Birmingham City’s promotion campaign set for Amazon Prime documentary

April 10, 2025

Birmingham City’s 2024-25 League One promotion-winning campaign will be the subject of a behind-the-scenes Amazon Prime documentary.

Amazon says the project was conceived by Birmingham minority owner Tom Brady and Gotham Chopra, the co-founder of Religion Sports, who are producing the documentary.

A camera crew has been embedded within the team since the beginning of pre-season and has followed first-team players, coaching staff, NFL great Brady and Birmingham chairman Tom Wagner as the club secured promotion back to the Championship at the first time of asking.

British screenwriter Steven Knight, the creator of popular Birmingham-based drama Peaky Blinders, will act as executive producer. Knight, a Birmingham supporter, will be joined by Straight Outta Compton’s Matt Alvarez, himself a club board member, as a fellow executive producer.

“Knight will bring his deep connection to the club and storytelling expertise to the project, ensuring a genuine portrayal of Birmingham City’s transformation,” a press release read.

The documentary is also set to explore “the unique cultural heritage” of Birmingham and its supporters, plus the wider impact of the football club on the community.

“The documentary will shine a spotlight on this community’s resurgence, illustrating how the football club plans to drive its transformation,” the press release added.

It is set to be released on Prime Video in the summer of 2025.

Brady with David Beckham at St Andrew's in September (Alex Pantling/Getty Images)

Brady with David Beckham at St Andrew’s in September (Alex Pantling/Getty Images)

Birmingham secured promotion on Tuesday with a 2-1 victory over Peterborough United.

The 2024-25 campaign marked the club’s second under the ownership of Knighthead Capital Management, a U.S. investment firm that counts Brady among its minority shareholders.

The club were relegated from the Championship in their first season under the new ownership in a turbulent campaign that featured six separate coaches taking charge over the course of the season. The club spent significantly in the summer ahead of the League One season, with their total transfer outlay of between £20m-£25million — a record spend in a single window at this level of English football.

Birmingham have taken 95 points from 40 league games and, with six matches remaining, they could beat Wolverhampton Wanderers’ record League One points haul of 103 set in 2013-14.

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