Championship promotion hopefuls Birmingham City have lost their last three competitive matches

Birmingham City are currently experiencing their most challenging run of results of the Chris Davies era, after falling to three consecutive defeats across all competitions

Davies joined from Tottenham Hotspur’s coaching team last summer and led The Blues to the League One title at a canter in his first year in football management, achieving a record-breaking 111 points while losing just three matches all season.

This triumph heightened fan expectations of what the team could achieve in the Championship and those ambitions were soon amplified by a staggering summer of spending as a whole host of high-profile names arrived to bolster the squad. The Blues boss, however, finds his tactics being questioned by some sections of the fan base for the first time during his tenure. The West Midlands side crashed out of the League Cup in a 1-0 defeat to lower league Port Vale and also failed to score in a 2-0 defeat to Leicester City and a 1-0 loss against Stoke City.

It leaves the club in 11th position after five matches which is hardly disastrous given that the Blues are a newly-promoted club, especially when considering that the likes of Southampton, Sheffield United and big-spending Wrexham are all still below them at this early stage. However, the board won’t want this run of results to turn into a habit. Here we take a look at what insiders have said about Davies - and how the board have viewed the club’s start to the campaign.

Birmingham City owners have no major concerns surrounding Chris Davies

According to EFL Analysis chief football correspondent Graeme Bailey, Birmingham’s owners are not panicking about the recent run of defeats.

“They’re not overly worried about the start to the season. They like him, like what he does. Obviously they’re a very ambitious ownership group, very ambitious club and obviously if it gets to a certain point then it’ll be assessed, but no there are no thoughts of replacing him at this moment in time,” said Bailey.

“Obviously very few managers are 100% safe in football. If they’re way off the play-off spots come December, I’m sure they’ll assess it, but he knows he’s joined a huge ambitious club who want to be in the Premier League. And so, if you’re way off that, he knows there’ll be consequences to that. Any ideas of replacing him have not been discussed really.”

He added: “The Birmingham job would be a very appealing one if it came up. But Davies was a very ambitious and very astute appointment. And it was the decision of the owners to go down that route, too. If it had been a decision they inherited maybe they’d be considering it more and may have moved on quicker, but they wanted this.

“There’s no desire to move on from Davies. It’s very early days yet. And we’ll see. But there’s no talk in-house and they’re not even looking at that situation just yet. Come Christmas time, let’s look at it again, I think that will be the time for them to think about it.”

Birmingham City prepare for challenging Swansea City test

Birmingham City have the perfect chance to get their promotion push back on track when they play host to Swansea City at the weekend.The Blues are one point behind Swansea in the league table and could climb back into the top six with a victory if they defeat the Welsh side.

However, the Swans look like a club on the rise at the moment. They’ve lost just one of their opening five Championship matches - an opening day defeat to Middlesbrough, and have since shown excellent quality across all competitions. Last time out they defeated Premier League side Nottingham Forest 3-2, coming back from two goals down to secure an upset after two goals in stoppage time.

The Blues drew 2-2 with Swansea in the last match between the two teams back in January 2024 but are unlikely to have any of the players that featured that day at their disposal with the exception of Jay Stansfield.