2020 FA Community Shield

The 2020 FA Community Shield (also known as The FA Community Shield supported by McDonald's for sponsorship reasons) was the 98th FA Community Shield, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's Premier League, Liverpool, and the previous season's FA Cup, Arsenal, with the latter winning on penalties after a 1–1 draw.^[3] This was the fourth Charity Shield/Community Shield contested between the two clubs: Liverpool won in 1979 and 1989, while Arsenal were victorious in 2002.^[4]

2020 FA Community Shield

Wembley Stadium in London hosted the match.
Arsenal Liverpool 1 1
Arsenal won 5–4 on penalties
Date	29 August 2020 (2020-08-29)
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Man of the Match	Ainsley Maitland-Niles (Arsenal)[1]
Referee	Andre Marriner (Birmingham)[2]
Attendance	0[note 1]
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The match was televised live on BT Sport 1, BT Sport Extra 1 and BT Sport Ultimate,^[5] with highlights shown later on Match of the Day on BBC One.^[6] Radio commentary was provided by Sam Matterface and Trevor Sinclair on Talksport.^[7] The game was played behind closed doors on 29 August 2020 at Wembley Stadium and followed the Women's Community Shield match at the same venue, thus forming the first Community Shield double-header.^[8][9]

Background

Main articles: 2019–20 Liverpool F.C. season and 2019–20 Arsenal F.C. season

Arsenal won their 14th FA Cup title after beating Chelsea 2–1 in the final.^[10]

Liverpool won their first Premier League title since the league's formation in 1992, after rivals Manchester City lost 1–2 to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on 25 June 2020.^[11]

Match

Summary

In the 12th minute, Aubameyang put Arsenal into the lead, receiving the ball on the left he cut in and curled a left-footed shot from just inside the penalty area into the right corner of the net past the diving Alisson. Minamino made it 1-1 in the 73rd minute with a side-footed finish to the right from six yards out after the ball broke to him in the penalty area off Cedric.^[12] The game went to a penalty shoot-out with Liverpool's Rhian Brewster the only player to miss his penalty when he struck the bar. Aubameyang scored the decisive final penalty for Arsenal, shooting to the right corner to win the match 5-4 on penalties.^[13]

Details

Arsenal	1–1	Liverpool
Aubameyang 12'	Report	Minamino 73'
Penalties
Nelson Maitland-Niles Cédric David Luiz Aubameyang	5–4	Salah Fabinho Brewster Minamino Jones

29 August 2020 (2020-08-29)

16:30 BST

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 0^{[note 1]}

Referee: Andre Marriner (Birmingham)

Arsenal

Liverpool

GK 26 Emiliano Martínez CB 16 Rob Holding CB 23 David Luiz CB 3 Kieran Tierney  83' RM 2 Héctor Bellerín  58' CM 25 Mohamed Elneny CM 34 Granit Xhaka LM 15 Ainsley Maitland-Niles RW 7 Bukayo Saka  82' CF 30 Eddie Nketiah  82' LW 14 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (c) Substitutes: GK 1 Bernd Leno DF 4 William Saliba DF 17 Cédric Soares  58' DF 31 Sead Kolašinac  83' MF 28 Joe Willock  82' MF 32 Emile Smith Rowe MF 54 James Olayinka FW 24 Reiss Nelson  82' FW 47 Tyreece John-Jules Manager: Mikel Arteta

GK 1 Alisson RB 76 Neco Williams  59' CB 12 Joe Gomez CB 4 Virgil van Dijk LB 26 Andrew Robertson CM 7 James Milner (c)  57'  59' CM 3 Fabinho CM 5 Georginio Wijnaldum  90+2' RW 11 Mohamed Salah CF 9 Roberto Firmino  83' LW 10 Sadio Mané Substitutes: GK 13 Adrián DF 21 Kostas Tsimikas DF 89 Billy Koumetio MF 8 Naby Keïta  59' MF 16 Marko Grujić MF 17 Curtis Jones  83' MF 67 Harvey Elliott FW 18 Takumi Minamino  59' FW 24 Rhian Brewster  90+2' Manager: Jürgen Klopp

Man of the Match: Ainsley Maitland-Niles (Arsenal)[1] Assistant referees:[2] Mark Scholes (Berks & Bucks) Marc Perry (Birmingham) Fourth official:[2] Andrew Madley (West Riding) Reserve assistant referee:[2] Dan Robathan (Norfolk) Video assistant referee:[2] David Coote (Nottinghamshire) Assistant video assistant referee:[2] Dan Cook (Hampshire)

Match rules[15] 90 minutes Penalty shoot-out if scores level Nine named substitutes, of which six may be used

Notes

1. The match was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.^[14]