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Birmingham City

2011–12 season
Chairman	Vico Hui
Manager	Chris Hughton
Stadium	St Andrew's
Play-offs	Semi-final (eliminated by Blackpool)
Europa League	Group stage (3rd in group H)
FA Cup	Fifth round (eliminated by Chelsea)
Football League Cup	Third round (eliminated by Manchester City)
Top goalscorer	League: Marlon King (16) All: Marlon King (18)
Highest home attendance	28,483 vs Blackpool, play-off semi-final 2nd leg, 9 May 2012
Lowest home attendance	14,494 vs Wolverhampton Wanderers, FA Cup 1st round, 7 January 2012
Average home league attendance	19,126
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2011–12 season was Birmingham City Football Club's 110th season in the English football league system. It ran from 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012.

After relegation from the Premier League in 2010–11 under previous manager Alex McLeish, the team finished in fourth position in the 24-team Football League Championship under manager Chris Hughton, who was appointed in June. They lost on aggregate to fifth-placed Blackpool in the promotion play-offs semi-finals. Having won the 2011 League Cup, they qualified for the Europa League, in which they reached the group stage and finished third in their four-team group, only one point behind the two teams qualifying for the knockout rounds. In the 2011–12 League Cup, they were eliminated in the third round by Manchester City, and they lost to Chelsea in the fifth round of the FA Cup after a replay.

Twenty-nine players made at least one appearance in first-team competition, and there were thirteen different goalscorers. Chris Burke, who received Birmingham's Player of the Season and Players' Player of the Season awards, played in 61 of the 62 matches over the season, scored 14 goals and made 19 assists. Marlon King was leading scorer with 18 goals, of which 16 came in league games; he also made 12 assists. Nathan Redmond was the club's young player of the year. Curtis Davies was named in the PFA Championship Team of the Year.

Background and pre-season

After leading the club to victory in the League Cup and relegation from the Premier League in 2010–11, Alex McLeish unexpectedly resigned on 12 June, having already made two signings and with another two players close to an agreement with the club. He was immediately linked with the managerial vacancy at Aston Villa. Acting chairman Peter Pannu threatened to report Villa to the League for making an illegal approach to McLeish, and insisted that they could speak to him only if they agreed to pay the £5.4 million compensation due under the terms of his contract. On 17 June, McLeish was appointed manager of Aston Villa. The matter was finally settled on 11 July, when the clubs issued a joint statement confirming that Villa would pay an undisclosed amount in compensation, all proposed legal action would cease, and coach Peter Grant and medical officer Dr Ian McGuinness would be free to follow McLeish to his new club. Chris Hughton, who had led Newcastle United to the Championship title in 2010, was appointed manager on 21 June. He confirmed that promotion back to the Premier League, rather than progress in the Europa League, was his main objective for the season, and brought Paul Trollope in to replace Andy Watson as first-team coach.

On 29 June, club president Carson Yeung was arrested in Hong Kong on charges of money laundering, relating to a period before his involvement with the club. He was bailed to re-appear in August, his assets were frozen, and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange suspended trading of shares in the club's holding company, Birmingham International Holdings (BIHL), in which Yeung was the single largest shareholder with around 26%. BIHL appointed acting chairman Peter Pannu and Yeung's 18-year-old son Ryan to the board of the football club, and Michael Wiseman stepped down from the board, ending an 83-year formal association between the club and the Wiseman family. Although it appeared that HSBC, the club's bankers, were unlikely to call in a loan secured on the St Andrew's site, as such a course of action would make it difficult for the club to continue, thus reducing the likelihood of HSBC recovering their money, Yeung's situation impeded the search for new investment. Such a combination of factors, added to the reduced income to be expected following relegation, left the club in financial difficulty and ready to off-load high-earning players, particularly in light of the Football League's adoption of UEFA's financial fair-play regulations relating to clubs not spending in excess of their revenue.

After the shirt sponsorship deal with F&C Investments expired at the end of the 2010–11 season, no long-term sponsor met the value the club set on the brand, so they chose to sell advertising on the shirt on a match-by-match basis. This had the by-product of replica shirts being sold without advertising. However, a one-year shirt sponsorship deal was reached with foreign exchange and money transfer company RationalFX. It emerged that the club had taken legal action against kit manufacturers Xtep for using a derivative version of the club's logo on their own leisurewear, thus infringing intellectual property rights and reducing royalties from sales of officially licensed clothing on the Chinese market.

The players reported back for pre-season training on 4 July ahead of a training camp in Ireland that included a friendly fixture with League of Ireland First Division side Cork City. Without Cameron Jerome and Nikola Žigić, who did not travel due to injury, and Barry Ferguson, who returned to England ahead of his transfer to Blackpool, Hughton used 19 players in a game settled by a 30th-minute goal from new signing Adam Rooney. In the next friendly, at League Two club Hereford United, Hughton made fewer changes but the game finished goalless as his team failed to convert several chances, a pattern continued at Oxford United, also of League Two, where Curtis Davies and Chris Burke both hit the bar as Birmingham lost 2–0. A Birmingham side without Scott Dann, Liam Ridgewell, Jerome, Žigić and Marlon King lost 2–1 to a strong Everton eleven. Everton opened the scoring after an hour through a Leighton Baines free kick, then after Louis Saha was allowed too much time on the edge of the penalty area, his 20-yard (18 m) shot bounced over debutant Boaz Myhill. Rooney pulled one back with a back-heel to turn Morgaro Gomis' shot into the net.

