The 2024 FA Community Shield was the 102nd FA Community Shield, an annual association football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Premier League and FA Cup competitions. It was played at Wembley Stadium in London on 10 August 2024, and featured the 2023–24 Premier League champions Manchester City and the 2023–24 FA Cup winners Manchester United, who had defeated City in the final.

Arsenal were the holders, having won the 2023 edition, but they did not qualify for this match, having been knocked out of the FA Cup in the third round and having finished second in the league.

Manchester City beat Manchester United 7–6 on penalties after a 1–1 draw in normal time, winning their first Community Shield title since 2019, which they also won on penalties after a 1–1 draw. This was United's first Shield defeat since 2009, when they were beaten by Chelsea, also on penalties.

Background

Manchester City and Manchester United qualified for the 2024 FA Community Shield as the winners of the 2023–24 Premier League and the 2023–24 FA Cup, respectively. It was the 194th Manchester derby to take place in all competitions and the third to take place in the Community Shield; Manchester United won both previous meetings in 1956 (when the competition was known as the Charity Shield) and 2011.

Manchester United had both appeared in and won the most Community Shield matches, winning 21 of their 30 appearances, although this included four shared titles in 1965, 1967, 1977 and 1990; their most recent title came in 2016. Manchester City had appeared in 15 Community Shield matches, winning six titles, the most recent coming in 2019. It was their fourth Community Shield appearance in a row, with the previous three resulting in defeats, making City the first team to lose three straight Community Shields since United in 2001, when they lost a competition record fourth in a row.

Pre-match

Officials John Brooks was originally named as the referee for the Community Shield; however, after Brooks suffered a minor injury in the week before the match, he was replaced by fourth official Jarred Gillett, and Sam Barrott was named as Gillett's replacement. Adrian Holmes and Nick Greenhalgh were named as the assistant referees. The video assistant referee (VAR) was named as Peter Bankes, with Sian Massey-Ellis as the assistant VAR and Tim Robinson as the support VAR.

Match Summary The first half went goalless after City midfielder James McAtee hit the post with a curling shot and United forward Marcus Rashford failed to hit the target after being found unmarked in the box. United thought they had opened the scoring early in the second half, when captain Bruno Fernandes beat Ederson with a dipping shot from the edge of the box; however, he was ruled to have been offside in the build-up. Rashford hit the post with just over 15 minutes left after being played in by substitute Alejandro Garnacho, but the Argentine winger opened the scoring seven minutes later, cutting inside off the right wing and beating Ederson with a left-footed strike into the bottom corner. With just under two minutes left in normal time, though, Bernardo Silva – on his 30th birthday – headed in a cross from Oscar Bobb, forcing the match to go to a penalty shoot-out.

After Fernandes put United 1–0 up in the shoot-out, Silva himself stepped up to take City's first kick, only to see it saved by André Onana. Diogo Dalot and Garnacho then scored for United, while Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland kept City in it, the score 3–2 after three kicks each. With their fourth attempt, United winger and former City academy player Jadon Sancho had his penalty saved by Ederson, allowing Savinho to equalise. After Casemiro scored for United, Ederson himself took City's fifth penalty and scored to take the shoot-out to sudden death. Scott McTominay and Lisandro Martínez both scored for United, matched by efforts from Matheus Nunes and Rúben Dias, but when Jonny Evans put his kick over the bar, that allowed Manuel Akanji to score the winning penalty. That gave City their first Community Shield in five years, avoiding the club a joint-record of four consecutive Shield losses, as well as Pep Guardiola's third victory in the competition.

Details

GK 31 EdersonRB 82 Rico LewisCB 3 Rúben Dias (c)CB 25 Manuel AkanjiLB 24 Joško Gvardiol CM 75 Nico O'Reilly CM 8 Mateo KovačićRW 52 Oscar Bobb AM 87 James McAtee LW 11 Jérémy Doku CF 9 Erling HaalandSubstitutes:GK 18 Stefan OrtegaGK 33 Scott CarsonDF 6 Nathan Aké DF 78 Issa KaboréMF 4 Kalvin PhillipsMF 17 Kevin De Bruyne MF 20 Bernardo Silva MF 27 Matheus Nunes FW 26 Savinho Manager: Pep Guardiola GK 24 André OnanaRB 20 Diogo DalotCB 5 Harry Maguire CB 35 Jonny EvansLB 6 Lisandro MartínezCM 7 Mason Mount CM 18 CasemiroCM 37 Kobbie Mainoo RF 16 Amad Diallo CF 8 Bruno Fernandes (c)LF 10 Marcus Rashford Substitutes:GK 1 Altay BayındırMF 14 Christian EriksenMF 39 Scott McTominay MF 43 Toby Collyer FW 11 Joshua ZirkzeeFW 17 Alejandro Garnacho FW 21 AntonyFW 25 Jadon Sancho FW 28 Facundo Pellistri Manager: Erik ten Hag

Man of the Match: Oscar Bobb (Manchester City)

Assistant referees: Adrian Holmes Nick Greenhalgh Fourth official: Sam Barrott

Reserve Assistant Referee: Craig Taylor

Video assistant referee: Peter Bankes Assistant video assistant referee: Sian Massey-Ellis Support video assistant referee: Tim RobinsonMatch rules 90 minutes Penalty shoot-out if scores level Nine named substitutes, of which six may be used

Broadcasting The match was broadcast on television in the United Kingdom on ITV and its on-demand streaming counterparts, ITVX and STV Player. On radio, it was broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Manchester, the BBC World Service, Talksport and Talksport International.

References

External links The FA Community Shield at The Football Association