1999–2000 Birmingham City F.C. season

The 1999–2000 season was Birmingham City Football Club's 97th in the Football League. They finished in fifth place in the Football League First Division, qualifying for the promotion play-offs, but lost the first leg of the semifinal 4–0 at home to Barnsley. Although they won the away leg, they were eliminated 5–2 on aggregate. Birmingham entered the 1999–2000 FA Cup at the third round and lost to Everton in the fourth, and after entering the League Cup in the first round and defeating Newcastle United in the third, lost to West Ham United in the fourth round.

Paul Furlong was top scorer with 11 goals, all scored in league competition.

Football League First Division

Match details

Date	League position	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Report
7 August 1999	6th	Fulham	H	D	2–2	Hughes 62', Lazaridis 85'	24,042	^[2]
14 August 1999	4th	Norwich City	A	W	1–0	McCarthy 11'	15,261	^[2]
21 August 1999	3rd	Port Vale	H	W	4–2	Hughes (2) 8', 51', Furlong (2) 18', 34'	18,089	^[2]
27 August 1999	4th	Stockport County	A	L	0–2		6,115	^[2]
30 August 1999	3rd	Crewe Alexandra	H	W	5–1	M. Johnson 12', McCarthy 20', Furlong 30', Holdsworth 52', Ndlovu 77'	24,085	^[2]
5 September 1999	2nd	Bolton Wanderers	A	D	3–3	Holdsworth 26', Furlong (2) 37', 45'	11,668	^[2]
11 September 1999	3rd	West Bromwich Albion	H	D	1–1	A. Johnson 43'	25,945	^[2]
18 September 1999	2nd	Ipswich Town	A	W	1–0	Furlong 10' pen.	19,758	^[2]
25 September 1999	1st	Queens Park Rangers	H	W	2–0	Furlong (2) 44' pen., 64' pen.	18,748	^[2]
2 October 1999	4th	Charlton Athletic	A	L	0–1		19,753	^[2]
8 October 1999	4th	Walsall	A	L	0–1		7,164	^[2]
16 October 1999	3rd	Crystal Palace	H	W	2–0	Purse 10', McCarthy 48'	21,582	^[2]
19 October 1999	4th	Manchester City	H	L	0–1		22,126	^[2]
23 October 1999	5th	Grimsby Town	A	D	1–1	Wreh 37'	6,266	^[2]
27 October 1999	5th	Queens Park Rangers	A	D	2–2	Marcelo (2) 74', 76'	11,196	^[2]
30 October 1999	4th	Charlton Athletic	H	W	1–0	Hughes 25'	19,172	^[2]
6 November 1999	6th	Portsmouth	A	D	2–2	Lazaridis 59', M. Johnson 62'	12,756	^[2]
20 November 1999	10th	Barnsley	A	L	1–2	McCarthy 70'	14,520	^[2]
23 November 1999	5th	Tranmere Rovers	H	W	3–1	Grainger 2' pen., Marcelo 27', Hyde 45'	21,132	^[2]
27 November 1999	7th	Swindon Town	H	D	1–1	Grainger 26'	22,620	^[2]
4 December 1999	7th	Fulham	A	D	0–0		12,290	^[2]
17 December 1999	8th	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	L	1–2	Hughes 15'	19,724	^[2]
26 December 1999	11th	Sheffield United	H	L	0–2		22,874	^[2]
28 December 1999	13th	Nottingham Forest	A	L	0–1		20,821	^[2]
3 January 2000	12th	Huddersfield Town	H	W	1–0	Hughes 1'	19,558	^[2]
15 January 2000	11th	Norwich City	H	W	2–0	Grainger 16', 30'	21,007	^[2]
22 January 2000	11th	Port Vale	A	L	1–3	Hughes 48'	7,702	^[2]
29 January 2000	8th	Stockport County	H	W	2–1	Holdsworth 62', Hughes 72'	17,150	^[2]
5 February 2000	7th	Crewe Alexandra	A	W	3–2	O'Connor 45' pen., Hughes 54', Adebola 70'	6,289	^[2]
12 February 2000	6th	Bolton Wanderers	H	W	2–1	Rankin 50', Adebola 66'	18,426	^[2]
15 February 2000	6th	Blackburn Rovers	H	W	1–0	O'Connor 33'	20,719	^[2]
19 February 2000	5th	Swindon Town	A	W	4–1	Purse 11', Rankin 21', Adebola 26', Grainger 74'	7,591	^[2]
27 February 2000	5th	Ipswich Town	H	D	1–1	Mowbray 17' o.g.	20,493	^[2]
4 March 2000	5th	West Bromwich Albion	A	W	3–0	Adebola 6', 8', Marcelo 86'	17,029	^[2]
7 March 2000	5th	Portsmouth	H	W	1–0	Marcelo 49'	19,573	^[2]
11 March 2000	5th	Tranmere Rovers	A	L	1–2	Rowett 45'	9,232	^[2]
18 March 2000	5th	Barnsley	H	W	3–1	Rankin 25', 63', Holdsworth 45'	25,108	^[2]
22 March 2000	5th	Blackburn Rovers	A	L	0–1		18,096	^[2]
25 March 2000	6th	Sheffield United	A	W	2–1	Kozluk 52' o.g., Hughes 54'	15,486	^[2]
1 April 2000	5th	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	W	1–0	Holdsworth 53'	29,050	^[2]
8 April 2000	5th	Huddersfield Town	A	D	0–0		16,961	^[2]
15 April 2000	6th	Nottingham Forest	H	L	0–1		23,006	^[2]
22 April 2000	5th	Crystal Palace	A	W	2–0	Austin 45' o.g., Furlong 61'	17,144	^[2]
24 April 2000	5th	Walsall	H	W	2–0	Furlong (2) 70', 90' pen.	17,144	^[2]
28 April 2000	5th	Manchester City	A	L	0–1		32,062	^[2]
7 May 2000	5th	Grimsby Town	H	D	0–0		25,263	^[2]