16 July 2011	Cork City	0–1	Birmingham City	Turners Cross, Cork
19:00 BST (UTC+01)			Rooney 30'	Attendance: 1,917 Referee: G. Kelly

26 July 2011	Oxford United	2–0	Birmingham City	Kassam Stadium, Oxford
19:45 BST (UTC+01)	James 60' Potter 80'			Attendance: 2,743 Referee: Simon Hooper

30 July 2011	Birmingham City	1–2	Everton	St Andrew's, Birmingham
15:00 BST (UTC+01)	Rooney 79'		Baines 58' Saha 62'	Attendance: 7,572 Referee: Iain Williamson

Championship

August

Birmingham fielded five new signings, Boaz Myhill, Steven Caldwell, Chris Burke, Morgaro Gomis and Adam Rooney, on the opening-day visit to Derby County. Curtis Davies opened the scoring with a header from Jordon Mutch's 19th-minute corner, but soon afterwards a Ben Davies free kick was headed home by the unmarked Jason Shackell. Just before half time, Steve Davies was allowed time on the ball to set himself and beat Myhill with a swerving shot from 20 yards (18 m). In the second half, Stephen Carr missed a fine chance to equalise when Burke's shot after a fine forward run rebounded into his path. At home to Coventry City, loanee Chris Wood started as a lone striker. Birmingham were fortunate that Lukas Jutkiewicz failed to convert a good chance after turning Caldwell, and Myhill came close to carrying the ball over his line when saving a misplaced cross. After 73 minutes, Rooney, who had replaced Wood five minutes before, headed against the post, was first to the rebound, turned the ball back into the path of the oncoming Keith Fahey who shot home from 10 yards out.

Playing on the Sunday because of their Europa League play-off match on the Thursday, Rooney opened the scoring from the penalty spot after Burke was fouled, but Middlesbrough went on to complete their third consecutive victory by three goals to one. Rooney again opened the scoring the following Sunday, at Watford, with a first-half tap-in after David Murphy headed on Jean Beausejour's corner. Marvin Sordell equalised from distance in the 80th minute, then Beausejour intercepted a pass and threaded the ball through to Chris Wood who finished neatly with two minutes of normal time remaining. However, in stoppage time, Myhill could only parry a Sordell shot up in the air, and former Birmingham defender Martin Taylor was first to the ball as it came down.

6 August 2011	Derby County	2–1	Birmingham City	Pride Park, Derby
15:00 BST (UTC+01)	Shackell 26' S. Davies 42'		Davies 19'	Attendance: 27,210 Referee: Neil Swarbrick

13 August 2011	Birmingham City	1–0	Coventry City	St Andrew's, Birmingham
15:00 BST (UTC+01)	Fahey 73'			Attendance: 19,225 Referee: Anthony Bates

21 August 2011	Middlesbrough	3–1	Birmingham City	Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough
15:00 BST (UTC+01)	Robson 48' Haroun 69' Martin 72'		Rooney 36' (pen.)	Attendance: 17,567 Referee: Mark Brown

28 August 2011	Watford	2–2	Birmingham City	Vicarage Road, Watford
15:00 BST (UTC+01)	Sordell 80' Taylor 90+1'		Rooney 39' Wood 88'	Attendance: 11,937 Referee: Neil Swarbrick

September

11 September 2011	Birmingham City	3–0	Millwall	St Andrew's, Birmingham
12:30 BST (UTC+01)	Wood 29', 62', 90'			Attendance: 17,901 Referee: Mike Dean

18 September 2011	Southampton	4–1	Birmingham City	St Mary's Stadium, Southampton
15:00 BST (UTC+01)	Lambert 11' (pen.) Guly 21' Lallana 34' Chaplow 78'		Wood 49'	Attendance: 22,155 Referee: Dean Whitestone

24 September 2011	Birmingham City	1–1	Barnsley	St Andrew's, Birmingham
15:00 BST (UTC+01)	Burke 86'		Butterfield 33'	Attendance: 17,836 Referee: David Phillips

October

2 October 2011	Nottingham Forest	1–3	Birmingham City	City Ground, Nottingham
15:00 BST (UTC+01)	Miller 35'		Burke 75' Wood 79', 88'	Attendance: 20,556 Referee: Mark Haywood

16 October 2011	Birmingham City	2–0	Leicester City	St Andrew's, Birmingham
13:00 BST (UTC+01)	King 50' (pen.) Wood 84'			Attendance: 17,102 Referee: Graham Salisbury (first half) Kevin Wright (second half)

23 October 2011	Bristol City	0–2	Birmingham City	Ashton Gate, Bristol
15:00 BST (UTC+01)			Burke 36', 90+5'	Attendance: 13,577 Referee: Roger East

