Wednesday 3 September 1947 at Blundell Park (Att 21,426)

Grimsby Town (0) 0: Tweedy, Mouncer, Fisher, Blenkinsopp, Taylor, F Reeve, Wilson, Whitfield, K Reeve, Cairns, Wardle.
Wolves (3) 4 (Forbes 45s 9, Hancocks 6, Pye 58): Williams, McLean, Pritchard, Galley, Brice, Wright, Hancocks, Pye, Forbes, Smyth, Mullen.

Referee: Mr F Chadwick (Leicester).
First: Willie Forbes who scored after just forty-five seconds and twice in the first nine minutes was making his first ever career appearance at centre-forward.
Landmark: Albert Wilson makes his Grimsby Town debut.
Position: 2nd.