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Birmingham City Football Club, an English association football club based in the city of Birmingham, was founded in 1875 under the name of Small Heath Alliance. They first entered the FA Cup in the 1881–82 season. When nationally organised league football in England began, the club, by then called simply Small Heath F.C., was a founder member of the Football Alliance, formed the year after the Football League. In 1892, the Football League decided to form a Second Division, inviting the members of the Football Alliance to join; as one of the less successful members, Small Heath were placed in the Second Division. Since that time the club's first team has competed in numerous nationally and internationally organised competitions, and all players who have played in 100 or more such matches are listed below.
Each player's details include the duration of his Birmingham career, his typical playing position while with the club, and the number of games played and goals scored in domestic league matches and in all senior competitive matches. Where applicable, the list also includes the national team for which the player was selected, and the number of senior international caps he won.
Introduction
As of the date specified below, more than 200 men had made 100 or more appearances in senior competitive matches for Birmingham. Frank Womack holds the club record for league appearances, having played 491 matches between 1908 and 1928, closely followed by Gil Merrick with 485 between 1946 and 1959. If all senior competitions are included, Merrick has 551, followed by Womack's 515 which is the record for an outfield player. The goalscoring record is held by Joe Bradford, with 249 league goals, and 267 in total, scored between 1920 and 1935. No other player comes close: Trevor Francis is the nearest with 119 league goals, 133 in total, scored between 1970 and 1979. Bradford holds the record for league goals scored in a top-flight season with 29 in the 1927–28 First Division.[1] A club record for transfer fee received was set when Ché Adams joined Southampton in 2019; officially undisclosed, it was reported as £15 million.[2] Forty years earlier, Trevor Francis became the first player transferred between British clubs for a £1 million fee,[3] and in 1896, future England international forward Fred Wheldon joined league champions Aston Villa for terms reportedly "higher than have ever been concluded": a fee of £350 plus the proceeds of a friendly match between the clubs.[4] Caesar Jenkyns was the first man capped by his country while a Birmingham (then Small Heath) player when he represented Wales against Ireland in February 1892.[5] The player with most senior international caps while at the club is Maik Taylor with 58 for Northern Ireland,[6] and Harry Hibbs has most for England, with 25.[5]
Bob McRoberts, Billy Beer, George Liddell, Merrick, Garry Pendrey, Francis and Gary Rowett all went on to manage the team.[7] Others took part in significant matches in club history. Billy Ollis, Jenkyns, Ted Devey, Jack Hallam, Wheldon and Tommy Hands appeared in Small Heath's first Football League match in 1892.[8] Eight men listed were part of Birmingham's pioneering venture into club football in Europe in the 1955–58 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup,[a] and ten played on the losing side in the 1956 FA Cup final[b] (an eleventh, Roy Warhurst, missed the match through injury).[12] In more recent times, Paul Tait scored the first golden goal to decide a Wembley cup final, against Carlisle United in the 1995 Football League Trophy.[13] Geoff Horsfield scored the extra-time equaliser that took the 2002 First Division play-off final into a shootout; Paul Devlin and Stan Lazaridis converted their spot-kicks as Birmingham were promoted to the Premier League for the first time.[14] Seven men listed here, including captain Stephen Carr and goalscorer Nikola Žigić, took the field as Birmingham won the 2011 League Cup; another two were unused substitutes.[c] Just three years later, the first headed goal of full-back Paul Caddis's career, 93 minutes into the final match of the season, saved the team from relegation to the third tier of English football.[16]
Key
- The list is ordered first by number of appearances in total, then by number of League appearances, and then if necessary by date of debut.
- Appearances as a substitute are included.
- Statistics are correct up to and including 5 May 2024, the day after the final match of the 2023–24 season. Where a player left the club permanently after this date, his statistics are updated to his date of leaving.
- Player
- Players marked * were registered for the club as at the date specified above.
- Players with name in italics and marked † were on loan from another club for the duration of their Birmingham career. The loaning club is noted in the Notes column.
