1976 FA Charity Shield

1976 FA Charity Shield
Date	14 August 1976
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Referee	John Homewood (Sunbury)
Attendance	76,500
	← 1975 1977 →

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]

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

14 August 1976

15:00 BST

Liverpool	1–0	Southampton
Toshack 50'	Report

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

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

[1] The FA web site, FA Community Shield Past Winners

[2] "Liverweb". Archived from the original on 26 January 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2009.

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