Birmingham City 0-1 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Championship · Friday 3 April 2026

Result

Birmingham City 0-1 Blackburn Rovers

Championship · Friday 3 April 2026, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Birmingham City · Blackburn Rovers · Championship predictions

Birmingham City 0-1 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Birmingham City lost to Blackburn Rovers 0-1 in the Championship on Friday 3 April 2026. The half-time score was 0-0.

The only goal came from Todd Cantwell of Blackburn Rovers in the 69th minute.

Discipline: Birmingham City received no yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 11th on 53 points from 39 and Blackburn Rovers 20th on 43 points from 39. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 10th with 64 points, and Blackburn Rovers 22nd with 52.

Birmingham City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Balázs Tóth of Blackburn Rovers (7.8), ahead of Todd Cantwell (7.6).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Birmingham City wins, 1 draw and 6 for Blackburn Rovers.

Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read L-D-W-L-L and Blackburn Rovers's D-W-L-D-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Yellow card · Adam ForshawBlackburn Rovers
  • 69'Goal · Todd CantwellBlackburn Rovers · 0-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Birmingham City 3, draws 1, Blackburn Rovers 6.

Team news

Unavailable

  • Lewis MillerBlackburn Rovers · injury (Achilles tendon rupture)

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

J. Beadle, Tomoki Iwata, Christoph Klarer, Jack Robinson, Ethan Laird, Tommy Doyle, Seung-ho Paik, Patrick Roberts, Marvin Ducksch, Ibrahim Osman, Jay Stansfield

Blackburn Rovers line-up (3-4-2-1)

Balázs Tóth, Tom Atcheson, Scott Wharton, Sean McLoughlin, Ryan Alebiosu, Adam Forshaw, Moussa Baradji, Harry Pickering, Ryoya Morishita, Todd Cantwell, Yuki Ohashi