The 2023 FA Community Shield was the 101st FA Community Shield, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's Premier League and FA Cup competitions. It took place at Wembley Stadium on 6 August 2023. As Manchester City won both the 2022–23 Premier League and the 2022–23 FA Cup, their opponents were the Premier League runners-up, Arsenal.
Arsenal won 4–1 on penalties after a 1–1 draw within 90 minutes. This was Arsenal's first competitive trophy since winning the 2020 FA Community Shield, making City only the second club to lose three Community Shield matches in a row and the first since cross-city rival Manchester United's four between 1998 and 2001. Arsenal also became the first team to win the Community Shield having not won either the league or FA Cup the previous season since United in 2010.
The match was initially planned to kick-off at 17:30 BST, however this was met with criticism from Manchester City fans who complained about its possible disruption to travelling to the match. Therefore, The Football Association moved kick-off to 16:00 instead on the same day. The match was televised live on ITV1 and ITVX.
Liverpool were the holders, having won the 2022 edition, but they did not qualify for this match as they finished fifth in the Premier League and were knocked out of the FA Cup in the fourth round.
Background
Manchester City qualified for the 2023 FA Community Shield as winners of the 2022–23 Premier League. The club later faced local rivals Manchester United in the 2023 FA Cup final, on course to complete a continental treble. Manchester City defeated Erik ten Hag's side to win their seventh FA Cup and as a result, Arsenal qualified for the 2023 FA Community Shield as Premier League runners-up. This was a rematch of the 1934 FA Charity Shield and 2014 FA Community Shield, which Arsenal won and , respectively.
Arsenal were the home team of the match. The match returned to the home of English football in its 100th anniversary year after the 2022 edition was re-located to Leicester City's King Power Stadium due to the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 final.
Match Summary In the 77th minute, Cole Palmer put Manchester City into the lead after he received the ball on the right-hand side and then cut inside before curling a left-footed shot from just inside the penalty area into the left-hand corner of the net past Aaron Ramsdale. Leandro Trossard equalised for Arsenal in the 11th minute of stoppage time, after he tried an effort from just inside the penalty area which took a heavy deflection off defender Manuel Akanji which wrong-footed goalkeeper Stefan Ortega and ended up in the back of the net to make it 1–1 late on and send the match to a penalty shoot-out. Kevin De Bruyne and Rodri both missed their penalties, which led to Fábio Vieira scoring the winning penalty in the top left corner for Arsenal to win their fifth Community Shield in ten years.
Details
GK 1 Aaron RamsdaleRB 4 Ben WhiteCB 2 William SalibaCB 6 Gabriel MagalhãesLB 12 Jurriën Timber CM 41 Declan Rice CM 5 Thomas ParteyRW 7 Bukayo SakaAM 8 Martin Ødegaard (c)LW 11 Gabriel Martinelli CF 29 Kai HavertzSubstitutes:GK 30 Matt TurnerDF 3 Kieran Tierney DF 15 Jakub KiwiorDF 16 Rob HoldingDF 18 Takehiro TomiyasuMF 10 Emile Smith Rowe MF 21 Fábio Vieira FW 14 Eddie Nketiah FW 19 Leandro Trossard Manager: Mikel Arteta GK 18 Stefan OrtegaRB 2 Kyle Walker (c)CB 5 John StonesCB 3 Rúben DiasLB 25 Manuel AkanjiCM 16 RodriCM 8 Mateo Kovačić RW 20 Bernardo SilvaAM 19 Julián AlvarezLW 10 Jack Grealish CF 9 Erling Haaland Substitutes:GK 31 EdersonDF 14 Aymeric LaporteDF 21 Sergio GómezDF 82 Rico LewisMF 4 Kalvin PhillipsMF 17 Kevin De Bruyne MF 47 Phil Foden MF 80 Cole Palmer MF 87 James McAteeManager: Pep Guardiola
Man of the Match: Leandro Trossard (Arsenal)
Assistant referees: Tim Wood (Gloucestershire) Dan Robathan (Norfolk) Fourth official: John Brooks (Leicestershire) Reserve assistant referee: Steve Meredith (Nottinghamshire) Video assistant referee: Michael Salisbury (Lancashire) Assistant video assistant referee: Neil Davies (London) Match rules 90 minutes Penalty shoot-out if scores still level Nine named substitutes, of which six may be used
References
External links
The FA Community Shield at The Football Association