2021–22 Birmingham City F.C. season explained

Club:Birmingham City F.C.
Season:2021–22
Mgrtitle:Head coach
Manager:Lee Bowyer
Stadium:St Andrew's
League:Championship
League Result:20th
Cup1:FA Cup
Cup1 Result:Third round (eliminated by Plymouth Argyle)
Cup2:EFL Cup
Cup2 Result:Second round (eliminated by Fulham)
League Topscorer:Scott Hogan (10)
Season Topscorer:Scott Hogan (10)
Highest Attendance:18,659 (vs Blackburn Rovers, 7 May 2022)
Lowest Attendance:4,783 (vs Fulham, EFL Cup 2nd round, 24 August 2021)
Average Attendance:16,161[1]
Prevseason:2020–21
Nextseason:2022–23
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The 2021–22 season is Birmingham City Football Club's 119th season in the English football league system and 11th consecutive season in the second-tier Championship.[2] As with all English Football League clubs, the first team also competed in the FA Cup and EFL Cup.

The season covers the period from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022.

Background and pre-season

See main article: 2020–21 Birmingham City F.C. season.

All Birmingham's home matches in the 2020–21 season were played behind closed doors because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] Under head coach Aitor Karanka, Birmingham City gradually slid down the 2020–21 Championship table until, with ten games remaining and in serious danger of relegation, former Birmingham player Lee Bowyer resigned as manager of Charlton Athletic to take over as head coach.[4] The team lost only one of the next eight matches and retained their Championship status with two games still to play.[5] On 11 May 2021, CEO Ren Xuandong resigned.[6]

In June 2020, the club announced a four-year partnership with Nike as supplier of kits, which carry the logo of the club's principal sponsor, Irish bookmaker BoyleSports.[7] The home shirt has a camouflage-patterned front in two shades of blue, worn with white shorts and blue socks, while the away kit has a yellow shirt with blue pinstripes and trim, similar to the Europa League kit of ten years before, with blue shirts and white socks.[8] In November, they brought out a limited-edition third kit; the shirt has a camouflage front in orange and green and a predominantly green back, and is worn with orange shorts and socks.[9]

After a training camp in Scotland, Birmingham planned five pre-season friendlies: away to Cheltenham Town and Northampton Town, behind-closed-doors games at the Wast Hills training ground against Oxford Unitedwho cancelled due to COVID-19 and were replaced by a Salford City XI[10] and Barrow, and one match at St Andrew's against West Bromwich Albion.[11]

Pre-season friendly match details
scope=colDatescope=colOpponentsscope=colVenuescope=colResultscope=colScore
F–A
scope=col class=unsortableScorersscope=col class=unsortable
scope=row17 July 2021style=text-align:leftCheltenham TownAstyle=background:#cfcW3–0style=text-align:leftGardner 6', Hogan 36', Leko 82'[12]
scope=row20 July 2021style=text-align:leftBarrowHstyle=background:#ffcD1–1style=text-align:leftGardner 76'[13]
scope=row24 July 2021style=text-align:leftSalford City XIHstyle=background:#cfcW7–0style=text-align:leftStirk 1', Williams 9', Lakin 45', Hogan (2) 47', 70', Aneke 48', George 87'[14]
scope=row24 July 2021style=text-align:leftNorthampton TownAstyle=background:#fccL2–3style=text-align:leftSánchez 5', Jutkiewicz 38'[15]
scope=row31 July 2021style=text-align:leftWest Bromwich AlbionHstyle=background:#fccL0–4[16]

EFL Championship

See main article: 2021–22 EFL Championship.