League table (part)

Final Division One table (part)
Pos	Club	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
3rd	Ipswich Town	46	25	12	9	71	42	+31	87
4th	Barnsley	46	24	10	12	88	67	+21	82
5th	Birmingham City	46	22	11	13	65	44	+21	77
6th	Bolton Wanderers	46	21	13	12	69	50	+19	76
7th	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	21	11	14	64	48	+16	74
Key	Pos = League position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points
Source	^[3]

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	22	11	13	65	44	+21	77	15	5	3	37	16	+21	7	6	10	28	28	0

Source: ^[3]

Play-offs

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Report
Semifinal 1st leg	13 May 2000	Barnsley	H	L	0–4		26,492	^[2]
Semifinal 2nd leg	18 May 2000	Barnsley	A	W	2–1 2–5 agg.	Rowett 33', Marcelo 75'	19,050	^[2]

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Report
Third round	11 December 1999	Watford	A	W	1–0	Rowett 66'	8,144	^[2]
Fourth round	8 January 2000	Everton	A	L	0–2		25,405	^[2]

League Cup

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Report
First round 1st leg	10 August 1999	Exeter City	H	W	3–0	A. Johnson 17', Richardson 42' o.g., Adebola 75'	18,976	^[4]
First round 2nd leg	24 August 1999	Exeter City	A	W	2–1 5–1 agg.	Richardson 22' o.g., O'Connor 50'	2,338	^[5]
Second round 1st leg	14 September 1999	Bristol Rovers	H	W	2–0	O'Connor 51' pen., Holdsworth 67'	17,457	^[6]
Second round 2nd leg	21 September 1999	Bristol Rovers	A	W	1–0 3–0 agg.	Rowett 48'	5,456	^[7]
Third round	12 October 1999	Newcastle United	H	W	2–0	O'Connor 45' pen., Purse 60'	19,795	^[2]
Fourth round	30 November 1999	West Ham United	H	L	2–3	Hyde 8', Grainger 44'	17,728	^[2]

Transfers

In

Date	Player	Club	Fee	Ref
6 July 1999	Eddie Newton	(Chelsea)	Free	^[8]
16 July 1999	Trésor Luntala	Rennes	Free
16 July 1999	Jacques Williams	Bordeaux	Free
28 July 1999	Stan Lazaridis	West Ham United	£2m	^[9]
25 October 1999	Marcelo	Sheffield United	£500,000	^[10]

Brackets round club names indicate the player's contract with that club had expired before he joined Birmingham.

