2002 FA Community Shield

2002 FA Community Shield
Date 11 August 2002
Venue Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Referee Alan Wiley (Staffordshire)
Attendance 67,337
2001
2003

The 2002 FA Community Shield was a football match played on 11 August 2002 between 2001-02 Double winners Arsenal and 2001-02 Premier League runners-up Liverpool. Arsenal won the game 1–0 in normal time. Gilberto Silva scored the only goal of the game in the 69th minute. This was Arsenal's fourteenth victory in the Charity/Community Shield.

The match was played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff for the second time, with Wembley Stadium in the process of being rebuilt.

It was the first Community Shield to be contested following the renaming of the competition.

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Match details

2002-08-11
14:00 BST
Arsenal 1 – 0 Liverpool Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Attendance: 67,337
Referee: Alan Wiley (Staffordshire)
Gilberto  69' (Report)
Arsenal
Liverpool
ARSENAL:
GK 1 David Seaman
RB 12 Lauren
CB 5 Martin Keown
CB 23 Sol Campbell
LB 3 Ashley Cole
RM 15 Ray Parlour
CM 4 Patrick Vieira
CM 17 Edu 45'
LM 11 Sylvain Wiltord
CF 10 Dennis Bergkamp 85'
CF 14 Thierry Henry
Substitutes:
GK 13 Stuart Taylor
DF 18 Pascal Cygan
DF 20 Matthew Upson
DF 22 Oleg Luzhny
MF 28 Kolo Toure 85'
MF 19 Gilberto Silva 45'
FW 30 Jérémie Aliadière
Manager:
Arsène Wenger
LIVERPOOL
GK 1 Jerzy Dudek
RB 3 Abel Xavier 78'
CB 4 Sami Hyypiä
CB 2 Stéphane Henchoz
LB 30 Djimi Traore 88'
RM 9 El Hadji Diouf
CM 16 Dietmar Hamann 67'
CM 17 Steven Gerrard
LM 18 John Arne Riise
CF 8 Emile Heskey 74'
CF 10 Michael Owen 85'
Substitutes:
GK 22 Chris Kirkland
DF 6 Markus Babbel 78'
DF 23 Jamie Carragher
MF 28 Bruno Cheyrou 88'
MF 7 Vladimir Smicer 85'
MF 13 Danny Murphy 67'
FW 5 Milan Baros 74'
Manager:
Gérard Houllier

Match statistics

Arsenal Liverpool
Total shots
Shots on target
Ball possession
Corner kicks
Fouls committed
Offsides
Yellow cards 4 2
Red cards 0 0

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