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- List of Birmingham City F.C. seasons
- List of Birmingham City F.C. players
- List of Birmingham City F.C. records and statistics
- List of Birmingham City F.C. managers
- List of Lincoln City F.C. seasons
- List of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. seasons
- Birmingham City F.C. league record by opponent
- List of Birmingham City F.C. players (1–24 appearances)
- List of Birmingham City F.C. players (25–99 appearances)
- List of Lincoln City F.C. players
Good articles (23)
- Birmingham City F.C.
- Simon Wormull
- Jerry Gill
- Geoff Horsfield
- Muntz Street
- Len Boyd
- St Andrew's (stadium)
- 1892–93 Small Heath F.C. season
- 1893–94 Small Heath F.C. season
- 1894–95 Small Heath F.C. season
- Darlington F.C.
- Keith Fahey
- Pablo Ibáñez
- Johnny McNichol
- Albert Bonass
- James Crumley (footballer)
- Nikola Žigić
- Dick Healey (footballer)
- Maikel Kieftenbeld
- David Davis (footballer)
- Jonathan Grounds
- Tommy Winship
- David Taylor (footballer, born 1889)
Did you know... (59)
Did you know...
- ... that Eddy Brown, an English football player who had originally planned to take Holy Orders, was well known for his goal celebrations as early as the 1950s?
- ... that Alex Leake was offered a £10 bribe by Manchester City player Billy Meredith to throw the final match of the 1904–1905 season?
- ... that football manager Yvon Pouliquen led two clubs to victory in the French Cup Final and relegation from the top division in consecutive seasons?
- ... that Scottish footballer Kevin Bremner scored for five different teams in the Football League during the 1982–83 season?
- ... that Len Boyd, captain of Birmingham City F.C. in the 1950s, once played four games with a fractured leg?
- ... that Eastbourne Borough is the fifth football club for which Jean-Michel Sigere and Simon Wormull have played together?
- ... that when 15-year-old Jordon Mutch was first selected to play for Birmingham City F.C., he had to be withdrawn only hours before the match because of child protection regulations?
- ... that goalkeeper Jack Wheeler and his five defenders set a Football League record in the 1952–53 season by all playing in every league game for Huddersfield Town?
- ... that Mick Rathbone, now Everton F.C.'s head of sports medicine, was once simultaneously player, physiotherapist and assistant manager of Halifax Town A.F.C.?
- .. that Archie Roe, who scored South Shields F.C.'s first ever goal in the Football League, was then signed by the team he had scored it against?
- ... that footballer Bud Houghton was born in Madras to an Anglo-Indian family who migrated to England in 1947 when India gained independence from British rule?
- ... that Gillingham Football Club's supporters donated £2,500 in an attempt to fund a month's extension to loanee defender Mick Bodley's contract?
- ... that Horkstow Bridge in North Lincolnshire, completed in 1836, is the only suspension bridge designed by Sir John Rennie, builder of London Bridge?
- ... that Darlington F.C. lost in both the second and the third rounds of the FA Cup in the 1999–2000 season?
- ... that Tommy Cheetham had a trial for the England national football team while playing in the Third Division in his first season as a professional?
- ... that English footballer Brian Punter did not receive his 1953 FA Youth Cup runners-up medal until some 56 years later?
- ... that Chesterfield centre-forward Walter Ponting was deprived of an apparently certain goal when the ball deflated and failed to cross the line?
- ... that footballer Barry Hutchinson scored in each of the seven games that Weymouth played in January 1965?
- ... that when transferred from Lincoln City to Leicester City for £27,500 in 1954, English footballer Andy Graver was said to be "afraid of the responsibility of living up to such a big price tag"?
- ... that Lincoln City was the first club to reach 100 seasons in the Football League without ever playing in the top division?
- ... that Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club broke their transfer record, paying £5,000 to sign Johnny McNichol, who at the time had not played a single game in the Football League?
- ... that Nathan Redmond became Birmingham City Football Club's second-youngest player ever when he made his first-team debut in August 2010 at the age of 16 years and 173 days?
- ... that Tsar Alexander II of Russia had a monument (pictured) erected in an English churchyard to commemorate Finnish prisoners of war whose story inspired a 2007 opera?
- ... that Charlie Webb was appointed manager of English association football club Brighton & Hove Albion while awaiting repatriation from a prisoner-of-war camp in Mainz, Germany?
- ... that Small Heath F.C. was not promoted to the Football League First Division after winning the inaugural Second Division title in 1892–93, while the second- and third-place teams were?
- ... that Small Heath F.C. went through the 1893–94 season without drawing a League match?
- ... that a phantom goal awarded against Small Heath F.C. in the 1894–95 season led the Football League to instruct referees to inspect the goalnets before each match?
- ... that a judge ruled that spectators were not entitled to any refund of their admission money when a match in Small Heath F.C.'s 1895–96 season was abandoned after only 37 minutes?
- ... that Peter Harburn was named in the Great Britain football squad for the 1956 Olympic Games, for which, as a professional, he was ineligible?
- ... that in 1920, Irish footballer Jack Doran achieved the rare feat of being the top goalscorer for two English clubs in the same season?
- ... that Bobby Cummings was the first English footballer to score a hat-trick against Rangers in the Scottish League?
- ... that Robin Eriksson played football in Allsvenskan after he was warned by doctors that he might not be able to walk again?
- ... that Lluís Coll scored one goal and set up another as FC Barcelona won the 1960 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final?
- ... that at the age of 11, footballer Corkie Blow was awarded the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society for saving the life of a younger child?
- ... that Leon Boullemier, the son of a French artist, was (under another name) Northamptonshire County Cricket Club's official scorer for 50 years?
- ... that Benjamin Odeje was the first black footballer to represent England at any level?
- ... that Jack Manning played for four different football clubs during their debut seasons in the Football League?
- ... that in 2011, Cauley Woodrow became the first non-League footballer to play for England at youth level since Bob Oates 37 years earlier?
- ... that Alan Kirby won the FAI Cup four times?
- ... that Tommy Graham scored one of the goals that inflicted "one of the most humiliating Cup defeats" in Chelsea's history?
- ... that Arthur Hulme was the first Brighton & Hove Albion footballer to be awarded a benefit match?
- ... that William Wilkinson and Lincoln City teammates Arthur Hulme and William Ross were three of numerous new signings for Gravesend United in the 1898–99 Southern Football League season?
- ... that goalkeeper Dean Lyness, an unused substitute for his first three league clubs as a teenager, finally made his Football League debut with his fourth?
- ... that footballer Ian Bennyworth paid his own transfer fee to move from Nuneaton Borough to Scarborough?
- ... that Frank Macey scored two of the Amateurs' six goals against the Professionals in both the 1925 and 1926 FA Charity Shields?
- ... that Stewart Mell scored Scarborough's first goal in the Football League?
- ... that Bill Hooper scored Darlington's first Football League goal, which was "in all probability" the first goal scored in the Third Division North?
- ... that the proceeds of the 1913 FA Charity Shield football match were donated to the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster Fund?
- ... that Bill Harvey was one of many British footballers denied unemployment benefit in the 1930s?
- ... that footballer James Crumley was one of more than a thousand passengers rescued when the SS California ran aground in 1914?
- ... that Maikel Kieftenbeld captained FC Groningen to victory in the 2014–15 KNVB Cup Final to win the first major trophy in the club's history?
- ... that an administrative error by New Zealand Football prevented Alex Jones from completing his loan move to Wellington Phoenix?