2008 FA Community Shield

The 2008 FA Community Shield was a football match 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).
==Match details==
{| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"	MANCHESTER UNITED:	MANCHESTER UNITED:	MANCHESTER UNITED:	MANCHESTER UNITED:
 	 	 	 	
GK 	1 	Edwin van der Sar 	 	
RB 	2 	Gary Neville (c) 	 	
CB 	5 	Rio Ferdinand 	 	
CB 	15 	Nemanja Vidić 	 	
LB 	3 	Patrice Evra 	 	
RM 	24 	Darren Fletcher 	 	
CM 	18 	Paul Scholes 	 	
CM 	22 	John O'Shea 	 	
LM 	17 	Nani 	 	
SS 	11 	Ryan Giggs 	 	
CF 	32 	Carlos Tévez 	 	
Substitutes: 	Substitutes: 	Substitutes: 	Substitutes: 	
GK 	29 	Tomasz Kuszczak 	 	
DF 	6 	Wes Brown 	 	
DF 	21 	Rafael 	 	
DF 	23 	Jonny Evans 	 	
MF 	16 	Michael Carrick 	 	
MF 	34 	Rodrigo Possebon 	 	
FW 	31 	Fraizer Campbell 	 	
Manager: 	Manager: 	Manager: 	Manager: 	
Sir Alex Ferguson	Sir Alex Ferguson 	Sir Alex Ferguson 	Sir Alex Ferguson 	
MATCH OFFICIALS
*Assistant referees:
**Dave Richardson (West Yorkshire)
**Ian Gosling (Kent)
*Fourth official: Andre Marriner (Birmingham)
MAN OF THE MATCH
*Carlos Tévez (Manchester United)	
MATCH RULES
*90 minutes.
*Penalty shoot-out if scores level.
*Seven named substitutes
*Maximum of 6 substitutions.
==External links and references==
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