Portsmouth 0 Middlesbrough 1
Outcome: Won
Date: 8/27/1983
Manager: Malcolm Allison
Attendance: 17817
Competition: DivisionTwo
Played at: Fratton Park
Goals:
| Goals | Time | Assists | |
| Heine Otto | |||
Team
| Player | Yellow | Red | Subbed |
| David Currie | |||
| Paul Ward | |||
| Paul Sugrue | |||
| Stephen Bell | |||
| Garry Macdonald | |||
| Alan Roberts | |||
| Heine Otto | |||
| Darren Wood | |||
| Irving Nattrass | |||
| Mick Baxter | |||
| Kelham O'Hanlon |
Subs
| Player | Yellow | Red | Subbed |
| Tony Mowbray |