| Bolton Wanderers | Manchester City | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Jussi Jaaskelainen | GK | David James | ||
| DR | Anthony Barness | DR | Danny Mills | ||
| DR | Julio Cesar | DR | Stephen Jordan | ||
| DR | Bruno N'Gotty | DR | Sylvain Distin | ||
| DR | Tal Ben Haim | DR | Richard Dunne | ||
| MD | Kevin Nolan | MD | Joey Barton | ||
| MD | Gary Speed | MD | Paul Bosvelt | ||
| S1 | MD | Jay-Jay Okocha | MD | Antoine Sibierski | |
| AM | Stelios Giannakopoulos | WR | Shaun Wright-Phillips | ||
| S2 | FD | Henrik Pedersen | FD | Robbie Fowler | |
| FD | Kevin Davies | FD | Nicolas Anelka | ||
| Substitute | Substitute | ||||
| S1 | FD | Ricardo Vaz Te | |||
| S2 | FD | Les Ferdinand | |||
| Manager | Manager | ||||
| Sam Allardyce | Kevin Keegan | ||||