1926 FA Charity Shield
| Event | FA Charity Shield | ||||||
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| Date | 6 October 1926 | ||||||
| Venue | Maine Road, Manchester | ||||||
| Attendance | 1,500 | ||||||
The 1926 FA Charity Shield was the thirteenth staging of the FA Charity Shield, an annual association football match arranged to raise funds for charitable causes supported by the Football Association (the FA), the governing body of football in England. For the fifth time, the match was contested by select teams of amateur and professional players. It was played on 6 October 1926 at Maine Road, Manchester, and ended as a 6–3 win for the Amateurs. Wilfred Minter and Frank Macey each scored twice, Edgar Kail once, and an own goal by Michael Keeping completed the Amateurs' scoring; Bill Rawlings scored twice and Fred Tunstall scored once for the Professionals.
The match was to be played at Maine Road, the home ground of Manchester City F.C., alongside the exhibitions and other entertainments of the city of Manchester's Civic Week. The composition of the teams was selected by the international selection committee of the Football Association. The professionals were chosen from among those who had taken part in the Football Association XI's tour of Canada from May to July 1926.
The teams lined up as originally selected, with two exceptions. Clifford Tarr replaced the injured Richard Jenkins of Polytechnic at outside right, and Corporal Cartlidge was a late replacement for Northern Nomads's Dr Fairbrother at wing half. The Amateurs included six of the men who had beaten the Professionals by six goals to one in the corresponding fixture in 1925; the Professionals included five full England internationals.
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