Birmingham City 6-2 Barnsley: result and report

League One · Saturday 5 April 2025

Result

Birmingham City 6-2 Barnsley

League One · Saturday 5 April 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Birmingham City 6-2 Barnsley: match report

Birmingham City won against Barnsley 6-2 in the League One on Saturday 5 April 2025. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Jay Stansfield opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Jay Stansfield (33', penalty), Alfie May (47'), Alfie May (55'), Luke Harris (72'), Kieran Dowell (82') and Lukas Jutkiewicz (89'). Barnsley scored through Davis Keillor-Dunn (35') and Stephen Humphrys (59').

Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Barnsley received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 1st on 89 points from 38 and Barnsley 11th on 54 points from 40. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 1st with 111 points, and Barnsley 12th with 61.

Birmingham City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Barnsley in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Alfie May of Birmingham City (9.4), ahead of Kieran Dowell (8.3).

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Red card · Maël de GevigneyBarnsley
  • 33'Penalty goal · Jay StansfieldBirmingham City · 1-0
  • 35'Goal · Davis Keillor-DunnBarnsley · 1-1
  • 47'Goal · Alfie MayBirmingham City · 2-1
  • 54'Yellow card · Christoph KlarerBirmingham City
  • 55'Goal · Alfie MayBirmingham City · 3-1
  • 59'Goal · Stephen HumphrysBarnsley · 3-2
  • 72'Goal · Luke HarrisBirmingham City · 4-2
  • 76'Yellow card · Jonathan BlandBarnsley
  • 82'Goal · Kieran DowellBirmingham City · 5-2
  • 89'Goal · Lukas JutkiewiczBirmingham City · 6-2

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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

Ryan Allsop, Ethan Laird, Christoph Klarer, Ben Davies, Alex Cochrane, Tomoki Iwata, Seung-ho Paik, Kieran Dowell, Willum Thór Willumsson, Keshi Anderson, Jay Stansfield

Barnsley line-up (3-4-3)

Kieren Flavell, Maël de Gevigney, M. Roberts, Conor McCarthy, Adam Phillips, Luca Connell, Jon Russell, Corey O'Keeffe, Stephen Humphrys, Max Watters, Davis Keillor-Dunn