- Players marked ‡ have been inducted into the Birmingham City F.C. Hall of Fame.[17]
- Players marked $ have won the Birmingham City F.C. Player of the Year award.[P 1]
- Position
- Playing positions are listed according to the tactical formations that were employed at the time. Thus the change in the names of defensive and midfield positions reflects the tactical evolution that occurred from the 1960s onwards.[A]
- Club career
- Club career is defined as the first and last calendar years in which the player appeared for the club in any of the competitions listed below.
- League appearances and League goals
- League appearances and goals comprise those in the Football Alliance, the Football League and the Premier League. Appearances in the 1939–40 Football League season, abandoned after three games because of the Second World War, are excluded.
- Total appearances and Total goals
- Total appearances and goals comprise those in the Football Alliance, Football League (including test matches and play-offs), Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Europa League, Associate Members' Cup/Football League Trophy, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Anglo-Italian Cup, Texaco Cup, Anglo-Scottish Cup and Full Members' Cup. Matches in wartime competitions are excluded.
- International selection
- Countries are listed only for players who have been selected for international football. Only the highest level of international competition is given, except where a player competed for more than one country, in which case the highest level reached for each country is shown.
- Caps
- For players having played at full international level, the caps column counts the number of such appearances during his career with the club.
| Pre-1960s | 1960s– | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Goalkeeper | ||
| FB | Full back | DF | Defender |
| HB | Half back | MF | Midfielder |
| FW | Forward | ||
| U | Utility player | ||
Players with 100 or more appearances
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Caesar Jenkyns, captain in the 1890s, was the first player capped by his country while a Small Heath player.[5] -
Billy Jones scored 102 goals from 253 games before the First World War. -
1956 FA Cup Finalist Alex Govan was responsible for Harry Lauder's song "Keep right on to the end of the road" becoming the Birmingham City fans' anthem.[18] -
Trevor Francis, who joined Birmingham as a 15-year-old, became the first British footballer transferred for £1 million when Brian Clough signed him for league champions Nottingham Forest in February 1979.[3] -
After Alan Curbishley was transferred from Birmingham to local rivals Aston Villa in 1983, it was 36 years before another player made the same move.[19] -
Jamaica international Michael Johnson played more than 300 times for Birmingham in an eight-year career. -
Damien Johnson, captain from 2006 to 2009, won Birmingham's Player of the Season award in 2006.[P 1] -
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Paul Caddis scored the 93rd-minute goal on the last day of the 2013–14 season that saved Birmingham from relegation to League One.[16]
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| Player | Pos | Club career | League[B] | Total[B] | International selection[C] |
Caps[C] | Notes | Refs | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||||||
