Leicester City 3-2 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 24 August 2013

Result

Leicester City 3-2 Birmingham City

Championship · Saturday 24 August 2013, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Leicester City 3-2 Birmingham City: match report

Leicester City defeated Birmingham City 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 24 August 2013. The half-time score was 0-1.

Matt Green opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Leicester City's goals came from Jamie Vardy (78'), Andy King (82') and David Nugent (90+3', penalty). Birmingham City scored through Matt Green (12') and C. Burke (90+4').

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

Going into the game Leicester City were 6th on 7 points from 3 and Birmingham City 17th on 3 points from 3. Leicester City went on to finish that season 1st with 102 points, and Birmingham City 21st with 45.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Leicester City wins, 2 draws and 4 for Birmingham City.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 12'Goal · Matt GreenBirmingham City · 0-1
  • 78'Goal · Jamie VardyLeicester City · 1-1
  • 82'Goal · Andy KingLeicester City · 2-1
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Kyle BartleyBirmingham City
  • 90+3'Penalty goal · David NugentLeicester City · 3-1
  • 90+4'Goal · C. BurkeBirmingham City · 3-2

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Leicester City 2, draws 2, Birmingham City 4.

Team news

Leicester City line-up

Kasper Schmeichel, Ritchie De Laet, Zak Whitbread, Liam Moore, Danny Drinkwater, Matty James, Andy King, Jeffrey Schlupp, Jamie Vardy, David Nugent, Chris Wood

Birmingham City line-up

Darren Randolph, Neal Eardley, Paul Robinson, Dan Burn, Jonathan Spector, Hayden Mullins, Wade Elliott, Tom Adeyemi, Shane Ferguson, Lee Novak, Matt Green