List of Birmingham City F.C. seasons

Birmingham City Football Club, an association football club based in Birmingham, England, was founded in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance. For the first thirteen years of their existence, there was no league football, so matches were arranged on an ad hoc basis, supplemented by cup competitions organised at local and national level. Small Heath first entered the FA Cup in the 1881–82 season, and won their first trophy, the Walsall Cup, the following season.[1] During the 1880s, they played between 20 and 30 matches each season.[2]

For details of the current season, see 2020–21 Birmingham City F.C. season.

Small Heath F.C., champions of the inaugural Football League Second Division 1892–93

In 1888, the club became a limited company under the name of Small Heath F.C. Ltd,[3] and joined the Combination, a league set up to provide organised football for those clubs not invited to join the Football League which was to start the same year. However, the Combination was not well organised and folded in April 1889 with many fixtures still outstanding.[4] Small Heath were founder members of the Football Alliance in 1889–90, and three years later were elected to the newly formed Second Division of the Football League. They topped the table in their first season, failing to win promotion via the test match system then in operation, but reached the top flight for the first time in 1894.[5] They were renamed Birmingham in 1905, finally becoming Birmingham City in 1943.[6]

The club's official history rated 1955–56 as their best season to date.[7] The newly promoted club achieved their highest ever finishing position of sixth in the First Division, reached the 1956 FA Cup Final, and became the first English club side to participate in European competition when they played their opening game in the group stages of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.[lower-alpha 1] Their only major trophy is the League Cup, which they won in 1963 and 2011; they reached the FA Cup final twice and the final of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup twice. During the 1990s, they twice won the Associate Members Cup, a competition open to clubs in the third and fourth tiers of English football.

As at the end of the 2019–20 season, the club's first team had spent 57 seasons in the top division of English football, 56 in the second, and 4 in the third. The table details their achievements in first-team competitions, and records their top goalscorer and average home league attendance, for each completed season since their first appearance in the Birmingham Senior Cup in 1878–79.

Key

Details of abandoned competitions – The Combination in 1888–89 and the 1939–40 Football League – are shown in italics and appropriately footnoted.

