Brighton & Hove Albion 4-3 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 21 February 2015

Result

Brighton & Hove Albion 4-3 Birmingham City

Championship · Saturday 21 February 2015, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Brighton & Hove Albion 4-3 Birmingham City: match report

Brighton & Hove Albion beat Birmingham City 4-3 in the Championship on Saturday 21 February 2015. It was 1-1 at half-time.

João Carlos Teixeira opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Brighton & Hove Albion's goals came from João Carlos Teixeira (8'), Inigo Calderon (50'), João Carlos Teixeira (58') and Inigo Calderon (85'). Birmingham City scored through Clayton Donaldson (13'), Wes Thomas (76') and Lee Novak (90+2').

Discipline: Brighton & Hove Albion received 1 yellow card; Birmingham City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Brighton & Hove Albion were 21st on 31 points from 31 and Birmingham City 14th on 39 points from 31. Brighton & Hove Albion went on to finish that season 21st with 47 points, and Birmingham City 10th with 63.

Brighton & Hove Albion lined up in a 4-3-3 and Birmingham City in a 4-3-3.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Brighton & Hove Albion wins, 3 draws and 2 for Birmingham City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Goal · João Carlos TeixeiraBrighton & Hove Albion · 1-0
  • 13'Goal · Clayton DonaldsonBirmingham City · 1-1
  • 45+2'Missed penalty · Paul CaddisBirmingham City
  • 50'Goal · Inigo CalderonBrighton & Hove Albion · 2-1
  • 58'Goal · João Carlos TeixeiraBrighton & Hove Albion · 3-1
  • 76'Yellow card · David StockdaleBrighton & Hove Albion
  • 76'Goal · Wes ThomasBirmingham City · 3-2
  • 85'Yellow card · Jonathan GroundsBirmingham City
  • 85'Goal · Inigo CalderonBrighton & Hove Albion · 4-2
  • 90+2'Goal · Lee NovakBirmingham City · 4-3

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Brighton & Hove Albion 2, draws 3, Birmingham City 2.

Team news

Brighton & Hove Albion expected line-up (4-3-3)

Tomasz Kuszczak, Gordon Greer, Matthew Upson, Lewis Dunk, Andrew Crofts, Rohan Ince, Will Buckley, Leonardo Ulloa, Stephen Ward, Keith Andrews, Iñigo Calderón

Birmingham City expected line-up (4-3-3)

Darren Randolph, Paul Robinson, Dan Burn, Kyle Bartley, Paul Caddis, Jesse Lingard, Tom Adeyemi, Andrew Shinnie, Nikola Zigic, C. Burke, Oliver Lee