26 October 2011	Birmingham City	1–0	Leeds United	St Andrew's, Birmingham
19:45 BST (UTC+01)	Žigić 35'			Attendance: 21,426 Referee: Chris Foy

November

6 November 2011	Reading	1–0	Birmingham City	Madejski Stadium, Reading
15:00 GMT (UTC)	Hunt 75'			Attendance: 18,361 Referee: Mark Halsey

19 November 2011	Birmingham City	1–1	Peterborough United	St Andrew's, Birmingham
15:00 GMT (UTC)	King 22'		McCann 61'	Attendance: 18,090 Referee: Colin Webster

22 November 2011	Birmingham City	2–1	Burnley	St Andrew's, Birmingham
19:45 GMT (UTC)	Beausejour 2' Burke 90+1'		Bartley 49'	Attendance: 16,253 Referee: Robert Madley

26 November 2011	Blackpool	2–2	Birmingham City	Bloomfield Road, Blackpool
15:00 GMT (UTC)	Crainey 31' Eardley 57'		King 29' Žigić 87'	Attendance: 13,436 Referee: Fred Graham

December

4 December 2011	Cardiff City	1–0	Birmingham City	Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff
12:30 GMT (UTC)	Miller 68'		Davies  63'	Attendance: 22,010 Referee: Anthony Taylor

7 December 2011	Hull City	2–1	Birmingham City	KC Stadium, Hull
19:45 GMT (UTC)	Koren 47' McLean 67'		Wood 34'	Attendance: 17,438 Referee: Michael Naylor

10 December 2011	Birmingham City	2–1	Doncaster Rovers	St Andrew's, Birmingham
15:00 GMT (UTC)	King 62', 88'		Fortuné 50'	Attendance: 17,369 Referee: Nigel Miller

19 December 2011	Crystal Palace	1–0	Birmingham City	Selhurst Park, Croydon
19:45 GMT (UTC)	Dikgacoi 84'			Attendance: 12,057 Referee: Keith Stroud

26 December 2011	Birmingham City	1–1	West Ham United	St Andrew's, Birmingham
17:30 GMT (UTC)	Murphy 81'		Cole 4'	Attendance: 20,214 Referee: Darren Deadman

31 December 2011	Birmingham City	3–0	Blackpool	St Andrew's, Birmingham
15:00 GMT (UTC)	Davies 45+1' King 52' Redmond 89'			Attendance: 19,995 Referee: Craig Pawson

January

2 January 2012	Peterborough United	1–1	Birmingham City	London Road, Peterborough
15:00 GMT (UTC)	Sinclair 1'		King 90+4' (pen.)	Attendance: 11,167 Referee: Jonathan Moss

11 January 2012	Birmingham City	2–1	Ipswich Town	St Andrew's, Birmingham
19:45 GMT (UTC)	Žigić 9', 90+1'		Martin 18'	Attendance: 16,528 Referee: Robert Lewis

14 January 2012	Millwall	0–6	Birmingham City	The Den, London
15:00 GMT (UTC)	Lowry  22' Dunne  57'		Davies 18' King 59', 83' Burke 74' Rooney 81' Redmond 90+2'	Attendance: 10,539 Referee: Jonathan Moss

21 January 2012	Birmingham City	3–0	Watford	St Andrew's, Birmingham
15:00 GMT (UTC)	Davies 35', 60' Burke 81'			Attendance: 18,681 Referee: Trevor Kettle

31 January 2012	Leeds United	1–4	Birmingham City	Elland Road, Leeds
19:45 GMT (UTC)	McCormack 19'		Žigić 31', 61', 64', 68'	Attendance: 19,628 Referee: Mike Dean

February

7 February 2012	Birmingham City	1–0	Portsmouth	St Andrew's, Birmingham
19:45 GMT (UTC)	Redmond 86'			Attendance: 16,930 Referee: Darren Drysdale

21 February 2012	Barnsley	1–3	Birmingham City	Oakwell, Barnsley
19:45 GMT (UTC)	Davies 19'		Edwards 8' (o.g.) Fahey 27' Redmond 78'	Attendance: 9,558 Referee: Carl Boyeson

25 February 2012	Birmingham City	1–2	Nottingham Forest	St Andrew's, Birmingham
15:00 GMT (UTC)	Burke 55'		Blackstock 29', 63'	Attendance: 19,166 Referee: Roger East

March

3 March 2012	Birmingham City	2–2	Derby County	St Andrew's, Birmingham
15:00 GMT (UTC)	Huseklepp 19' King 57'		S. Davies 61' Robinson 66'	Attendance: 17,996 Referee: Paul Tierney

10 March 2012	Coventry City	1–1	Birmingham City	Ricoh Arena, Coventry
15:00 GMT (UTC)	McSheffrey 70'		King 72' Mutch  90'	Attendance: 22,240 Referee: Neil Swarbrick

13 March 2012	Leicester City	3–1	Birmingham City	King Power Stadium, Leicester
19:45 GMT (UTC)	Beckford 34', 90+5' Schlupp 80'		Elliott 20' (pen.)	Attendance: 21,092 Referee: Mick Russell

