Newcastle United 2-1 Birmingham City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 1 January 2005

Result

Newcastle United 2-1 Birmingham City

Premier League · Saturday 1 January 2005, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Newcastle United 2-1 Birmingham City: match report

Newcastle United beat Birmingham City 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 1 January 2005. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Shola Ameobi opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Newcastle United's goals came from Shola Ameobi (6') and Lee Bowyer (44'). Birmingham City scored through Emile Heskey (64').

Discipline: Newcastle United received 1 yellow card; Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Newcastle United were 14th on 22 points from 20 and Birmingham City 9th on 26 points from 20. Newcastle United went on to finish that season 14th with 44 points, and Birmingham City 12th with 45.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Newcastle United wins, 2 draws and 1 for Birmingham City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · Shola AmeobiNewcastle United · 1-0
  • 35'Yellow card · Robbie SavageBirmingham City
  • 42'Yellow card · Emile HeskeyBirmingham City
  • 44'Goal · Lee BowyerNewcastle United · 2-0
  • 64'Goal · Emile HeskeyBirmingham City · 2-1
  • 82'Yellow card · Olivier BernardNewcastle United

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Newcastle United 2, draws 2, Birmingham City 1.

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