Saturday 23 March 1940 at County Ground (Att 5,870)

Northampton Town (1) 2 (Billingham 16, Coutts 60): Calvert⁰, Jones, Dennison, Moss⁰, Heywood⁰, Simons, Billingham⁰, Liddle⁰, Shell⁰, Coutts, Barron.
Wolves (0) 0: Sidlow, Taylor, Gardiner, Goddard, Galley, Thornhill, Steen, McMahon, Westcott, Mullen, W Wright.

Referee: Mr D Denton (Northampton).
Guest: Guesting from Aston Villa’s Shell, was married in a Birmingham Registry Office on the morning of the match.
⁰ Guests.