Birmingham City 1-1 Stoke City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 24 January 2026

Result

Birmingham City 1-1 Stoke City

Championship · Saturday 24 January 2026, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Birmingham City 1-1 Stoke City: match report

Birmingham City drew with Stoke City 1-1 in the Championship on Saturday 24 January 2026. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Tomoki Iwata opened the scoring in the 42nd minute. Birmingham City's goal came from Tomoki Iwata (42'). Stoke City scored through an own goal by Phil Neumann (71').

Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Stoke City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 13th on 38 points from 28 and Stoke City 9th on 41 points from 28. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 10th with 64 points, and Stoke City 17th with 55.

Birmingham City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Stoke City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Tomoki Iwata of Birmingham City (8.3), ahead of Eric-Junior Bocat (7.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Birmingham City wins, 4 draws and 3 for Stoke City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 42'Goal · Tomoki IwataBirmingham City · 1-0
  • 67'Yellow card · Jay StansfieldBirmingham City
  • 71'Own goal · Phil NeumannStoke City · 1-1
  • 80'Yellow card · Lamine CisséStoke City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Birmingham City 3, draws 4, Stoke City 3.

Team news

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

J. Beadle, Tomoki Iwata, Phil Neumann, Christoph Klarer, Kai Wagner, Tommy Doyle, Seung-ho Paik, Patrick Roberts, Jay Stansfield, Ibrahim Osman, Marvin Ducksch

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

Tommy James Simkin, Sorba Thomas, Ashley Phillips, Maksym Taloverov, Eric-Junior Bocat, Tatsuki Seko, Steven Nzonzi, Million Manhoef, Tomas Rigo, Jun-ho Bae, Lamine Cissé