Watford Football Club Kit Vicarage Road, Watford Hertfordshire England

Watford's kit and badge have changed considerably over the course of their history. In their early history, the club's kit featured various combinations of red, green and yellow stripes, before a new colour scheme of black and white was adopted for the 1909–10 season. These colours were retained until the 1920s, when the club introduced an all-blue shirt. Up until 1959 the team was known as "The Blues".^[7][14] After a change of colours to gold shirts & black shorts, the teams nickname was changed to The Hornets, after a popular vote via the supporters club. The next major change came in 1976, when the colour was changed from gold to yellow, and the first of several kits featuring yellow, black and red was introduced, a colour scheme which has continued to the present day.^[37] The appearance of a hart (a male deer) on the club's current crest represents the club's location in Hertfordshire, a county in which, for a long time, Watford F.C. were the only league club.^[38]

The club's initial nickname was The Brewers, in reference to the Benskins Brewery, who owned the freehold of Vicarage Road.^[39] This nickname didn't prove particularly popular, and upon the adoption of a blue-and-white colour scheme in the 1920s, the club became predominantly known as The Blues. Watford changed its colour scheme in 1959, and supporters chose to adopt the new nickname The Hornets, along with a new club crest depicting a hornet. Other nicknames have since been adopted, including The Golden Boys and The Yellow Army, the latter being the name of the most popular chant at Vicarage Road.