Women's FA Community Shield

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Women's FA Community Shield
FA Women's Community Shield Logo.gif
Founded2000
Region England
Current championsChelsea (1st title)
Most successful club(s)Arsenal
(5 titles)
2020 Women's FA Community Shield

The Women's FA Community Shield is an association football match in England. It is a national super cup, and the equivalent of the FA Community Shield in male football. It is the first competitive match of the football season. The match is competed between the champions of the FA Women's Super League and the winners of the Women's FA Cup. If the Super League champions also win the FA Cup, the Cup runners-up play the match.

The first community shield match was played in 2000 and lasted until 2008. The competition was then revived in 2020.

Inauguration[]

The Football Association (The FA) held the first charity match in 2000 when Double winners Croydon (by then under the title of Charlton following an acrimonious takeover by the Haddicks) drew against Arsenal Ladies at Craven Cottage (Fulham L.F.C.) and shared the trophy = the only time that this has happened. All proceeds were donated to Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity. The Charity Shield (Community Shield since 2002) has been sponsored by Nationwide since its inauguration.

The competition lasted until 2008 and was not contested for 11 years until the competition was revived by the FA in 2020. The match was billed as a double header after being scheduled at Wembley Stadium on the same day as the men's competition for the first time in history.[1]

List of finals[]

The competition was introduced in 2000 and was held annually at different venues until it was discontinued in 2009. It returned in 2020 when it became a double-header with the men's equivalent, hosted on the same day at Wembley Stadium.[2]

Key
& Title was shared after match finished in a draw
dagger Match decided by a penalty shootout after full-time
Women's FA Community Shield
Year Winner Score Runners–up Venue
Arsenal
Charlton Athletic 		1–1& — Craven Cottage, Fulham
Arsenal 5–2 Doncaster Rovers Kingsmeadow, Kingston upon Thames
Fulham 2–2dagger Arsenal Brisbane Road, Leyton
Fulham 1–0 Doncaster Rovers Field Mill, Mansfield
Charlton Athletic 1–0 Arsenal Broadhall Way, Stevenage
Arsenal 4–0 Charlton Athletic National Hockey Stadium, Milton Keynes
Arsenal 3–0 Everton Alexandra Stadium, Crewe
2007 Not held[a][3]
Arsenal 1–0 Everton Moss Rose, Macclesfield
The competition was scrapped between 2009 and 2019
2020 Chelsea 2–0 Manchester City Wembley Stadium, London
2021 Not held[b][4]
  1. ^ Competition not held due to an overlap with the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup schedule.
  2. ^ Competition not held due to an overlap with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics scheduled and with consideration for the condensed 2021–22 FA WSL schedule.

Performance by club[]

Club Winners Runners-up Winning years
Arsenal
5
2
 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008
Charlton Athletic
2
1
 2000, 2004
Fulham
2
–
 2002, 2003
Chelsea
1
–
 2020
Everton
–
2
 –
Doncaster Rovers
–
2
 –
Manchester City
–
1
 –

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "BBC to broadcast Women's Community Shield double-header at Wembley". BBC Sport. 12 August 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  2. ^ "BBC to broadcast Women's Community Shield double-header at Wembley". BBC Sport. 12 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Football: The FA Tesco Women's Community Shield 2008". Sportsister. 20 July 2008.
  4. ^ Whyatt, Katie. "FA confirm no 2021 Women's Community Shield". The Athletic.

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