Arsenal vs Watford head-to-head
Arsenal10-season win rate57.1%347 games 198W 69D 80Lthrough 2026.09.19
Watford10-season win rate25.7%152 games 39W 31D 82Lthrough 2022.05.22Arsenal and Watford have met 8 times across all competitions between 2017-18 ~ 2021-22: Arsenal 6 wins, 1 draws, Watford 1 wins. At Arsenal's ground the home side is 4-0-0 (4 games); at Watford's it is 1-1-2 (4 games). The fixture averages 3.0 goals and both teams score in 50.0% of meetings (8 league).
Head-to-head6 · 1 · 1Arsenal W · D · Watford W
Goals per game3.03+ goals 62.5%
Both teams score50.0%8 games
First goal28.1 mingoals from 76' 25.0%
Yellows per game4.12reds 2 · pens 4
Top scorerP. Aubameyang6 goals · since left
All results
- Watford2–3Arsenal
- Arsenal1–0Watford
- Arsenal3–2Watford
- Watford2–2Arsenal
- Watford0–1Arsenal
- Arsenal2–0Watford
- Arsenal3–0Watford
- Watford2–1Arsenal
top rows are fixtures still to be played (UK kick-off time) · green home win · red away win · league games since 2017-18 only · rows marked Preview open the pre-match data published for that game
Top scorers in this fixture
P. Aubameyang 6 · T. Deeney 2 · T. Cleverley 2 · P. Mertesacker 1 · S. Mustafi 1
None of the players above are still at their club (squad as of 2026-09-21) — the list covers ten seasons. The records themselves are left as they are.
Compare by condition
Pick a condition and see how each club has done under it — kickoff time, weather, days of rest, formation. These are league records against everyone, not this head-to-head: Arsenal 347 and Watford 152 matches since 2017-18. Every win rate is shown with its W-D-L.
League win rate Arsenal 57.1% · Watford 25.7%
Home or away
- ArsenalWatford
- 67.6%173 games 117W 30D 26LLeague home30.3%76 games 23W 17D 36L
- 46.6%174 games 81W 39D 54LLeague away21.1%76 games 16W 14D 46L
At half time
- ArsenalWatford
- 82.6%144 games 119W 20D 5LLeading65.6%32 games 21W 4D 7L
- 53.8%130 games 70W 30D 30LLevel26.8%56 games 15W 19D 22L
- 12.3%73 games 9W 19D 45LTrailing4.7%64 games 3W 8D 53L
Possession
- ArsenalWatford
- 59.2%218 games 129W 47D 42LPossession 55%+20.0%25 games 5W 5D 15L
- 62.5%72 games 45W 10D 17LPossession 45–55%32.6%46 games 15W 12D 19L
- 42.1%57 games 24W 12D 21LPossession under 45%23.5%81 games 19W 14D 48L
Weather
- ArsenalWatford
- 69.2%52 games 36W 11D 5LClear13.3%15 games 2W 2D 11L
- 59.5%37 games 22W 7D 8LMostly clear23.5%17 games 4W 6D 7L
- 51.6%31 games 16W 7D 8LPartly cloudy37.5%8 games 3W 4D 1L · thin sample
- 58.5%135 games 79W 23D 33LOvercast29.3%75 games 22W 12D 41L
- 51.9%79 games 41W 16D 22LDrizzle25.0%28 games 7W 5D 16L
- 25.0%8 games 2W 5D 1L · thin sampleRain16.7%6 games 1W 2D 3L · thin sample
Temperature
- ArsenalWatford
