1973–74 Birmingham City F.C. season

The 1973–74 Football League season was Birmingham City Football Club's 71st in the Football League and their 40th in the First Division. After spending most of the season in the relegation positions, they finished in 19th place in the 22-team division, avoiding relegation by just one point. They entered the 1973–74 FA Cup at the third round proper and lost to Queens Park Rangers in the fourth, and were eliminated from the League Cup in the fifth round by Plymouth Argyle. They lost in the second round of the Texaco Cup on aggregate, after the first attempt to play the second leg of their match against Newcastle United had to be abandoned after 100 minutes when it became too dark to play.

Thirty players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were twelve different goalscorers. Forward Bob Hatton played in 51 of the 54 first-team matches over the season, and the leading goalscorer was Hatton with 20 goals, of which 14 came in league competition.

In February 1974, by which time he had already scored 18 goals for Birmingham, centre-forward Bob Latchford signed for Everton in part-exchange for Howard Kendall, Archie Styles, and £80,000. The whole package was valued at a British record transfer fee of £350,000.^[1]

Football League First Division

Date	League position	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance
25 August 1973	15th	Manchester City	A	L	1–3	Hatton	35,881
28 August 1973	17th	Tottenham Hotspur	H	L	1–2	Hatton	37,754
1 September 1973	20th	Derby County	H	D	0–0		34,899
5 September 1973	22nd	Chelsea	A	L	1–3	Page	25,660
8 September 1973	22nd	Leeds United	A	L	0–3		39,746
11 September 1973	22nd	Chelsea	H	L	2–4	Hatton, Taylor	30,252
15 September 1973	22nd	Liverpool	H	D	1–1	R. Latchford	35,719
22 September 1973	22nd	Queens Park Rangers	A	D	2–2	R. Latchford, Burns	18,701
29 September 1973	22nd	Ipswich Town	H	L	0–3		26,919
6 October 1973	22nd	Arsenal	A	L	0–1		23,915
13 October 1973	21st	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	W	2–1	Francis pen, Burns	34,977
20 October 1973	22nd	Manchester United	A	L	0–1		48,937
27 October 1973	22nd	Everton	H	L	0–2		31,181
3 November 1973	22nd	Sheffield United	A	D	1–1	Hynd	19,339
10 November 1973	22nd	Southampton	H	D	1–1	Hatton	25,297
17 November 1973	22nd	Stoke City	A	L	2–5	Hynd, R. Latchford	19,179
24 November 1973	22nd	Leicester City	H	W	3–0	R. Latchford 3	27,719
8 December 1973	21st	Newcastle United	H	W	1–0	Burns	25,428
15 December 1973	20th	West Ham United	H	W	3–1	Burns, Hatton	23,767
22 December 1973	20th	Ipswich Town	A	L	0–3		15,457
26 December 1973	19th	Coventry City	H	W	1–0	R. Latchford	33,423
29 December 1973	20th	Leeds United	H	D	1–1	R. Latchford	50,451
1 January 1973	19th	Derby County	A	D	1–1	Hatton	31,189
12 January 1974	20th	Liverpool	A	L	2–3	R. Latchford	39,094
19 January 1974	20th	Manchester City	H	D	1–1	R. Latchford	31,401
2 February 1974	20th	West Ham United	A	D	0–0		27,948
6 February 1974	20th	Tottenham Hotspur	A	L	2–4	England og, Phillips	14,345
16 February 1974	20th	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	L	0–1		33,821
23 February 1974	20th	Arsenal	H	W	3–1	Gallagher, Hatton, Francis	29,828
2 March 1974	20th	Coventry City	A	W	1–0	Hatton	27,863
9 March 1974	20th	Everton	A	L	1–4	Hatton	33,944
16 March 1974	20th	Manchester United	H	W	1–0	Gallagher	37,768
20 March 1974	20th	Norwich City	A	L	1–2	Styles	18,309
23 March 1974	20th	Southampton	A	W	2–0	Burns, Francis	23,349
30 March 1974	20th	Sheffield United	H	W	1–0	Hatton	27,877
6 April 1974	20th	Leicester City	A	D	3–3	Burns 3	28,486
12 April 1974	20th	Burnley	A	L	1–2	Campbell	17,038
13 April 1974	20th	Stoke City	H	D	0–0		29,467
16 April 1974	20th	Burnley	H	D	2–2	Hatton 2	36,548
20 April 1974	20th	Newcastle United	A	D	1–1	Francis	34,066
23 April 1974	19th	Queens Park Rangers	H	W	4–0	Taylor, Francis 2, Kendall	39,160
27 April 1974	19th	Norwich City	H	W	2–1	Hatton, Burns	44,182

League table (part)

Final First Division table (part)
Pos	Club	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GA	Pts
17th	Chelsea	42	12	13	17	56	60	0.93	37
18th	West Ham United	42	11	15	16	55	60	0.92	37
19th	Birmingham City	42	12	13	17	52	64	0.81	37
20th	Southampton	42	11	14	17	47	68	0.69	36
21st	Manchester United	42	10	12	20	38	48	0.79	32
Key	Pos = League position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; Pts = Points
Source	^[2]

