Middlesbrough 3 Stoke City 2
Outcome: Won
Date: 9/26/1981
Manager: Bobby Murdoch
Attendance: 11604
Competition: Division One
Played at: Ayresome Park
Goals:
| Goals | Time | Assists | |
| Billy Woof | |||
| Dave Shearer | |||
| Terry Cochrane | |||
Team
| Player | Yellow | Red | Subbed |
| Jim Platt | |||
| Tony McAndrew | |||
| Mick Baxter | |||
| Joe Bolton | |||
| John Craggs | |||
| Heine Otto | |||
| Colin Ross | |||
| Billy Askew | |||
| Terry Cochrane | |||
| Dave Shearer | |||
| Billy Woof |
Subs
| Player | Yellow | Red | Subbed |
| Bobby Thomson |