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Birmingham City

2024–25 season
Owners	Birmingham Sports Holdings 51.7% Shelby Companies Ltd 45.96% Others 2.34%
Chairman	Tom Wagner
Manager	Chris Davies
Stadium	St Andrew's
League One	1st
FA Cup	Third round
EFL Cup	Second round (eliminated by Fulham)
EFL Trophy	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: Jay Stansfield (12) All: Stansfield (14)
Highest home attendance	27,985 (vs Reading, 10 August 2024)
Lowest home attendance	6,900 (vs Fulham U21, EFL Trophy 29 October 2024)
Home colours Away colours
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All statistics correct as of matches played 29 December 2024.

The 2024–25 season is Birmingham City Football Club's 122nd season in the English football league system and first season in the third-tier EFL League One since 1994–95. They finished in 22nd place in the 2023–24 EFL Championship, and were relegated after 13 years at that level. As with all third- and fourth-tier League clubs, the first team will compete in the FA Cup, the EFL Cup and the EFL Trophy.

The season covers the period from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025.

Background and pre-season

Off the field

In July 2023, Shelby Companies Ltd, a subsidiary of asset management company Knighthead Capital Management fronted by Tom Wagner, Knighthead's co-founder and co-CEO, completed the purchase of 45.64% of Birmingham City plc shares and the whole of Birmingham City Stadium Ltd. Although previous owners Birmingham Sports Holdings (BSH) retained 51% of the shares, Wagner confirmed that Shelby were "responsible for the operations of the club moving forward" and that "nothing about the way the transaction is structured will prevent us from obtaining the long-term goals we have for the club." Former Manchester City executive Garry Cook was appointed CEO, and considerable media attention followed the arrival of American football player and seven-time Super Bowl winner Tom Brady as minority owner and chair of the club's advisory board.

Works begun during the 2022–23 season to demolish and rebuild the lower tiers of the Kop and Tilton Road stands, closed since late 2020 because of what was initially described as water damage to structural steelwork and eventually revealed to be asbestos-related, and interrupted when the main contractors filed for administration finally completed in November 2023 under the management of Mace Consult. The rebuild included conversion of the lower Tilton to safe standing. In January 2024, the club's owners, Shelby Companies, renamed the stadium St. Andrew's @ Knighthead Park as part of what it described as "the largest commercial agreement in the club's history". According to Tom Wagner, chairman of both club and Shelby's parent company Knighthead, it was "step one in our plan to create a world-renowned 'Sports Quarter' in Birmingham. We invested in Blues because of the opportunity to not only transform a football club but to also be a catalyst for change in the city itself." By the start of the 2024–25 season, the club intended to construct two fan parks outside the ground as well as refurbish hospitality areas within the stadium and make the public address system work.

Benefiting from the upgrade to the club's agreement with kit suppliers Nike during the 2023–24 season to include bespoke rather than off-the-shelf product, the 2024–25 home kit consists of a royal blue shirt with white trim at collar and cuffs, white sides, and – with echoes of the Co-op Milk shirt of the 1980s – a white strip across the front carrying the logo of the club's principal partner, streetwear company Undefeated, white shorts and royal blue socks.

On the field

On-field matters ran less smoothly, resulting in Birmingham City beginning the 2024–25 season in the third tier of English football for the first time since 1994–95.

On 6 June, after "close to 1,000 coaches being evaluated and more than 40 being spoken to directly or through their representatives", Chris Davies, senior assistant coach under Ange Postecoglou at Tottenham Hotspur, was appointed manager on a four-year contract. It would be his first senior managerial role.

Transfers

Among out-of-contract players, departures included the long-serving Neil Etheridge, Gary Gardner, Scott Hogan, Marc Roberts and Ivan Sunjic, as well as young professionals Marcel Oakley and Tate Campbell. New contracts were offered to Lukas Jutkiewicz and John Ruddy – Jutkiewicz accepted, Ruddy did not – and the option on Keshi Anderson's contract was taken up. The return of loanee Jay Stansfield, 2023–24 Player of the Year and top scorer, to his parent club left Birmingham particularly short of strikers.

The first contracted player to leave was midfielder Alex Pritchard, who joined Turkish Süper Lig club Sivasspor for an undisclosed fee.

The first new signings were goalkeepers Ryan Allsop from Hull City and Northern Ireland international Bailey Peacock-Farrell from Burnley, followed by 2023–24 League One top scorer Alfie May from divisional rivals Charlton Athletic.

Pre-season

After a week's training in Austria, to include a friendly against German second-tier team Paderborn 07, the team would take part in the third edition of the Arthur Cup, a match against Solihull Moors in aid of children's charities in memory of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. The club's programme continued with three friendlies against local opposition – away to Walsall and Shrewsbury Town and at home to West Bromwich Albion – and a match to mark the first anniversary of the death of Birmingham City legend Trevor Francis, at home to another of his former clubs, Rangers.

EFL League One

August

Birmingham began their league campaign at home to Reading on 10 August 2024.

League table (part)

Results summary

Last updated: matches played 29 December 2024.
Source:

Match results

FA Cup

As with all teams in the lower two divisions of the Football League, Birmingham entered the competition in the first round, in which they were drawn to play away to National League (fifth-tier) club Sutton United. Willumsson scored during the first half and Sutton failed to take chances to equalise. In the second round, Birmingham travelled to League One rivals Blackpool, managed by Steve Bruce, who had twice led Birmingham into the Premier League in the early 2000s. Davies made ten changes from the team that won at Exeter City five days before, starting Lyndon Dykes and Lukas Jutkiewicz up front and retaining only Krystian Bielik as captain. Both strikers scored within the first half hour, Jordan Rhodes made it 2–1 early in the second half but Birmingham brought on three regular first-teamers to strengthen the side.

