The Community Shield is the staple of a new football season in England and it’s now time to kick the campaign off again.
The fixture has been around for over 100 years, with the country’s best teams competing for the season’s first piece of silverware.
Every fan knows that it’s the Premier League winners coming up against the FA Cup winners, but they may not know the meaning behind the name.
So here, talkSPORT.com takes a look at why the game is called the Community Shield…
Why is it called the Community Shield?
The Community Shield was founded in 1908 after being originally named the ‘Sheriff of London Charity Shield’.
In fact, it went by the name ‘Charity Shield’ all the way up until 2002.
That is when the FA were forced to change the name to the Community Shield.
The Charity Commission found out that the FA had failed to meet its legal obligations, as they had not been specifying what money from ticket sales went to charity.
So the change was made to reflect that the funds raised by the fixture were being distributed to community charities and initiatives in the UK.
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And that is where the money goes from the game each year.
A cut of the cash from ticket and programme sales gets distributed to all 124 clubs who competed in the FA the previous season.
Meanwhile, a cut of all the matchday revenue is also handed out to the FA’s national charity partners.
This year’s Community Shield is between Manchester City and Manchester United and will be broadcast live on talkSPORT.
Adrian Durham will be your host while commentary comes from Jim Proudfoot and former England striker Darren Bent.
To tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 through the website, click HERE for the live stream.
You can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.
talkSPORT.com will be running a live blog of all the action.
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