Birmingham City 2-1 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Friday 26 December 2003

Result

Birmingham City 2-1 Manchester City

Premier League · Friday 26 December 2003, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Birmingham City 2-1 Manchester City: match report

Birmingham City beat Manchester City 2-1 in the Premier League on Friday 26 December 2003. The half-time score was 0-1.

Robbie Fowler opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from J. Kenna (81') and Mikael Forssell (87'). Manchester City scored through Robbie Fowler (14').

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

Going into the game Birmingham City were 8th on 23 points from 16 and Manchester City 11th on 20 points from 17. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 10th with 50 points, and Manchester City 16th with 41.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Birmingham City wins, 0 draws and 2 for Manchester City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Yellow card · Robbie SavageBirmingham City
  • 14'Goal · Robbie FowlerManchester City · 0-1
  • 68'Yellow card · Edward UpsonBirmingham City
  • 78'Yellow card · Sun JihaiManchester City
  • 81'Goal · J. KennaBirmingham City · 1-1
  • 87'Goal · Mikael ForssellBirmingham City · 2-1

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Birmingham City 0, draws 0, Manchester City 2.

Team news

Birmingham City expected line-up

Maik Taylor, Jamie Clapham, Kenny Cunningham, Darren Purse, Robbie Savage, Stephen Clemence, Christophe Dugarry, Geoff Horsfield, David Dunn, Damien Johnson, Jeffrey Jude Kenna

Manchester City line-up

David Seaman, David Sommeil, Sylvain Distin, Richard Dunne, Claudio Reyna, Steve McManaman, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Nicolas Anelka, Robbie Fowler, Sun Jihai, Joey Barton