Sunday 28 December 1997 at Vale Park (Att 10,898)

Port Vale (0) 0: Musselwhite, Talbot, Tankard, Bogie, Hill, Beesley, Ainsworth, Porter, Mills, Naylor (Foyle 81), Corden (Jansson 81); Sub Snijders.
Wolves (1) 2 (Muscat 45, Freedman 87): Stowell, Muscat, Froggatt, Atkins, Richards, Curle, Goodman (Paatelainen 41), Simpson, Keane (Robinson HT), Freedman, Osborn; Sub Daley.

Referee: Mr P Taylor (Cheshunt).
Booked: Paatelainen 55.
Position: 6th.