Saturday 23 November 1996 at Selhurst Park (Att 20,665)

Crystal Palace (0) 2 (Veart 51, Dyer 55): Day, Edworthy (Ndah 71), Muscat, Roberts, Tuttle, Hopkins, Anderson (Gordon 76), Shipperley, Freedman, Dyer, Veart; Sub Trollope.
Wolves (2) 3 (Corica 8 14, Thomas 60): Stowell, Thompson, Dennison, Atkins, Venus, Emblen, Corica, Thomas, Bull, Roberts, Osborn; Subs Goodman, van der Laan, Smith.

Referee: Mr R Poulain (Huddersfield).
Order of Goals: W,W,c,c,W.
Landmark: Steve Corica nets his first Wolves goal.
Position: 7th.