Match results

EFL Championship match details[17]
scope=colDatescope=colLeague
position
scope=colOpponentsscope=colVenuescope=colResultscope=colScore
F–A
scope=col class=unsortableScorersscope=colAttendancescope=col class=unsortable
scope=row7 August 20215thstyle=text-align:leftSheffield UnitedAstyle=background:#cfcW1–0style=text-align:leftColin 19'29,043[18]
scope=row14 August 202110thstyle=text-align:leftStoke CityHstyle=background:#ffcD0–010,189[19]
scope=row18 August 202114thstyle=text-align:leftAFC BournemouthHstyle=background:#fccL0–29,922[20]
scope=row21 August 20218thstyle=text-align:leftLuton TownAstyle=background:#cfcW5–0style=text-align:leftMarc Roberts 7', Hogan (2) 26', 47', Gardner 84', Aneke 88'10,014[21]
scope=row28 August 20218thstyle=text-align:leftBarnsleyAstyle=background:#ffcD1–1style=text-align:leftJutkiewicz 33'13,950[22]
scope=row10 September 20214thstyle=text-align:leftDerby CountyHstyle=background:#cfcW2–0style=text-align:leftHogan 31', Bela 81'14,912[23]
scope=row15 September 202110thstyle=text-align:leftFulhamHstyle=background:#fccL1–4style=text-align:leftDeeney 87' (pen.)14,562[24]
scope=row18 September 202111thstyle=text-align:leftPeterborough UnitedAstyle=background:#fccL0–312,199[25]
scope=row25 September 202112thstyle=text-align:leftPreston North EndHstyle=background:#ffcD0–014,925[26]
scope=row28 September 202113thstyle=text-align:leftQueens Park RangersAstyle=background:#fccL0–212,257[27]
scope=row2 October 202116thstyle=text-align:leftNottingham ForestHstyle=background:#fccL0–315,148[28]
scope=row15 October 202116thstyle=text-align:leftWest Bromwich AlbionAstyle=background:#fccL0–124,870[29]
scope=row20 October 202119thstyle=text-align:leftHuddersfield TownAstyle=background:#ffcD0–015,618[30]
scope=row23 October 202117thstyle=text-align:leftSwansea CityHstyle=background:#cfcW2–1style=text-align:leftDeeney 47', McGree 82'16,132[31]
scope=row30 October 202114thstyle=text-align:leftMiddlesbroughAstyle=background:#cfcW2–0style=text-align:leftMarc Roberts 53', Hogan 56'21,582[32]
scope=row2 November 202113thstyle=text-align:leftBristol CityHstyle=background:#cfcW3–0style=text-align:leftMcGree 14', Hogan 68', Gardner 76'16,143[33]
scope=row6 November 202115thstyle=text-align:leftReadingHstyle=background:#fccL1–2style=text-align:leftHogan 3'17,535[34]
scope=row20 November 202115thstyle=text-align:leftHull CityAstyle=background:#fccL0–212,409[35]
scope=row23 November 202117thstyle=text-align:leftCoventry CityAstyle=background:#ffcD0–022,676[36]
scope=row27 November 202113thstyle=text-align:leftBlackpoolHstyle=background:#cfcW1–0style=text-align:leftJutkiewicz 81'17,686[37]
scope=row4 December 202115thstyle=text-align:leftMillwallAstyle=background:#fccL1–3style=text-align:leftDeeney 56'14,324[38]
scope=row11 December 202115thstyle=text-align:leftCardiff CityHstyle=background:#ffcD2–2style=text-align:leftDeeney 29', Šunjić 45+1'17,840[39]
scope=row18 December 202117thstyle=text-align:leftBlackburn RoversAstyle=background:#fccL0–412,148[40]
scope=row2 January 202218thstyle=text-align:leftQueens Park RangersHstyle=background:#fccL1–2style=text-align:leftAneke 75'18,279[41]
scope=row15 January 202218thstyle=text-align:leftPreston North EndAstyle=background:#ffcD1–1style=text-align:leftHogan 86'12,821[42]
scope=row18 January 202218thstyle=text-align:leftFulhamAstyle=background:#fccL2–6style=text-align:leftŠunjić 45', Gardner 74'16,491[43]
scope=row22 January 202218thstyle=text-align:leftBarnsleyHstyle=background:#cfcW2–1style=text-align:leftHernández 34', Hogan 51'15,742[44]
scope=row25 January 202218thstyle=text-align:leftPeterborough UnitedHstyle=background:#ffcD2–2style=text-align:leftGardner 85', Hogan 88'16,380[45]
scope=row30 January 202217thstyle=text-align:leftDerby CountyAstyle=background:#ffcD2–2style=text-align:leftTaylor 7', Hogan 56'32,211[46]
scope=row4 February 202217thstyle=text-align:leftSheffield UnitedHstyle=background:#fccL1–2style=text-align:leftTaylor 61'17,194[47]
scope=row9 February 202218thstyle=text-align:leftAFC BournemouthAstyle=background:#fccL1–3style=text-align:leftHernández 69'8,708[48]
scope=row12 February 202217thstyle=text-align:leftLuton TownHstyle=background:#cfcW3–0style=text-align:leftBacuna 25', Taylor 46', Hernández 69'17,292[49]
scope=row19 February 202218thstyle=text-align:leftStoke CityAstyle=background:#ffcD2–2style=text-align:leftJames 12', Gardner 58'23,502[50]
scope=row22 February 202218thstyle=text-align:leftReadingAstyle=background:#fccL1–2style=text-align:leftMcIntyre 82' (o.g.)12,073[51]
scope=row26 February 202219thstyle=text-align:leftHuddersfield TownHstyle=background:#fccL0–217,318[52]
scope=row5 March 202218thstyle=text-align:leftBristol CityAstyle=background:#cfcW2–1style=text-align:leftChong 2', Gordon 13'21,942[53]
scope=row12 March 202219thstyle=text-align:leftHull CityHstyle=background:#ffcD0–017,231[54]
scope=row15 March 202219thstyle=text-align:leftMiddlesbroughHstyle=background:#fccL0–215,852[55]
scope=row19 March 202219thstyle=text-align:leftSwansea CityAstyle=background:#ffcD0–018,620[56]
scope=row3 April 202218thstyle=text-align:leftWest Bromwich AlbionHstyle=background:#cfcW1–0style=text-align:leftTaylor 67' (pen.)17,936[57]
scope=row9 April 202218thstyle=text-align:leftNottingham ForestAstyle=background:#fccL0–229,293[58]
scope=row15 April 202220thstyle=text-align:leftCoventry CityHstyle=background:#fccL2–4style=text-align:leftPedersen 12', Gardner 39'17,634[59]
scope=row18 April 202220thstyle=text-align:leftBlackpoolAstyle=background:#fccL1–6style=text-align:leftŠunjić 63'13,993[60]
scope=row23 April 202220thstyle=text-align:leftMillwallHstyle=background:#ffcD2–2style=text-align:leftBacuna 47', Taylor 79' (pen.)17,206[61]
scope=row30 April 202220thstyle=text-align:leftCardiff CityAstyle=background:#ffcD1–1style=text-align:leftBela 22'21,395[62]
scope=row7 May 202220thstyle=text-align:leftBlackburn RoversHstyle=background:#fccL1–2style=text-align:leftPedersen 78'18,659[63]

