Honours
Birmingham's first ever silverware was the Walsall Cup which they won in 1883. Their first honour in national competitive football was the inaugural championship of the Football League Second Division in 1892–93. The majority of their success came in the period from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s. Promoted to the First Division in 1955, in the following season they achieved their highest league finish of sixth place and their second FA Cup final appearance. They went on to reach two successive finals of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, and won their only major trophy, the League Cup, for the first time in 1963, a success not repeated until 2011. In the 1994–95 season they completed the "lower-division double", of the Division Two (level 3) championship and the Football League Trophy, a cup competition open to clubs in the third and fourth tiers of English football; this was the first time the golden goal was used to decide the winner of a senior English cup final.
Birmingham City's honours and achievements include the following:
European competition
- Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
- Finalists (2): 1960, 1961
The Football League
- Second Division / The Championship (level 2)
- Champions (4): 1892–93, 1920–21, 1947–48, 1954–55
- Runners up (7): 1893–94, 1900–01, 1902–03, 1971–72, 1984–85, 2006–07, 2008–09
- Promotion (2): 1979–80, 2001–02
- Third Division / Division Two (level 3)
- Champions (1): 1994–95
- Runners up (1): 1991–92
Domestic cup competition
- FA Cup
- Finalists (2): 1931, 1956
- League Cup
- Winners (2): 1963, 2011
- Finalists (1): 2001
- Associate Members Cup / Football League Trophy
- Winners (2): 1990–91, 1994–95
Wartime competition
- Football League South
- Champions (1): 1945–46
Read more about this topic: List Of Birmingham City F.C. Records And Statistics
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