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FA Charity Shield Quizzes and FA Charity Shield Trivia -- FunTrivia The FA ended almost a century of tradition in 2002 when they renamed the Charity Shield. The annual curtain raiser between the League Champions and the FA Cup holders became the FA Community Shield in recognition of the estimated 250,000 people who offer their services free of charge for the benefit of grass roots football. Additionally, we want to see individuals who are some of the game's real heroes receive recognition for their great work." The Charity Shield was first contested in 1908, when Manchester United beat Queens Park rangers 4-0 to lift the famous shield for the first time. www.funtrivia.com /ql.cfm?cat=5620   (273 words)

FA Cup information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The FA Cup is the oldest football competition in the world, commencing in 1872 (the Scottish Cup beginning a year later in 1873). The FA had hoped that the 2006 final would take place at the rebuilt Wembley Stadium, but the FA Cup final on May 13, 2006 was played at the Millennium Stadium, because the builders had failed to guarantee that it would be completed on time. For the first time, the FA Cup was played under a roof in the final of the 2002-03 season, held on May 17, 2003 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, with Arsenal and Southampton benefitting from cover from the rain (Arsenal were the 1 - 0 winners). c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/FA_Cup   (4436 words)

The FA Community Shield History and Previous Winners The FA Charity Shield is the traditional curtain-raiser to the English domestic football campaign. In 1974, Ted Croker, the FA Secretary, proposed that the Charity Shield should be played at Wembley, and assume the role of official curtain-raiser to the season. Tottenham Hotspur 3-2 FA XI Burnley 2-2 Wolves www.napit.co.uk /viewus/infobank/football/charityshield.php   (312 words)

Charity Shield The FA Charity Shield was introduced in 1908 to succeed the Sheriff of London (Dewar) Shield (see below). The FA Charity Shield was preceded by the Sheriff of London (Dewar) Charity Shield which was contested from 1898 to 1907 by the teams chosen to be the best professional team and best amateur team in the land. In 2002 The FA Charity shield was renamed The FA Community Shield. www.the-english-football-archive.com /domestic_competitions/charity_shield.htm   (198 words)

TheFA.com - The FA Community Shield Formerly known as the Charity Shield, The FA Community Shield is the traditional curtain-raiser to the domestic season between the League and FA Cup Champions. The first Charity Shield match was played in 1908 between Manchester United, reigning Football League Champions, and Queens Park Rangers, then Southern League Champions. In 1974 FA Secretary Ted Croker proposed that the Shield should be played at Wembley as a curtain-raiser to the new season between the reigning League Champions and FA Cup holders. www.thefa.com /TheFACup/TheFACommunityShield   (110 words)

Goal.com - Feature: A Sense Of Community It was inaugurated as the FA Charity Shield in 1908 and retained that title until 2002, when it was re-christened the FA Community Shield. It was to rescue the Charity Shield from public indifference and competitive obscurity that the FA formalised it in 1974 as a pre-season televised showpiece between League champions and FA Cup winners, to be staged at Wembley. Their 2006 FA Community Shield clash is likely to be keenly contested, and although the losing manager will no doubt try to shrug the match off as just a glorified friendly, you can be sure it will mean much more than that, win or lose. www.goal.com /en/articolo.aspx?contenutoid=109708   (1169 words)

ESPN.com Soccernet England: News - Charity Shield rap for FA Charity Shield rap for FA The Charity Commission were today due to publish their findings into an inquiry surrounding allegations the 2000 Charity Shield match broke fund-raising regulations. The inquiry, which centres on the Football Association's running of the curtain-raiser to the domestic season, considered claims charities were not benefiting as they should from the hundreds of thousands of pounds raised. The inquiry is due to conclude the FA failed to meet fund-raising regulations by not making it clear to all ticket-holders how the charities would benefit and that there was an unacceptable delay in the distribution of the funds. www.soccernet.com /england/news/2002/0304/20020304charityshield.html   (134 words)

Happy Charity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Charity Shield Monday 27th April 1908 Venue: Stamford Bridge, Chelsea FC Manchester United 1 (Meredith) Queens Park Rangers 1 (Cannon) Half-time 0-1 Attendance: 12,000 The Charity Shield match was... The FA Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield) is an English association... Dave's greatest concern was for the charity aspect of the ACBL and he claimed that he derived the most satisfaction when he and his committee brought the Charity Shield to the Manitoba Unit for the... www.happycharity.com /charityshield   (1760 words)

