Southampton vs Watford head-to-head
Southampton10-season win rate22.6%266 games 60W 67D 139Lthrough 2025.05.25
Watford10-season win rate25.7%152 games 39W 31D 82Lthrough 2022.05.22Southampton and Watford have met 16 times across all competitions between 2017-18 ~ 2026-27: Southampton 7 wins, 6 draws, Watford 3 wins. At Southampton's ground the home side is 5-1-2 (8 games); at Watford's it is 1-5-2 (8 games). The fixture averages 2.62 goals and both teams score in 68.8% of meetings (8 league, 3 cup, 5 second-tier).
Head-to-head7 · 6 · 3Southampton W · D · Watford W
Goals per game2.623+ goals 50.0%
Both teams score68.8%16 games
First goal22.7 mingoals from 76' 33.3%
Yellows per game4.5reds 0 · pens 0
Top scorerJ. Ward-Prowse4 goals
All results
- Watford2–1Southampton
- Southampton1–0Watford
- Watford2–2Southampton
- Southampton3–2Watford
- Southampton3–0Watford
- Watford1–1Southampton
- Watford1–1Southampton
- Southampton1–2Watford
- Watford0–1Southampton
- Watford1–3Southampton
- Southampton2–1Watford
- Watford1–1Southampton
- Southampton1–1Watford
- Southampton1–0Watford
- Watford2–2Southampton
- Southampton0–2Watford
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
J. Ward-Prowse 4 · C. Adams 4 · D. Ings 3 · A. Doucouré 2 · A. Gray 2
Faded names are players no longer at that club (squad as of 2026-09-21). 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: Southampton 266 and Watford 152 matches since 2017-18. Every win rate is shown with its W-D-L.
League win rate Southampton 22.6% · Watford 25.7%
Home or away
- SouthamptonWatford
- 24.1%133 games 32W 36D 65LLeague home30.3%76 games 23W 17D 36L
- 21.1%133 games 28W 31D 74LLeague away21.1%76 games 16W 14D 46L
At half time
- SouthamptonWatford
- 50.7%71 games 36W 19D 16LLeading65.6%32 games 21W 4D 7L
- 22.5%89 games 20W 33D 36LLevel26.8%56 games 15W 19D 22L
- 3.8%106 games 4W 15D 87LTrailing4.7%64 games 3W 8D 53L
Possession
- SouthamptonWatford
- 23.4%77 games 18W 14D 45LPossession 55%+20.0%25 games 5W 5D 15L
- 20.3%74 games 15W 22D 37LPossession 45–55%32.6%46 games 15W 12D 19L
- 23.5%115 games 27W 31D 57LPossession under 45%23.5%81 games 19W 14D 48L
Weather
- SouthamptonWatford
- 16.2%37 games 6W 13D 18LClear13.3%15 games 2W 2D 11L
- 32.3%31 games 10W 8D 13LMostly clear23.5%17 games 4W 6D 7L
- 10.0%30 games 3W 11D 16LPartly cloudy37.5%8 games 3W 4D 1L · thin sample
- 25.3%99 games 25W 23D 51LOvercast29.3%75 games 22W 12D 41L
- 26.2%61 games 16W 11D 34LDrizzle25.0%28 games 7W 5D 16L
- 0.0%6 games 0W 0D 6L · thin sampleRain16.7%6 games 1W 2D 3L · thin sample
Temperature
- SouthamptonWatford
- 27.4%113 games 31W 29D 53LUnder 10°C26.1%69 games 18W 14D 37L
