PREVIEW | Birmingham City vs Swansea City - team news, lineups, predictions | OneFootball

Birmingham City host Swansea City this Saturday at the Saint Andrews for matchweek six of the EFL Championship. The match will be broadcast live at 12:30 on Sky Sports +.

Birmingham City have 7 points to their name this season and occupy 11th position in the table. In their last encounter, Chris Davies's team were beaten 1-0 by Stoke City (EFL Championship 2025/26).

Swansea City currently have 8 points and lie in 7th position. In their last match, Alan Sheehan's team prevailed 3-2 against Nottingham Forest (Carabao Cup 2025/26).

The last meeting between the two teams ended in a 2-2 draw.

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George Revell (Blues Focus): After their first three games of the Championship season, many considered Birmingham City‘s start as very good - but back-to-back defeats against Leicester and Stoke brought it right down to average.

Blues have lost their last three matches across competitions not only without scoring a goal, but while only registering one shot on target in over 270 minutes of football.

And that will have sent shockwaves through Chris Davies’ mind. The Blues boss will be well aware that, with 27,000-plus watching on at St. Andrew’s, the onus will be on his side to go out and beat Swansea.

Despite coming back from 2-0 down and scoring two late goals to beat Europa League Nottingham Forest in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night - and ultimately sitting one point above Blues in the league standings, the Swans have created the second lowest expected goals in the Championship so far, and Blues have recorded the least shots on target out of all 24 teams in the division - so evidence suggests we could be in for a bore-fest on Saturday.

That said, Blues haven’t lost a league match at home since April 2024 - and always seem to be able to muster up a victory in B9 when they most need it.

It won’t be pretty, but with St. Andrew’s behind them, I fancy Blues to pull off a vital 1-0 victory.

Prediction: 1-0

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Birmingham City ( vs Stoke City 2025-09-13): Ryan Allsop, Ethan Laird, Christoph Klarer, Phil Neumann, Alex Cochrane, Patrick Roberts, Tomoki Iwata, Paik Seung-ho, Demarai Gray, Jay Stansfield, Tommy Doyle

Swansea City ( vs Nottingham Forest 2025-09-17): Andy Fisher, Cameron Burgess, Ishé Samuels-Smith, Josh Key, Kaelan Casey, Gonçalo Franco, Ethan Galbraith, Malick Yalcouyé, Adam Idah, Eom Ji-sung, Manuel Benson