Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 16 August 2025

Result

Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Birmingham City

Championship · Saturday 16 August 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Birmingham City: match report

Blackburn Rovers were beaten by Birmingham City 1-2 in the Championship on Saturday 16 August 2025. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Todd Cantwell opened the scoring in the 50th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from Todd Cantwell (50'). Birmingham City scored through Jay Stansfield (90', penalty) and Lyndon Dykes (90+8').

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

Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 22nd with 52 points, and Birmingham City 10th with 64.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Demarai Gray of Birmingham City (7.4), ahead of Ethan Laird (7.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Blackburn Rovers wins, 1 draw and 3 for Birmingham City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 30'Yellow card · Bright Osayi-SamuelBirmingham City
  • 50'Goal · Todd CantwellBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 76'Yellow card · Tomoki IwataBirmingham City
  • 90'Penalty goal · Jay StansfieldBirmingham City · 1-1
  • 90+8'Goal · Lyndon DykesBirmingham City · 1-2
  • 90+8'Yellow card · Sean McLoughlinBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

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

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-2-3-1)

Balázs Tóth, Ryan Alebiosu, Dominic Hyam, Sean McLoughlin, Yuri Ribeiro, Sondre Tronstad, Sidnei Tavares, Augustus Kargbo, Todd Cantwell, Ryan Hedges, Yuki Ohashi

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

Ryan Allsop, Bright Osayi-Samuel, Phil Neumann, Christoph Klarer, Alex Cochrane, Demarai Gray, Seung-ho Paik, Tomoki Iwata, Keshi Anderson, Jay Stansfield, Kyogo Furuhashi