The FA Community Shield is being played today at Wembley. Premier League winners, Liverpool, play the FA Cup Winners, Arsenal. The Community Shield or what was known as the Sheriff of London's Charity Shield, has been played for since the 1908-9 season and you will read that any revenue, gate receipts and programme sales will go to FA Charity partners linked to the 124 clubs.
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Manchester United have won this match 17 times with 4 shared and the holders are Manchester City who beat Liverpool last season 5-4 on pens after a 1-1 draw. City have won this 6 times.
Liverpool have won it 10 times and shared 5, whilst Arsenal have won 14 and shared 1 "Shield".
A selected "English Professional" side won it in 1913, 1923, 1924 and 1929. The English Amateurs won it in 1925, 1926 and the England FIFA World Cup team won it in 1950 when they played the FA Canadian Tour XI as a warm up match before they went on to "greater things". The World Cup team won 4-2.
In 1961 when Tottenham Hotspur won the Double, the FA XI played them in the Charity Shield game, with Spurs winning 3-2.
And do you know the result?
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