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==Records== {{Main|List of Watford F.C. records and statistics}} Striker [[Luther Blissett]] holds the record for Watford appearances, having played 503 matches in all competitions between 1976 and 1992, and his 415 appearances in [[English Football League|The Football League]] during the same period is also a club record. Blissett holds the corresponding goalscoring records, with 186 career Watford goals, 148 of which were in the league. The records for the most league goals in a season is held by [[Cliff Holton]], having scored 42 goals in the 1959β60 season. The highest number of goals scored by a player in a single game at a professional level is the six registered by Harry Barton against [[Wycombe Wanderers F.C.|Wycombe Wanderers]] in September 1903.<ref name="wfcrecords">[https://archive.today/20110718004727/http://www.watfordfc.com/page/History/0,,10400~65910,00.html "Watford FC club records"]. Watford Football Club. 15 December 2008. Retrieved 18 April 2012. Archived from [http://www.watfordfc.com/page/History/0,,10400~65910,00.html the original] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722132803/http://www.watfordfc.com/page/History/0%2C%2C10400~65910%2C00.html |date=22 July 2012 }} on 18 July 2011.</ref> Watford's biggest ever competitive win came in 1900, when the team defeated [[Maidenhead F.C.|Maidenhead]] 11β0 in the Southern League Second Division.<ref name="wfcrecords" /> The team's biggest Football League winning margin is 8β0; this first occurred in a Third Division South match against [[Newport County A.F.C.|Newport County]] in 1924, and was repeated in a First Division match against [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]] in 1982. Both of these matches were at home β Watford have won an away league match by five goals on six occasions, most recently in the 6β1 win against Leeds United at [[Elland Road]] in 2012. The most goals scored in a Football League game involving Watford is 11, in Watford's 7β4 victories against [[Swindon Town F.C.|Swindon Town]], [[Torquay United F.C.|Torquay United]] and [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]] in 1934, 1937 and 2003 respectively.<ref name="stattorecords">Brown, Tony. [http://www.statto.com/football/teams/watford/records "Watford records"]. ''statto.com''. Retrieved 18 April 2012.</ref> The club's highest home attendance is 34,099, for a fourth round FA Cup match against [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] on 3 February 1969. The record home league attendance is 27,968 against [[Queens Park Rangers F.C.|Queens Park Rangers]] in August of the same year.<ref name="wfcrecords" /> Watford's home capacity has since been reduced due to all-seater requirements; it currently stands at 21,577.<ref name=capacity>{{cite web|url=http://www.football-league.co.uk/clubs/20100801/watford_2293498_692872|title=Watford Football Club|publisher=[[English Football League|The Football League]]|access-date=18 April 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421020630/http://www.football-league.co.uk/clubs/20100801/watford_2293498_692872|archive-date=21 April 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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