- 53.1%147 games 78W 32D 37LUnder 10°C26.1%69 games 18W 14D 37L
- 58.2%165 games 96W 34D 35L10–20°C23.9%67 games 16W 14D 37L
- 70.6%34 games 24W 3D 7LOver 20°C31.2%16 games 5W 3D 8L
Stadium size
- ArsenalWatford
- 63.5%52 games 33W 9D 10LUnder 30,00032.0%97 games 31W 22D 44L
- 47.9%71 games 34W 16D 21L30–50,00023.1%26 games 6W 4D 16L
- 59.4%219 games 130W 42D 47LOver 50,0004.2%24 games 1W 2D 21L
Days of rest
- ArsenalWatford
- 54.6%130 games 71W 30D 29L3 days21.1%19 games 4W 5D 10L
- 52.7%55 games 29W 11D 15L4 days15.4%26 games 4W 8D 14L
- 48.7%39 games 19W 10D 10L5 days44.4%9 games 4W 0D 5L · thin sample
- 57.7%26 games 15W 6D 5L6 days30.8%13 games 4W 2D 7L
- 66.7%30 games 20W 4D 6L7 days23.4%47 games 11W 10D 26L
- 66.7%48 games 32W 6D 10L8–14 days34.6%26 games 9W 2D 15L
- 63.2%19 games 12W 2D 5L15+ days20.0%10 games 2W 3D 5L
Previous match
- ArsenalWatford
- 56.9%204 games 116W 37D 51LAfter a league game26.0%131 games 34W 24D 73L
- 57.3%143 games 82W 32D 29LAfter a cup or European tie25.0%20 games 5W 6D 9L
Kickoff time
- ArsenalWatford
- 54.5%44 games 24W 9D 11LEarly afternoon33.3%12 games 4W 4D 4L
- 63.2%133 games 84W 26D 23LAfternoon27.4%95 games 26W 20D 49L
- 52.8%89 games 47W 18D 24LEvening30.0%20 games 6W 4D 10L
- 53.1%81 games 43W 16D 22LNight12.0%25 games 3W 3D 19L
Day of week
- ArsenalWatford
- 61.1%18 games 11W 2D 5LMon25.0%4 games 1W 1D 2L · thin sample
- 62.5%16 games 10W 3D 3LTue25.0%12 games 3W 1D 8L
- 54.8%31 games 17W 8D 6LWed10.0%10 games 1W 3D 6L
- 30.8%13 games 4W 4D 5LThu0.0%3 games 0W 1D 2L · thin sample
- 55.6%9 games 5W 2D 2L · thin sampleFri40.0%5 games 2W 0D 3L · thin sample
- 59.4%128 games 76W 22D 30LSat25.3%95 games 24W 24D 47L
- 56.8%132 games 75W 28D 29LSun34.8%23 games 8W 1D 14L
Month
- ArsenalWatford
- 50.0%34 games 17W 12D 5LJanuary20.0%15 games 3W 6D 6L
- 61.8%34 games 21W 5D 8LFebruary35.3%17 games 6W 4D 7L
- 68.0%25 games 17W 5D 3LMarch27.3%11 games 3W 1D 7L
- 43.6%39 games 17W 7D 15LApril14.3%14 games 2W 2D 10L
- 74.2%31 games 23W 2D 6LMay12.5%8 games 1W 1D 6L · thin sample
- 57.1%7 games 4W 1D 2L · thin sampleJuly33.3%6 games 2W 0D 4L · thin sample
- 60.7%28 games 17W 2D 9LAugust38.5%13 games 5W 3D 5L
- 68.8%32 games 22W 7D 3LSeptember28.6%14 games 4W 4D 6L
- 61.3%31 games 19W 7D 5LOctober30.8%13 games 4W 3D 6L
- 50.0%30 games 15W 8D 7LNovember28.6%14 games 4W 1D 9L
- 47.2%53 games 25W 13D 15LDecember20.8%24 games 5W 5D 14L
Own back line
- ArsenalWatford
- 51.0%51 games 26W 8D 17LBack 330.8%13 games 4W 2D 7L
- 58.3%295 games 172W 61D 62LBack 426.0%131 games 34W 26D 71L
- 0.0%1 games 0W 0D 1L · thin sampleBack 512.5%8 games 1W 3D 4L · thin sample
Own formation
- ArsenalWatford
- 56.8%125 games 71W 22D 32L4-2-3-128.6%42 games 12W 10D 20L