FA Cup

See main article: 2021–22 FA Cup. Birmingham City were drawn at home to League One club Plymouth Argyle in the third round.[64]

FA Cup match details
scope=colRoundscope=colDate!scope=colOpponents!scope=colVenuescope=colResult!scope=colScore
F–A!
scope=colScorersscope=colAttendance!scope=col
scope=rowThird roundstyle=text-align:left8 January 2022style=text-align:leftPlymouth ArgyleHstyle=background:#fccL0–1 9,823[65]

EFL Cup

See main article: 2021–22 EFL Cup.

Birmingham were drawn to play League One club Colchester United at home in the first round.[66] Bowyer made 11 changes from the team that started at Sheffield United 72 hours earlier, giving debuts to Chuks Aneke, Jordan Graham and Marcel Oakley, and it was Oakley who scored the only goal of the game with a 75th-minute deflected shot. Tate Campbell made his Birmingham debut as a substitute, and Jobe Bellingham, the 15-year-old brother of England international Jude, was also named on the bench.[67] [68] In the second round they fielded a slightly less weakened team, but still made 10 changes from the previous league match, with Mitch Roberts, Dion Sanderson and (as a substitute) Alfie Chang making their first Birmingham appearances and Neil Etheridge returnng in goal after recovering from COVID-19. Opponents Fulham, newly relegated from the Premier League, scored midway through the first half after an error by Ivan Šunjić, but Birmingham held out until stoppage time before conceding a second.

