Birmingham City 1-1 Southampton: result and report

Championship · Monday 29 December 2025

Result

Birmingham City 1-1 Southampton

Championship · Monday 29 December 2025, 20:15 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Birmingham City 1-1 Southampton: match report

Birmingham City drew with Southampton 1-1 in the Championship on Monday 29 December 2025. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Phil Neumann opened the scoring in the 49th minute. Birmingham City's goal came from Phil Neumann (49'). Southampton scored through Cameron Archer (71').

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

Going into the game Birmingham City were 16th on 30 points from 23 and Southampton 14th on 31 points from 23. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 10th with 64 points, and Southampton 4th with 82.

Birmingham City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Southampton in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jay Stansfield of Birmingham City (7.7), ahead of Phil Neumann (7.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Birmingham City wins, 1 draw and 5 for Southampton.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 41'Yellow card · Nathan WoodSouthampton
  • 48'Yellow card · Caspar JanderSouthampton
  • 49'Goal · Phil NeumannBirmingham City · 1-0
  • 71'Goal · Cameron ArcherSouthampton · 1-1
  • 72'Yellow card · Phil NeumannBirmingham City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Birmingham City 4, draws 1, Southampton 5.

Team news

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

J. Beadle, Alfons Sampsted, Phil Neumann, Jack Robinson, Eiran Cashin, Tomoki Iwata, Seung-ho Paik, Patrick Roberts, Willum Thór Willumsson, Jay Stansfield, Kyogo Furuhashi

Southampton line-up (3-4-2-1)

Gavin Bazunu, Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Nathan Wood, Jack Stephens, Tom Fellows, Flynn Downes, Caspar Jander, Ryan Manning, Jay Robinson, Finn Azaz, Adam Armstrong