The 1974–75 Football League season was Birmingham City Football Club's 72nd in the Football League and their 41st in the First Division. They finished in 17th position in the 22-team division, four points above the relegation positions. They entered the 1974–75 FA Cup at the third round proper and lost to Fulham in the last minute of the semi-final replay, lost to Crewe Alexandra in their opening match of the League Cup in the second round, and reached the semi-final of the Texaco Cup.

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Birmingham City F.C.

1974–75 season
Chairman	Clifford Coombs
Manager	Freddie Goodwin
Ground	St Andrew's
Football League First Division	17th
FA Cup	Semi-final (eliminated by Fulham)
League Cup	Second round (eliminated by Crewe Alexandra)
Texaco Cup	Semi-final (eliminated by Newcastle United)
Top goalscorer	League: Bob Hatton (14) All: Bob Hatton (18)
Highest home attendance	47,260 vs Middlesbrough, FA Cup 6th round, 8 March 1975
Lowest home attendance	12,327 vs Ayr United, Texaco Cup 2nd round, 17 September 1974
Average home league attendance	30,854
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Twenty-eight players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were thirteen different goalscorers. Goalkeeper Dave Latchford and forward Bob Hatton played in 53 of the 56 first-team matches over the season, and the leading goalscorer was Hatton with 18 goals, of which 14 came in league competition.

For the third time in seven seasons, Birmingham reached the semi-final of the FA Cup. This time, they drew with Fulham at Hillsborough so the tie went to a replay, played at Maine Road, Manchester. Goalless through normal time and all but a few seconds of extra time – an announcement had already been made that the second replay would be at Highbury the following Monday^[2] – a long ball towards Birmingham's penalty area was struck by John Mitchell straight into goalkeeper Dave Latchford's face. The ball rebounded onto Mitchell's chest and back towards the goal to bobble over the line.^[3][4][5]

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.

Players with name 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.

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Players having played at least one first-team match

Pos.	Nat.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Texaco Cup		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
GK	ENG	Mike Kelly	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
GK	ENG	Dave Latchford	39	0	6	0	1	0	7	0	53	0
GK	WAL	Gary Sprake	2	0	0	0	0	0	0 (2)	0	2 (2)	0
DF	ENG	Steve Bryant	15 (1)	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	19 (1)	1
DF	ENG	Dennis Clarke	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
DF	ENG	Joe Gallagher	38	1	6	1	1	1	5	0	50	3
DF	SCO	Roger Hynd	6 (6)	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	10 (6)	0
DF	ENG	Ray Martin	21 (1)	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	26 (1)	0
DF	ENG	Garry Pendrey	27 (3)	1	5	0	0 (1)	0	7	0	39 (4)	1
DF	WAL	John Roberts	7 (1)	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	12 (1)	0
DF	SCO	Ricky Sbragia	1	0	0	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	2 (1)	0
DF	ENG	Archie Styles	23	2	2	0	1	0	2	0	28	2
DF	ENG	Tony Want	0 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (2)	0
MF	SCO	Jimmy Calderwood	25	2	1	0	0	0	4	0	30	2
MF	SCO	Alan Campbell	28	1	1 (1)	0	1	0	5	1	35 (1)	2
MF	WAL	Gary Emmanuel	9	1	4	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	13 (1)	1
MF	SCO	Paul Hendrie	9 (2)	1	3	0	1	0	3 (1)	0	16 (3)	1
MF	SCO	Bobby Hope	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (2)	0	0 (2)	0
MF	ENG	Howard Kendall	39	4	6	1	1	0	6	0	50	5
MF	ENG	Roy Morton	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	5	0
MF	WAL	Malcolm Page	28	0	6	0	0	0	3	0	37	0
MF	ENG	Gordon Taylor	34 (1)	3	6	0	1	0	4 (1)	1	45 (2)	4
FW	ENG	Gary Allen	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
FW	SCO	Kenny Burns	39	8	6	2	1	0	6	3	52	13
FW	ENG	Trevor Francis	23	13	2	0	1	0	2	1	28	14
FW	ENG	Bob Hatton	41	14	5	2	0	0	7	2	53	18
FW	ENG	Steve Phillips	1 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3 (1)	0
FW	SCO	Ian Smith	0 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (2)	0

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• Birmingham City F.C. seasons

• 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.
• For match dates and results: "Birmingham City 1974–1975 : Results". Statto Organisation. Archived from the original on 12 June 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
• For lineups, appearances, goalscorers and attendances: Matthews (2010), Complete Record, pp. 384–85, 479.