This edition featured a Merseyside derby between Liverpool and Everton at Wembley Stadium. Liverpool achieved a First Division and FA Cup double in 1985–86 so they faced Everton who finished as runners-up in the League. The match was played on 16 August 1986.

The Football Association Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield, up to and including the 2001 edition) is an annual association football match organised by the Football Association and presently contested between the Premier League champions and FA Cup winners.

Aug 15, 2021 · The 1986 Charity Shield fixture captured Merseyside rivals Everton and Liverpool at the peak of their 1980s domestic dominance. At least one of the two appeared in nine of the ten Charity Shields during the decade (the only exception being Aston Villa-Spurs in 1981).

The 1966 FA Charity Shield was a Merseyside derby between Liverpool and Everton at Goodison Park. Liverpool won the Football League and Everton won the 1966 FA Cup Final to qualify for the charity shield.

no reason to believe that things should be any different from last season. And so it proved in the General Motors Charity Shield at Wembley on Saturday (for all Everton's strange new faces) as the two Merseyside favourites raced stride for stride tow.

This was the second time that the two clubs had met in the Charity Shield, the first being in 1966 when Everton lost by one goal to nil. The only goal of the match was an own goal by Liverpool player Bruce Grobbelar which gifted the trophy to Everton.

With Liverpool having achieved a Football League/FA Cup double in 1985/86 their opponents in the Charity Shield match was the club who finished runners-up to them in both competitions, arch rivals Everton.

However, the German boss finally got his hands on the shield on July 30, 2022 at Leicester City's King Power Stadium. Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez were on the scoresheet to defeat City and take the club's haul to 16.

Aug 16, 1986 · 11v11.com match report - Everton v Liverpool, FA Charity Shield 1986 , 16 August 1986

The Charity Shield match was a local derby between 1965/66 Football League champions, Liverpool, and 1965/66 FA Cup winners Everton. Liverpool: T Lawrence, C Lawler, G Byrne, T Smith, R Yeats, W Stevenson, I Callaghan, R Hunt, I St John, G Strong, P Thompson.