The 2008 FA Community Shield (also known as The FA Community Shield sponsored by

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for sponsorship reasons) was the 86th staging of the

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, an annual

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match played between the reigning

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champions and

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winners. The match was played on 10 August 2008 between 2007–08 Premier League champions

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and 2007–08 FA Cup winners

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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

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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,

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and

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. With this Community Shield title, United extended their record number of wins in the competition to 13 (17 including shared titles). As of the 2023 edition, Portsmouth manager

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is the most recent English to manage a team in the Community Shield.

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:A. Mark Clattenburg was originally appointed as the match referee, but he was suspended over allegations of debt and replaced by Peter Walton.

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