- 19.5%128 games 25W 28D 75L10–20°C23.9%67 games 16W 14D 37L
- 16.0%25 games 4W 10D 11LOver 20°C31.2%16 games 5W 3D 8L
Stadium size
- SouthamptonWatford
- 25.6%39 games 10W 11D 18LUnder 30,00032.0%97 games 31W 22D 44L
- 25.3%178 games 45W 45D 88L30–50,00023.1%26 games 6W 4D 16L
- 4.8%42 games 2W 9D 31LOver 50,0004.2%24 games 1W 2D 21L
Days of rest
- SouthamptonWatford
- 26.0%50 games 13W 12D 25L3 days21.1%19 games 4W 5D 10L
- 18.9%37 games 7W 13D 17L4 days15.4%26 games 4W 8D 14L
- 16.7%18 games 3W 2D 13L5 days44.4%9 games 4W 0D 5L · thin sample
- 26.7%30 games 8W 3D 19L6 days30.8%13 games 4W 2D 7L
- 26.6%64 games 17W 15D 32L7 days23.4%47 games 11W 10D 26L
- 19.6%46 games 9W 14D 23L8–14 days34.6%26 games 9W 2D 15L
- 16.7%18 games 3W 5D 10L15+ days20.0%10 games 2W 3D 5L
Previous match
- SouthamptonWatford
- 21.5%223 games 48W 56D 119LAfter a league game26.0%131 games 34W 24D 73L
- 28.6%42 games 12W 10D 20LAfter a cup or European tie25.0%20 games 5W 6D 9L
Kickoff time
- SouthamptonWatford
- 26.3%19 games 5W 5D 9LEarly afternoon33.3%12 games 4W 4D 4L
- 21.0%167 games 35W 39D 93LAfternoon27.4%95 games 26W 20D 49L
- 25.0%32 games 8W 11D 13LEvening30.0%20 games 6W 4D 10L
- 25.0%48 games 12W 12D 24LNight12.0%25 games 3W 3D 19L
Day of week
- SouthamptonWatford
- 20.0%10 games 2W 3D 5LMon25.0%4 games 1W 1D 2L · thin sample
- 31.2%16 games 5W 3D 8LTue25.0%12 games 3W 1D 8L
- 25.0%20 games 5W 7D 8LWed10.0%10 games 1W 3D 6L
- 9.1%11 games 1W 3D 7LThu0.0%3 games 0W 1D 2L · thin sample
- 36.4%11 games 4W 3D 4LFri40.0%5 games 2W 0D 3L · thin sample
- 21.5%144 games 31W 34D 79LSat25.3%95 games 24W 24D 47L
- 22.2%54 games 12W 14D 28LSun34.8%23 games 8W 1D 14L
Month
- SouthamptonWatford
- 30.8%26 games 8W 6D 12LJanuary20.0%15 games 3W 6D 6L
- 28.6%28 games 8W 4D 16LFebruary35.3%17 games 6W 4D 7L
- 20.0%20 games 4W 3D 13LMarch27.3%11 games 3W 1D 7L
- 13.3%30 games 4W 9D 17LApril14.3%14 games 2W 2D 10L
- 14.3%21 games 3W 4D 14LMay12.5%8 games 1W 1D 6L · thin sample
- 50.0%6 games 3W 3D 0L · thin sampleJuly33.3%6 games 2W 0D 4L · thin sample
- 19.0%21 games 4W 7D 10LAugust38.5%13 games 5W 3D 5L
- 18.2%22 games 4W 4D 14LSeptember28.6%14 games 4W 4D 6L
- 24.0%25 games 6W 9D 10LOctober30.8%13 games 4W 3D 6L
- 25.0%24 games 6W 4D 14LNovember28.6%14 games 4W 1D 9L
- 20.0%40 games 8W 14D 18LDecember20.8%24 games 5W 5D 14L
Own back line
- SouthamptonWatford
- 22.2%63 games 14W 13D 36LBack 330.8%13 games 4W 2D 7L
- 24.5%184 games 45W 51D 88LBack 426.0%131 games 34W 26D 71L
- 5.3%19 games 1W 3D 15LBack 512.5%8 games 1W 3D 4L · thin sample
Own formation
- SouthamptonWatford
