Birmingham City 1-1 Cardiff City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 17 January 2009

Result

Birmingham City 1-1 Cardiff City

Championship · Saturday 17 January 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Birmingham City 1-1 Cardiff City: match report

Birmingham City drew with Cardiff City 1-1 in the Championship on Saturday 17 January 2009. The half-time score was 0-0.

Joe Ledley opened the scoring in the 61st minute. Birmingham City's goal came from Lee Bowyer (90'). Cardiff City scored through Joe Ledley (61').

Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 3rd on 51 points from 26 and Cardiff City 6th on 44 points from 26. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 4th with 83 points, and Cardiff City 7th with 74.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Birmingham City wins, 0 draws and 1 for Cardiff City.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Yellow card · Liam RidgewellBirmingham City
  • 42'Yellow card · G. RaeCardiff City
  • 61'Goal · Joe LedleyCardiff City · 0-1
  • 66'Yellow card · Mark KennedyCardiff City
  • 90'Goal · Lee BowyerBirmingham City · 1-1

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Birmingham City 2, draws 0, Cardiff City 1.

Team news

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

Maik Taylor, Stephen Kelly, David Murphy, Liam Ridgewell, Fabrice Muamba, Sebastian Larsson, Mikael Forssell, James McFadden, Mauro Zárate, Radhi Jaïdi