Preston North End 0-1 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 21 October 2025

Result

Preston North End 0-1 Birmingham City

Championship · Tuesday 21 October 2025, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Preston North End 0-1 Birmingham City: match report

Preston North End were beaten by Birmingham City 0-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 21 October 2025. It was 0-1 at half-time.

The only goal came from Phil Neumann of Birmingham City in the 33rd minute.

Discipline: Preston North End received 2 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 5 yellow cards.

Going into the game Preston North End were 8th on 16 points from 10 and Birmingham City 17th on 12 points from 10. Preston North End went on to finish that season 14th with 60 points, and Birmingham City 10th with 64.

Preston North End lined up in a 3-1-4-2 and Birmingham City in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Phil Neumann of Birmingham City (8.1), level with Ben Whiteman (8.1).

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Yellow card · Michael SmithPreston North End
  • 12'Yellow card · Bright Osayi-SamuelBirmingham City
  • 33'Goal · Phil NeumannBirmingham City · 0-1
  • 58'Yellow card · Tomoki IwataBirmingham City
  • 63'Yellow card · Marc LeonardBirmingham City
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Keshi AndersonBirmingham City
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Seung-ho PaikBirmingham City
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Thierry SmallPreston North End

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Preston North End 5, draws 2, Birmingham City 3.

Team news

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Preston North End line-up (3-1-4-2)

Daniel Iversen, Jordan Storey, Lewis Gibson, Andrew Hughes, Ben Whiteman, O. Offiah, Ali McCann, Harrison Armstrong, Andrija Vukcevic, Daniel Jebbison, Michael Smith

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

J. Beadle, Bright Osayi-Samuel, Phil Neumann, Christoph Klarer, Alex Cochrane, Tommy Doyle, Lewis Koumas, Tomoki Iwata, Seung-ho Paik, Keshi Anderson, Jay Stansfield