2020 Women's FA Community Shield

2020 Women's FA Community Shield

Chelsea Manchester City 2 0
Date	29 August 2020
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Player of the Match	Ji So-yun (Chelsea)
Referee	Rebecca Welch (Durham)
Attendance	0 [note 1]
← 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] [3]}

Match

Details

29 August 2020

12:30 BST (UTC+1)

Chelsea	2–0	Manchester City
Bright 66' Cuthbert 90+1'	Report

Wembley Stadium , London

Attendance: 0 ^{[note 1]}

Referee: Rebecca Welch (Durham)

Chelsea

Manchester City

GK 30 Ann-Katrin Berger DF 18 Maren Mjelde DF 4 Millie Bright DF 16 Magdalena Eriksson (c) DF 25 Jonna Andersson  90+4' MF 8 Melanie Leupolz MF 5 Sophie Ingle MF 10 Ji So-yun FW 14 Fran Kirby  71' FW 20 Sam Kerr  72' FW 11 Guro Reiten  88' Substitutes: GK 28 Carly Telford DF 2 Maria Thorisdottir DF 3 Hannah Blundell MF 7 Jessica Carter FW 9 Bethany England  72' MF 17 Jessie Fleming  90+4' FW 21 Niamh Charles  88' MF 22 Erin Cuthbert  71' 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 Caroline Weir  68' MF 8 Jill Scott  32'  62' FW 15 Lauren Hemp  26' FW 9 Chloe Kelly FW 10 Georgia Stanway  83' Substitutes: GK 1 Karen Bardsley GK 34 Karima Benameur Taieb DF 5 Megan Campbell MF 7 Laura Coombs FW 11 Janine Beckie  26' FW 16 Jess Park FW 18 Ellen White  83' MF 22 Sam Mewis  68' Manager: Gareth Taylor

Player of the match Ji So-yun (Chelsea) Match officials Assistant referees: Natalie Aspinall (Lancashire) Emily Carney (Lancashire) Fourth official: Abigail Byrne (Suffolk)

Match rules 90 minutes. Penalty shoot-out if scores are level. Nine named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions in three stoppages.

Notes

1. The match was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. ^[2]

References

1. "Chelsea and Man City to contest first Women's Community Shield since 2008". BBC Sport . 11 August 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
2. "First ever double header men's and women's Community Shield to be played at Wembley". www.thefa.com. The Football Association. 11 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
3. "BBC to broadcast Women's Community Shield double-header at Wembley". BBC Sport . 12 August 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2020.

External links

• Millie Bright's stunner helps Chelsea beat Man City in women's Community Shield. The Football Association (FA). Published 29 August 2020.
• Chelsea 2-0 Man City in Women's Community Shield: Millie Bright stunner helps Blues win. BBC Sport. Published 29 August 2020.
• Women's Community Shield 2020/21 - Chelsea v Manchester City. YouTube. Uploaded by The Women's Football Archive on 11 June 2022.