| Newcastle United | Nottingham Forest | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Pavel Srnicek | GK | Mark Crossley | ||
| DR | Barry Venison | DR | Des Lyttle | ||
| DR | Marc Hottiger | S1 | DR | Alf-Inge Haaland | |
| DR | John Beresford | DR | Stuart Pearce | ||
| DR | Darren Peacock | DR | Colin Cooper | ||
| DR | Steve Howey | DR | Steve Chettle | ||
| MD | Rob Lee | MD | David Phillips | ||
| MD | Ruel Fox | MD | Scot Gemmill | ||
| S1 | AM | Keith Gillespie | AM | Steve Stone | |
| WR | Paul Kitson | WR | Ian Woan | ||
| FD | Peter Beardsley | FD | Stan Collymore | ||
| Substitute | Substitute | ||||
| S1 | FD | Paul Bracewell | S1 | FD | Jason Lee |
| Manager | Manager | ||||
| Kevin Keegan | Frank Clark | ||||