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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: 1908 FA Charity Shield, 1910 FA Charity Shield, 1911 FA Charity Shield, 1912 FA Charity Shield, 1920 FA Charity Shield, 1922 FA Charity Shield, 1927 FA Charity Shield, 1928 FA Charity Shield, 1931 FA Charity Shield, 1932 FA Charity Shield, 1948 FA Charity Shield, 1952 FA Charity Shield, 1954 FA Charity Shield, 1955 FA Charity Shield, 1956 FA Charity Shield, 1957 FA Charity Shield, 1958 FA Charity Shield, 1959 FA Charity Shield, 1960 FA Charity Shield, 1961 FA Charity Shield, 1962 FA Charity Shield, 1963 FA Charity Shield, 1964 FA Charity Shield, 1965 FA Charity Shield, 1966 FA Charity Shield, 1967 FA Charity Shield, 1968 FA Charity Shield, 1969 FA Charity Shield, 1970 FA Charity Shield, 1971 FA Charity Shield, 1972 FA Charity Shield, 1973 FA Charity Shield, 1974 FA Charity Shield, 1975 FA Charity Shield, 1976 FA Charity Shield, 1977 FA Charity Shield, 1978 FA Charity Shield, 1979 FA Charity Shield, 1980 FA Charity Shield, 1981 FA Charity Shield, 1982 FA Charity Shield, 1983 FA Charity Shield, 1984 FA Charity Shield, 1985 FA Charity Shield, 1986 FA Charity Shield, 1987 FA Charity Shield, 1988 FA Charity Shield, 1989 FA Charity Shield, 1990 FA Charity Shield, 1991 FA Charity Shield, 1992 FA Charity Shield, 1993 FA Charity Shield, 1994 FA Charity Shield, 1995 FA Charity Shield, 1996 FA Charity Shield, 1997 FA Charity Shield, 1998 FA Charity Shield, 1999 FA Charity Shield, 2000 FA Charity Shield, 2001 FA Charity Shield, 2002 FA Community Shield, 2003 FA Community Shield, 2004 FA Community Shield, 2005 FA Community Shield, 2006 FA Community Shield, 2007 FA Community Shield, 2008 FA Community Shield, 2009 FA Community Shield, 2010 FA Community Shield, 2011 FA Community Shield, 2012 FA Community Shield, List of FA Community Shield matches. Excerpt: The FA Community Shield, previously known as the Charity Shield, has become the traditional curtain opener to each season of the English Football League. Started in 1908, it has been played each year since except for breaks due to the First and Second World Wars. Until 1913, the matches were between the champions of The Football League and the Southern Football League, when the match was changed to become a game between professionals and amateurs players. Following the break due to World War I, the match returned in 1920 with a game between the champions of the Football League First and Second Divisions. In 1921 it changed again to become a match between the Football League Champion and the winner of the FA Cup, switching several more times between the amateur/professional and league champion/FA cup champion matches during the 1920s. From 1930 onwards it settled to a standard fixture between the FA Cup winner and the Football League Champion, except for in 1950 when a England World Cup XI played a Canadian F.A. touring team, and in 1961 when Tottenham Hotspur played an "F.A. Selected XI" described in The Times as being an "England team masquerading." In 1974 the match was moved to its permanent place as the opener to the English Football League, and played at Wembley Stadium. It has been held at the English national stadium ever since, except while it was being redeveloped, during which the matches were switched to the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. Manchester United are the most successful team, having won the title on nineteen occasions. They are also the team which has most frequently appeared in the match, a total of twenty eight times. The only other teams to have won it on more than ten occasions are Arsenal and Liverpool. Key Results Teams shown in italics were set up only for the purpose of playing in these matches, or are defunct. Specific General The Football Association Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield) is English football's annual ma
