1976 FA Charity Shield

The 1976 FA Charity Shield was a football match played between Liverpool, as English First Division Champions in the 1975/76 season, and Second Division Southampton, as English FA Cup winners in 1976.^[1]

1976 FA Charity Shield

Liverpool Southampton 1 0
Date	14 August 1976
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Referee	John Homewood (Sunbury)
Attendance	76,500
← 1975 1977 →

The match was played at Wembley Stadium, London, on Saturday 14 August 1976, in front of a crowd of 76,500.

The match was won by Liverpool 1–0 through a goal scored by John Toshack in the 50th minute with a right-foot shot from the edge of the penalty area after the ball was headed down to him by Kevin Keegan.^[2]

Match details

Liverpool	1–0	Southampton
Toshack 50'	Report

14 August 1976

15:00 BST

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 76,500

Referee: John Homewood

Liverpool

Southampton

GK 1 Ray Clemence RB 2 Phil Neal LB 3 Joey Jones CB 4 Phil Thompson LM 5 Ray Kennedy CB 6 Emlyn Hughes (c) CF 7 Kevin Keegan CM 8 Jimmy Case CF 9 Steve Heighway CM 10 John Toshack RM 11 Ian Callaghan Substitutes: CF David Fairclough DF Alec Lindsay MF Terry McDermott MF Peter Cormack GK Peter McDonnell Manager: Bob Paisley

GK 1 Ian Turner DF 2 Peter Rodrigues (c) DF 3 David Peach MF 4 Nick Holmes DF 5 Mel Blyth DF 6 Jim Steele MF 7 Paul Gilchrist FW 8 Mick Channon FW 9 Peter Osgood FW 10 Jim McCalliog MF 11 Bobby Stokes Substitutes: MF Hugh Fisher Manager: Lawrie McMenemy

Match rules 90 minutes, no extra time Five named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions

References

1. The FA web site, FA Community Shield Past Winners
2. "Liverweb". Archived from the original on 26 January 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2009.