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Preston vs Bristol City

Championship · 2026 · Regular Season - 4

Championship · 2026 · Regular Season - 4

Full time

Deepdale, PrestonCapacity 23,408

Timeline

  1. Kick-off
  2. 4'0-1Goal. S. Twine (L. Tolaj)Normal GoalTeam: Bristol City
  3. 9'Yellow card. Jordan ThompsonYellow Card · FoulTeam: Preston
  4. 0-1Half time
  5. Second half
  6. 51'1-1Goal. Caleb WileyNormal GoalTeam: Preston
  7. 59'Substitution. N. Eile replaced by C. PringSubstitution 1Team: Bristol City
  8. 59'Substitution. A. Randell replaced by G. YahSubstitution 2Team: Bristol City
  9. 59'Substitution. Y. Hirakawa replaced by J. WallaceSubstitution 3Team: Bristol City
  10. 66'Substitution. Caleb Wiley replaced by A. VukčevićSubstitution 1Team: Preston
  11. 67'Substitution. J. Erabi replaced by C. LangSubstitution 2Team: Preston
  12. 69'Substitution. Sam Greenwood replaced by Dominic BallardSubstitution 4Team: Bristol City
  13. 79'1-2Goal. Lisav Naif Eissat (Rio Cardines)Normal GoalTeam: Bristol City
  14. 82'Substitution. Alfie Devine replaced by Andrew MoranSubstitution 3Team: Preston
  15. 83'Yellow card. L. LindsayYellow Card · FoulTeam: Preston
  16. 84'Substitution. L. Tolaj replaced by J. WilliamsSubstitution 5Team: Bristol City
  17. 86'1-3Goal. Dominic BallardNormal GoalTeam: Bristol City
  18. 90'Substitution. S. Mills replaced by T. SmallSubstitution 4Team: Preston
  19. 1-3Full time

Line-ups

Preston

Formation 3-4-2-1

L. Lindsay5.9
L. Gibson6.1
Jordan Thompson6.5
S. Mills5.6
J. Erabi6.3

Bristol City

Formation 4-2-3-1

S. Tickle6.0
Lisav Naif Eissat7.9
Rob Dickie7.0
N. Eile6.7
A. Randell6.4
Y. Hirakawa6.2
S. Twine8.1
Jason Knight6.5
L. Tolaj7.6

Preston

3-4-2-1

Substitutes

  • 2Pol Valentín
  • 3A. Vukčević
  • 10C. Lang
  • 11T. Small
  • 14J. Storey
  • 21L. Nicholls
  • 23Andrew Moran
  • 24O. Offiah
  • 30G. Gryba

Coach: Paul Heckingbottom

Bristol City

4-2-3-1

Substitutes

Coach: Roy Hodgson

We publish a page only for players we can describe properly. Names without a link are in our records but have no page yet.

Match statistics

PrestonBristol City
52%
Possession
48%
18
Shots
12
4
Shots on target
7
9
Shots off target
4
5
Shots blocked
1
9
Shots inside the box
9
9
Shots outside the box
3
4
Saves
3
5
Corners
2
2
Offsides
3
11
Fouls
14
2
Yellow cards
0
404
Passes
390
314
Accurate passes
307

Championship

Championship
TeamPGDPts
1Middlesbrough15+1129
2Stoke City15+629
3Southampton15+1428
4Wolves15+828
5West Brom15+828
6Birmingham14+1326
7Swansea14+526
8QPR15+624
9West Ham15+1423
10Sheffield Utd15+222
11Portsmouth15+222
12Norwich15+821
13Blackburn15-121
14Cardiff15018
15Wrexham15-218
16Millwall15-418
17Bristol City15-818
18Bolton15-917
19Charlton15-1017
20Watford15-1015
21Lincoln15-1115
22Burnley15-910
23Derby15-1610
24Preston15-178

Head to head

Up to the ten most recent meetings between these clubs in the fixtures we hold.

Preston
2
Drawn
5
Bristol City
3

The record over the 10 meetings listed below.

  • Bristol CityPrestonFTChampionship
  • PrestonBristol CityFTChampionship
  • Bristol CityPrestonFTChampionship
  • PrestonBristol CityFTChampionship
  • PrestonBristol CityFTChampionship
  • Bristol CityPrestonFTChampionship
  • PrestonBristol CityFTChampionship
  • Bristol CityPrestonFTChampionship
  • PrestonBristol CityFTChampionship
  • Bristol CityPrestonFTChampionship

Bristol City beat Preston 3-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 1 September. 442ball records this match from the fixture feed and recomputes every table and total from the match record rather than copying a feed.

Times are shown in UTC.