2025 FA Community Shield
 The match will take place at Wembley Stadium | |||||||
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| Date | 9 or 10 August 2025 | ||||||
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| Venue | Wembley Stadium, London | ||||||
The 2025 FA Community Shield is scheduled to be the 103rd FA Community Shield, an annual association football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Premier League and FA Cup competitions. It will be played at Wembley Stadium in London, and will feature the 2024–25 Premier League winners Liverpool and the 2024–25 FA Cup winners Crystal Palace.
Manchester City are the defending champions, but they did not qualify for this edition, having lost to Crystal Palace in the final of the FA Cup.
Background
[edit]Liverpool and Crystal Palace qualified for the 2025 FA Community Shield as the winners of the 2024–25 Premier League and the 2024–25 FA Cup, respectively. It will be the 67th meeting between the two sides, and the first appearance for Crystal Palace in a Community Shield match, after they won their first ever major trophy in winning the FA Cup.[1][2] Liverpool have previously appeared in 24 Community Shield matches, winning 16 titles (sharing 5 of which), and appearing most recently in the 2022 edition, where they beat Manchester City 3–1 at the King Power Stadium.[3]
Match
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Crystal Palace 1-0 Manchester City: Crystal Palace beat Man City to win FA Cup & end wait for major trophy". BBC Sport. 17 May 2025. Retrieved 17 May 2025.
- ^ Newton, Andy (18 May 2025). "When Is The 2025 Community Shield? As FA Cup Winners Crystal Palace Face League Champions Liverpool". SportsCasting. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
- ^ "Liverpool 3 Man City 1: Live". BBC Sport. 30 July 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.