Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Stoke City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 4 October 2025

Result

Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Stoke City

Championship · Saturday 4 October 2025, 11:30 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Stoke City: match report

Blackburn Rovers drew with Stoke City 1-1 in the Championship on Saturday 4 October 2025. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Million Manhoef opened the scoring in the 49th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from Augustus Kargbo (82'). Stoke City scored through Million Manhoef (49').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card; Stoke City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 22nd on 6 points from 7 and Stoke City 3rd on 14 points from 8. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 22nd with 52 points, and Stoke City 17th with 55.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Stoke City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Todd Cantwell of Blackburn Rovers (8.4), ahead of Sean McLoughlin (7.4).

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 36'Yellow card · Ryan AlebiosuBlackburn Rovers
  • 49'Goal · Million ManhoefStoke City · 0-1
  • 49'Yellow card · Tomas RigoStoke City
  • 82'Goal · Augustus KargboBlackburn Rovers · 1-1

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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

Balázs Tóth, Ryan Alebiosu, Lewis Miller, Sean McLoughlin, Yuri Ribeiro, Sondre Tronstad, Taylor Gardner-Hickman, Ryoya Morishita, Todd Cantwell, Ryan Hedges, Andri Gudjohnsen

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

Viktor Johansson, Junior Tchamadeu, Ashley Phillips, Ben Wilmot, Aaron Cresswell, Tomas Rigo, Tatsuki Seko, Million Manhoef, Jun-ho Bae, Sorba Thomas, Divin Saku Mubama