Stockport County have lost five of their last six league games against Birmingham City, winning the other game 2-0 in March 2001 under Andy Kilner.
Birmingham’s last league visit to Stockport was in December 2001, with goals from Steve Vickers, Marcelo and Tommy Mooney giving them a 3-0 win over Carlton Palmer’s County side.
Stockport County have lost their first Football League match in each of the last four calendar years in the top four tiers (2010, 2011, 2023, 2024 – excluding 2022 as a promoted side), last starting a year with a win in 2008 against Morecambe.
Birmingham have started each of the last five calendar years with a defeat, a run stretching back to 2020. They last won their first game of a year in 2018 against Reading.

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