FA Women's Community Shield

FA Women's Community Shield

Founded	2000
Region	England
Current champions	Arsenal
Most successful club	Arsenal (5 times)

The FA Women's Community Shield is the female football equivalent of the FA Community Shield in the male football. It is the first competitive match of the football season, although it is seen by most fans as a showpiece event. The match itself is competed between the Champions of the FA Women's Premier League and the winners of the FA Women's Cup.

Inauguration

The Football Association (The FA) held the first charity match in 2000 when Charlton Athletic Women's played Arsenal Ladies at Craven Cottage (Fulham F.C.). All proceeds were donated to Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity.

The inaugural Women's Shield took place the following season and has been sponsored by Nationwide since its inauguration.

Honours History

• 2011 – Not held
• 2010 – Not held
• 2009 — Not held
• 2008 — Arsenal beat Everton 1–0
• 2007 — Not held
• 2006 — Arsenal beat Everton 3–0
• 2005 — Arsenal beat Charlton Athletic 4–0
• 2004 — Charlton Athletic beat Arsenal 1–0
• 2003 — Fulham beat Doncaster Rovers 1–0
• 2002 — Fulham beat Arsenal 5–3 on pens.
• 2001 — Arsenal beat Doncaster Rovers 5–2
• 2000 — Arsenal drew with Charlton Athletic 1–1 (title shared)

Performance by club

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning years
Arsenal	5	2	2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008
Charlton Athletic	2	1	2000, 2004
Fulham	2	-	2002, 2003
Everton	-	2	–
Doncaster Rovers	-	2	–

See also

• FA Women's Premier League
• FA Women's Cup

External links

• "The FA Women's Community Shield". Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20081205042740/http://www.thefa.com/Womens/TheFAWomensShield/.