Hull City 3-2 Portsmouth: result and report

Championship · Saturday 8 November 2025

Result

Hull City 3-2 Portsmouth

Championship · Saturday 8 November 2025, 12:30 UTC · half-time 2-2

Hull City · Portsmouth · Championship predictions

Hull City 3-2 Portsmouth: match report

Hull City beat Portsmouth 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 8 November 2025. It was 2-2 at half-time.

Terry Devlin opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Hull City's goals came from Enis Destan (27'), Kyle Joseph (42') and Joe Gelhardt (79'). Portsmouth scored through Terry Devlin (15') and Terry Devlin (45+2').

Discipline: Hull City received 1 yellow card; Portsmouth received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Hull City were 8th on 22 points from 14 and Portsmouth 20th on 14 points from 14. Hull City went on to finish that season 6th with 80 points, and Portsmouth 18th with 55.

Hull City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Portsmouth in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Terry Devlin of Portsmouth (8.2), ahead of Charlie Hughes (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Hull City wins, 4 draws and 3 for Portsmouth.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 15'Goal · Terry DevlinPortsmouth · 0-1
  • 27'Goal · Enis DestanHull City · 1-1
  • 42'Goal · Kyle JosephHull City · 2-1
  • 45+2'Goal · Terry DevlinPortsmouth · 2-2
  • 62'Yellow card · Terry DevlinPortsmouth
  • 76'Yellow card · Jordan WilliamsPortsmouth
  • 79'Goal · Joe GelhardtHull City · 3-2
  • 82'Yellow card · Marlon PackPortsmouth
  • 90+8'Yellow card · Ivor PandurHull City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Hull City 3, draws 4, Portsmouth 3.

Team news

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

Ivor Pandur, Lewie Coyle, John Egan, Charlie Hughes, Ryan Giles, Amir Hadziahmetovic, Regan Slater, Joe Gelhardt, Matt Crooks, Kyle Joseph, Enis Destan

Portsmouth line-up (3-4-2-1)

Josef Bursik, Regan Poole, Josh Knight, Ibane Bowat, Terry Devlin, Andre Dozzell, Luke Le Roux, Jordan Williams, Conor Mark Chaplin, Josh Murphy, Colby Bishop