Birmingham City 2-1 Watford: result and report

Championship · Monday 1 December 2025

Result

Birmingham City 2-1 Watford

Championship · Monday 1 December 2025, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Birmingham City 2-1 Watford: match report

Birmingham City beat Watford 2-1 in the Championship on Monday 1 December 2025. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Seung-ho Paik opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Seung-ho Paik (31') and Demarai Gray (43'). Watford scored through Othmane Maamma (61').

Discipline: Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards; Watford received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 11th on 25 points from 17 and Watford 15th on 24 points from 17. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 10th with 64 points, and Watford 16th with 57.

Birmingham City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Watford in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Tommy Doyle of Birmingham City (7.5), ahead of Jeremy Ngakia (7.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Birmingham City win, 1 draw and 8 for Watford.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Yellow card · Hector KyprianouWatford
  • 24'Yellow card · Tommy DoyleBirmingham City
  • 31'Goal · Seung-ho PaikBirmingham City · 1-0
  • 43'Goal · Demarai GrayBirmingham City · 2-0
  • 61'Goal · Othmane MaammaWatford · 2-1
  • 76'Yellow card · Imrân LouzaWatford
  • 78'Yellow card · Jay StansfieldBirmingham City
  • 80'Yellow card · Patrick RobertsBirmingham City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Birmingham City 1, draws 1, Watford 8.

Team news

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

J. Beadle, Bright Osayi-Samuel, Phil Neumann, Christoph Klarer, Alex Cochrane, Tommy Doyle, Seung-ho Paik, Patrick Roberts, Jay Stansfield, Demarai Gray, Marvin Ducksch

Watford line-up (4-4-2)

Nathan Baxter, Jeremy Ngakia, Kévin Keben, Mattie Pollock, Marc Bola, Tom Ince, Imrân Louza, Hector Kyprianou, Othmane Maamma, Mamadou Doumbia, Luca Kjerrumgaard