Blackpool 2-2 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 26 November 2011

Result

Blackpool 2-2 Birmingham City

Championship · Saturday 26 November 2011, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Blackpool 2-2 Birmingham City: match report

Blackpool drew with Birmingham City 2-2 in the Championship on Saturday 26 November 2011. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Marlon King opened the scoring in the 29th minute. Blackpool's goals came from Stephen Crainey (31') and N. Eardley (57'). Birmingham City scored through Marlon King (29') and Nikola Zigic (87').

Discipline: Blackpool received no yellow cards; Birmingham City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Blackpool were 7th on 26 points from 17 and Birmingham City 8th on 25 points from 15. Blackpool went on to finish that season 4th with 79 points, and Birmingham City 5th with 77.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Goal · Marlon KingBirmingham City · 0-1
  • 31'Goal · Stephen CraineyBlackpool · 1-1
  • 57'Goal · N. EardleyBlackpool · 2-1
  • 87'Goal · Nikola ZigicBirmingham City · 2-2
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Jonathan SpectorBirmingham City

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Blackpool 2, draws 0, Birmingham City 2.

Team news

Blackpool line-up

Stephen Crainey, Neal Eardley, Alex Baptiste, Ludovic Sylvestre, Matt Phillips, Jonjo Shelvey, Lomana Lualua, Matthew Gilks, Ian Ross Evatt, Gary Taylor-Fletcher, Barry Ferguson

Birmingham City line-up

Boaz Myhill, Stephen Carr, David Murphy, Steven Caldwell, Jonathan Spector, Curtis Davies, C. Burke, Jean Beausejour, Wade Elliott, Keith Fahey, Marlon King