Saturday 20 September 1952 at Molineux (Att 48,598)

Wolves (1) 2 (Flowers 42, Swinbourne 64): Williams, Shorthouse, Pritchard, Crook, Flowers, Wright, Hancocks, Taylor, Swinbourne, Broadbent, Mullen.
Blackpool (2) 5 (Mortenson 30, Matthews 35, Perry 49, Taylor 68, Brown 79): Farm, Shimwell, Garrett, Johnston, Crosland, Kelly, Matthews, Taylor, Mortenson, Brown, Perry.

Referee: Mr C Fletcher (Davenham, Cheshire).
Order of Goals: b,b,W,b,W,b,b.
Landmark: Ron Flowers makes his League debut and scores his first senior goal Stan Mortensen nets the 3,200th goal conceded by Wolves in the Football League and Allan Brown nets the 1,900th conceded by Wolves in the First Division.
Position: 5th.