EFL Cup match details
scope=colRoundscope=colDate!scope=colOpponents!scope=colVenuescope=colResult!scope=colScore
F–A!
scope=colScorersscope=colAttendance!scope=col
scope=rowFirst roundstyle=text-align:left10 August 2021style=text-align:leftColchester UnitedHstyle=background:#cfcW1–0style=text-align:leftOakley 75'6,199[69]
scope=rowSecond roundstyle=text-align:left24 August 2021style=text-align:leftFulhamHstyle=background:#fccL0–24,783[70]

Transfers

For those players released or contract ended before the start of this season please see 2020–21 Birmingham City F.C. season.

In

DatePlayerClub Fee
1 July 2021 (Charlton Athletic) Freestyle=text-align:center[71]
1 July 2021 (Gillingham) Freestyle=text-align:center[72]
1 July 2021 (Stoke City) Free style=text-align:center[73]
16 July 2021 Oliver Basey (Sunderland) Freestyle=text-align:center[74]
9 August 2021 (Swindon Town) Freestyle=text-align:center[75]
31 August 2021 Freestyle=text-align:center[76]
15 November 2021 (Dulwich Hamlet) Freestyle=text-align:center[77]
27 January 2022 Undisclosedstyle=text-align:center[78]

Brackets round a club's name indicate the player's contract with that club had expired before he joined Birmingham.

Loaned in

DatePlayerClubReturn
1 July 2021 1 January 2022style=text-align:center[79]
6 July 2021 End of season, recalled 21 January 2022style=text-align:center[80] [81]
9 July 2021 End of seasonstyle=text-align:center[82]
19 July 2021 End of season, recalled 4 January 2022style=text-align:center[83]
26 July 2021 Wolverhampton Wanderers End of season, terminated (injury) 6 January 2022style=text-align:center[84] [85]
4 January 2022 Manchester United End of seasonstyle=text-align:center[86]
7 January 2022 End of seasonstyle=text-align:center[87]
14 January 2022 End of seasonstyle=text-align:center[88]
27 January 2022 End of seasonstyle=text-align:center

Out

DatePlayerClub Fee
15 July 2021 (Dinamo Tbilisi) Mutual consentstyle=text-align:center[89] [90]
22 July 2021 Undisclosedstyle=text-align:center[91]
31 August 2021 Undisclosedstyle=text-align:center[92]
5 November 2021 (Doncaster Rovers) Mutual consentstyle=text-align:center[93] [94]
7 January 2022 Undisclosedstyle=text-align:center[95]
14 January 2022 Undisclosedstyle=text-align:center[96]
21 January 2022 Connor Barratt Undisclosedstyle=text-align:center[97]
31 January 2022 Undisclosedstyle=text-align:center
17 February 2022 Cianole Nguepissi Freestyle=text-align:center[98]
30 June 2022 (Clermont Foot) Contract expired[99]
30 June 2022 (Metropolitan Police) Released[100] [101]
30 June 2022 (Swansea City) Released
30 June 2022 (1. FC Köln) Contract expired
30 June 2022 Oriol Soldevila (Intercity) Released
30 June 2022 Kane Thompson-Sommers (Hereford) Released
30 June 2022 (Millwall) Released
30 June 2022 Yoane Zohore Released
30 June 2022 Undisclosed[102]
30 June 2022 Undisclosed[103]

Brackets round a club's name denote the player joined that club after his Birmingham City contract expired.

