Leicester City 2-0 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Friday 29 August 2025

Result

Leicester City 2-0 Birmingham City

Championship · Friday 29 August 2025, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Leicester City · Birmingham City · Championship predictions

Leicester City 2-0 Birmingham City: match report

Leicester City won against Birmingham City 2-0 in the Championship on Friday 29 August 2025. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Issahaku Fatawu opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Leicester City's goals came from Issahaku Fatawu (8') and Ricardo Pereira (88'). Birmingham City did not score.

Discipline: Leicester City received 3 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Leicester City were 7th on 6 points from 3 and Birmingham City 5th on 7 points from 3. Leicester City went on to finish that season 21st with 52 points, and Birmingham City 10th with 64.

Leicester City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ricardo Pereira of Leicester City (7.3), level with Ethan Laird (7.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Leicester City wins, 2 draws and 3 for Birmingham City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Goal · Issahaku FatawuLeicester City · 1-0
  • 45'Yellow card · Hamza ChoudhuryLeicester City
  • 57'Yellow card · Issahaku FatawuLeicester City
  • 62'Yellow card · Kyogo FuruhashiBirmingham City
  • 64'Yellow card · Christoph KlarerBirmingham City
  • 74'Yellow card · Demarai GrayBirmingham City
  • 76'Yellow card · Ricardo PereiraLeicester City
  • 88'Goal · Ricardo PereiraLeicester City · 2-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Leicester City 5, draws 2, Birmingham City 3.

Team news

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

Jakub Stolarczyk, Hamza Dewan Choudhury, Memeh Caleb Okoli, Jannik Vestergaard, Luke Jonathan Thomas, Boubakary Soumaré, Oliver Skipp, Abdul Fatawu Issahaku, Louis Page, Stephy Alvaro Mavididi, Jordan Ayew

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

Ryan Allsop, Bright Osayi-Samuel, Phil Neumann, Christoph Klarer, Ethan Laird, Willum Thór Willumsson, Tomoki Iwata, Seung-ho Paik, Demarai Gray, Lewis Koumas, Kyogo Furuhashi