Mikel Arteta (foto: Getty Images)
Discover Mikel Arteta’s perfect Community Shield record as player, captain and manager, and why Arsenal’s latest showdown with Manchester City could set the tone for the new season.
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Mikel Arteta has been at Arsenal as a player, as captain and as manager, and last season he added the one thing that had been missing from all of it. The Gunners won the Premier League for the first time since 2004, ending a wait of 22 years.
That title takes them to Cardiff on Sunday 16 August to face Manchester City, who qualified as FA Cup winners. Anyone looking through the Community Shield odds will find a fixture Arteta knows better than most, in every role he has held at the club.
The Community Shield is the annual match between the previous season's league champions and FA Cup winners, and it opens the top flight season a week before the Premier League returns. In this article, we look back at Arteta's history with it, from the Wembley afternoon that made him captain to the shootouts that followed.
Wembley, 2014
Arteta had been made full-time club captain ahead of the 2014-15 season, and the 2014 Community Shield was his first trophy in the role. He played the full 90 minutes against the reigning champions, and Arsenal beat Manchester City 3-0 at Wembley on 10 August 2014, with Santi Cazorla, Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud scoring.
He did it again 12 months later, coming on as a substitute in the 1-0 win over Chelsea to take the 2015 Community Shield.
The years in the other dugout
Arteta left Arsenal in 2016 to join Guardiola's coaching staff at Manchester City, where he stayed for three and a half years.
He won the Shield twice more in that time, against Chelsea in 2018 and against Liverpool on penalties in 2019, and was part of the staff for City's domestic treble in 2018-19.
An empty Wembley in 2020
His first Community Shield as a manager came on 29 August 2020, four weeks after the delayed end of the previous season, and in front of no supporters. Arsenal drew 1-1 with champions Liverpool, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scoring the opener and then converting the winning penalty in a 5-4 shootout.
It came just 29 matches into his managerial career, and it was his second trophy in the job after the FA Cup final win over Chelsea earlier that month.
Trossard and the 2023 shootout
The most recent meeting with City in this fixture was in 2023, when Arsenal faced Premier League champions and reigning Community Shield winners Man City. The score ended 1-1, but Arsenal won via a penalty shootout.
Kevin De Bruyne hit the bar, Aaron Ramsdale saved from Rodri, and Arsenal converted all four of their spot kicks to win the shootout 4-1, making this Arteta’s third trophy as manager of the Gunners.
Cardiff, and a City side in transition
The roles have swapped since. Arsenal travel to Wales as Premier League champions for the first time since 2004, having ended a wait of 22 years after finishing second in each of the previous three seasons. City qualified as FA Cup winners after Antoine Semenyo's flicked finish saw off Chelsea 1-0 in May, and they also beat Arsenal in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley in March.
The bigger change is in the opposite dugout. Guardiola stepped down after 10 years, and Enzo Maresca was appointed on 29 June, meaning Arteta faces a City he no longer knows from the inside.
Cardiff staging the match for the first time since 2006 adds to the unfamiliarity, and it remains the fixture that opens the English season for supporters and football bet markets alike.
Arteta has never lost a Community Shield. Six appearances, six wins, across three different jobs at two clubs.