Anfield | Saturday 25 May 1940
| Liverpool | 3 | - | 2 | Manchester City |
| 1 | Eric Holmes Mansley |
| 2 | Jack Tennant * |
| 3 | Robert William Stuart* |
| 4 | George Murphy* |
| 5 | Alan Brown* |
| 6 | Bob Paisley |
| 7 | Billy Liddell |
| 8 | Len Carney |
| 9 | Berry Nieuwenhuys |
| 10 | Alf Hanson * |
| 11 | Harman van den Berg |