Birmingham City 4-0 Portsmouth: result and report

Championship · Saturday 1 November 2025

Result

Birmingham City 4-0 Portsmouth

Championship · Saturday 1 November 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Birmingham City · Portsmouth · Championship predictions

Birmingham City 4-0 Portsmouth: match report

Birmingham City won against Portsmouth 4-0 in the Championship on Saturday 1 November 2025. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Seung-ho Paik opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Seung-ho Paik (9'), Tomoki Iwata (56'), Christoph Klarer (61') and Keshi Anderson (88'). Portsmouth did not score.

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

Going into the game Birmingham City were 16th on 15 points from 12 and Portsmouth 18th on 13 points from 12. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 10th with 64 points, and Portsmouth 18th with 55.

Birmingham City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Portsmouth in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Tomoki Iwata of Birmingham City (8.8), ahead of Alex Cochrane (7.8).

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Missed penalty · Jay StansfieldBirmingham City
  • 9'Goal · Seung-ho PaikBirmingham City · 1-0
  • 23'Yellow card · Christoph KlarerBirmingham City
  • 56'Goal · Tomoki IwataBirmingham City · 2-0
  • 60'Yellow card · Jordan WilliamsPortsmouth
  • 61'Goal · Christoph KlarerBirmingham City · 3-0
  • 88'Goal · Keshi AndersonBirmingham City · 4-0
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Josh MurphyPortsmouth

Head-to-head

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

Team news

Unavailable

  • Ethan LairdBirmingham City · injury (Hamstring Injury)

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

J. Beadle, Tomoki Iwata, Phil Neumann, Christoph Klarer, Alex Cochrane, Tommy Doyle, Seung-ho Paik, Patrick Roberts, Jay Stansfield, Demarai Gray, Marvin Ducksch

Portsmouth line-up (4-2-3-1)

Josef Bursik, Jordan Williams, Hayden Matthews, Regan Poole, Ibane Bowat, Marlon Pack, Andre Dozzell, Márk Kosznovszky, John Swift, Min-hyeok Yang, Makenzie Kirk