Seasons
List of seasons, including league division and statistics, cup results, top scorer and average league attendance
Season League[4][5][9] FA Cup [10][lower-alpha 5] League Cup[12][lower-alpha 6] Other[12][14][15] Top scorer[lower-alpha 7] Ave[lower-alpha 8] attend
Division[lower-alpha 9] P W D L F A Pts Pos Competition Result Name Goals
1878–79 — ——————— — — — Birmingham Senior CupR1 n/a— —
1879–80 — ——————— — — — Birmingham Senior CupR2 n/a— —
1880–81 — ——————— — — — Birmingham Senior CupR4 n/a— —
1881–82 — ——————— — R2— Birmingham Senior CupR2 Billy Slater[lower-alpha 10]2 —
1882–83 — ——————— — R1— Birmingham Senior CupR1 Billy Slater2 —
1883–84 — ——————— — R1— Birmingham Senior CupR3 Arthur James2 —
1884–85 — ——————— — R1— Birmingham Senior CupR2 No goalscorer— —
1885–86 — ——————— — SF— Birmingham Senior CupR2 Eddy Stanley7 —
1886–87 — ——————— — R1— Birmingham Senior CupSF Jack Price1 —
1887–88 — ——————— — R2— Birmingham Senior CupR1
  • Walter Dixon
  • Austin Smith
2 —
1888–89 Comb[lower-alpha 2] 116322417156th R1— Birmingham Senior CupR1 Will Devey[lower-alpha 11]5 —
1889–90 All22651144671710th R2— Birmingham Senior CupR2 Will Devey27 1,068
1890–91 All22721358661610th DQ[lower-alpha 12] — Birmingham Senior CupR1
17 2,545
1891–92 All2212555336293rd R2— Birmingham Senior CupR2 Fred Wheldon29 2,100
1892–93 Div 2[lower-alpha 13] 2217239035361st[lower-alpha 14] R1— Birmingham Senior CupSF Fred Wheldon[lower-alpha 15]26 ♦ 2,181
1893–94
  • Div 2
  • United
  • 28
  • 6
  • 21
  • 2
  • 0
  • 1
  • 7
  • 3
  • 103
  • 14
  • 44
  • 14
  • 42
  • 5
R1— Birmingham Senior CupR1 Frank Mobley[lower-alpha 17]25 ♦ 2,928
1894–95 Div 130971450742512th R1— Birmingham Senior CupSF Frank Mobley13 6,440
1895–96 Div 1 ↓30841839792015th[lower-alpha 18] R1— Birmingham Senior CupR1 Frank Mobley11 6,233
1896–97 Div 23016596947374th R1— Birmingham Senior CupR2 Jimmy Inglis16 4,526
1897–98 Div 230164105850366th[lower-alpha 19] QR3— Birmingham Senior CupR2 Walter Abbott19 5,633
1898–99 Div 234177108550418th R2— Birmingham Senior CupR2 Walter Abbott[lower-alpha 20]42 ♦ 5,588
1899–1900 Div 23420687838463rd QR5— Birmingham Senior CupR1 Bob McRoberts24 5,176
1900–01 Div 2 34191055724482nd QF— Birmingham Senior CupR1 Bob McRoberts17 5,558
1901–02 Div 1 ↓341181547453017th IntR— Birmingham Senior CupR1 Bob McRoberts11 13,058
1902–03 Div 2 3424377436512nd R1— Birmingham Senior CupR1 Arthur Leonard16 7,411
1903–04 Div 1341181539523011th IntR— Birmingham Senior CupR1
8 11,386
1904–05 Div 134175125438397th R1— Birmingham Senior CupW Billy Jones16 14,441
1905–06 Div 138177146559417th QF— —— Billy Jones24 11,868
1906–07 Div 138158155252389th R1— —— Billy Jones15 15,315
1907–08 Div 1 ↓389121740603020th R1— —— Edmund Eyre9 15,473
1908–09 Div 2381491558613711th R1— ——
8 10,607
1909–10 Div 238872342782320th[lower-alpha 21] R1— —— Walter Freeman10 8,921
1910–11 Div 2381281842643216th R1— —— Jack Hall14 13,764
1911–12 Div 2381461855593412th R1— —— Jack Hall21 13,052
1912–13 Div 2381810105944463rd R1— —— Billy Jones16 15,157
1913–14 Div 23812101648603414th R3— —— Andy Smith10 17,411
1914–15 Div 238179126239436th R3— —— Andy Smith24 11,315
1915–19
The Football League and FA Cup were suspended until after the First World War.[lower-alpha 22]
1919–20 Div 242248108534563rd R3— —— Bert Millard15 22,880
1920–21 Div 2 42241087938581st R1— —— Harry Hampton16 31,244