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance
Third round	5 January 1974	Cardiff City	H	W	5–2	Francis, R. Latchford 2, Hatton 2	22,435
Fourth round	26 January 1974	Queens Park Rangers	A	L	0–2		23,367

League Cup

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance
Second round	9 October 1973	Blackpool	A	D	1–1	Burns	7,943
Second round replay	16 October 1973	Blackpool	H	W	4–2	Burns, Hatton 3	16,880
Third round	7 September 1973	Newcastle United	H	D	2–2	R. Latchford 2	13,025
Third round replay	7 September 1973	Newcastle United	A	W	1–0 aet	Francis pen	19,276
Fourth round	7 September 1973	Ipswich Town	A	W	3–1	R. Latchford 3	12,241
Fifth round	7 September 1973	Plymouth Argyle	H	L	1–2	Hatton	15,273

Texaco Cup

The home leg of the quarter final match against Newcastle United finished as a 1–1 draw. Despite the ban on use of floodlights because of the fuel crisis, the League refused to allow an earlier kickoff time for the away leg on 28 November 1973. The match was abandoned at 1–1 after 10 minutes of extra time in almost total darkness.^[3] Keith Bowker scored Birmingham's goal, in his only appearance of the season and last outing for the club; neither appearance nor goal count towards his statistics.^[4] When the match was replayed, Birmingham lost 3–1 after Newcastle's Jimmy Smith was sent off in the first two minutes for a tackle that broke both bones in Tony Want's lower leg.^[3]

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance
First round 1st leg	19 September 1973	Stoke City	A	D	0–0		9,530
First round 2nd leg	2 October 1973	Stoke City	H	D	0–0 aet 3–1 pens		13,433
Second round 1st leg	22 October 1973	Newcastle United	H	D	1–1	R. Latchford	12,422
Second round 2nd leg	5 December 1973	Newcastle United	A	L	1–3	Francis	9,762

Appearances and goals

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.

Players with name struck through and 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 having played at least one first-team match
Pos.	Nat.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Texaco Cup		Total
Pos.	Nat.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
GK	ENG	Ritchie Blackmore	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0
GK	ENG	Paul Cooper	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0
GK	ENG	Mike Kelly	1	0	0	0	1	0	1 (1)	0	3 (1)	0
GK	ENG	Dave Latchford	25	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	28	0
GK	WAL	Gary Sprake	14	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	20	0
DF	ENG	Dennis Clarke	11	0	1	0	3	0	1 (1)	0	16 (1)	0
DF	ENG	Joe Gallagher	21 (5)	2	2	0	4	0	4	0	31 (5)	2
DF	SCO	Roger Hynd	34 (2)	2	1	0	5	0	2	0	42 (2)	2
DF	ENG	Ray Martin	29	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	32	0
DF	ENG	Ian Osborne	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
DF	ENG	Garry Pendrey	38 (2)	0	2	0	6	0	2	0	48 (2)	0
DF	WAL	John Roberts	28 (2)	0	1	0	5	0	2	0	36 (2)	0
DF	ENG	Archie Styles	3 (2)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3 (2)	1
DF	ENG	Tony Want	11	0	0	0	5	0	4	0	20	0
DF	ENG	Alan Whitehead	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
MF	ENG	Steve Bryant	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
MF	SCO	Jimmy Calderwood	7 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	8 (2)	0
MF	SCO	Alan Campbell	32 (3)	1	2	0	3	0	2	0	35 (3)	1
MF	WAL	Gary Emmanuel	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (2)	0	0 (2)	0
MF	SCO	Paul Hendrie	5	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	9	0
MF	ENG	Lindley Jenkins	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0
MF	ENG	Howard Kendall	15	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	1
MF	WAL	Malcolm Page	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	1
MF	ENG	Gordon Taylor	33 (2)	2	2	0	4 (1)	0	1	0	40 (3)	2
FW	SCO	Kenny Burns	36 (1)	10	1	0	6	2	3	0	46 (1)	12
FW	ENG	Trevor Francis	37	6	2	1	5	1	3	1	47	9
FW	ENG	Bob Hatton	39	14	2	2	6	4	4	0	51	20
FW	SCO	Bobby Hope	6	0	0	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	7 (1)	0
FW	ENG	~~Bob Latchford~~	25 (1)	10	2	2	4 (1)	5	2	1	33 (2)	18
FW	ENG	Steve Phillips	1 (3)	1	0	0	0 (2)	0	2	0	3 (5)	1

References

General

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.
Source for match dates and results: "Birmingham City 1973–1974 : Results". Statto Organisation. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
Source for lineups, appearances, goalscorers and attendances: Matthews (2010), Complete Record, pp. 382–83, 478–89.

Specific

↑ Corbett, James (5 March 2006). "Bob Latchford". Observer Sport Monthly. London. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
↑ "Birmingham City 1973–1974: English Division One (old) Table". Statto Organisation. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
1 2 "Season 1973/74". Toonarama. Archived from the original on 25 March 2008.
↑ Matthews (1995), pp. 74, 209.

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