2008 FA Community Shield
# 2008 FA Community Shield

The 2008 FA Community Shield (also known as The FA Community Shield sponsored by McDonald's for sponsorship reasons) was the 86th staging of the FA Community Shield, an annual football match played between the reigning Premier League champions and FA Cup winners. The match was played on 10 August 2008 between 2007–08 Premier League champions Manchester United and 2007–08 FA Cup winners Portsmouth as the "curtain-raiser" to the 2008–09 English football season. The match marked the 100th year since the first Charity Shield, also won by Manchester United after a replay in August 1908.

Manchester United won the game 3–1 on penalties, after the match finished 0–0 after 90 minutes; the Community Shield no longer plays extra time if the teams are level at the end of normal time.

The match was the second meeting between the two teams in the space of two weeks, after they had played each other in a friendly in Nigeria on 27 July 2008. It was also the first Community Shield since 1996 to feature a team from outside the big four of Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool. With this Community Shield title, United extended their record number of wins in the competition to 13 (17 including shared titles). As of the 2020 edition, Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp is the most recent English to manage a team in the Community Shield.

## Match details

| Manchester United | Portsmouth |
| - | - |
| GK | 1 | Edwin van der Sar |
| RB | 2 | Gary Neville (c) | 61' | 66' |
| CB | 5 | Rio Ferdinand |
| CB | 15 | Nemanja Vidić | 45' |
| LB | 3 | Patrice Evra |
| RM | 24 | Darren Fletcher |
| CM | 18 | Paul Scholes |
| CM | 22 | John O'Shea | | 66' |
| LM | 17 | Nani | | 79' |
| SS | 11 | Ryan Giggs |
| CF | 32 | Carlos Tevez |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 29 | Tomasz Kuszczak |
| DF | 6 | Wes Brown | | 66' |
| DF | 21 | Rafael |
| DF | 23 | Jonny Evans |
| MF | 16 | Michael Carrick | | 66' |
| MF | 34 | Rodrigo Possebon |
| FW | 31 | Fraizer Campbell | | 79' |
| Manager: ||
| Sir Alex Ferguson ||
| GK | 1 | David James |
| RB | 5 | Glen Johnson |
| CB | 15 | Sylvain Distin | 37' |
| CB | 23 | Sol Campbell (c) |
| LB | 7 | Hermann Hreiðarsson | | 79' |
| RM | 8 | Papa Bouba Diop |
| CM | 30 | Pedro Mendes | | 75' |
| CM | 6 | Lassana Diarra |
| LM | 19 | Niko Kranjčar | | 60' |
| CF | 9 | Peter Crouch |
| CF | 14 | Jermain Defoe |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 21 | Jamie Ashdown |
| DF | 4 | Lauren | | 79' |
| DF | 20 | Martin Cranie |
| DF | 32 | Djimi Traoré |
| MF | 18 | Arnold Mvuemba | | 75' |
| FW | 17 | John Utaka | | 60' |
| FW | 26 | Ben Sahar |
| Manager: ||
| Harry Redknapp ||
| Man of the match Carlos Tevez (Manchester United) Match officials Assistant referees: Dave Richardson (West Yorkshire) Ian Gosling (Kent) Fourth official: Andre Marriner (Birmingham) | Match rules 90 minutes Penalty shoot-out if scores level Seven named substitutes, of which up to six may be used |
