Cardiff City 1-0 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 24 October 2026

Result

Cardiff City 1-0 Birmingham City

Championship · Saturday 24 October 2026, 14:00 UTC · Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff · half-time 1-0

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Cardiff City 1-0 Birmingham City: match report

Cardiff City won against Birmingham City 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 24 October 2026 at Cardiff City Stadium. It was 1-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Yousef Salech of Cardiff City in the 31st minute.

Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 20th on 11 points from 11 and Birmingham City 5th on 20 points from 11. In the current table Cardiff City are 18th on 14 points and Birmingham City are 3rd on 26 points.

Cardiff City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Perry Ng of Cardiff City (7.7), ahead of Jack Moylan (7.6).

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 22'Missed penalty · Yousef SalechCardiff City
  • 31'Goal · Yousef SalechCardiff City · 1-0
  • 50'Yellow card · Jhon SolísBirmingham City
  • 81'Yellow card · Christoph KlarerBirmingham City
  • 82'Yellow card · Joel BaganCardiff City
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Chris DaviesBirmingham City

Form and table

#TeamPWDLGFGAGDPtsForm
3Birmingham City147522613+1326WWLWW
18Cardiff City133551920-114LWDWL

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Head-to-head

10 meetings: Cardiff City 6, draws 3, Birmingham City 1.

Team news

Unavailable

  • M. LeonardBirmingham City · injury (Achilles tendon rupture)
  • Dylan LawlorCardiff City · injury (Hamstring Injury)

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

Nathan Trott, Perry Ng, Will Fish, Joel Bagan, Calum Scanlon, Alex Robertson, Jack Moylan, Ollie Tanner, Joel Colwill, Cian Ashford, Yousef Salech

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

J. Beadle, Bright Osayi-Samuel, Phil Neumann, Christoph Klarer, Alex Cochrane, Tomoki Iwata, Jhon Solís, Carlos Vicente, Jay Stansfield, Liam Millar, Luis Vázquez

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