- 29.6%115 games 34W 30D 51L4-4-212.5%8 games 1W 2D 5L · thin sample
- 14.9%47 games 7W 15D 25L4-2-3-128.6%42 games 12W 10D 20L
- 40.0%5 games 2W 1D 2L · thin sample4-2-2-236.8%38 games 14W 8D 16L
- 28.1%32 games 9W 9D 14L3-4-2-142.9%7 games 3W 2D 2L · thin sample
- 0.0%4 games 0W 2D 2L · thin sample4-3-317.4%23 games 4W 6D 13L
- 16.7%6 games 1W 2D 3L · thin sample4-1-4-121.4%14 games 3W 0D 11L
- 8.3%12 games 1W 2D 9L5-4-10.0%2 games 0W 0D 2L · thin sample
- 18.2%11 games 2W 2D 7L3-5-20.0%2 games 0W 0D 2L · thin sample
- 0.0%7 games 0W 1D 6L · thin sample5-3-216.7%6 games 1W 3D 2L · thin sample
- 25.0%8 games 2W 0D 6L · thin sample3-4-325.0%4 games 1W 0D 3L · thin sample
- 11.1%9 games 1W 2D 6L · thin sample3-4-1-2—No record
Opponent back line
- SouthamptonWatford
- 34.0%53 games 18W 14D 21LOpponent back 331.0%29 games 9W 4D 16L
- 18.9%206 games 39W 51D 116LOpponent back 425.0%120 games 30W 24D 66L
- 42.9%7 games 3W 2D 2L · thin sampleOpponent back 50.0%3 games 0W 3D 0L · thin sample
Opponent formation
- SouthamptonWatford
- 16.9%83 games 14W 19D 50L4-2-3-123.7%38 games 9W 8D 21L
- 12.5%56 games 7W 10D 39L4-3-320.6%34 games 7W 5D 22L
- 32.0%25 games 8W 6D 11L4-4-222.7%22 games 5W 5D 12L
- 27.3%22 games 6W 5D 11L3-4-2-127.3%11 games 3W 2D 6L
- 15.4%13 games 2W 7D 4L4-4-1-153.3%15 games 8W 2D 5L
- 30.0%10 games 3W 2D 5L3-4-340.0%10 games 4W 0D 6L
- 25.0%12 games 3W 4D 5L4-1-4-114.3%7 games 1W 2D 4L · thin sample
- 60.0%10 games 6W 4D 0L3-5-216.7%6 games 1W 2D 3L · thin sample
- 20.0%10 games 2W 2D 6L4-3-1-20.0%2 games 0W 1D 1L · thin sample
- 28.6%7 games 2W 3D 2L · thin sample3-4-1-2—No record
- 60.0%5 games 3W 2D 0L · thin sample5-3-2—No record
Referee
- SouthamptonWatford
- 12.5%16 games 2W 8D 6LAnthony Taylor27.3%11 games 3W 2D 6L
- 29.4%17 games 5W 3D 9LAndre Marriner37.5%8 games 3W 1D 4L · thin sample
- 61.5%13 games 8W 0D 5LMichael Oliver9.1%11 games 1W 3D 7L
- 15.4%13 games 2W 2D 9LGraham Scott20.0%10 games 2W 2D 6L
- 15.4%13 games 2W 4D 7LJonathan Moss30.0%10 games 3W 1D 6L
- 36.4%11 games 4W 2D 5LCraig Pawson9.1%11 games 1W 2D 8L
- 9.1%11 games 1W 2D 8LPaul Tierney27.3%11 games 3W 1D 7L
- 46.7%15 games 7W 3D 5LKevin Friend0.0%6 games 0W 3D 3L · thin sample
- 14.3%7 games 1W 3D 3L · thin sampleMike Dean30.8%13 games 4W 3D 6L
- 11.1%9 games 1W 0D 8L · thin sampleMartin Atkinson0.0%10 games 0W 3D 7L
- 11.1%9 games 1W 5D 3L · thin sampleSimon Hooper25.0%8 games 2W 2D 4L · thin sample
- 37.5%8 games 3W 1D 4L · thin sampleLee Mason50.0%8 games 4W 0D 4L · thin sample
- 28.6%7 games 2W 3D 2L · thin sampleChris Kavanagh33.3%6 games 2W 2D 2L · 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.