FA COMMUNITY SHIELD HISTORY : Football news, live scores, fixtures and results from 4thegame.com Manchester United took part in the first FA Charity Shield, as it was formerly known, back in 1908. The first clash in 1948 saw Division One Champions Arsenal defeat FA Cup holders Manchester United 4-3 in a compelling match that was the first Charity Shield since the war. Prior to 1974, the match was traditionally contested at the ground of one of the competing teams, but as football grew in popularity and the stakes got slightly higher, the FA took the decision to hold the match at Wembley and televise it. www.4thegame.com /features/feature/106981   (1291 words)

TheFA.com - The Shield - A brief history The FA Charity Shield, as it was formerly known, was first played for in 1908. In 1974 FA Secretary Ted Croker proposed that “The FA Charity Shield” (its name from 1908 until 2002) should be played at Wembley as a curtain-raiser to the new season. Prior to 1974, with the Shield a less prestigious fixture, the match was played at various club grounds and often involved teams who had won nothing at all. www.thefa.com /TheFACup/TheFACommunityShield/AboutTheShield   (558 words)

BBC SPORT | Football | New shield for new season But the FA Charity Shield still marks the official start to the English domestic campaign. The first Charity Shield match was played in 1908 between Manchester United, the then reigning Football League champions, and Queens Park Rangers, then Southern League champions. Then, in 1974, Ted Croker, the FA secretary, proposed that the Charity Shield should be played at Wembley and assume the role of official curtain-raiser to the season. news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/2173566.stm   (707 words)

manutdprogs.com - Charity Shield Sales Page FA Charity Shield programmes make a nice addition to any Man Utd programme collection. As the Charity shield pitches the League Champions against FA Cup Winners, the match often proves an exciting curtain raiser to the new season. Early Man Utd charity shield programmes (1950s and before) now command very large prices when they appear for sale. www.freewebs.com /manutdprogs/shieldsales.html   (167 words)

Sheffield Wednesday Football Club As of 2006, The Owls have won four league titles, three FA Cups and one League Cup, but their League Cup triumph (secured in 1991) is their only major trophy since World War II. In a strong decade Wednesday won the league twice in the 1902/3 and 1903/4 seasons and the FA Cup again in 1907, beating Everton, again at Crystal Palace by two goals to one. The FA Cup final that year is remembered for Andy Linighan's late headed winner in the replay to give Arsenal the victory, and the cup double. swfc.info   (1858 words)

Wembley Memories For, while Shearer pined for the ball that seldom came, while Manchester United outpaced, outplayed and outwitted the pretenders from the North East, it was Cantona ­ one-fifteenth the cost of the £15 million Shearer ­ who inspired and led the Double-winners to such an emphatic victory in the FA Charity Shield. He, audaciously, backheeled it to Beckham, whose control on the chest was polished and whose right foot then struck the ball across the face of goal for Butt, unmarked, to score with a flying header. It was clear that, far from handing any of the serious silverware to their most ambi tious opponents, Manchester United did not even have the charity to allow Newcastle to dream seriously of taking home this shield. www.nufc.com /html/manu-charityshield.html   (865 words)

FA Community Shield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Shield plays a major role for the FA in its efforts to raise funds for various charities throughout England. Parts of the fund are distributed to clubs who participated in the First Round Proper of the FA Cup, who are then in turn asked to nominate a charity or community-based organization which will receive the clubs' share of the fund. Women's football in England has its own version of the Community Shield, played between the champions of the Women's Premiership and the winners of the FA Women's Cup since 2001. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/FA_Community_Shield   (836 words)

Manchester United Tickets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) An FA Cup final appearance in 1976, and a win in 1977 against archrivals Liverpool, made it clear that Manchester United was back in form. A 1983 FA Cup win over Brighton was followed by an embarrassing loss to a Third Division side, Bournemouth, in 1984. Another FA Cup followed in 1985, but failure to win the League and poor showings in the European Cup Winners' Cup led to Atikson being sacked. www.stubhub.com /manchester-united-info?info_id=9   (4069 words)

Satellite - News - BSkyB and BBC get FA Cup rights - Digital Spy British Sky Broadcasting and the BBC were today awarded live rights to the FA Cup and England internationals for a 3-year period from season 2001-2 to the close of 2003-4. The FA Cup Final will be broadcast live and interactive on Sky Sports with the Final broadcast simultaneously live on the BBC. FA Youth matches: Sky Sports will show the stars of the future with the FA Youth Cup Final and a minimum of six live Youth internationals shown exclusively live each season. www.digitalspy.co.uk /article/ds830.html   (686 words)

