2008 FA Community Shield

The 2008 FA Community Shield (also known as The FA Community Shield sponsored by McDonald's for sponsorship reasons) was the 86th staging of the FA Community Shield, an annual football match played between the reigning Premier League champions and FA Cup winners. The match was played on 10 August 2008 between 2007–08 Premier League champions Manchester United and 2007–08 FA Cup winners Portsmouth as the "curtain-raiser" to the 2008–09 English football season.^[2] The match marked the 100th year since the first Charity Shield, also won by Manchester United after a replay in August 1908.

2008 FA Community Shield

Match programme cover
Event	FA Community Shield
Manchester United Portsmouth 0 0
Manchester United won 3–1 on penalties
Date	10 August 2008
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Man of the Match	Carlos Tevez
Referee	Peter Walton
Attendance	84,808
Weather	Rain 20 °C (68 °F)[1]
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Manchester United won the game 3–1 on penalties, after the match finished 0–0 after 90 minutes; the Community Shield no longer plays extra time if the teams are level at the end of normal time.^[3][4]

The match was the second meeting between the two teams in the space of two weeks, after they had played each other in a friendly in Nigeria on 27 July 2008. It was also the first Community Shield since 1996 to feature a team from outside the big four of Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool. With this Community Shield title, United extended their record number of wins in the competition to 13 (17 including shared titles). As of the 2023 edition, Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp is the most recent English to manage a team in the Community Shield.

Match details

Manchester United	0–0	Portsmouth
	Report
Penalties
Tevez Giggs Carrick	3–1	Diarra Defoe Mvuemba Johnson

10 August 2008

15:00 BST

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 84,808

Referee: Peter Walton (Northamptonshire)^[A]

Manchester United

Portsmouth

GK 1 Edwin van der Sar RB 2 Gary Neville (c)  61'  66' CB 5 Rio Ferdinand CB 15 Nemanja Vidić  45' LB 3 Patrice Evra RM 24 Darren Fletcher CM 18 Paul Scholes CM 22 John O'Shea  66' LM 17 Nani  79' SS 11 Ryan Giggs CF 32 Carlos Tevez Substitutes: GK 29 Tomasz Kuszczak DF 6 Wes Brown  66' DF 21 Rafael DF 23 Jonny Evans MF 16 Michael Carrick  66' MF 34 Rodrigo Possebon FW 31 Fraizer Campbell  79' Manager: Sir Alex Ferguson

GK 1 David James RB 5 Glen Johnson CB 15 Sylvain Distin  37' CB 23 Sol Campbell (c) LB 7 Hermann Hreiðarsson  79' RM 8 Papa Bouba Diop CM 30 Pedro Mendes  75' CM 6 Lassana Diarra LM 19 Niko Kranjčar  60' CF 9 Peter Crouch CF 14 Jermain Defoe Substitutes: GK 21 Jamie Ashdown DF 4 Lauren  79' DF 20 Martin Cranie DF 32 Djimi Traoré MF 18 Arnold Mvuemba  75' FW 17 John Utaka  60' FW 26 Ben Sahar Manager: Harry Redknapp

Man of the match Carlos Tevez (Manchester United) Match officials Assistant referees: Dave Richardson (West Yorkshire) Ian Gosling (Kent) Fourth official: Andre Marriner (Birmingham)

Match rules 90 minutes Penalty shoot-out if scores level Seven named substitutes, of which up to six may be used

See also

• 2007–08 Premier League
• 2007–08 FA Cup

Footnotes

A. ^ Mark Clattenburg was originally appointed as the match referee,^[5] but he was suspended over allegations of debt and replaced by Peter Walton.^[6]