| Aston Villa | Birmingham City | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Brad Friedel | GK | Ben Foster | ||
| DR | Luke Young | DR | Stephen Carr | ||
| DR | Stephen Warnock | DR | Roger Johnson | ||
| DR | Richard Dunne | DR | Liam Ridgewell | ||
| DR | Ciaran Clark | DR | Scott Dann | ||
| DR | James Collins | MD | Sebastian Larsson | ||
| S1 | MD | Steve Sidwell | MD | Craig Gardner | |
| S2 | MD | Nigel Reo-Coker | MD | Barry Ferguson | |
| AM | Stewart Downing | MD | Keith Fahey | ||
| AM | Ashley Young | S1 | AM | Alexander Hleb | |
| FD | Emile Heskey | FD | Nikola Zigic | ||
| Substitute | Substitute | ||||
| S1 | MD | Barry Bannan | S1 | FD | Cameron Jerome |
| S2 | FD | John Carew | |||
| Manager | Manager | ||||
| Gerard Houllier | Alex McLeish | ||||