Birmingham City 3-1 Sheffield Wednesday: result and report

Championship · Saturday 25 October 2008

Result

Birmingham City 3-1 Sheffield Wednesday

Championship · Saturday 25 October 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 3-1

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Birmingham City 3-1 Sheffield Wednesday: match report

Birmingham City won against Sheffield Wednesday 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 25 October 2008. The half-time score was 3-1.

Garry O'Connor opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Garry O'Connor (11'), Garry O'Connor (15') and K. Phillips (38'). Sheffield Wednesday scored through Etiënne Esajas (14').

Discipline: Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards; Sheffield Wednesday received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 1st on 27 points from 12 and Sheffield Wednesday 10th on 18 points from 12. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 4th with 83 points, and Sheffield Wednesday 12th with 61.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Goal · Garry O'ConnorBirmingham City · 1-0
  • 14'Goal · Etiënne EsajasSheffield Wednesday · 1-1
  • 15'Goal · Garry O'ConnorBirmingham City · 2-1
  • 38'Goal · K. PhillipsBirmingham City · 3-1
  • 63'Yellow card · Jimmy SmithSheffield Wednesday
  • 64'Yellow card · Sebastian LarssonBirmingham City
  • 69'Second yellow · Jimmy SmithSheffield Wednesday
  • 83'Yellow card · Lewis BuxtonSheffield Wednesday
  • 90'Yellow card · James McFaddenBirmingham City

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Birmingham City 2, draws 0, Sheffield Wednesday 0.

Team news

Birmingham City expected line-up (4-4-2)

Maik Taylor, Stephen Kelly, David Murphy, Liam Ridgewell, Fabrice Muamba, Sebastian Larsson, Mikael Forssell, James McFadden, Mauro Zárate, Radhi Jaïdi