Stoke City 1-0 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 13 September 2025

Result

Stoke City 1-0 Birmingham City

Championship · Saturday 13 September 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Stoke City 1-0 Birmingham City: match report

Stoke City beat Birmingham City 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 13 September 2025. The half-time score was 1-0.

The only goal came from Bosun Lawal of Stoke City in the 21st minute.

Discipline: Stoke City received 3 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Stoke City were 4th on 9 points from 4 and Birmingham City 10th on 7 points from 4. Stoke City went on to finish that season 17th with 55 points, and Birmingham City 10th with 64.

Stoke City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Bosun Lawal of Stoke City (8.5), ahead of Aaron Cresswell (7.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Stoke City wins, 4 draws and 4 for Birmingham City.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Goal · Bosun LawalStoke City · 1-0
  • 77'Yellow card · Junior TchamadeuStoke City
  • 80'Yellow card · Ben PearsonStoke City
  • 83'Yellow card · Sorba ThomasStoke City
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Bright Osayi-SamuelBirmingham City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Stoke City 2, draws 4, Birmingham City 4.

Team news

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

Viktor Johansson, Junior Tchamadeu, Bosun Lawal, Ben Wilmot, Aaron Cresswell, Tomas Rigo, Ben Pearson, Million Manhoef, Lewis Baker, Sorba Thomas, Divin Saku Mubama

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

Ryan Allsop, Ethan Laird, Phil Neumann, Christoph Klarer, Alex Cochrane, Patrick Roberts, Tomoki Iwata, Seung-ho Paik, Demarai Gray, Jay Stansfield, Tommy Doyle