2025 EFL Trophy final

2025 EFL Trophy final

Event	2024–25 EFL Trophy
Birmingham City Peterborough United 0 2
Date	13 April 2025
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Referee	Ben Speedie
Attendance	71,722
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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 were 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. ^[1] 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. ^{[2] [3]}

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 v t e Pld Pts 1 Walsall 3 8 2 Birmingham City 3 7 3 Fulham U21 3 3 4 Shrewsbury Town 3 0 Source: EFL				Final standings	Southern section Group D Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1 Peterborough United 3 9 2 Stevenage 3 4 3 Crystal Palace U21 3 3 4 Gillingham 3 2 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)

Match

Details

13 April 2025

15:00 BST

Birmingham City	0–2	Peterborough United
	Report	Mills 15' Kyprianou 45'

Wembley Stadium , London

Attendance: 71,722

Referee: Ben Speedie

Birmingham City

Peterborough United

GK 21 Ryan Allsop RB 2 Ethan Laird  64' CB 4 Christoph Klarer CB 25 Ben Davies  86' LB 20 Alex 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  52'  46' FW 10 Lukas Jutkiewicz  90+11'  86' 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+12'  90+1' 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

References

1. "Vertu Trophy Final". WembleyStadium.com.
2. "Birmingham City 0-2 Peterborough United: Harley Mills scores stunning free-kick as Posh become first team ever to retain Vertu Trophy". Sky Sports. 13 April 2025. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
3. "Peterborough shock Birmingham in final to retain Vertu Trophy". Guardian. 13 April 2025. Retrieved 16 April 2025.