17 March 2012	Birmingham City	3–0	Middlesbrough	St Andrew's, Birmingham
15:00 GMT (UTC)	Žigić 11' King 57' Fahey 60'			Attendance: 19,927 Referee: Graham Scott

20 March 2012	Portsmouth	4–1	Birmingham City	Fratton Park, Portsmouth
19:45 GMT (UTC)	Maguire 54' Norris 60' Etuhu 79' Futács 90+2'		Žigić 7' Murphy  59'	Attendance: 12,186 Referee: Brendan Malone

25 March 2012	Birmingham City	1–1	Cardiff City	St Andrew's, Birmingham
12:00 BST (UTC+01)	Huseklepp 68'		Hudson 78'	Attendance: 17,704 Referee: Andy D'Urso

30 March 2012	Doncaster Rovers	1–3	Birmingham City	Keepmoat Stadium, Doncaster
19:45 BST (UTC+01)	Piquionne 4'		Murphy 15' Burke 61' King 80'	Attendance: 8,656 Referee: Colin Webster

April

3 April 2012	Burnley	1–3	Birmingham City	Turf Moor, Burnley
19:45 BST (UTC+01)	Ings 74'		King 11' Mutch 75' Murphy 88'	Attendance: 13,221 Referee: Jock Waugh

7 April 2012	Birmingham City	3–1	Crystal Palace	St Andrew's, Birmingham
15:00 BST (UTC+01)	Burke 21' Fahey 22' Murphy 32'		Garvan 45'	Attendance: 21,932 Referee: Geoff Eltringham

9 April 2012	West Ham United	3–3	Birmingham City	Upton Park, London
17:20 BST (UTC+01)	Vaz Té 45+3', 89' (pen.) Cole 70'		Mutch 27' King 30' Burke 45+4'	Attendance: 31,045 Referee: Jonathan Moss

14 April 2012	Birmingham City	2–2	Bristol City	St Andrew's, Birmingham
15:00 BST (UTC+01)	King 44' Žigić 61'		Pearson 21' Stead 33'	Attendance: 23,230 Referee: Keith Stroud

17 April 2012	Ipswich Town	1–1	Birmingham City	Portman Road, Ipswich
19:45 BST (UTC+01)	Thomas 75'		Burke 45+1'	Attendance: 16,503 Referee: Darren Sheldrake

21 April 2012	Birmingham City	1–1	Brighton & Hove Albion	Falmer Stadium, Brighton
15:00 BST (UTC+01)	Redmond 69'		Barnes 86'	Attendance: 20,594 Referee: Nigel Miller

28 April 2012	Birmingham City	2–0	Reading	St Andrew's, Birmingham
12:30 BST (UTC+01)	Rooney 24' Elliott 75' (pen.)			Attendance: 25,516 Referee: Robert Madley

League table (part)

Results summary

Last updated: match played 28 April 2012.
Source:

Results by round

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Play-offs

Birmingham played fifth-placed Blackpool in the play-off semi-final. The match was played over two legs, the first leg being played at the ground of the lower-placed team. Birmingham lost the first leg 1–0, to a Tom Ince shot deflected past Colin Doyle by Curtis Davies. In the second leg, in front of a 28,483 sell-out crowd, Blackpool scored either side of half time to take a 3–0 aggregate lead before Birmingham staged a fightback, with goals from Nikola Žigić and Davies, but were unable to score the necessary third goal to take the tie into extra time.

4 May 2012	Blackpool	1–0	Birmingham City	Bloomfield Road, Blackpool
19:45 BST (UTC+01)	Davies 45' (o.g.)			Attendance: 13,832 Referee: Mark Halsey

9 May 2012	Birmingham City	2–2	Blackpool	St Andrew's, Birmingham
19:45 BST (UTC+01)	Dobbie 45' M. Phillips 48'		Žigić 64' Davies 73'	Attendance: 28,483 Referee: Chris Foy

Europa League

The League Cup winners would normally enter the UEFA Europa League at the third qualifying round. However, because Manchester City both won the 2011 FA Cup and qualified for the Champions League via their Premier League finishing position, Birmingham entered the competition at the play-off round, one round before the group stages. They were drawn to play Nacional, who qualified as sixth-placed team in the Portuguese Primeira Liga and had beaten FH of Iceland and Swedish club Häcken to reach the play-off round.

