Season review 2025/26
05.08.26, 00:30 Updated 17.08.26, 09:50
Colin Tattum
If you look at this season through the prism of a newly-promoted team from the third tier that has struggled in the Championship for the best part of a decade, then it has been encouraging.
If you look at this season through the prism of a big-spending side with lofty ambitions of Premier League and beyond, with a £3 billion Sports Quarter and stadium project on stream, then it wasn’t what was hoped for.
Somewhere in between, maybe? The lines between expectation and reality have been fuzzy during 2025/26, just like performances veered from one extreme to another.
Blues ended in 10th spot, their highest placing since Gary Rowett’s side in 2015/16.
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Colin Tattum covered Blues for the Birmingham Mail & Sports Argus as correspondent & chief sports writer for 28 years before becoming head of media & communications at St. Andrew's in 2014. Most recently he worked in academy talent ID & recruitment before returning full circle by joining renowned journalist Neil Moxley with the launch of Forever Blues.