Mixed weekend for Brady as third-tier champion Birmingham loses Football League Trophy final

By: The Associated Press Posted: 7:20 PM CDT Sunday, Apr. 13, 2025

LONDON (AP) — NFL great Tom Brady was at Wembley Stadium on Sunday to watch Birmingham, the English soccer club where he's a minority shareholder, lose the final of the Football League Trophy in a 2-0 upset to Peterborough.

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LONDON (AP) — NFL great Tom Brady was at Wembley Stadium on Sunday to watch Birmingham, the English soccer club where he’s a minority shareholder, lose the final of the Football League Trophy in a 2-0 upset to Peterborough.

Teenager Harley Mills and Hector Kyprianou scored for Peterborough to win a competition for teams outside the top two tiers in England.

The trip wasn’t all bad for Brady, though.

Peterborough United's Harley Mills with the trophy after winning the Vertu Trophy Final at Wembley Stadium, London, Sunday April 13, 2025. (Bradley Collyer/PA via AP)

Birmingham had already secured promotion back to the second-tier Championship earlier in the week. It then clinched the League 1 title on Saturday after Wrexham, owned by Hollywood celebrities Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, dropped points.

Brady got a stake in Birmingham in August 2023 in his first foray into the world of soccer and, as chairman of the club’s new advisory board, said he wanted to bring a winning mentality to a club from central England that last played in the Premier League in 2011.