Weakened by injuries for the away leg in Madeira, Birmingham gave David Murphy and Nathan Redmond their first appearances of the season, defender Liam Ridgewell played in central midfield alongside winger Jean Beausejour and debutant Jonathan Spector, and 19-year-old Chris Wood played as a lone striker. Captain Stephen Carr was making his 100th Birmingham appearance. Early in the game, Curtis Davies made a well-timed tackle from behind to prevent Mateus opening the scoring. Midway through the half, Steven Caldwell's placed header from a corner struck the foot of the post. Just before half time, a loose ball fell to Wood on the edge of the penalty area and his powerful shot rebounded down off the crossbar and back into play. Just after the interval, a driven shot from outside the area from the 17-year-old Redmond, playing his first 90 minutes at senior level, was pushed aside by goalkeeper Elisson and returned to Wood who headed against the post. The game finished goalless. For the home leg, Birmingham had to widen the pitch from its usual 66 metres (217 ft) to 68 m (223 ft) to comply with UEFA regulations. After an uncertain start, Birmingham took the lead when Murphy fed Redmond who scored with a low drive from 20 yards (18 m). Nine minutes later, Murphy's header from a Beausejour corner appeared to come off both Luis Alberto and the crossbar before crossing the line. After numerous chances to increase the lead, including a curled shot from Redmond that hit the inside of the post, Wood's 84th-minute tap-in secured a 3–0 win and qualification for the group stage. With a couple of minutes left, Birmingham gave a debut to 18-year-old striker Akwasi Asante and a first appearance of the season for fellow teenager Jake Jervis.

Birmingham were drawn in Group H, alongside last season's finalists Braga of Portugal, Slovenian champions Maribor, who beat Rangers of Scotland in the play-off round after losing in the third qualifying round of the Champions League, and fourth-placed Belgian team Club Brugge, who overcame Qarabağ of Azerbaijan and Georgian champions Zestafoni to reach the group stage. Matchday one produced a defeat at home to Braga. Hélder Barbosa opened the scoring after just six minutes with a volley from a Nuno Gomes cross which Boaz Myhill could only palm into the net, then Lima doubled the deficit against the run of play. Hughton introduced Chris Burke and Chris Wood, and Burke's pass led to Marlon King's 71st-minute goal. Birmingham were caught on the break while going for the equaliser, Barbosa making the final score 3–1 to the visitors.

In the absence through injury of Stephen Carr for the visit to Maribor, Liam Ridgewell assumed the captaincy. Early in the game, Maribor had several shots off target, but they took a 29th-minute lead when Spector looped a casual back-pass which Colin Doyle missed entirely when attempting to clear. Dalibor Volaš picked up the loose ball and tapped into an empty net. The manner of the goal had a dampening effect on both players and fans. In the second half, Nikola Žigić and Wood were ready to come on as substitutes when Marlon King used his strength to hold up a ball in midfield and played it through to Burke, who rounded Martin Milec and shot low past Jasmin Handanović. Only Žigić came on, to replace King. Both he and Wade Elliott missed chances, Žigić heading over the bar from close range and Elliott shooting straight at the goalkeeper when clean through. In the 79th minute, a long clearance was controlled by Morgaro Gomis who touched the ball to Elliott, possibly via a defender's arm. Elliott scored what proved the winning goal, hitting a clean volley from outside the area which Handanović partly blocked but was unable to stop creeping underneath him.

Despite pre-match scare stories suggesting 5,600 hooligans were about to descend on the "Venice of the north", Birmingham's visit passed off with only eight administrative arrests, and the Bruges police used their Twitter account to thank the visiting fans for their "friendly conduct". On the field, the defence made a shaky start as Brugge took an early lead through Joseph Akpala. After 25 minutes, David Murphy ran into the penalty area apparently unnoticed to finish Elliott's cross. Rooney failed to convert Žigić's knockdown and Žigić put a free header wide before Hughton brought on King and Wood in their place. Near the end of normal time, a clash of heads with Akpala left Pablo Ibáñez unconscious for some minutes before he was carried off on a spinal board, leaving teammate Guirane N'Daw in tears. In the tenth minute of stoppage time, King crossed from the right and Wood shot into the roof of the net from six yards out, to make Birmingham the first English team to defeat Brugge in their own stadium, and put them top of Group H.

After three more defeats from winning positions, culminating in a 5–4 loss to Genk when 4–2 ahead with 20 minutes left, Brugge dismissed manager Adrie Koster. For Birmingham, Pablo made his first appearance since suffering concussion. The visitors took the lead with five minutes remaining in the first half. From a Víctor Vázquez corner, Thomas Meunier had time to take a touch before shooting past the player on the post from eight yards out. Soon afterwards, Beausejour gave away the ball in midfield and Vadis Odjidja crossed to Akpala who scored from a arguably offside position. Žigić's 55th-minute blocked shot rebounded to Beausejour who controlled well and lashed it back past the goalkeeper to reduce the deficit. After 66 minutes, Birmingham made a triple substitution, bringing on Burke, King and Wood for Elliott, Rooney and Žigić. The equaliser came eight minutes later; Ryan Donk fouled Beausejour just inside the area and Marlon King converted the penalty. The ball struck the woodwork three times: midway through the first half from Murphy's free kick on the edge of the area; just after the third goal, from Odjidja's curling 25-yard (23 m) shot; and just before the equalising goal, Vladan Kujović, given his debut in place of Colin Coosemans, "sensationally tipping Guirane N'daw's thunderous volley against an upright".

