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Community Shield 2025: Date, kick-off time and full commentary as Liverpool and Crystal Palace clash in season opener
Liverpool and Crystal Palace will meet in the 2025/26 season opener for the right to lift the Community Shield, live on talkSPORT. The Community Shield sees the winners of the Premier League take on the FA Cup champions in a special one-off match to officially start the campaign. Manchester City won the Community Shield last yearGetty Last season, it was a Manchester derby, and City came out on top over United as Pep Guardiola and co won on a penalty shootout. And this time around, it will be Liverpool taking on Palace. Arne Slot‘s men shocked everyone last year to cruise to the Premier League title in the Dutchman’s first season in England. Meanwhile, Oliver Glasner’s side provided a moment Palace have never experienced by winning a trophy for the first time in the club’s history. Liverpool vs Crystal Palace: Date and how to follow The 2025/26 Community Shield will take place on Sunday, August 10. Kick-off at Wembley is scheduled for 3pm. talkSPORT will have live coverage from London, with Adrian Durham serving as your presenter. Commentary will come from Sam Matterface and former West Ham striker Dean Ashton. talkSPORT.com will also be right across the action as well with a dedicated live blog. To tune in to talkSPORT through the website, click HERE for the live stream. You can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM. Liverpool’s first season under Slot couldn’t have gone much betterGetty The Eagles also enjoyed a truly remarkable campaignGetty Liverpool vs Crystal Palace: Team news Liverpool will most likely give a whole host of new signings their competitive debuts. The Reds have massively backed Slot this summer, splashing out well over £250million already. Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong, Milos Kerkez and Hugo Ekitike are all likely to play some part. Alisson Becker has left the club’s pre-season tour due to a personal problem while Alexis Mac Allister is also yet to play a minute of pre-season due to an ongoing issue. Joe Gomez has been forced to fly home after picking up an injury. Meanwhile, despite interest in many of their top players, Crystal Palace have kept their squad together. Eberechi Eze and Marc Guehi are among the players to be linked with moves away, but they are still at Selhurst Park. The Eagles could hand debuts to their only two additions so far, Borna Sosa and Walter Benitez. Kerkez is one of many new arrivals at Anfield this summerGetty Liverpool vs Crystal Palace: What has been said? Speaking after Liverpool’s 4-2 defeat to AC Milan in pre-season, Slot praised the club’s work in the transfer market. He said: “I think, what I’ve also said is I’m really happy with the squad we had. “We won the league, but you can see everywhere around us – in the Premier League but also we play in Europe so we want to achieve things there as well – that all of these teams try to strengthen their squads. “So, if you do the same as we did last year, we will probably not be able to win it again. So, we have to improve – the players that are still here and we’ve tried to bring new energy in but also ‘weapons’, as you called it, and I think the players we’ve brought in have shown already in the few times we have trained together and the games we’ve played. “Now, let’s wait how Hugo [Ekitike] is going to do that. Really pleased what we did until now, but already really pleased we kept the players that had an extended contract last season.”
Liverpool and Crystal Palace will meet in the 2025/26 season opener for the right to lift the Community Shield, live on talkSPORT.
The Community Shield sees the winners of the Premier League take on the FA Cup champions in a special one-off match to officially start the campaign.
Last season, it was a Manchester derby, and City came out on top over United as Pep Guardiola and co won on a penalty shootout.
And this time around, it will be Liverpool taking on Palace.
Arne Slot‘s men shocked everyone last year to cruise to the Premier League title in the Dutchman’s first season in England.
Meanwhile, Oliver Glasner’s side provided a moment Palace have never experienced by winning a trophy for the first time in the club’s history.
Liverpool vs Crystal Palace: Date and how to follow
The 2025/26 Community Shield will take place on Sunday, August 10.
Kick-off at Wembley is scheduled for 3pm.
talkSPORT will have live coverage from London, with Adrian Durham serving as your presenter.
Commentary will come from Sam Matterface and former West Ham striker Dean Ashton.
talkSPORT.com will also be right across the action as well with a dedicated live blog.
To tune in to talkSPORT through the website, click HERE for the live stream.
You can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.
Liverpool vs Crystal Palace: Team news
Liverpool will most likely give a whole host of new signings their competitive debuts.
The Reds have massively backed Slot this summer, splashing out well over £250million already.
Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong, Milos Kerkez and Hugo Ekitike are all likely to play some part.
Alisson Becker has left the club’s pre-season tour due to a personal problem while Alexis Mac Allister is also yet to play a minute of pre-season due to an ongoing issue.
Joe Gomez has been forced to fly home after picking up an injury.
Meanwhile, despite interest in many of their top players, Crystal Palace have kept their squad together.
Eberechi Eze and Marc Guehi are among the players to be linked with moves away, but they are still at Selhurst Park.
The Eagles could hand debuts to their only two additions so far, Borna Sosa and Walter Benitez.
Liverpool vs Crystal Palace: What has been said?
Speaking after Liverpool’s 4-2 defeat to AC Milan in pre-season, Slot praised the club’s work in the transfer market.
He said: “I think, what I’ve also said is I’m really happy with the squad we had.
“We won the league, but you can see everywhere around us – in the Premier League but also we play in Europe so we want to achieve things there as well – that all of these teams try to strengthen their squads.
“So, if you do the same as we did last year, we will probably not be able to win it again. So, we have to improve – the players that are still here and we’ve tried to bring new energy in but also ‘weapons’, as you called it, and I think the players we’ve brought in have shown already in the few times we have trained together and the games we’ve played.
“Now, let’s wait how Hugo [Ekitike] is going to do that. Really pleased what we did until now, but already really pleased we kept the players that had an extended contract last season.”
