2002 FA Community Shield

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 on his debut in the 69th minute, striking the ball low and hard past Jerzy Dudek from a Dennis Bergkamp pass. 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 and the first time that Liverpool had lost at the millennium stadium.

Match details

11 August 2002 14:00 BST	Arsenal	1–0	Liverpool	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff Attendance: 67,337 Referee: Alan Wiley (Staffordshire)
	Gilberto  69'	(Report)

Arsenal

Liverpool

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

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

See also

• Premier League 2001-02
• FA Cup 2001-02

External links

• FA Community Shield website