In front of a small crowd, a strong Birmingham side, with Žigić as lone striker, attacked Braga from the start. An early handball appeal was turned down, but after ten minutes, Ewerton pulled down Elliott as he cut into the penalty area. Žigić took the penalty, but Quim had no difficulty saving. Soon afterwards, Ewerthon fouled Burke on the edge of the area, but the referee failed to award what would have been a second yellow card. Early in the second half, Hugo Viana's shot from distance was going wide of Myhill's right-hand post but took a huge deflection off Curtis Davies to leave Myhill stranded and the ball in the other corner of his net. Birmingham brought on King and Wood, but to no avail. Both teams had chances near the end: Burke and King obstructed each other, and when Lima was clean through, Myhill parried his shot straight to Paulo Cesar who hit the ball over the top. The result saw Braga qualify, and combined with Brugge's win in Maribor, who came back from 3–0 down to score four times in the last quarter hour, left Birmingham needing to beat Maribor in the last group game and hope that Braga beat Brugge.

One of nine changes to the starting eleven, Nathan Redmond produced an outstanding performance as Birmingham outclassed Maribor in the last group stage fixture. Apart from Jovan Vidović's early header that went wide, the attacking play was all Birmingham's. After 24 minutes, Adam Rooney scored his first European goal, a close-range header from a Redmond cross, then Žigić failed to take a couple of chances, Davies failed to make contact with a Redmond corner when it would have been easier to score, and Redmond himself hit a half-volley against the post from distance. His marker, Arghus, was perhaps fortunate to escape a red card for a high tackle born of frustration. But ten-man Braga could only draw with Brugge, so Birmingham's ten points were not enough.

( Portugal)

18 August 2011 Play-off 1st leg	Nacional ( Portugal)	0–0	Birmingham City	Estádio da Madeira, Funchal
19:45 WEST (UTC+01)				Attendance: 4,323 Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)

25 August 2011 Play-off 2nd leg	Birmingham City	3–0 (3–0 agg.)	Nacional	St Andrew's, Birmingham
19:45 BST (UTC+01)	Redmond 15' Murphy 24' Wood 86'			Attendance: 27,698 Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov (Russia)

( Portugal)

15 September 2011 Group stage	Birmingham City	1–3	Braga ( Portugal)	St Andrew's, Birmingham
20:05 BST (UTC+01)	King 71'		Barbosa 6', 88' Lima 59'	Attendance: 21,747 Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Germany)

( Slovenia)

29 September 2011 Group stage	Maribor ( Slovenia)	1–2	Birmingham City	Ljudski vrt Stadium, Maribor
19:00 CEST (UTC+02)	Volaš 29'		Burke 64' Elliott 79'	Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Tom Harald Hagen (Norway)

( Belgium)

20 October 2011 Group stage	Club Brugge ( Belgium)	1–2	Birmingham City	Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges
19:00 CEST (UTC+02)	Akpala 3'		Murphy 26' Wood 90+10'	Attendance: 23,936 Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)

3 November 2011 Group stage	Birmingham City	2–2	Club Brugge	St Andrew's, Birmingham
20:05 GMT (UTC)	Beausejour 55' King 74' (pen.)		Meunier 39' Akpala 44'	Attendance: 26,849 Referee: Marcin Borski (Poland)

30 November 2011 Group stage	S.C. Braga	1–0	Birmingham City	Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga
18:00 WEST (UTC+01)	Viana 51'			Attendance: 9,957 Referee: Markus Strömbergsson (Sweden)

15 December 2011 Group stage	Birmingham City	1–0	NK Maribor	St Andrew's, Birmingham
20:05 GMT (UTC)	Rooney 24'			Attendance: 21,436 Referee: Sascha Kever (Switzerland)

Note that for tie-breaking purposes, points, goal difference, goals scored and away goals scored in matches between clubs level on total points count before the same criteria in all group matches.

League Cup

Together with the other clubs playing in European competition, Birmingham entered the League Cup in the third round, in which they were drawn away to Premier League club Manchester City. With top-scorer Chris Wood ineligible and Wade Elliott cup-tied, Keith Fahey returned to the starting eleven after injury, Myhill, Caldwell and King were rested, Carr and Ridgewell injured, and Colin Doyle made his first appearance of the season. The match attracted attention for the return of England international Owen Hargreaves after just six minutes of first-team football in the previous three years. Hargreaves and Mario Balotelli scored first-half goals as City won 2–0. Curtis Davies's overhead kick was cleared off the line by Kolo Touré, making his return to the City side after a six-month drugs ban, and Nikola Žigić came on as substitute for his first Birmingham appearance in nearly six months.

