1994–95 Birmingham City F.C. season
Birmingham City F.C. 1994–95 football season
The 1994–95 Football League season was Birmingham City Football Club 's 92nd in the Football League and their fourth in the third tier of English football, the Football League Second Division , to which they were relegated in 1993–94. They finished in first position in the 24-team division, so were promoted straight back to Division One for 1995–96. They entered the 1994–95 FA Cup in the first round, losing in the third round to Premier League club Liverpool in a penalty shootout in which they failed to convert a single penalty.[ 1] They entered the League Cup in the first round and lost to Blackburn Rovers in the second. They won the Football League Trophy for the second time in four attempts, defeating Carlisle United at Wembley in front of a crowd of 76,663 with the first golden goal to determine a major English competition.[ 2]
The club's top scorer was Steve Claridge with 20 league goals and 25 in all competitions. Goalkeeper Ian Bennett missed only one match of the 63 played in all competitions, the first round of the Football League Trophy, in which his replacement Ryan Price made his only competitive first-team appearance for Birmingham.
Match details
League table (part)
Results summary
Overall
Home
Away
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
46
25
14
7
84
37
+47
89
15
6
2
53
18
+35
10
8
5
31
19
+12
FA Cup
League Cup
Appearances and goals
Numbers in parentheses denote appearances made as a substitute .
Players with name in italics and marked * were on loan from another club for the whole of their season with Birmingham.
Players marked † left the club during the playing season.
Key to positions: GK – Goalkeeper ; DF – Defender ; MF – Midfielder ; FW – Forward
See also
Sources
Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record . Derby: Breedon Books. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9 .
Matthews, Tony (2010). Birmingham City: The Complete Record . Derby: DB Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85983-853-2 .
For match dates, league positions and results: "Birmingham City 1994–1995: Results" . Statto Organisation. Archived from the original on 6 April 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2013 .
For lineups, appearances, goalscorers and attendances: Matthews (2010), Complete Record , pp. 424–25, 481.
References
National teams
League competitions
Level 1 Levels 2–4 Level 5 Levels 6–7 Levels 8–9
Isthmian League (Two , Three )
Combined Counties League (level 8 only )
Eastern Counties League (Premier , One )
Essex Senior League (level 8 only )
Hellenic League (Premier , One )
Kent League (level 8 only )
Midland Alliance (level 8 only )
Midland Football Combination (level 9 only )
North West Counties League (One , Two )
Northern Counties East League (Premier , One )
Northern League (One , Two )
South Midlands League (Premier , Senior )
Spartan League (Premier , One )
Sussex County League (One , Two )
United Counties League (Premier , One )
Wessex League (level 8 only )
West Midlands (Regional) League (level 9 only )
Western League (Premier , One )
Cup competitions
FA cups Football League cups
European competitions