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1931 Chatham Cup

Field	Value
year	1931
title	Chatham Cup
dates
venue	Basin Reserve
num_teams	31
winners	Tramurewa (1st title)
second	Nomads
prev_season	1930
next_season	1932
city	Wellington	defending_champions=Petone FC

The 1931 Chatham Cup was the ninth annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand.

The competition was run on a regional basis, with six regional associations (Auckland, Walkato, Wellington, Manawatu, Canterbury, and Otago) each holding separate qualifying rounds. In all, 30 teams took part in the competition, though some reports suggest there may have been 31 teams, and for the first time the majority came from the South Island. This was an improvements over previous years, but still a tiny number considering that 514 teams were affiliated to the regional associations nationwide. Participation by Auckland teams was particularly poor, with only three sides from that city taking part.

Participants

The following 31 teams are known to have taken part in the competition: ;Auckland

Ponsonby
Auckland YMCA
Tramurewa ;South Auckland (Waikato)
Renown
Rotowaro
Huntly Thistle ;Wanganui
Wanganui East Athletic ;Manawatu
St. Andrew's (Palmerston North) ;Wellington
Diamond
Hospital
Petone
Seatoun
Waterside
Wellington Marist ;Westland
Cobden
Dobson
Greymouth
Rewanui
Taylorville ;Canterbury
Christchurch Rangers
Christchurch Thistle
New Brighton
Nomads
Saint Albans
Technical Old Boys
Western ;Otago
Maori Hill
Mosgiel
Northern
Port Chalmers
Seacliff

The 1931 final

The final was won by Tramurewa, a recent amalgamation of former winners Tramways and Manurewa, soon to be renamed Manurewa AFC. In all, six of Tramurewa's player had played for Tramways in the 1929 final. In the final almost all of the action occurred in the second half. A. Wilson was the first scorer for Nomads, followed two minutes later by G. Goode. Clem Bell then scored twice to leave the scores tied at 2-2. Nomads defended stoutly to keep the scores tied until full-time, but in the first period of extra time both H., Donaldson and Arthur Spong scored for the Auckland team. The goal tally was completed just before the end of the second period of extra time by Bell's third goal.

Tramurewa's Clem Bell was the second player in Chatham Cup history to score a final hat-trick, and also the second player to score in two separate finals (he scored in Tramways' win in 1929). The tally of seven goals scored in the game was the highest aggregate until 1940.

Results

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals ("Island finals")

Final

References

Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation New Zealand 1931 page

References

[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19310520.2.139&srpos=7&e=--1931---1931--10--1-byDA---2%22Chatham+Cup%22-- Papers Past — Evening Post — 20 May 1931 — THE SOCCER CODE]
[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19310603.2.16&srpos=9&e=--1931---1931--10--1-byDA---2%22Chatham+Cup%22-- Papers Past — Evening Post — 3 June 1931 — ASSOCIATION]
[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19310410.2.113&srpos=2&e=--1931---1931--10--1-byDA---2%22Chatham+Cup%22-- Papers Past — Evening Post — 10 April 1931 — SOCCER FOOTBALL]
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