How important is Community Shield to a team's season?

The Community Shield takes place between two teams who will be hoping to battle it out for the Premier League this season.

English champions Arsenal take on runners-up and FA Cup winners Manchester City at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on Sunday.

But do the stats suggest winning the curtain-raiser in the Welsh capital would indicate a successful season ahead? And what of the goalscorers?

Considering the current Premier League champions play in the game every season it is surprisingly rare for the Community Shield winners to go on to win the league.

Since the Premier League started in 1992-93, only eight of the 34 winners of the Charity or Community Shield have done so.

Five of those happened in a six-year spell from 2005 until 2010.

Manchester City, in 2019, were the last team to do so - and before that it was Alex Ferguson's Manchester United in 2011.

Only one of the past 15 winners of the Community Shield have gone on to become champions that season.