Hull City's stuttering form continued last time out when they were beaten 2-1 at Sheffield United.
Despite no wins in their past three league games, the Tigers remain in the Championship play-off places in sixth, four points above seventh-placed Wrexham, but will want to further avoid looking over their shoulder in the home straight.
Birmingham go into this game on the back of a 2-0 win over Wrexham, a result that did their hosts on Saturday a huge favour.
That victory ended Blues' winless run of four games, avoiding a fourth straight defeat in the process.
Hull have lost just one of their past 11 league games against Birmingham (W6 D4), going down 2-0 at home in October 2022.
After seven consecutive away league defeats against Hull between 2011 and 2021, Birmingham are now unbeaten in their past two visits (W1 D1).
Hull are winless in their past three Championship games (D2 L1) – if they fail to win here, it will be their longest run without a league victory under Sergej Jakirovic (4).
Birmingham have won just 32% of their points in the Championship this season in away matches (18/56); the lowest percentage of any team in 2025-26.
Oliver McBurnie has scored 14 goals in the Championship this season; the most by a Hull player in a second-tier campaign since Jarrod Bowen in 2019-20 (16).
