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| Arsenal won 4–1 onpenalties | |||||||
| Date | 6 August 2023 | ||||||
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| Venue | Wembley Stadium, London | ||||||
| Man of the Match | Leandro Trossard (Arsenal)[1] | ||||||
| Referee | Stuart Attwell (Birmingham)[2] | ||||||
| Attendance | 81,145 | ||||||
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The2023 FA Community Shield was the101st FA Community Shield, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season'sPremier League andFA Cup competitions. It took place atWembley Stadium on 6 August 2023.[3] AsManchester City won both the2022–23 Premier League and the2022–23 FA Cup, their opponents were the Premier League runners-up,Arsenal.
Arsenal won 4–1 onpenalties after a 1–1 draw within 90 minutes.[1] This was Arsenal's first competitive trophy since winning the2020 FA Community Shield, making City only the second club to lose three Community Shield matches in a row and the first sincecross-city rivalManchester United's four between1998 and2001.[4] Arsenal also became the first Community Shield winners not to win either the league or FA Cup the previous season since Manchester United in2010.
The match was initially planned to kick-off at 17:30BST, 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.[5] The match was televised live onITV1 andITVX.[6]
Liverpool were the defending champions, but they did not qualify for this edition, having failed to win either the Premier League or FA Cup.
Manchester City qualified for the 2023FA Community Shield as winners of the 2022–23 Premier League.[7] The club later facedlocal rivalsManchester United in the2023 FA Cup final, on course to complete acontinental treble.[8] Manchester City defeatedErik 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 the1934 FA Charity Shield and2014 FA Community Shield, which Arsenal won4–0[9] and3–0,[10] respectively.
Arsenal were the home team of the match. The match returned to the home of English football in its 100th anniversary year after the2022 edition was re-located toLeicester City'sKing Power Stadium due to theUEFA Women's Euro 2022 final.[11][12][13]
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 pastAaron 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 defenderManuel Akanji which wrong-footed goalkeeperStefan 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 andRodri both missed their penalties, which led toFábio Vieira scoring the winning penalty in the top left corner for Arsenal to win their fifth Community Shield in ten years.[14]
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Man of the Match: Assistant referees:[2] | Match rules[15]
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