FA Charity Shield, Wembley Stadium, 13 August 1995 Charity Shield: Samways settles clash of the uncharitables MAYBE it was the heat on the pitch, maybe it was the strange occurrence of the season's traditional curtain-raiser arriving 25 hours after the season had started, but yesterday's Charity Shield proved a shapeless, eminently forgettable affair. Blackburn, the first champions to lose a Charity Shield since 1989, looked out of sorts in their first outing under Ray Harford's management. www.toffeeweb.com /SEASON/95-96/reports/charity.html   (2221 words)

SEEING RED; Fury as top clubs grab lion's share of Charity Shield Sunday Mirror - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) CHARITY watchdogs have launched an inquiry into today's FA Charity Shield match. The Charity Commission yesterday confirmed it had launched a formal inquiry following, it said, the FA's "failure to meet its legal obligations regarding the sale of tickets for the FA Charity Shield." Not a penny of the pounds 2m the FA received from sponsors One2One or Sky TV to screen the game live went to charity. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20010812/ai_n14534081   (223 words)

F.A. Charity Shield - Review - MAN UTD. 3 : LIVERPOOL 1, Should have been... This years FA Charity shield is something that we were are all looking forward to; it’s the first slice of football that we will see, brilliant. For those who don’t know, the game is between the FA cup winners (Liverpool) and the FA Premier League winner, of course Manchester United. The best thing about this game it that it will be the first time that we able to see the team come out from the summer resting period, against an English team. www.dooyoo.co.uk /discussion/f-a-charity-shield/297902   (324 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The Community Shield is a trophy that the winners of the league and the winners of the FA Cup play for. The Community Shield was formerly known as the FA Charity Shield. In 1974, the head of the FA decided to use the event as a curtain-raiser for the new season. www.eleos.co.uk /wowbbforum/view_topic.php?id=33&forum_id=11   (962 words)

Michael's Soccer Shirts Galleria - My Ultra Rare Collections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) This FA Cup Final Home Centenary season match worn shirt under the Admiral era should be ranked as my most precious players shirt in this galleria. In the United Kingdom, Charity Shield is played each year between the FA Cup Winners and the Premiership Champions. Unlike the Premier League matches, the Charity Shield game shows the adoption of the special Charity Shield badges which are not normally available for public sale. www.michaelyip.com /Rare.html   (1861 words)

RTÉ.ie Sport - Liverpool hold on for Charity Shield success Ruud van Nistelrooy, United's new £28.1 million striker, got United's goal early in the second half and his side dominated from then on but Liverpool, who won the League and FA Cups on the same turf last season, held out. The traditional meeting between the league champions and FA Cup winners was played at the Millennium Stadium while Wembley is redeveloped and had an added twist as the roof was closed to keep out heavy rain, making it the first official British club match to be played indoors. United have lost the last three Charity Shields and gone on to win the league on each occasion and they will hope the same happens this season as they seek to become the first team ever to win four successive league titles. www.rte.ie /sport/2001/0812/charityshield.html   (269 words)

BBC SPORT | FOOTBALL | History of the Charity Shield In the 25 years that Wembley has hosted the game, over £6m has been distributed to charities by the FA. United have been a regular feature of Shield games since the 1990s, while Liverpool have had to wait nine years to make another appearance. Both clubs have been involved in some of the most entertaining Charity Shield matches in the competition's 93-year history. news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/1480702.stm   (485 words)

footballsite - 1921/22 Charity Shield Huddersfield Town v Liverpool The Charity Shield match was between the 1921/22 Football League champions, Liverpool, and the FA Cup winners of 1921/22, Huddersfield Town. The match was played at the end of the season in which they won their honours. It was the last time that the Charity Shield match was played at the end of a season. www.footballsite.co.uk /Statistics/CommunityShield/1921-22CharityShield.htm   (143 words)

Charity Shield The FA Charity Shield blev intruduceret i 1908. Indtil 1974 blev kampen spillet hos en af de deltagere, men siden 1975 er den blevet spillet på Wembley. Kampen har som regel været spillet som en kamp mellem Mestrene og FA Cup vinderne (evt nr 2 i ligaen når et hold har vundet "the double"), dog med få undtagelser. home.worldonline.dk /zapro/chshield.html   (85 words)

Charity Shield rap for FA Evening Standard (London) - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Charity Shield rap for FA Evening Standard (London), Mar 4, 2002 The Charity Commission were today due to publish their findings into an inquiry surrounding allegations the 2000 Charity Shield match broke fundraising regulations. The inquiry is due to conclude the FA failed to meet fundraising regulations by not making it clear to all ticket-holders how the charities would benefit and that there was an unacceptable delay in the distribution of the funds. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20020304/ai_n11997653   (163 words)

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