Birmingham City 3-1 Crystal Palace: result and report

Championship · Saturday 7 April 2012

Result

Birmingham City 3-1 Crystal Palace

Championship · Saturday 7 April 2012, 14:00 UTC · half-time 3-1

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Birmingham City 3-1 Crystal Palace: match report

Birmingham City defeated Crystal Palace 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 7 April 2012. The half-time score was 3-1.

C. Burke opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Birmingham City's goals came from C. Burke (21'), Keith Fahey (22') and David Murphy (32'). Crystal Palace scored through Owen Garvan (45').

Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 4th on 66 points from 40 and Crystal Palace 16th on 54 points from 40. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 5th with 77 points, and Crystal Palace 17th with 56.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Goal · C. BurkeBirmingham City · 1-0
  • 22'Goal · Keith FaheyBirmingham City · 2-0
  • 32'Goal · David MurphyBirmingham City · 3-0
  • 45'Goal · Owen GarvanCrystal Palace · 3-1
  • 48'Yellow card · P. McCarthyCrystal Palace
  • 72'Yellow card · Dean MoxeyCrystal Palace
  • 89'Yellow card · Guirane N'DawBirmingham City

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Birmingham City 3, draws 1, Crystal Palace 3.

Team news

Birmingham City line-up

Boaz Myhill, David Murphy, Steven Caldwell, Peter Ramage, Curtis Davies, C. Burke, Jordon Mutch, Keith Fahey, Marlon King, Andros Townsend, Nikola Zigic

Crystal Palace line-up

Julián Speroni, Nathaniel Clyne, Dean Moxey, Darren Ambrose, Owen Garvan, Stuart O'Keefe, Wilfried Zaha, Jonathan Parr, Patrick McCarthy, Kagisho Evidence Dikgacoi, Jermaine Easter