Out

Date	Player	Fee	Joined	Ref
7 July 1999	Tony Hey	Free	Peterborough United
23 September 1999	Howard Forinton	£250,000	Peterborough United
2 November 1999	Simon Rea	Free	Peterborough United
31 December 1999	Gary Ablett	Released	(Blackpool)	^[11]
3 February 2000	Chris Holland	£100,000	Huddersfield Town	^[12]
22 March 2000	Eddie Newton	Released	(Oxford United)	^[13]
30 June 2000	Simon Charlton	Released	(Bolton Wanderers)	^[14]
30 June 2000	Darren Wassall	Released	(Burton Albion)	^[14]

Brackets round a club denote the player joined that club after his Birmingham City contract expired.

Loan in

Date	Player	Club	Return	Ref
4 August 1999	Richard Knight	Derby County	Two months
7 October 1999	John Beresford	Southampton	One month	^[15]
15 October 1999	Allan Johnston	Sunderland	Two months	^[16]
21 October 1999	Christopher Wreh	Arsenal	14 December 1999	^[17]
19 January 2000	Isaiah Rankin	Bradford City	7 April 2000	^[18]
23 February 2000	Michael Carrick	West Ham United	14 March 2000	^[19]
23 March 2000	Stuart Campbell	Leicester City	28 April 2000	^[20]
31 March 2000	Thomas Myhre	Everton	End of season	^[21]

Loan out

Date	Player	Club	Return	Ref
24 August 1999	Simon Rea	Peterborough United	Made permanent
2 December 1999	Gary Ablett	Wycombe Wanderers	One month
23 March 2000	Jon Bass	Gillingham	12 May 2000	^[22]

Appearances and goals

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.

Players with squad numbers 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 included in matchday squads
No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Play-offs		Total		Discipline
No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	ENG	Kevin Poole	18	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	24	0	0	0
2	DF	ENG	Gary Rowett	45	1	2	1	5	1	2	1	54	4	4	0
3	DF	ENG	Martin Grainger	34	5	2	0	2	1	1	0	39	6	6	0
4	MF	ENG	Bryan Hughes	41 (4)	10	2	0	3 (1)	0	2	0	48 (5)	10	4	1
5	DF	ENG	Graham Hyde	20 (10)	1	2	0	2 (1)	1	0	0	24 (11)	2	4	1
6	DF	ENG	David Holdsworth	43 (1)	5	1	0	5	1	2	0	51 (1)	6	8	0
7	MF	NIR	Jon McCarthy	21	4	0	0	3 (1)	0	0	0	27 (1)	4	4	0
8	MF	CAY	Martyn O'Connor	38 (1)	2	1	0	6	3	2	0	47 (1)	5	7	1
9	FW	ENG	Paul Furlong	17 (2)	11	0	0	2	0	2	0	21 (2)	11	6	0
10	FW	NGA	Dele Adebola	21 (21)	5	0 (1)	0	3 (2)	1	0 (1)	0	24 (25)	6	1	0
11	FW	ZIM	Peter Ndlovu	2 (11)	1	0	0	3 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	6 (13)	1	0	0
12	DF	ENG	Simon Charlton	19 (1)	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	21 (1)	0	1	0
13	GK	ENG	Ian Bennett	21	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	23	0	0	0
14	MF	ENG	Eddie Newton	2 (2)	0	0 (1)	0	2 (2)	0	0	0	4 (5)	0	1	0
15	DF	ENG	Darren Purse	33 (5)	2	1	0	5	1	2	0	41 (5)	3	6	1
16	FW	ENG	Isaiah Rankin*	11 (2)	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	11 (2)	4	6	1
17	DF	JAM	Michael Johnson	29 (5)	2	2	0	3	0	2	0	36 (5)	2	7	0
18	MF	ENG	Steve Robinson	5 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	6 (2)	0	1	0
19	DF	ENG	Darren Wassall	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
20	DF	ENG	Jon Bass	5 (3)	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	8 (3)	0	1	0
21	DF	ENG	Simon Marsh	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	MF	ENG	Chris Holland	2 (12)	0	1	0	3 (1)	0	0	0	6 (13)	0	0	0
22	MF	ENG	Michael Carrick*	1 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	0	0
23	DF	ENG	Jerry Gill	2 (9)	0	1	0	1 (1)	0	1	0	5 (10)	0	1	0
24	FW	ENG	Howard Forinton	0 (1)	0	0	0	1 (2)	0	0	0	1 (3)	0	0	0
24	MF	SCO	Stuart Campbell*	0 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (2)	0	0	0
25	DF	ENG	James Dyson	0 (2)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	0 (3)	0	1	0
26	FW	ENG	Andrew Johnson	15 (8)	1	0	0	4 (1)	1	1 (1)	0	20 (10)	2	2	0
28	MF	AUS	Stan Lazaridis	26 (5)	2	1	0	5 (2)	0	1 (1)	0	33 (8)	2	0	0
29	GK	ENG	Richard Knight*	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
29	DF	ENG	John Beresford*	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
29	GK	NOR	Thomas Myhre*	7	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	9	0	0	0
30	MF	SCO	Allan Johnston*	7 (1)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8 (1)	0	1	0
31	MF	NIR	Jimmy Haarhoff	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
32	MF	LBR	Christopher Wreh*	6 (1)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6 (1)	1	2	0
33	FW	BRA	Marcelo	14 (10)	5	1	0	0	0	1 (1)	1	16 (11)	6	3	0
34	MF	COD	Trésor Luntala	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Players not included in matchday squads
No.	Pos	Nat	Name
16	DF	ENG	Gary Ablett
27	DF	ENG	Simon Rea
35	MF	ENG	Jacques Williams

