2020 Women's FA Community Shield explained

2020 Women's FA Community Shield
Team1:Chelsea
Team1score:2
Team2:Manchester City
Team2score:0
Date:29 August 2020
Stadium:Wembley Stadium
City:London
Woman Player1:Ji So-yun (Chelsea)
Referee:Rebecca Welch (Durham)
Attendance:0
Previous:2008

The 2020 Women's FA Community Shield was the ninth Women's FA Community Shield, and the first after the competition's revival following an eleven-season abeyance.[1] As with its male equivalent, the Community Shield is an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's league and the previous season's Women's FA Cup. However, as the 2019–20 Women's FA Cup was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the 2020 Community Shield was contested by the 2019–20 FA WSL champions Chelsea and the still-reigning 2018–19 FA Cup winners, Manchester City. Both teams were contesting their first ever Women's Community Shield.

The match was played as part of a double-header, with both the women's and men's Community Shields contested on the same day, played back-to-back at Wembley Stadium and was televised live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.[2]

Match

Details

GK 30 Ann-Katrin Berger
DF 18 Maren Mjelde
DF 4 Millie Bright
DF 16 Magdalena Eriksson (c)
DF 25
MF 8 Melanie Leupolz
MF 5 Sophie Ingle
MF 10 Ji So-yun
FW 14
FW 20
FW 11
Substitutes:
GK 28 Carly Telford
DF 2 Maria Thorisdottir
DF 3 Hannah Blundell
MF 7 Jessica Carter
FW 9
MF 17
FW 21
MF 22
MF 24 Drew Spence
Manager:
Emma Hayes
GK 26 Ellie Roebuck
DF 14 Esme Morgan
DF 6 Steph Houghton (c)
DF 4 Gemma Bonner
DF 3 Demi Stokes
MF 24 Keira Walsh
MF 19
MF 8
FW 15
FW 9 Chloe Kelly
FW 10
Substitutes:
GK 1 Karen Bardsley
GK 34 Karima Benameur Taieb
DF 5 Megan Campbell
MF 7 Laura Coombs
FW 11
FW 16 Jess Park
FW 18
MF 22
Manager:
Gareth Taylor
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Match officials

width=50% valign=topMatch rules
  • 90 minutes.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores are level.
  • Nine named substitutes.
  • Maximum of five substitutions in three stoppages.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Chelsea and Man City to contest first Women's Community Shield since 2008 . . 11 August 2020 . 12 August 2020 .
  2. Web site: BBC to broadcast Women's Community Shield double-header at Wembley . . 12 August 2020 . 12 August 2020 .