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Women's FA Community Shield

Field	Value
logo	FA Women's Community Shield Logo.gif
name	Women's FA Community Shield
founded
current champions	Chelsea (1st title)
region
most successful club	Arsenal (5 titles)

The Women's FA Community Shield was an association football competition in England. It was a national super cup, and the equivalent of the FA Community Shield in male football. It was the first competitive match of the football season. The match was contested between the champions of the FA Women's Premier League (FA Women's Super League in the 2020 edition) and the winners of the Women's FA Cup. When the league champions also won the FA Cup, the cup runners-up played the match.

The first Community Shield was contested in 2000, and lasted for eight years until 2008. In 2020, the competition was briefly revived for one edition and then ceased to exist again.

Inauguration

The Football Association (The FA) held the first charity match in 2000 when Double winners Charlton drew against Arsenal at Craven Cottage and shared the trophy. All proceeds were donated to Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity. The Charity Shield (Community Shield since 2002) has been sponsored by Nationwide since its inauguration.

The competition lasted until 2008 and was not contested for eleven years until the competition was revived by the FA in 2020. The match was billed as a double header after being scheduled at Wembley Stadium on the same day as the men's competition for the first time in history.

List of finals

The competition was introduced in 2000 and was held annually at different venues until it was discontinued in 2009. It returned in 2020 when it became a double-header with the men's equivalent, hosted on the same day at Wembley Stadium.

Match decided by a penalty shootout after full-time

Year	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Venue	Arsenal
Charlton Athletic	Arsenal	Fulham	Fulham	Charlton Athletic	Arsenal	Arsenal	Arsenal	Chelsea
	1–1	—	Craven Cottage, Fulham
	5–2	Doncaster Rovers	Kingsmeadow, Kingston upon Thames
	2–2	Arsenal	Brisbane Road, Leyton
	1–0	Doncaster Rovers	Field Mill, Mansfield
	1–0	Arsenal	Broadhall Way, Stevenage
	4–0	Charlton Athletic	National Hockey Stadium, Milton Keynes
	3–0	Everton	Alexandra Stadium, Crewe
2007	Not heldNot held due to an overlap with the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup schedule.
	1–0	Everton	Moss Rose, Macclesfield
The competition was scrapped between 2009 and 2019
	2–0	Manchester City	Wembley Stadium, London

Performance by club

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning years
Arsenal			2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008
Charlton Athletic			2000, 2004
Fulham			2002, 2003
Chelsea			2020
Doncaster Rovers			—
Everton			—
Manchester City			—

References

(27 August 2020). "The Women's Community Shield returns on Saturday, as Chelsea take on Manchester City".
(12 August 2020). "BBC to broadcast Women's Community Shield double-header at Wembley". BBC Sport.
(20 July 2008). "Football: The FA Tesco Women's Community Shield 2008".

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