Chelsea 1-1 Birmingham City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 9 April 2005

Result

Chelsea 1-1 Birmingham City

Premier League · Saturday 9 April 2005, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Chelsea 1-1 Birmingham City: match report

Chelsea drew with Birmingham City 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 9 April 2005. The half-time score was 0-0.

Walter Pandiani Urquiza opened the scoring in the 65th minute. Chelsea's goal came from Didier Drogba (82'). Birmingham City scored through Walter Pandiani Urquiza (65').

Discipline: Chelsea received 2 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Chelsea were 1st on 80 points from 31 and Birmingham City 13th on 36 points from 31. Chelsea went on to finish that season 1st with 95 points, and Birmingham City 12th with 45.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Chelsea wins, 2 draws and 0 for Birmingham City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Yellow card · Kenny CunninghamBirmingham City
  • 50'Yellow card · Mehdi NaftiBirmingham City
  • 65'Goal · Walter Pandiani UrquizaBirmingham City · 0-1
  • 65'Yellow card · Joe ColeChelsea
  • 66'Yellow card · TiagoChelsea
  • 82'Goal · Didier DrogbaChelsea · 1-1

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Chelsea 3, draws 2, Birmingham City 0.

Team news

Birmingham City expected line-up

Maik Taylor, Matthew Upson, Mario Melchiot, Kenny Cunningham, Julian Gray, Robbie Savage, Jesper Gronkjaer, Darren Anderton, Emile Heskey, Damien Johnson, David Dunn