EFL Cup

Birmingham were drawn to play away to League One rivals Charlton Athletic in the first round. In the second round, they lost 2–0 at home to Fulham.

EFL Trophy

When Birmingham last took part in this competition, then named the Football League Trophy, in the 1994–95 season, they beat Carlisle United in the final via Paul Tait's golden goal. In the group stage, Birmingham were drawn into Southern Group A alongside Shrewsbury Town, Walsall and Fulham U21. A "losing draw" against Walsall and two wins gave Birmingham second place in the group and qualification for the knockout stages.

Birmingham made eight changes from the previous starting eleven for the visit to Exeter City in the round of 32; full-back Lee Buchanan made his first appearance of the season after five months out with injury. Luke Harris took advantage of a short back-pass to give the visitors a 22nd-minute lead, only for Exeter to equalise ten minutes later direct from a corner. In the second half, Ben Davies blocked Jay Bird's shot on the goal-line and Ryan Allsop saved from the rebound, and Keshi Anderson had a goal disallowed for offside before Anderson scored the winning goal from Ayumu Yokoyama's through ball.

They were drawn away to Swindon Town in the round of 16.

Transfers

For those players sold, released, or whose contract ended before the start of this season, see 2023–24 Birmingham City F.C. season.

In

† Brackets round a club's name indicate the player's contract with that club had expired before he joined Birmingham.

* Signed primarily for the development squad

Loaned in

Out

† Brackets round a club's name denote the player joined that club after his Birmingham City contract expired.

Loaned out

1. On 6 December, Donovan was recalled back early from his season-long loan at Burton.

Appearances and goals

Sources:

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances made as a substitute.

Players marked † left the club during the playing season.

Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan from another club for the whole of their season with Birmingham.

Players listed with no appearances have been in the matchday squad but only as unused substitutes.

Key to positions: GK – Goalkeeper; DF – Defender; MF – Midfielder; FW – Forward

As of match played 29 December 2024

Players' appearances and goals by competition

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	League		FA Cup		EFL Cup		EFL Trophy		Total		Discipline
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
2	DF	ENG	Ethan Laird	10 (5)	0	2	0	2	0	1 (1)	0	15 (6)	0	3	0
3	DF	ENG	Lee Buchanan	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	1	1	0
4	DF	AUT	Christoph Klarer	19	0	1	0	2	0	2 (1)	1	24 (1)	1	6	0
5	DF	ENG	Dion Sanderson	1 (1)	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	6 (1)	0	2	1
6	MF	POL	Krystian Bielik	17	1	1	0	1 (1)	0	0 (2)	0	188 (3)	1	4	1
7	FW	SWE	Emil Hansson	9 (4)	0	0	0	2	0	0 (2)	1	11 (6)	1	0	0
8	FW	WAL	Tyler Roberts	0	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	0	0
9	FW	ENG	Alfie May	16 (5)	7	0 (2)	0	1 (1)	0	3 (1)	1	20 (9)	8	2	0
10	FW	ENG	Lukas Jutkiewicz	0 (5)	0	1 (1)	1	1 (1)	0	1 (2)	0	3 (9)	1	0	0
11	MF	JPN	Koji Miyoshi †	1 (2)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	1 (3)	0	0	0
11	MF	SCO	Scott Wright	0 (5)	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	2 (5)	3	1	0
12	MF	SCO	Marc Leonard	4 (14)	0	1	0	2	0	4	0	11 (14)	0	3	0
13	MF	KOR	Paik Seung-ho	20 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	0 (2)	0	22 (5)	0	0	0
14	FW	ENG	Keshi Anderson	14 (4)	3	1 (1)	0	2	0	2 (1)	2	19 (6)	5	7	0
17	FW	SCO	Siriki Dembélé †	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
17	FW	SCO	Lyndon Dykes	5 (11)	0	1	1	0	0	0 (1)	1	6 (12)	2	2	0
18	MF	ISL	Willum Þór Willumsson	18 (2)	4	1	1	1	0	1	0	21 (2)	5	0	0
19	MF	ENG	Taylor Gardner-Hickman *	7 (8)	0	1	0	0	0	4	0	12 (8)	0	4	0
20	DF	ENG	Alex Cochrane	18	0	1	0	1 (1)	0	2 (1)	0	22 (2)	0	5	0
21	GK	ENG	Ryan Allsop	14	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	19	0	4	0
23	DF	ISL	Alfons Sampsted *	0 (8)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (2)	0	1	0	1 (11)	0	0	0
24	MF	JPN	Tomoki Iwata	17	5	1	0	0	0	2	1	20	6	3	0
25	DF	ENG	Ben Davies *	10 (3)	0	1	0	0	0	3 (1)	0	14 (4)	0	2	0
26	MF	WAL	Luke Harris *	5 (9)	1	2	0	1	0	1	1	9 (9)	2	2	0
27	MF	ENG	Brandon Khela	0 (2)	0	1	0	1	1	1 (1)	0	3 (3)	1	1	0
28	FW	ENG	Jay Stansfield	14 (2)	12	1	0	0	0	2	2	17 (2)	14	2	0
33	FW	JPN	Ayumu Yokoyama	0 (8)	0	1 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	4	2	5 (10)	2	1	0
35	MF	ENG	George Hall	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	MF	ENG	Cody Pennington	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	DF	ENG	Josh Williams	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
43	FW	ENG	Zaid Betteka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
45	GK	NIR	Bailey Peacock-Farrell	7	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	10	0	1	0
48	GK	ENG	Brad Mayo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Players not included in matchday squads

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name
15	MF	ENG	Alfie Chang
19	MF	WAL	Jordan James †
46	DF	NIR	Tommy Fogarty
47	MF	ENG	Josh Home
49	MF	ENG	Romelle Donovan

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