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The 2020 Women's FA Community Shield was the ninth Women's FA Community Shield, and the first after the competition's revival following an eleven-season abeyance. As with its male equivalent, the Community Shield is an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's league and the previous season's Women's FA Cup. However, as the
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was postponed due to the
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, the 2020 Community Shield was contested by the
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champions Chelsea and the still-reigning
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winners,
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. Both teams were contesting their first ever Women's Community Shield. The match was played as part of a double-header, with both the women's and men's Community Shields contested on the same day, played back-to-back at Wembley Stadium and was televised live on BBC One and
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