| Gil Merrick ‡ | GK | 1946–1959 | 485 | 0 | 551 | 0 |  England |
23 | [d] | |
| Frank Womack | FB | 1908–1928 | 491 | 0 | 515 | 0 | England trial |
— | ||
| Joe Bradford ‡ | FW | 1920–1935 | 414 | 249 | 445 | 267 | England |
12 | ||
| Ken Green | FB | 1947–1958 | 401 | 3 | 440 | 3 | England B |
— | [e] | |
| Johnny Crosbie | FW | 1920–1932 | 409 | 71 | 432 | 72 |  Scotland |
1 | ||
| Trevor Smith | DF | 1953–1964 | 365 | 3 | 430 | 3 | England |
2 | ||
| Malcolm Beard | MF | 1960–1970 | 350 | 28 | 404 | 34 | England youth |
— | ||
| Dan Tremelling | GK | 1919–1931 | 382 | 0 | 395 | 0 | England |
1 | ||
| Malcolm Page ‡ | DF / MF | 1965–1980 | 336 | 9 | 392 | 10 |  Wales |
28 | ||
| Harry Hibbs | GK | 1926–1939 | 358 | 0 | 388 | 0 | England |
25 | [f] | |
| Ray Martin $ | DF | 1964–1975 | 334 | 1 | 378 | 1 | — | — | ||
| Garry Pendrey ‡ | DF | 1969–1979 | 306 | 4 | 360 | 5 | — | — | [d] | |
| Walter Wigmore | FW / HB | 1899–1912 | 329 | 23 | 355 | 25 | — | — | ||
| Ian Bennett | GK | 1993–2004 | 287 | 0 | 354 | 0 | — | — | ||
| Percy Barton | HB | 1914–1928 | 331 | 13 | 349 | 14 | England |
7 | ||
| George Liddell | FB / HB | 1920–1932 | 323 | 6 | 345 | 6 | — | — | [d] | |
| Joe Gallagher ‡ | DF | 1973–1981 | 286 | 17 | 337 | 23 | England B |
— | ||
| John Frain $ | DF / MF | 1986–1996 | 274 | 23 | 336 | 26 | — | — | [g] | |
| Lukas Jutkiewicz *$ | FW | 2016–present | 314 | 63 | 331 | 67 | — | — | [L 1] | [24] |
| Trevor Francis ‡$ | FW | 1970–1979 | 280 | 119 | 329 | 133 | England |
12 | [d] | |
| George Briggs | FW | 1924–1933 | 298 | 98 | 324 | 107 | — | — | ||
| Michael Johnson $ | DF | 1995–2003 | 262 | 13 | 314 | 18 |  Jamaica[25] |
12 | ||
| Fred Harris | FW / HB | 1934–1950 | 280 | 61 | 310 | 69 | — | — | [f] | |
| Nat Robinson | GK | 1899–1908 | 283 | 0 | 306 | 0 | England trial |
— | ||
| Cyril Trigg | FW / FB | 1936–1954 | 268 | 67 | 291 | 72 | — | — | [f] | |
| Bryan Hughes | MF | 1997–2004 | 248 | 34 | 291 | 42 | — | — | ||
| Jimmy Cringan | HB | 1923–1934 | 260 | 12 | 284 | 12 | — | — | ||
| Ned Barkas | FB | 1928–1937 | 256 | 9 | 284 | 9 | — | — | ||
| Len Boyd | HB | 1949–1956 | 255 | 14 | 281 | 15 | England B |
— | ||
| Peter Murphy | FW | 1952–1960 | 244 | 107 | 277 | 127 | — | — | ||
| Gordon Astall | FW | 1953–1961 | 235 | 60 | 271 | 67 | England |
2 | ||
| George Morrall | HB | 1927–1936 | 243 | 5 | 266 | 7 | — | — | ||
| Martin Grainger ‡$ | DF | 1997–2004 | 226 | 25 | 266 | 28 | — | — | ||
| Jeff Hall ‡ | FB | 1951–1959 | 227 | 1 | 265 | 1 | England |
17 | ||
| Maxime Colin | DF | 2017–2023 | 241 | 7 | 253 | 7 |  France U20 |
— | [26] | |
| Geoff Vowden | FW | 1964–1970 | 221 | 79 | 253 | 94 | — | — | ||
| Billy Jones | FW |
|
236 | 99 | 251 | 102 | England trial |
— | ||
| Billy Beer | HB | 1902–1909 | 236 | 34 | 250 | 35 | — | — | [d] | |
| Johnny Watts | HB | 1952–1963 | 206 | 3 | 248 | 3 | — | — | ||
| Lewis Stoker | HB | 1930–1938 | 230 | 2 | 246 | 2 | England |
3 | ||
| Maik Taylor | GK | 2003–2011 | 214 | 0 | 242 | 0 |  Northern Ireland |
58 | [L 2] | [27] |
| Dave Latchford $ | GK | 1969–1978 | 206 | 0 | 240 | 0 | — | — | ||
| Roy Warhurst | HB | 1950–1957 | 213 | 10 | 239 | 10 | — | — | ||
| Jack Jones | FB | 1920–1927 | 228 | 1 | 237 | 1 | England trial |
— | ||
| Johnny Schofield | GK | 1952–1965 | 212 | 0 | 237 | 0 | — | — | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=List_of_Birmingham_City_F.C._players||