21 September 2011 Third round	Manchester City	2–0	Birmingham City	City of Manchester Stadium
19:45 BST (UTC+01)	Hargreaves 17' Balotelli 38'			Attendance: 25,070 Referee: Kevin Friend

FA Cup

Birmingham City, like all clubs in the top two divisions, entered the FA Cup in the third round (last 64), in which they were drawn to face Wolverhampton Wanderers of the Premier League at home. A dull goalless draw was enlivened only by Colin Doyle's double save, from Matt Jarvis and then Steven Fletcher, late in stoppage time. Neither team fielded a full first team in the replay; as in the original match, Birmingham selected Rooney as a lone striker in front of a five-man midfield including youngster Nathan Redmond. In the first half, Murphy and Beausejour had to leave the field for treatment after a clash of heads, and both sides had scoring chances, before Wade Elliott's close-range shot against the post rebounded to Murphy, who prodded the ball forward for Elliott, still lying on the floor, to score in the 74th minute. Again, Doyle made a late double save, this time from Fletcher and Stephen Hunt, to ensure Birmingham would face Sheffield United of League One at Bramall Lane in the next round. Goals from Redmond, Rooney (2) and Elliott gave Birmingham a comfortable victory, attributed by Sheffield United manager Danny Wilson to their "better clinical finishes", and youngsters Eddy Gnahoré and Callum Reilly were given debuts with ten minutes remaining.

Away to Chelsea in the fifth round, starting without King, Žigić and N'Daw and losing Stephen Carr to injury after only 12 minutes, Birmingham opened the scoring when the defence failed to deal with Jordon Mutch's corner and David Murphy "smashed" the ball home Two mintes later, Elliott tripped Ramires to concede a penalty, taken by Juan Mata and tipped onto the post by Doyle. In the second half, Chelsea equalised with a Daniel Sturridge header, and Redmond failed to convert a late chance to secure an unlikely victory.

18 January 2012 Third round replay	Wolverhampton Wanderers	0–1	Birmingham City	Molineux, Wolverhampton
20:00 GMT (UTC)			Elliott 74'	Attendance: 10,153 Referee: Howard Webb

28 January 2012 Fourth round	Sheffield United	0–4	Birmingham City	Bramall Lane, Sheffield
15:00 GMT (UTC)			Redmond 18' Rooney 38', 78' Elliott 58'	Attendance: 18,072 Referee: Lee Mason

18 February 2012 Fifth round	Chelsea	1–1	Birmingham City	Stamford Bridge, London
12:30 GMT (UTC)	Sturridge 62'		Murphy 20'	Attendance: 36,870 Referee: Martin Atkinson

6 March 2012 Fifth round replay	Birmingham City	0–2	Chelsea	St Andrew's, Birmingham
19:45 GMT (UTC)			Mata 54' Meireles 60'	Attendance: 21,822 Referee: Anthony Taylor

Transfers

At the end of the 2010–11 season, Birmingham released first-team players Sebastian Larsson, Kevin Phillips, Martin Jiránek, Lee Bowyer, Maik Taylor and Stuart Parnaby, and fringe players Marcus Bent, Jay O'Shea, Dan Preston and Robin Shroot. All the loanees returned to their owning clubs. The club attempted to agree a new contract with James McFadden but failed to do so before his existing deal expired. Teenage midfielders Luke Hubbins and Ashley Sammons were given contract extensions, and Belgian midfielder Brice Ntambwe and American defender/midfielder Will Packwood, both internationals at under-17 level, signed their first professional contracts.

In early June, the club agreed the signings of Cardiff City winger Chris Burke, Coventry City striker Marlon King (who was accused by his former club of having reneged on a verbal agreement to remain with them), Dundee United midfielder Morgaro Gomis, and PSV Eindhoven forward Danny Koevermans, all of whom were out of contract and thus available as free agents under the Bosman ruling. When McLeish resigned on 12 June, Burke and King had already signed pre-contract agreements, but the moves for Gomis and Koevermans had not reached that stage. The Gomis deal was completed, but Koevermans pulled out, reluctant to join a club whose future manager might not want him. Hughton's first signing was Inverness Caledonian Thistle striker Adam Rooney, also a free transfer under the Bosman ruling, soon followed by Scotland international defender Steven Caldwell, recently released by Wigan Athletic. United States international defender Jonathan Spector, who was released by West Ham United after their relegation, joined four days before the league season opened, and West Bromwich Albion's New Zealand international striker Chris Wood arrived three days later on a month's loan, later extended for a further month.

The first departure of the summer transfer window was 2010–11 top scorer Craig Gardner, who joined Sunderland for an undisclosed fee, believed by BBC Sport to be "about £6 million". Roger Johnson, who had made it clear to the club that he wanted to remain in the Premier League, was next, joining Wolverhampton Wanderers for an undisclosed fee, initially reported as £7m but later suggested by the Express & Star to be "just over £4m", then Barry Ferguson, who wanted to move closer to his family in Scotland, signed for Blackpool for an undisclosed fee in the region of £700,000. Next to leave was player of the year Ben Foster, who joinedWest Bromwich Albion on loan for the season, while Albion goalkeeper Boaz Myhill moved in the other direction, also on loan. It was reported that Albion were to pay the wages of both players.

After the playing season started, midfielder Míchel returned to Spain to join Getafe for an undisclosed fee. Senegal international defensive midfielder Guirane N'Daw signed on loan from Saint-Étienne until January 2012. On the last day of the transfer window, Scott Dann and Cameron Jerome returned to the Premier League for undisclosed fees, Jerome signing for Stoke City for a fee believed by Sky Sports to be £4m, and Dann joining Blackburn Rovers. Birmingham signed 18-year-old Jack Deaman, a centre-back formerly of Wrexham, and the experienced Burnley winger Wade Elliott and Spanish international centre-back Pablo Ibáñez from West Bromwich Albion, each for an undisclosed fee.