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, league positions and results: "Birmingham City 1999–2000: Results". Statto Organisation. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
Source for lineups, appearances, goalscorers and attendances: Matthews (2010), Complete Record, pp. 434–35.
Source for goal times: "Birmingham Results 1999/00". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
Sources for transfers:
- Rollin, Glenda & Rollin, Jack, eds. (2000). Playfair Football Annual 2000–2001. Headline. pp. 141–162. ISBN 978-0-7472-6620-4.
- "Birmingham Transfers 1999/00". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
Source for discipline: individual player pages linked from "Birmingham Squad details 1999/00". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 13 June 2013.

Specific

↑ Rollin & Rollin, Playfair Football Annual 2000–2001, p. 139.
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1 2 "Birmingham City 1999–2000 : English Division One Table". Statto Organisation. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
↑ Tattum, Colin (11 August 1999). "Magic new Blues star is born". Evening Mail. Birmingham. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
↑ Tattum, Colin (25 August 1999). "Blues 'reserves' are first class". Evening Mail. Birmingham. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
↑ Parkinson, Simon (15 September 1999). "We can still win it – Ollie". Western Daily Press. Bristol. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
↑ Parkinson, Simon (22 September 1999). "We need Jones to be strong". Western Daily Press. Bristol. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
↑ Dunn, Paul (6 July 1999). "New boy Eddie speaks". Birmingham City F.C. Archived from the original on 17 February 2001.
↑ Willars, Ian (29 July 1999). "Francis may have to sell". Evening Mail. Birmingham. Retrieved 14 June 2013. (subscription required)
↑ Bishop, Rob (26 October 1999). "Premiership ambition finally clinches Marcelo deal for Blues". Birmingham Post. Retrieved 14 June 2013. (subscription required)
↑ Tattum, Colin (4 January 2012). "Birmingham City: Sour note on which Gary Ablett's Blues' career ended saddens Trevor Francis". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
Tallentire, Mark (11 January 2000). "Queen's Park peril clouds Hampden future". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
↑ Tattum, Colin (4 February 2000). "Holland had to go says Francis". Evening Mail. Birmingham. Retrieved 14 June 2013. (subscription required)
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1 2 Tattum, Colin (10 May 2000). "No new deal for Simon". Evening Mail. Birmingham. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
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↑ "Bolton swoop to tie up Magic loan". Bridlington Free Press. 26 January 2000. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
↑ "Sport: Football: News In Brief". BBC News. 21 October 1999. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
Marshall, Adam (14 December 1999). "Wreh returns". Sky Sports. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
↑ Baynes, Ciaran (7 April 2000). "Bantams recall Rankin". Sky Sports. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
↑ "Carrick on move". Birmingham City F.C. 23 February 2000. Archived from the original on 16 February 2001.
Tattum, Colin (14 March 2000). "Carrick's spell over at Blues". Evening Mail. Birmingham. Retrieved 18 June 2013. (subscription required)
↑ "Windass move talk is no more than just hot air claims O'Neill". Leicester Mercury. 28 April 2000. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
↑ Halford, Brian (4 May 2000). "Myhre's route to Wembley all clear". Birmingham Post. Retrieved 14 June 2013. (subscription required)
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Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
46	22	11	13	65	44	+21	77	15	5	3	37	16	+21	7	6	10	28	28	0

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
46	22	11	13	65	44	+21	77	15	5	3	37	16	+21	7	6	10	28	28	0