Birmingham City 1-0 Sunderland: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 25 February 2006

Result

Birmingham City 1-0 Sunderland

Premier League · Saturday 25 February 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Birmingham City · Sunderland · Premier League predictions

Birmingham City 1-0 Sunderland: match report

Birmingham City beat Sunderland 1-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 25 February 2006. The half-time score was 1-0.

The only goal came from Emile Heskey of Birmingham City in the 39th minute.

Discipline: Birmingham City received no yellow cards; Sunderland received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 18th on 20 points from 25 and Sunderland 20th on 10 points from 26. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 18th with 34 points, and Sunderland 20th with 15.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Birmingham City wins, 0 draws and 0 for Sunderland.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 39'Goal · Emile HeskeyBirmingham City · 1-0
  • 39'Yellow card · Nyron NosworthySunderland
  • 54'Yellow card · Dean WhiteheadSunderland
  • 68'Yellow card · Grant LeadbitterSunderland

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Birmingham City 3, draws 0, Sunderland 0.

Team news

Birmingham City line-up

Maik Taylor, Martin Taylor, Martin Latka, Mario Melchiot, Mustafa Izzet, Jermaine Pennant, Julian Gray, Emile Heskey, Chris Sutton, Jirí Jarosík, Damien Johnson

Sunderland line-up

Gary Breen, Nyron Nosworthy, Danny Collins, Justin Hoyte, Liam Lawrence, Dean Whitehead, Grant Leadbitter, Julio Arca, Kevin Kyle, Daryl Murphy, Kelvin Davis