1921–22 Div 1421572048603718th DNE[lower-alpha 23]— ——
10 27,967
1922–23 Div 14213111841573717th R1— —— Joe Bradford19 25,328
1923–24 Div 14213131641493914th R1— —— Joe Bradford24 20,395
1924–25 Div 1421712134953468th R3— ——
11 22,547
1925–26 Div 1421681866814014th R4— —— Joe Bradford27 21,649
1926–27 Div 1421742164733817th R4— —— Joe Bradford23 24,372
1927–28 Div 14213151470754111th R5— —— Joe Bradford32 21,646
1928–29 Div 14215101768774015th R4— —— Joe Bradford24 23,406
1929–30 Div 1421691767624111th R4— —— Joe Bradford23 22,193
1930–31 Div 14213101955703619th F[lower-alpha 24] — —— Joe Bradford22 21,275
1931–32 Div 142188167867449th R4— —— Joe Bradford28 23,380
1932–33 Div 14214111757573913th QF— ——
14 20,044
1933–34 Div 14212121854563620th R5— —— Fred Roberts8 24,718
1934–35 Div 14213101963813619th QF— —— Wilson Jones17 22,795
1935–36 Div 14215111661634112th R3— —— Wilson Jones20 22,955
1936–37 Div 14213151464604111th R3— —— Seymour Morris16 25,452
1937–38 Div 14210181458623818th R3— ——
9 26,434
1938–39 Div 1 ↓421282262843221st R5— —— Fred Harris17 22,432
1939–40 Div 232105152nd[lower-alpha 25] — — ——
1 —
1939–45
The Football League and FA Cup were suspended until after the Second World War.[lower-alpha 27]
1945–46 —[lower-alpha 28] ——————— — SF[lower-alpha 29] — —— Jock Mulraney[lower-alpha 11]7 —
1946–47 Div 242255127433553rd QF— —— Cyril Trigg19 32,462
1947–48 Div 2 42221555524591st R3— —— Harold Bodle14 36,467
1948–49 Div 14211151636383717th R3— —— Jackie Stewart11 38,821
1949–50 Div 1 ↓427142131672822nd R3— —— Jimmy Dailey9 34,310
1950–51 Div 242209136453494th SF— —— Cyril Trigg19 24,728
1951–52 Div 242219126756513rd R4— —— Tommy Briggs19 24,570
1952–53 Div 2421910137166486th QF— —— Peter Murphy26 20,046
1953–54 Div 2421811137858477th R4— —— Ted Purdon15 22,594
1954–55 Div 2 422210109247541st QF— —— Peter Murphy20 21,002
1955–56 Div 142189157557456th[lower-alpha 30] F[lower-alpha 31] — Inter-Cities Fairs Cup[lower-alpha 1]— Eddy Brown29 33,828
1956–57 Div 1421591869693912th[lower-alpha 32] SF— Inter-Cities Fairs Cup— Alex Govan30 32,582
1957–58 Div 14214111776893913th R3— Inter-Cities Fairs CupSF Peter Murphy23 29,647
1958–59 Div 142206168468469th R5— Inter-Cities Fairs Cup— Bunny Larkin23 26,893
1959–60 Div 14213101963803619th R3— Inter-Cities Fairs Cup[lower-alpha 33]F Johnny Gordon19 26,880
1960–61 Div 1421462262843419th R5R3 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup[lower-alpha 34]F Jimmy Harris17 25,751
1961–62 Div 14214101865813817th R3R1Inter-Cities Fairs CupR2
20 23,587
1962–63 Div 14210131963903320th R3W[lower-alpha 35] —— Ken Leek29 22,559
1963–64 Div 1421172454922920th R3R2—— Bertie Auld10 21,996
1964–65 Div 1 ↓428112364962722nd R3R2——
10 19,714
1965–66 Div 2421691770754110th R4R2—— Geoff Vowden23 14,398
1966–67 Div 2421681870664010th QFSF—— Geoff Vowden21 19,798
1967–68 Div 242191498351524th SFR3—— Barry Bridges28 28,083
1968–69 Div 242188167359447th R5R2——
17 26,008
1969–70 Div 24211112051783318th R3R2—— Phil Summerill13 24,028
1970–71 Div 2421712135848469th R3R4—— Phil Summerill21 24,164
1971–72 Div 2 42191856031562nd P3rd[lower-alpha 36] R2Anglo-Italian CupGroup Bob Latchford[lower-alpha 37]30 ♦ 32,337
1972–73 Div 14215121553544210th R3R4—— Bob Latchford20 36,663
1973–74 Div 14212131752643719th R4QF Texaco Cup[lower-alpha 38]QF Bob Hatton20 33,048
