The 1960 FA Charity Shield was the 38th FA Charity Shield

FA Community Shield

The Football Association Community Shield is English football's annual match contested between the champions of the previous Premier League season and the holders of the FA Cup at Wembley Stadium. If the Premier League champions also won the FA Cup then the league runners-up provide the opposition...

, a football match between the winners of the previous season's First Division

Football League First Division

The First Division was a division of The Football League between 1888 and 2004 and the highest division in English football until the creation of the Premier League in 1992. The secondary tier in English football has since become known as the Championship....

 and FA Cup

FA Cup

The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...

 titles. The match was contested by league champions Burnley

Burnley F.C.

Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...

 and FA Cup winners Wolverhampton Wanderers

Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club that represents the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands region. They are members of the Premier League, the highest level of English football. The club was founded in 1877 and since 1889 has played at...

.

The two clubs had been the main challengers for the league title the previous season, with Burnley pipping Wolves by just a single point. This denied the Midlands club a third successive league championship, and the first 'double' of the 20th Century.

The match was staged at Burnley's home ground, Turf Moor

Turf Moor

Turf Moor is a football stadium in Burnley, Lancashire. It is the home ground of Burnley Football Club, which has played there since moving from its Calder Vale ground in 1883. The stadium, which is situated on Harry Potts Way, named so after the club's longest serving Manager, has a capacity of...

. The game ended a 2–2 draw, meaning the Shield was shared.

Match details

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style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">	BURNLEY:
	1	Adam Blacklaw Adam Blacklaw Adam Smith Blacklaw was a Scottish professional football player who played as a goalkeeper.Blacklaw joined the Burnley ground staff as a schoolboy apprentice in 1954, directly from Frederick Street School in Aberdeen, earning a professional contract in October of that year...
	2	John Angus John Angus (footballer) John Angus is a retired English footballer who played his entire club career as a right back for Burnley between 1956 and 1972, helping them win the Football League title in 1960...
	3	Alex Elder Alex Elder Alexander "Alex" Russell Elder is a retired Northern Irish football left back, who played for Burnley.He was said to plays a very mature game for someone with so little experience of top-class football...
	4	Jimmy Adamson Jimmy Adamson James "Jimmy" Adamson was an English professional footballer and football manager. He was born in Ashington, Northumberland...
	5	Tommy Cummings Tommy Cummings Tommy Cummings was an English football player and manager.Cummings was born in Sunderland, and started his football career at Hylton Colliery Juniors. Such was his quality as a centre-half he was invited to Strasbourg in 1947 to represent Great Britain in a junior international tournament...
	6	Brian Miller Brian Miller (footballer) Brian George Miller was a former professional footballer and England international who played as a wing back....
	7	John Connelly John Connelly John Michael Connelly is an English former footballer. He played as an outside forward and was capped 20 times for his country.-Career with Burnley:...
	8	Jimmy McIlroy Jimmy McIlroy James "Jimmy" McIlroy MBE is a former football player, regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of Burnley Football Club.-At Burnley:...
	9	Ray Pointer Ray Pointer Raymond Pointer is a former professional association footballer and England international who played as a striker.He had a long and successful playing career, totalling over 400 league appearances whilst playing for Burnley, Bury, Coventry City, Portsmouth and Waterlooville. He won 3 England caps...
	10	Jimmy Robson Jimmy Robson James "Jimmy" Robson was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward. He played over 450 matches in the Football League....
	11	Brian Pilkington
Manager:
Harry Potts Harry Potts Harold "Harry" Potts was an English football player and manager.-Early life:Born in Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham, as was another well-known name in football, Bob Paisley. The duo spent much of their childhood playing various sports, but it was football that Potts loved most...

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align=center> WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS: | 1   Geoff Sidebottom

Geoff Sidebottom

Geoffrey Sidebottom was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.-Career:Sidebottom joined Wolverhampton Wanderers from their Yorkshire-based nursery club Wath Wanderers in 1954...

2   George Showell

George Showell

George William Showell is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Bristol City and Wrexham...

3   Gerry Harris

Gerry Harris

Geraldine Mary "Gerry" Harris is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Lancaster and director of Palatine, the Subject Centre for Dance, Drama and Music....

4   John Kirkham

John Kirkham (footballer)

John Kenneth Kirkham is an English retired professional footballer who played as a wing half.-Career:Born in Wednesbury, Kirkham began his career with the youth team of Wolverhampton Wanderers, playing in the 1957–58 FA Youth Cup. Kirkham also played with the senior team of Wolves, making 100...

5   Eddie Stuart

Eddie Stuart

Edward "Eddie" Albert Stuart is a South African former professional footballer. He spent the majority of his league career with Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he won three league championships.-Career:...

6   Eddie Clamp

Eddie Clamp

Harold Edwin Clamp was an English footballer.-Career:Clamp joined Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1950, turning professional in April 1952, before breaking into the first team to make his debut on 6 March 1954, away at Manchester United. He made one further appearance that season as he club won their...

7   Gerry Mannion

Gerry Mannion

Gerard Patrick Mannion was an English footballer, who played in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Norwich City and Chester City.-Career:...

8   Barry Stobart

Barry Stobart

Barry Henry Stobart is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a forward for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Manchester City, Aston Villa and Shrewsbury Town during the 1960s.-Career:...

9   Jimmy Murray

Jimmy Murray (English footballer)

Colin James Robert 'Jimmy' Murray was an English footballer, who spent the majority of his league career with Wolverhampton Wanderers.-Career:...

10   Peter Broadbent

Peter Broadbent (footballer)

Peter Frank Broadbent is a former England international footballer. He won major domestic honours with Wolverhampton Wanderers, and appeared in the 1958 World Cup.-Biography:...

11   Norman Deeley

Norman Deeley

Norman Victor Deeley was an English professional footballer, who spent the majority of his league career with Wolverhampton Wanderers. He scored two goals in the 1960 FA Cup Final, in a performance that won him the Man of the Match award.-Career:The winger won three league titles with the club, in...

Manager:   Stan Cullis

Stan Cullis

Stanley Cullis was a professional footballer and manager, most notably for Wolverhampton Wanderers. During his term as manager between 1948 and 1964 Wolves became one of the strongest teams in the British game, winning the league title on three occasions, and playing a series of high-profile...

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