2020 Women's FA Community Shield
# 2020 Women's FA Community Shield

The 2020 Women's FA Community Shield was the ninth Women's FA Community Shield, and the first after the competition's revival following an eleven-season abeyance. As with its male equivalent, the Community Shield is an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's league and the previous season's Women's FA Cup. However, as the 2019–20 Women's FA Cup was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the 2020 Community Shield was contested by the 2019–20 FA WSL champions Chelsea and the still-reigning 2018–19 FA Cup winners, Manchester City. Both teams were contesting their first ever Women's Community Shield.

The match was played as part of a double-header, with both the women's and men's Community Shields contested on the same day, played back-to-back at Wembley Stadium and was televised live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

## Match

### Details

| Chelsea | Manchester City |
| - | - |
| GK | 30 | Ann-Katrin Berger |
| DF | 18 | Maren Mjelde |
| DF | 4 | Millie Bright |
| DF | 16 | Magdalena Eriksson (c) |
| DF | 25 | Jonna Andersson | 90+4' |
| MF | 8 | Melanie Leupolz |
| MF | 5 | Sophie Ingle |
| MF | 10 | Ji So-yun |
| FW | 14 | Fran Kirby | 71' |
| FW | 20 | Sam Kerr | 72' |
| FW | 11 | Guro Reiten | 88' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 28 | Carly Telford |
| DF | 2 | Maria Thorisdottir |
| DF | 3 | Hannah Blundell |
| MF | 7 | Jessica Carter |
| FW | 9 | Bethany England | 72' |
| MF | 17 | Jessie Fleming | 90+4' |
| FW | 21 | Niamh Charles | 88' |
| MF | 22 | Erin Cuthbert | 71' |
| MF | 24 | Drew Spence |
| Manager: ||
| Emma Hayes ||
| GK | 26 | Ellie Roebuck |
| DF | 14 | Esme Morgan |
| DF | 6 | Steph Houghton (c) |
| DF | 4 | Gemma Bonner |
| DF | 3 | Demi Stokes |
| MF | 24 | Keira Walsh |
| MF | 19 | Caroline Weir | | 68' |
| MF | 8 | Jill Scott | 32' 62' | |
| FW | 15 | Lauren Hemp | | 26' |
| FW | 9 | Chloe Kelly |
| FW | 10 | Georgia Stanway | | 83' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 1 | Karen Bardsley |
| GK | 34 | Karima Benameur Taieb |
| DF | 5 | Megan Campbell |
| MF | 7 | Laura Coombs |
| FW | 11 | Janine Beckie | | 26' |
| FW | 16 | Jess Park |
| FW | 18 | Ellen White | | 83' |
| MF | 22 | Sam Mewis | | 68' |
| Manager: ||
| Gareth Taylor ||
| Player of the match Ji So-yun (Chelsea) Match officials Assistant referees: Natalie Aspinall (Lancashire) Emily Carney (Lancashire) Fourth official: Abigail Byrne (Suffolk) | Match rules 90 minutes. Penalty shoot-out if scores are level. Nine named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions in three stoppages. |
