Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Birmingham City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 22 October 2005

Result

Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Birmingham City

Premier League · Saturday 22 October 2005, 11:45 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Birmingham City: match report

Blackburn Rovers defeated Birmingham City 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 22 October 2005. The half-time score was 0-0.

P. Dickov opened the scoring in the 49th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from P. Dickov (49', penalty) and Craig Bellamy (81'). Birmingham City did not score.

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received no yellow cards; Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 11th on 11 points from 9 and Birmingham City 18th on 6 points from 9. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 6th with 63 points, and Birmingham City 18th with 34.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Blackburn Rovers wins, 3 draws and 1 for Birmingham City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Yellow card · Emile HeskeyBirmingham City
  • 48'Yellow card · Kenny CunninghamBirmingham City
  • 49'Penalty goal · P. DickovBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 69'Yellow card · Jermaine PennantBirmingham City
  • 81'Goal · Craig BellamyBlackburn Rovers · 2-0

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 2, draws 3, Birmingham City 1.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up

Lucas Neill, Zurab Khizanishvili, Michael Gray, Robbie Savage, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Tugay Kerimoglu, Daniel Bentley, Brad Friedel, Ryan Nelsen, Shefki Kuqi, Paul Dickov

Birmingham City line-up

Maik Taylor, Jamie Clapham, Kenny Cunningham, Matthew Upson, Olivier Tebily, Jermaine Pennant, Mikael Forssell, Stan Lazaridis, Emile Heskey, Nicky Butt, Damien Johnson