The 1976 FA Charity Shield was a football match played between Liverpool, as English First Division Champions in the 1975/76 season, and Second Division Southampton, as English FA Cup winners in 1976.^[1]

The match was played at Wembley Stadium, London, on Saturday 14 August 1976, in front of a crowd of 76,500.

The match was won by Liverpool 1–0 through a goal scored by John Toshack in the 50th minute with a right-foot shot from the edge of the penalty area after the ball was headed down to him by Kevin Keegan.^[2]

Match details

14 August 1976

15:00 BST

Liverpool	1–0	Southampton
Toshack 50'	Report

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 76,500

Referee: John Homewood

Liverpool

Southampton

GK 1 Ray Clemence RB 2 Phil Neal LB 3 Joey Jones CB 4 Phil Thompson LM 5 Ray Kennedy CB 6 Emlyn Hughes (c) CF 7 Kevin Keegan CM 8 Jimmy Case CF 9 Steve Heighway CM 10 John Toshack RM 11 Ian Callaghan Substitutes: CF David Fairclough DF Alec Lindsay MF Terry McDermott MF Peter Cormack GK Peter McDonnell Manager: Bob Paisley

GK 1 Ian Turner DF 2 Peter Rodrigues (c) DF 3 David Peach MF 4 Nick Holmes DF 5 Mel Blyth DF 6 Jim Steele MF 7 Paul Gilchrist FW 8 Mick Channon FW 9 Peter Osgood FW 10 Jim McCalliog MF 11 Bobby Stokes Substitutes: MF Hugh Fisher Manager: Lawrie McMenemy