| Stoke City | Birmingham City | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Thomas Sorensen | GK | Joe Hart | ||
| DR | Danny Higginbotham | DR | Stephen Carr | ||
| DR | Robert Huth | DR | Liam Ridgewell | ||
| DR | Ryan Shawcross | DR | Roger Johnson | ||
| DR | Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye | DR | Scott Dann | ||
| MD | Dean Whitehead | MD | Lee Bowyer | ||
| MD | Rory Delap | S1 | MD | Sebastian Larsson | |
| S2 | AM | Liam Lawrence | MD | Barry Ferguson | |
| WR | Matthew Etherington | AM | James McFadden | ||
| S1 | FD | James Beattie | FD | Cameron Jerome | |
| FD | Tuncay Sanli | FD | Christian Benitez | ||
| Substitute | Substitute | ||||
| S1 | FD | Ricardo Fuller | S1 | MD | Keith Fahey |
| S2 | FD | Mamady Sidibe | |||
| Manager | Manager | ||||
| Tony Pulis | Alex McLeish | ||||