| Birmingham City | Derby County | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Maik Taylor | GK | Roy Carroll | ||
| DR | Stephen Kelly | DR | Marc Edworthy | ||
| DR | David Murphy | DR | Dean Leacock | ||
| DR | Martin Taylor | DR | Alan Stubbs | ||
| DR | Liam Ridgewell | S3 | DR | Darren Moore | |
| S1 | MD | Sebastian Larsson | MD | Hossam Ghaly | |
| MD | Damien Johnson | MD | Robbie Savage | ||
| MD | Fabrice Muamba | S1 | WR | Laurent Robert | |
| AM | James McFadden | S2 | FD | Rob Earnshaw | |
| WR | Olivier Kapo | FD | Craig Fagan | ||
| FD | Garry O'Connor | FD | Kenny Miller | ||
| Substitute | Substitute | ||||
| S1 | FD | Mauro Zarate | S1 | FD | Emanuel Villa |
| S2 | FD | Giles Barnes | |||
| S3 | DR | Andy Todd | |||
| Manager | Manager | ||||
| Alex McLeish | Paul Jewell | ||||