Sunday 17 December 2000 at Molineux (Att 19,938)

Wolves (0) 0: Oakes, Muscat, Pollet, Lescott, Bazeley (Camara 54), Dinning (Ketsbaia 31), Robinson, Emblen, Naylor, R Taylor (Branch 61), Ndah; Subs Nash, Proudlock.
Birmingham City (1) 1 (Adebola 32): Bennett, Jenkins (Gill 26), Purse, M Johnson, Burrows, Eaden, Sonner, Hughes, Lazaridis, Adebola (Marcelo 90), Burchill (A Johnson 61); Subs Poole, Robinson.

Referee: Mr D Laws (Whitley Bay).
Booked: Purse 57, Ndah 76.
Management: On Monday 18th December Wolves Board of Directors terminated the contract of manager Colin Lee. John Ward was put in temporary charge.
City Status: Twenty-four hours after the match it was announced Wolverhampton would become one of the new Millennium cities along with Brighton & Hove and Inverness.
Landmark: Stephen Jenkins makes his Birmingham debut on loan just eight days after appearing against Wolves for Huddersfield Town.
Position: 16th.