Bristol City vs Sheffield United: Championship stats & head-to-head

Bristol City are winless across their last seven games against Sheffield United in all competitions (D2 L5), since a 3-2 victory at Bramall Lane in the Championship in March 2019.

Sheffield United have won five of their last seven away league games against Bristol City (D1 L1), with each of their last three victories coming via a one-goal margin.

Bristol City are unbeaten across their last eight home league games (W6 D2), their longest run at Ashton Gate in a single season since a nine-match stint between January and April 2023. In the 2024-25 Championship season, only Leeds United (58), Burnley (51) and Sheffield United (49) accumulated more points on home soil than the Robins (46 – W13 D7 L3).

Sheffield United will be competing in the play-offs in the second tier for the sixth time, failing to earn promotion on each of the previous five occasions. In that time, they’ve won just one of their five away semi-final matches (D3 L1), though it did come in their last such match – a 2-1 win over Nottingham Forest at the City Ground in May 2022, before being eliminated on penalties.

Bristol City will be playing in their sixth EFL play-off campaign this season and their first since 2007-08 in the Championship. On that occasion, the Robins reached Wembley but lost 1-0 to Hull City; they’ve never earned promotion via the play-offs on any of the previous five occasions.

This season, Sheffield United became just the third side in the history of the second tier to win as many as 90 points yet still fail to get automatically promoted, after only Sunderland in 1997-98 and Leeds United last season.

Only four players in the Championship this season have created more chances than Bristol City’s Max Bird (75), while ranking fifth overall in the competition for expected assists (8.65).

In the Championship this season, only Burnley’s James Trafford (29) recorded more clean sheets among goalkeepers than Sheffield United’s Michael Cooper (21), while preventing the fifth-most goals among goalkeepers with 2,000+ minutes in the competition (6.7 – 38.7 expected goals on target conceded and 32 goals conceded excluding own goals).