Birmingham City squad – Football Research Archive

Squad 2004/05

Season statistics: Wikipedia. The archive holds no team sheets for 2004/05, so these are Birmingham City's league figures according to the club-season article on English Wikipedia, in the article's order. Players link to their page where the archive holds them, matched through Wikidata.

Checks still open

goals table under "Appearances and goals" skipped: no league column (none)
players' league goals add up to 39; the club scored 40. The article lists no own goals, so the difference (1) is open until match scorers are read.

Birmingham City 2004/05: league appearances and goals per player, according to Wikipedia
Player	Pos.	Apps	Starts	Sub	Goals	All apps	All goals
Maik Taylor	GK	38	38	0	0	42	0
Olivier Tebily	DF	15	9	6	0	17	0
Jamie Clapham	DF	27	18	9	0	31	0
Kenny Cunningham	DF	36	36	0	0	38	0
Matthew Upson	DF	36	36	0	2	40	2
Muzzy Izzet	MF	10	10	0	1	10	1
Jesper Grønkjær	MF	16	13	3	0	18	1
Robbie Blake	FW	11	2	9	2	13	2
Robbie Savage	MF	18	18	0	4	19	5
Jermaine Pennant	MF	12	12	0	0	12	0
Mikael Forssell	FW	4	4	0	0	4	0
Walter Pandiani	FW	14	13	1	4	14	4
David Dunn	MF	11	9	2	2	12	2
Stan Lazaridis	MF	20	15	5	0

Birmingham City scored 40 league goals that season by the archive's results. A dash means the article gives no figure, not zero.

Includes data from Wikipedia (“2004–05 Birmingham City F.C. season”, revision 1361530928, read 16 Oct 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia is edited by volunteers; the archive treats it as a secondary source and checks it against its own records where it can.

Transfers 2004/05

Birmingham City 2004/05: players joining, according to Wikipedia
Date	Player	From	Move
18 May 2004	Emile Heskey	Liverpool	Transfer
23 Jun 2004	Julian Gray	(Crystal Palace)	Transfer
1 Jul 2004	Muzzy Izzet	(Leicester City)	Transfer
1 Jul 2004	Mikael Forssell	Chelsea	Loan
9 Jul 2004	Mario Melchiot	(Chelsea)	Transfer
12 Jul 2004	Jesper Grønkjær	Chelsea	Transfer
10 Aug 2004	Darren Anderton	(Tottenham Hotspur)	Transfer
31 Aug 2004	Dwight Yorke	Blackburn Rovers	Transfer
1 Jan 2005	Njazi Kuqi	Lahti	Transfer
5 Jan 2005	Robbie Blake	Burnley	Transfer
18 Jan 2005	Salif Diao	Liverpool	Loan
25 Jan 2005	Alex Bruce	Blackburn Rovers	Transfer
31 Jan 2005	Mehdi Nafti	Racing Santander	Loan
31 Jan 2005	Walter Pandiani	Deportivo La Coruña	Loan
31 Jan 2005	Jermaine Pennant	Arsenal	Loan

Birmingham City 2004/05: players leaving, according to Wikipedia
Date	Player	To	Move
2 Aug 2004	Andrew Barrowman	Blackpool	Loan
6 Aug 2004	Aliou Cissé	Portsmouth	Transfer
14 Sept 2004	Stern John	Coventry City	Transfer
16 Sept 2004	Darren Carter	Sunderland	Loan
22 Oct 2004	Colin Doyle	Chester City	Loan
18 Nov 2004	Neil Kilkenny	Oldham Athletic	Loan
4 Dec 2004	Colin Doyle	Nottingham Forest	Loan
9 Dec 2004	Ian Bennett	Sheffield United	Loan
1 Jan 2005	Jesper Grønkjær	Atlético Madrid	Transfer
19 Jan 2005	Robbie Savage	Blackburn Rovers

According to Wikipedia: the transfer tables of the club-season article. Fees are held but not shown. One move does not check out against Wikidata's career dates or the season's dates; both values are kept.

Show the moves that do not check out

Emile Heskey (in, 18 May 2004): dated 18 May 2004, outside the 2004/05 season

Former players

People in this archive whose Wikidata career includes a senior spell at Birmingham City that has ended
Player	Years	Matches	Goals
Hannibal Mejbri	2022–2023	38	1
Dan Burn	2013–2014	24	0
Chris Wood	2011–2012	23	9
Michael Carrick	2000	2	0
Gary Rowett	1998–2000	86	6
Steve Bruce	1996–1998	72	2
Graham Potter	1992–1993	25	2
Bruce Rioch	1978	3	0

Not limited to the season above, and not the club's full list: only people who appear elsewhere in this archive are listed. Years and figures are the spells' own, across all competitions, as Wikidata records them.