32.95
				56	13	15	28	63	93	23.21
				54	16	11	27	70	95	29.63
				136	52	39	45	210	198	38.24
				15	2	6	7	16	28	13.34
				16	6	3	7	17	23	37.50
				122	42	33	47	187	203	34.43
				200	80	45	75	347	326	40.00
				57	26	17	14	97	81	45.61
				295	115	79	101	388	331	38.98
				88	17	26	45	67	123	19.32
				178	67	48	63	237	236	37.64
				428	191	105	132	692	544	44.63
				23	4	6	13	15	31	17.39
				80	36	29	35	127	111	45.00
				28	5	9	14	31	45	17.86
				121	42	35	44	140	151	34.71
				120	39	32	49	148	166	32.50
				18	5	8	5	31	30	27.78
				46	16	19	11	45	38	34.78
				176	71	45	60	243	241	40.34
				46	16	11	19	62	56	34.78
				131	42	37	52	155	189	32.06
				176	65	51	60	200	206	36.93
				4	2	0	2	6	5	50.00
				31	13	6	12	40	43	41.94
				99	33	25	41
				0	0	0	0

Playing records

Fourteen Watford managers played for Watford before or whilst managing them.

Name	Country	Position	Years	Apps	Goals	Int. apps	Int. goals	Notes
	Kingdom of England	FW	1903–1907	69	17	14	12	Player-manager
	Kingdom of England	DF	1909–1913	69	9	0	0	Player-manager from 1910
	Kingdom of England	FW	1921–1927	157	74	0	0	Player-manager between 1926 and 1927
	Kingdom of Scotland	DF	1928–1931	94	5	3	0	Player-manager between 1929 and 1931
	Kingdom of Scotland	DF	1932–1944	137	6	0	0	Player-manager between 1937 and 1944
	Kingdom of England	DF	1942–1946	29	4	0	0	—
	Kingdom of Scotland	MF	1952–1955	91	17	0	0	—
	Kingdom of England	DF	1964–1968	111	1	0	0	Player-manager until 1968
	Kingdom of England	DF	1972–1975	136	6	0	0	Player-manager between 1973 and 1975
	Kingdom of England	DF	1978–1981	102	0	0	0	—
	Kingdom of England	DF	1989–1991	86	3	0	0	—
	Wales	MF	1980–1990	428	34	31	0	—
	Kingdom of Scotland	DF	2005–2008	61	5	5	0	—
	Kingdom of England	DF	2002–2005	68	5	0	0	—