Loaned out

DatePlayerClubReturn
27 July 2021 End of season[104]
30 July 2021 End of season, recalled 11 January 2022[105] [106]
2 August 2021 Kane Thompson-Sommers January 2022[107]
3 August 2021 End of season[108]
9 August 2021 End of season[109]
10 August 2021 End of season[110]
11 August 2021 End of season, recalled 31 January 2022[111] [112]
31 August 2021 End of season[113]
16 September 2021 16 October 2021[114]
23 November 2021 30 November 2021[115]
26 November 2021 Oliver Basey 5 January 2022[116]
26 January 2022 End of season[117]
31 January 2022 End of season
31 January 2022 End of season
31 January 2022 End of season[118]
11 February 2022 Kyle Hurst End of season[119]
11 March 2022 Oliver Basey Hednesford Town End of season[120]
18 March 2022 Archie Matthews One month[121]
24 March 2022 Yohan Zohore Hednesford Town End of season[122]

Appearances and goals

Sources:[123] [124] [125]

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances made as a substitute.

Players marked left the club during the playing season.

Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan from another club for the whole of their season with Birmingham.

Players listed with no appearances have been in the matchday squad but only as unused substitutes.

Key to positions: GK – Goalkeeper; DF – Defender; MF – Midfielder; FW – Forward

Players' appearances and goals by competition
NameLeagueFA CupEFL CupTotalDiscipline
GoalsGoalsGoalsGoals
1GKstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowNeil Etheridge210101023020
2DFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowMaxime Colin31 (2)1100032 (2)120
3DFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowKristian Pedersen3721000382111
4DFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowMarc Roberts392000039270
5DFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowGeorge Friend12 (2)0102015 (2)021
6MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowRyan Woods25 (5)0100026 (5)071
7MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowTahith Chong *19 (1)1000019 (1)120
8MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowTaylor Richards *2 (4)000002 (4)010
9FWstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowScott Hogan28 (8)10100029 (8)1020
10FWstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowLukas Jutkiewicz17 (19)2000017 (19)210
11FWstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowJérémie Bela26 (5)2000026 (5)230
12DFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowHarlee Dean14 (1)0000014 (1)020
13GKstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowMatija Sarkic * 230000023000
14FWstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowJonathan Leko1 (3)000203 (3)010
15FWstyle=text-align:leftscope=row1 (17)20 (1)0203 (18)220
17MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowIván Sánchez0 (2)000101 (2)000
18MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowRiley McGree * 10 (3)2001 (1)011 (4)250
18DFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowTeden Mengi *90100010010
19MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowJordan James13 (7)1100014 (7)110
20MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowGary Gardner31 (4)6100032 (4)692
21DFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowDion Sanderson * 14 (1)0001015 (1)020
21MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowJuninho Bacuna16 (1)2000016 (1)240
23DFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowJuan Castillo * 1 (2)000212 (2)010
24MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowJordan Graham18 (6)0002020 (6)010
25MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowOnel Hernández *223000022330
27GKstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowConnal Trueman0 (1)000101 (1)000
31MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=row00001 (1)01 (1)000
33FWstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowLyle Taylor *145000014530
34MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowIvan Šunjić33 (8)30 (1)02035 (9)380
35MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowGeorge Hall1 (1)000001 (1)000
36FWstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowTroy Deeney15 (6)4100016 (6)400
38GKstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowZach Jeacock2000002000
39MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowJobe Bellingham0 (2)00 (1)0000 (3)000
41MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowRemi Walker0000000000
42MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowAlfie Chang000 (1)00 (1)00 (2)000
43DFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowMitch Roberts1000102000
45DFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowRenedi Masampu0000000000
46MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowBrandon Khela0000000000
48MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowJosh Williams000 (1)00 (1)00 (2)000
50DFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowNico Gordon111001012120
52DFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowMarcel Oakley2000214110
53MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowTate Campbell00100 (1)02 (1)000
54FWstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowKeyendrah Simmonds00000 (1)00 (1)000
!scope="col"
Name
16FWstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowSam Cosgrove
37MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowOdin Bailey
40FWstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowAdan George
44MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=row
47MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowRyan Stirk
51MFstyle=text-align:leftscope=rowKyle Hurst

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