Football League Cup (Fifth Round)- Tuesday 4 December 1979 at Blundell Park (Att 23,115)
Grimsby Town 0: Batch, Stone, K Moore, Waters, Wigginton, Crombie, Brolly, Ford, Drinkell, Mitchell, Cumming; Sub Liddell.
Wolves 0: Bradshaw, Palmer, Parkin, Daniel, Hughes, Berry, Hibbitt, Carr, Gray, Richards, Eves; Sub Brazier.
Referee: Mr P Partridge (Co Durham).
Receipts: The gate receipts of £29,888 was a Grimsby record, beating that of the League Cup tie against Everton in the previous round.