2025 EFL Trophy Final

2025 EFL Trophy final

Birmingham City Peterborough United 0 2
Report
Event	2024–25 EFL Trophy
Date	13 April 2025
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Referee	Ben Speedie
Attendance	71,722
Weather	16 °C (60 °F)
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The 2025 EFL Trophy final, known as the Vertu Trophy final for sponsorship reasons, was an association football match that was played on 13 April 2025 at Wembley Stadium, London, England. It was played between League One teams and two-time winners Peterborough United, who was also the defending champions, and Birmingham City. The match decided the winners of the 2024–25 EFL Trophy, a knock-out tournament comprising clubs from League One and League Two of the English Football League (EFL), as well as 16 Category One academy sides representing Premier League and Championship clubs. Peterborough United successfully defended the title—the first team to retain the EFL Trophy, tying the record of three wins held by Bristol City by their win in the 2015 final and becoming the only team to play and win all three EFL Trophy finals in their history.

Route to the final

Main article: 2024–25 EFL Trophy

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

Birmingham City				Round	Peterborough United
Opponent	Result			Group stage	Opponent	Result
Walsall	1–1 (3–4 p) (H)			Matchday 1	Gillingham	2–1 (A)
Shrewsbury Town	4–0 (A)			Matchday 2	Stevenage	2–0 (H)
Fulham U21	7–1 (H)			Matchday 3	Crystal Palace U21	4–1 (H)
Southern section Group A Pos Team Pld Pts 1 Walsall 3 8 2 Birmingham City 3 7 3 Fulham U21 3 3 4 Shrewsbury Town 3 0 Updated to match(es) played on 12 November 2024. Source: EFL				Final standings	Southern section Group D Pos Team Pld Pts 1 Peterborough United 3 9 2 Stevenage 3 4 3 Crystal Palace U21 3 3 4 Gillingham 3 2 Updated to match(es) played on 12 November 2024. Source: EFL
Opponent	Result			Knockout stage	Opponent	Result
Exeter City	2–1 (A)			Round of 32	Northampton Town	3–0 (H)
Swindon Town	2–1 (A)			Round of 16	Walsall	4–2 (H)
Stevenage	1–0 (A)			Quarter-final	Cheltenham Town	3–2 (H)
Bradford City	2–1 (H)			Semi-final	Wrexham	2–2 (4–2 p) (A)

Details

13 April 2025 15:00 BST	Birmingham City	0–2	Peterborough United	Wembley Stadium Attendance: 71,722 Referee: Ben Speedie
		Report	Mills  15' Kyprianou  45'

Birmingham City

Peterborough United

GK 21 Ryan Allsop RB 2 Ethan Laird 64' CB 4 Christoph Klarer CB 25 Ben Davies 86' LB 20 Alexander Cochrane DM 24 Tomoki Iwata DM 13 Paik Seung-ho 72' AM 18 Willum Willumson 46' RW 30 Kieran Dowell 43' LW 14 Keshi Anderson CF 28 Jay Stansfield Substitutions: GK 45 Bailey Peacock-Farrell DF 19 Taylor Gardner-Hickman 64' DF 31 Grant Hanley MF 12 Marc Leonard 72' MF 26 Luke Harris FW 9 Alfie May 46' 52' FW 10 Lukas Jutkiewicz 86' 90+11' Manager: Chris Davies

GK 31 Jed Steer RB 33 James Dornelly CB 5 Oscar Wallin CB 37 Emmanuel Fernandez 90+1' LB 34 Harley Mills DM 22 Hector Kyprianou 77' DM 4 Archie Collins AM 7 Malik Mothersille 75' RW 11 Kwame Poku LW 10 Abraham Odoh 56' CF 17 Ricky-Jade Jones 86' Substitutions: GK 1 Nicholas Bilokapic DF 27 Jadel Katongo 90+1' 90+12' MF 8 Ryan de Havilland MF 9 Chris Conn-Clarke MF 20 Mahamadou Susoho 75' FW 18 Cian Hayes FW 19 Gustav Lindgren 86' Manager: Darren Ferguson

External links

• Match report at BBC.co.uk