1974–75 Div 1421491953613717th SFR2Texaco CupSF Bob Hatton18 30,854
1975–76 Div 1421372257753319th R3R3—— Trevor Francis18 28,002
1976–77 Div 14213121763613813th R4R2—— Trevor Francis21 28,338
1977–78 Div 1421691755604111th R4R2Anglo-Scottish CupGroup Trevor Francis29 23,910
1978–79 Div 1 ↓426102637642221st R3R2—— Alan Buckley8 20,164
1979–80 Div 2 422111105838533rd[lower-alpha 39] R5R3Anglo-Scottish CupGroup Keith Bertschin18 20,427
1980–81 Div 14213121750613813th R4QF—— Frank Worthington18 19,248
1981–82 Div 1[lower-alpha 40]4210141853614416th R3R2—— Tony Evans16 17,116
1982–83 Div 14212141640555017th R4R4—— Mick Ferguson8 15,880
1983–84 Div 1 ↓4212121839504820th QFR4—— Mick Harford15 14,106
1984–85 Div 2 42257105933822nd R3R3—— Wayne Clarke19 12,522
1985–86 Div 1 ↓42852930732921st R3R3—— Andy Kennedy8 10,899
1986–87 Div 24211171447595019th R4R3Full Members' CupR2 Wayne Clarke19 7,426
1987–88 Div 24411151841664819th R5R1Full Members' CupR1 Steve Whitton16 8,576
1988–89 Div 2[lower-alpha 41] ↓ 468112731763523rd R3R2Full Members' CupR1 Steve Whitton6 6,289
1989–90 Div 3461812166059667th R3R2Associate Members' CupGroup Dennis Bailey20 8,558
1990–91 Div 34616171345496512th R2R1Associate Members' Cup[lower-alpha 42]W
10 7,030
1991–92 Div 3 462312116952812nd R1R3Associate Members' CupGroup Nigel Gleghorn22 12,399
1992–93 Div 1[lower-alpha 43]4613122150725119th R1R1Anglo-Italian CupR1 John Frain8 12,328
1993–94 Div 1 ↓4613122152695122nd R3R2Anglo-Italian CupPrelim
10 14,378
1994–95 Div 2 46251478437891st R3R2Football League Trophy[lower-alpha 44]W Steve Claridge25 16,941
1995–96 Div 14615131861645815th R3SFAnglo-Italian CupQF Jonathan Hunt15 18,098
1996–97 Div 14617151452486610th R5R2—— Paul Devlin19 17,732
1997–98 Div 1461917106035747th[lower-alpha 45] R5R3—— Paul Furlong19 18,751
1998–99 Div 1462312116637814th[lower-alpha 46] R3R3—— Dele Adebola17 20,794
1999–2000 Div 1462211136544775th[lower-alpha 47] R4R4—— Paul Furlong11 21,895
2000–01 Div 146239145948785th[lower-alpha 48] R3F[lower-alpha 49]—— Geoff Horsfield12 21,283
2001–02 Div 1 462113127049765th[lower-alpha 50] R3R3—— Tommy Mooney15 21,978
2002–03 Prem381391641494813th R3R3—— Stern John9 28,831
2003–04 Prem3812141243485010th R5R2—— Mikael Forssell19 29,078
2004–05 Prem3811121540464512th R4R3—— Emile Heskey11 28,760
2005–06 Prem ↓388102028503418th QFQF——
8 27,392
2006–07 Champ[lower-alpha 51] 46268126742862nd R4R4—— Gary McSheffrey16 22,273
2007–08 Prem ↓388111946623519th R3R3—— Mikael Forssell9 26,181
2008–09 Champ 46231495437832nd R3R2—— Kevin Phillips14 19,081
2009–10 Prem381311143847509th QFR3—— Cameron Jerome11 25,246
2010–11 Prem ↓388151537583918th QFW[lower-alpha 52] —— Craig Gardner10 25,461
2011–12 Champ462016107851764th[lower-alpha 53] R5R3 UEFA Europa League[lower-alpha 54]Group Marlon King18 19,126[56]
2012–13 Champ4615161563696112th R3R2—— Marlon King14 16,702
2013–14 Champ4611112458744421st[lower-alpha 55] R4R4——
10 15,457
2014–15 Champ4616151554646310th R4R2—— Clayton Donaldson16 16,111
2015–16 Champ4616151553496310th R3R3—— Clayton Donaldson11 17,602
2016–17 Champ4613141945645319th R3R1—— Lukas Jutkiewicz12 18,717
2017–18 Champ461372638684619th R4R2—— Ché Adams9 21,041
2018–19 Champ46141913645852[lower-alpha 56]17th R3R1—— Ché Adams22 22,483
2019–20 Champ4612142054755020th R5R1—— Lukas Jutkiewicz15 20,411[lower-alpha 57]