- 62.4%141 games 88W 30D 23L4-3-317.4%23 games 4W 6D 13L
- —No record4-2-2-236.8%38 games 14W 8D 16L
- 53.6%28 games 15W 5D 8L3-4-2-142.9%7 games 3W 2D 2L · thin sample
- 50.0%18 games 9W 2D 7L3-4-325.0%4 games 1W 0D 3L · thin sample
- 50.0%4 games 2W 2D 0L · thin sample4-1-4-121.4%14 games 3W 0D 11L
- 33.3%9 games 3W 3D 3L · thin sample4-4-212.5%8 games 1W 2D 5L · thin sample
- 37.5%8 games 3W 4D 1L · thin sample4-3-1-20.0%1 games 0W 0D 1L · thin sample
- 71.4%7 games 5W 0D 2L · thin sample4-4-1-10.0%2 games 0W 0D 2L · thin sample
- —No record5-3-216.7%6 games 1W 3D 2L · thin sample
Opponent back line
- ArsenalWatford
- 64.6%82 games 53W 13D 16LOpponent back 331.0%29 games 9W 4D 16L
- 53.1%245 games 130W 53D 62LOpponent back 425.0%120 games 30W 24D 66L
- 75.0%20 games 15W 3D 2LOpponent back 50.0%3 games 0W 3D 0L · thin sample
Opponent formation
- ArsenalWatford
- 49.5%105 games 52W 23D 30L4-2-3-123.7%38 games 9W 8D 21L
- 47.2%53 games 25W 9D 19L4-3-320.6%34 games 7W 5D 22L
- 64.1%39 games 25W 12D 2L4-4-222.7%22 games 5W 5D 12L
- 64.7%34 games 22W 4D 8L3-4-2-127.3%11 games 3W 2D 6L
- 64.7%17 games 11W 0D 6L4-4-1-153.3%15 games 8W 2D 5L
- 69.6%23 games 16W 3D 4L3-5-216.7%6 games 1W 2D 3L · thin sample
- 58.3%12 games 7W 3D 2L3-4-340.0%10 games 4W 0D 6L
- 50.0%12 games 6W 3D 3L4-1-4-114.3%7 games 1W 2D 4L · thin sample
- 81.8%11 games 9W 1D 1L5-4-10.0%3 games 0W 3D 0L · thin sample
- 40.0%10 games 4W 5D 1L4-5-10.0%1 games 0W 1D 0L · thin sample
- 66.7%9 games 6W 2D 1L · thin sample5-3-2—No record
- 57.1%7 games 4W 2D 1L · thin sample3-4-1-2—No record
- 80.0%5 games 4W 0D 1L · thin sample4-3-1-20.0%2 games 0W 1D 1L · thin sample
Referee
- ArsenalWatford
- 55.3%38 games 21W 6D 11LMichael Oliver9.1%11 games 1W 3D 7L
- 45.9%37 games 17W 13D 7LAnthony Taylor27.3%11 games 3W 2D 6L
- 55.2%29 games 16W 7D 6LChris Kavanagh33.3%6 games 2W 2D 2L · thin sample
- 56.5%23 games 13W 3D 7LCraig Pawson9.1%11 games 1W 2D 8L
- 45.0%20 games 9W 6D 5LPaul Tierney27.3%11 games 3W 1D 7L
- 68.8%16 games 11W 3D 2LMike Dean30.8%13 games 4W 3D 6L
- 38.9%18 games 7W 4D 7LMartin Atkinson0.0%10 games 0W 3D 7L
- 50.0%14 games 7W 3D 4LJonathan Moss30.0%10 games 3W 1D 6L
- 40.0%15 games 6W 4D 5LAndre Marriner37.5%8 games 3W 1D 4L · thin sample
- 83.3%12 games 10W 2D 0LSimon Hooper25.0%8 games 2W 2D 4L · thin sample
- 66.7%9 games 6W 0D 3L · thin sampleGraham Scott20.0%10 games 2W 2D 6L
- 44.4%9 games 4W 2D 3L · thin sampleKevin Friend0.0%6 games 0W 3D 3L · thin sample
- 83.3%6 games 5W 0D 1L · thin sampleLee Mason50.0%8 games 4W 0D 4L · thin sample
League matches only, from 2017-18. Each row is that club's own record under the condition, not a head-to-head split. A dimmed figure sits on fewer than 10 matches.