During the January 2012 transfer window, Jean Beausejour returned to the Premier League withWigan Athletic for an undisclosed fee, and Liam Ridgewell, whose transfer request in August had been turned down, joined West Bromwich Albion, again for an undisclosed fee. In February, with Portsmouth in administration, their Norwegian international forward Erik Huseklepp joined on loan until the end of the season, as did England youth international winger Andros Townsend, from Tottenham Hotspur, and right-sided defender Peter Ramage, from Queens Park Rangers. In addition, two free agents signed short-term contracts: former Ireland international forward Caleb Folan, who had been playing in America for Colorado Rapids, and the manager's son, right-back Cian Hughton, who had trained with the club for several months and was expected to spend his time primarily with the development squad. The day after the last of these signings, the Football League imposed a transfer enbargo on the club for failure to submit its accounts by the 1 March deadline.

In

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

Out

Loan in

Loan out

Appearances and goals

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.

Players with squad numbers struck through and marked † left the club after the start of the playing season.

Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan for the whole of their 2011–12 season with Birmingham.

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

Source:

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	League		Play-offs		FA Cup		League Cup		Europa League		Total		Discipline
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	WAL	Boaz Myhill*	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	47	0	1	0
2	DF	IRE	Stephen Carr	20	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	24	0	4	0
3	DF	ENG	David Murphy	30 (3)	4	2	0	4	1	1	0	7	2	44 (3)	7	6	1
4	DF	SCO	Steven Caldwell	43	0	0	0	2 (1)	0	0	0	6	0	51 (1)	0	7	0
5	DF	ESP	Pablo Ibáñez	7 (6)	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	5	0	17 (6)	0	0	0
6†	DF	ENG	Liam Ridgewell	13 (1)	0	—		1	0	0	0	3 (1)	0	17 (2)	0	4	0
6	DF	ENG	Peter Ramage*	14	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	0	1	0
7	MF	SCO	Chris Burke	45 (1)	13	2	0	1 (3)	0	1	0	5 (3)	1	54 (7)	14	6	0
8	MF	SEN	Guirane N'Daw*	17 (2)	0	1 (1)	0	2	0	1	0	4 (1)	0	25 (4)	0	6	0
9	FW	JAM	Marlon King	37 (3)	16	2	0	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	2 (3)	2	41 (8)	18	3	0
10†	FW	ENG	Cameron Jerome	0 (1)	0	—		0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
10	FW	NOR	Erik Huseklepp*	4 (7)	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4 (7)	2	0	0
11†	MF	CHI	Jean Beausejour	22	1	—		1 (1)	0	1	0	6	1	30 (1)	2	6	0
11	MF	ENG	Andros Townsend*	11 (4)	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12 (4)	0	0	0
12	MF	ENG	Jordon Mutch	18 (3)	1	2	0	5	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	25 (4)	1	5	1
13	GK	IRE	Colin Doyle	4 (1)	0	2	0	5	0	1	0	3	0	15 (1)	0	0	0
14	MF	SEN	Morgaro Gomis	13 (3)	0	0	0	5	0	0 (1)	0	2	0	20 (4)	0	4	0
15†	DF	ENG	Scott Dann	0	0	—		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	MF	ENG	Wade Elliott	15 (14)	2	1	0	5	2	0	0	5	1	26 (14)	5	4	0
17	FW	IRE	Adam Rooney	6 (12)	4	0	0	5	2	1	0	5	1	17 (12)	7	3	0
18	MF	IRE	Keith Fahey	34 (1)	4	0	0	1 (2)	0	1	0	5	0	41 (3)	4	0	0
19	FW	SRB	Nikola Žigić	20 (15)	11	1	1	1	0	0 (1)	0	4 (1)	0	26 (17)	12	9	0
20	MF	ESP	Enric Vallès	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21†	MF	ESP	Míchel	0	0	—		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	MF	ENG	Nathan Redmond	5 (19)	5	1 (1)	0	5	1	1	0	4 (1)	1	16 (21)	7	2	0
23	DF	USA	Jonathan Spector	31	0	1 (1)	0	4 (1)	0	1	0	8	0	45 (2)	0	7	0
24	DF	ENG	Curtis Davies	42	5	2	0	5	0	1	0	4	0	54	5	9	1
25	FW	NLD	Akwasi Asante	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
26	GK	ENG	Jack Butland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	DF	IRL	Cian Hughton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	MF	FRA	Eddy Gnahoré	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
35	MF	ENG	Callum Reilly	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
36	FW	ENG	Jake Jervis	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0 (2)	0	0	0
37	MF	ENG	Luke Hubbins	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	DF	SCO	Fraser Kerr	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	FW	NZL	Chris Wood*	13 (10)	9	—		0	0	0	0	2 (4)	2	15 (14)	11	0	0
43	DF	ENG	Mitch Hancox	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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