Saturday 27 December 1890 at Molineux (Att 8,000)

Wolves (0) 0: Rose, Baugh, Mason, Fletcher, Allen, Brodie, Cooper, Worrall, Thomson, Wood, Booth.
Sunderland (1) 3 (Scott*, Auld*, Millar*): Doig Porteous, Oliver, Wilson, Auld, Murray, Harvey, Miller, Campbell, Scott, Hannah.

Position: 3rd.