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1977 FA Charity Shield

football match

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ2045228 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1977 FA Charity Shield was the 55th FA Charity Shield, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's First Division and FA Cup competitions. The match was played on 13 August 1977 at Wembley Stadium and contested by Liverpool, who had won the 1976–77 First Division, and Manchester United, who had won the 1976–77 FA Cup. The teams played out a goalless draw and shared the Charity Shield.

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“1977 FA Charity Shield” enters the record as football match. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Charity, Shield and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Charity, Shield and football.
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“1977 FA Charity Shield” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Charity, Shield and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2045228. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1977 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “1977 FA Charity Shield” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.