Notes
  1. Birmingham City became the first English club team to take part in European competition when they played their first group game in the 1955–58 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup on 15 May 1956, a goalless draw away at Internazionale. The competition lasted over three English seasons with the final not played until 1958. The London XI, a representative side made up of players from several London clubs, were the first English team when they played their first group game in 1955.[36]
  2. An attempt was made to set up a league called The Combination involving clubs not invited to join the Football League. Lack of proper organisation meant it was wound up in April 1889 with many fixtures still outstanding. Small Heath played 11 of their full 16 fixtures.[4]
  3. Founder member of the Football Alliance, which started a year after the Football League.[5]
  4. The United League (or United Midland Counties League) was one of several short-lived leagues of similar name. This one was established in 1894, involving ten teams from the Midlands, to be played as a supplementary competition to fill vacant dates in the season without the trouble and expense of arranging friendly matches.[8] Small Heath finished third in their four-team section in the 1893–94 season,[9] and did not participate again.
  5. Beginning with the 1925–26 season, the FA Cup was structured so that the third round proper contained 64 teams. Prior to that date, the structure had varied, so rounds are not directly comparable to the round of the same name after 1925. For example, in 1892–93, Small Heath's first season in the Football League, there were only three rounds proper before the semifinal, as compared with the current six.[11]
  6. The League Cup competition started in the 1960–61 season.[13]
  7. Includes goals scored in the Football Alliance, the Football League, including test matches and play-offs, Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, UEFA Europa League, Associate Members' Cup / Football League Trophy, Anglo-Italian Cup, Texaco Cup, Anglo-Scottish Cup and Full Members' Cup. Goals scored in seasons from 1881–82 to 1888–89 sourced to Matthews (1995), p. 231, from 1889–90 to 2009–10 sourced to Matthews (2010), pp. 224–455, 473–483 and from 2010–11 onwards sourced to Soccerbase.[16]
  8. League matches only (including Football Alliance, Football League and Premier League, but excluding test matches and play-offs). Sourced from Matthews (1995) up to and including the 1994–95 season, from European Football Statistics[17] from 1995–96 to 2001–02 inclusive, and from ESPN FC[18] thereafter.
  9. Divisions are sorted according to their level within the English football league system at the time.
  10. The first of Slater's two goals in the FA Cup first round tie against Derby Town, a 4–1 win played at the Coventry Road ground on 17 October 1881, was the club's first goal in national competitive football.[19]
  11. FA Cup goals only.
  12. Disqualified for fielding an improperly registered player, after eliminating Hednesford Town and Wednesbury Old Athletic in the qualifying rounds.[3]
  13. The Football League expanded its membership at the end of this season by forming a Second Division. All but one of the 12 Football Alliance teams accepted invitations to join.[20]
  14. Promotion and relegation decided by test matches, in which third bottom in First Division played third in Second Division, second bottom in First Division played second in Second Division, and bottom club in First Division played top club from Second Division, in one-off games at neutral venues, winners to play in the following season's First Division. Small Heath drew 1–1 with Newton Heath but lost the replay 5–2, so were not promoted despite winning the division.[21]
  15. The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) list Wheldon as having scored a divisional best 24 goals in Division Two,[22] but Matthews (2010) assigns him 25.[23]
  16. Promoted via test match, beating Darwen 3–1.[12]
  17. Scored 24 goals in Division Two,[22]
  18. Promotion and relegation decided by test match system in which bottom two clubs in First Division and top two clubs in Second Division played a mini-league of home and away matches against the two clubs in the other division, top two in mini-league to play in following season's First Division. Small Heath finished third in the mini-league so were relegated.[24]
  19. The final test match left the two clubs involved needing to draw for them both to win promotion, which unsurprisingly is what happened. The Football League decided to expand each division by two places, and the existing clubs voted for two clubs to take the two new places in the First Division. Candidates were the losers from the two test match series plus teams placed third to sixth in the Second Division. Small Heath came fourth in the vote, so remained in the Second Division. From then on the League adopted promotion and relegation directly dependent on league position (two up, two down).[25]
  20. Abbott's 34 Second Division goals and 42 total goals in a season are club records.[26]
  21. There was no automatic relegation from the Football League until 1987.[13] The bottom two clubs in the League, together with candidates from outside the League, applied for re-election. Each current League club had a vote. Small Heath were re-elected.[27]
  22. The club played 106 competitive games in regional football, the Midland Section Principal and Subsidiary Competitions, over three seasons from 1916 to 1919. Guest players were permitted, and results and records from this period are not included in official statistics.[28]
  23. Secretary-manager Frank Richards failed to submit the entry form in time to be granted exemption from qualifying, and the Football Association refused to bend the rules in their favour. Although that decision did not preclude their entering the competition in the qualifying rounds, the directors chose not to.[29][30]
