Swansea City 1-1 Watford: result and report

Championship · Saturday 23 August 2025

Result

Swansea City 1-1 Watford

Championship · Saturday 23 August 2025, 11:30 UTC · half-time 0-1

Swansea City · Watford · Championship predictions

Swansea City 1-1 Watford: match report

Swansea City drew with Watford 1-1 in the Championship on Saturday 23 August 2025. The half-time score was 0-1.

Nestory Irankunda opened the scoring in the 35th minute. Swansea City's goal came from Zan Vipotnik (82'). Watford scored through Nestory Irankunda (35').

Discipline: Swansea City received 3 yellow cards; Watford received 5 yellow cards.

Going into the game Swansea City were 15th on 3 points from 2 and Watford 14th on 3 points from 2. Swansea City went on to finish that season 11th with 64 points, and Watford 16th with 57.

Swansea City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Watford in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Nestory Irankunda of Watford (7.4), ahead of Zan Vipotnik (7.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Swansea City wins, 1 draw and 4 for Watford.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 35'Goal · Nestory IrankundaWatford · 0-1
  • 39'Yellow card · Hector KyprianouWatford
  • 54'Yellow card · Marko StamenićSwansea City
  • 70'Yellow card · Jeremy NgakiaWatford
  • 82'Goal · Zan VipotnikSwansea City · 1-1
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Ethan GalbraithSwansea City
  • 90+4'Yellow card · James MorrisWatford
  • 90+7'Yellow card · Josh TymonSwansea City
  • 90+9'Yellow card · Ryan AndrewsWatford
  • 90+10'Yellow card · Kwadwo BaahWatford

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Swansea City 5, draws 1, Watford 4.

Team news

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Swansea City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Lawrence Vigouroux, Josh Key, Ben Cabango, Cameron Burgess, Josh Tymon, Gonçalo Franco, Ethan Galbraith, Ronald, Malick Yalcouyé, Ji-sung Eom, Liam Cullen

Watford line-up (3-5-2)

Egil Selvik, Max Lewis Rowe Alleyne, Kévin Keben, James Abankwah, Jeremy Ngakia, Moussa Sissoko, Hector Kyprianou, Edo Kayembe, Marc Bola, Nestory Irankunda, Luca Kjerrumgaard