  24. Birmingham's first appearance in the Cup Final was a 2–1 defeat to Second Division West Bromwich Albion.[12]
  25. When the Second World War began, the 1939–40 Football League season was abandoned with three matches played and Birmingham in second position.[31]
  26. Plus one own goal.[32]
  27. The club played 215 competitive games in regional league and cup football between 1939 and 1946. Guest players were permitted, and results and records from this period are not included in official statistics.[28]
  28. This was the only full season played in the wartime Football League North and South regionalised competitions. These leagues included Football League First and Second Division clubs divided geographically, playing each other home and away. Birmingham won the Southern section on goal average from Aston Villa.[33]
  29. From the first round proper to the sixth round of the 1945–46 FA Cup, matches were played over two legs. In the semifinal, Birmingham drew with Derby County at Hillsborough, Sheffield, in front of 65,000 spectators. The replay at Maine Road, Manchester, which attracted a crowd of over 80,000, went goalless into extra time, when defender Ted Duckhouse broke his leg trying to stop Derby's first goal. No substitutes were allowed, and Birmingham went on to lose 4–0.[33]
  30. Club's highest League finish.
  31. Reached the 1956 FA Cup Final without being drawn at home in any round, the first club so to do.[34] Lost 3–1 to Manchester City in the game remembered for City's goalkeeper Bert Trautmann playing the last 15 minutes of the game with a broken bone in his neck.[35]
  32. Equal with Chelsea on goal average; number of goals scored was not taken into account.[37]
  33. Birmingham became the first English club team to reach the final of a European competition, losing on aggregate to Barcelona (0–0 at home, 1–4 away). The London XI, consisting of players from several London clubs, were the first English team when they reached the final of the 1955–58 Fairs Cup.[38]
  34. Lost on aggregate to A.S. Roma (2–2 at home, 0–2 away).[39]
  35. Beat Aston Villa 3–1 on aggregate (3–1 at home, 0–0 away) to win club's first major trophy.[5]
  36. Between 1969–70 and 1973–74 the losing FA Cup semi-finalists took part in a third-place play-off.[40] Birmingham beat Stoke City on penalties after a goalless draw, the first time an FA Cup match had been decided via a penalty shootout.[41]
  37. Scored 23 goals in Division Two.[22]
  38. The home leg of the quarter final match against Newcastle United finished 1–1. Despite use of floodlights being banned due to the fuel crisis, the League refused to allow an earlier kickoff time for the away leg. The match was abandoned at 1–1 after 10 minutes of extra time in almost total darkness. When the match was replayed, Birmingham lost 3–1.[42]
  39. Number of teams promoted to and relegated from the First Division raised from two to three in 1973.[13]
  40. This season saw the introduction of three points for a win instead of two.[13]
  41. Relegated to the third tier of English football for the first time.
  42. Beat Tranmere Rovers 3–2 in the final of what was better known by its sponsored name of the Leyland DAF Cup at Wembley.[43]
  43. The Second Division was renamed Division One after the FA Premiership broke away from the Football League.[13]
  44. Beat Carlisle United 1–0 in the final of what was better known by its sponsored name of the Auto Windscreens Shield at Wembley in front of a crowd of 76,663. The goal was scored by Paul Tait in sudden-death extra time. This was the first time a major tournament in England was decided on a golden goal.[44]
  45. Missed out on a play-off place to Sheffield United by virtue of goals scored, which took precedence over goal difference from the 1992–93 to the 1998–99 Football League seasons.[45]
  46. Lost in the play-off semifinal to Watford on penalties.[46]
  47. Lost in the play-off semifinal to Barnsley on aggregate.[47]
  48. Lost in the play-off semifinal to Preston North End on penalties.[48]
  49. Lost to Liverpool on penalties after the game had finished 1–1 after extra time, in the first English final to be settled by a penalty shootout,[49] and the first English football final to be held at the Millennium Stadium while the new Wembley Stadium was being built.[50]
  50. Promoted to the Premier League via the play-offs, beating Millwall 2–1 on aggregate in the semifinal and Norwich City on penalties in the final after the game had finished 1–1 after extra time.[51]
  51. Division One was renamed The Championship from the 2004–05 season.[52]
  52. Beat favourites Arsenal 2–1 at Wembley to win League Cup for the second time.[53]
  53. Lost in the play-off semifinal to Blackpool 3–2 on aggregate.[54]
  54. Appearing in European competition for the first time in 50 years, courtesy of the 2011 League Cup win, Birmingham beat Nacional of Portugal in the 2011–12 Europa League play-off round to progress to the group stage. They finished third in Group H, one point behind Braga and Club Brugge, having beaten Brugge away and NK Maribor home and away.[55]
  55. Avoided relegation on goal difference via Paul Caddis's stoppage-time equaliser at Bolton Wanderers in the last match of the season.[57]
  56. Nine points deducted for breaches of the EFL's profitability and sustainability rules.[58]
  57. The 2019–20 season was interrupted for three months because of the COVID-19 pandemic before being completed behind closed doors;[59] the average attendance only covers those matches played with spectators present.

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General

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  • Matthews, Tony (2000). The Encyclopedia of Birmingham City Football Club 1875–2000. Cradley Heath: Britespot. ISBN 978-0-9539288-0-4.
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  3. Matthews (1995), p. 9.
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