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

New Zealand

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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 30 teams are known to have taken part in the competition:
Auckland

• Ponsonby
  Ponsonby (soccer)
  Ponsonby was a New Zealand football club, based in the Auckland suburb of Ponsonby. The team won the Chatham Cup, New Zealand's premier knockout tournament, in 1927 and 1933....
  
  
• Auckland YMCA
• Tramurewa

South Auckland (Waikato)

• Renown (Huntly)
• Rotowaro (Huntly)

Wanganui

• Wanganui East Athletic
  Wanganui East Athletic
  Wanganui East Athletic Football Club — also known simply as Wanganui Athletic — are an association football team based in the New Zealand North Island city of Wanganui. They are traditionally the strongest team from the city, and played in the top flight of New Zealand football in both league and...
  
  

Manawatu

• St. Andrew's (Palmerston North)

Wellington

• Diamond (Wellington)
• Hospital (Porirua)
• Petone
• Seatoun
  Seatoun (soccer)
  Seatoun AFC is a football club in New Zealand, based in the Wellington suburb of Seatoun. One of the strongest clubs in the country during the 1950s, it won the national knockout Chatham Cup in 1957 and 1958...
  
  
• Waterside (Wellington)
• Wellington Marist
  Wellington Marist
  Wellington Marist AFC is an association football club in Wellington, New Zealand. The team is based at Kilbirnie Park in Kilbirnie.They won the Chatham Cup in 1932 and 1946, and were runners-up in 1945.-External links:***...
  
  

Westland (West Coast)

• Cobden (Greymouth)
• Dobson
• Greymouth
• Rewanui (Runanga)
• Taylorville (Dobson)

Canterbury

• Christchurch Rangers
• Christchurch Thistle
  Christchurch Thistle
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• New Brighton
• Nomads
  Nomads United
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   (Christchurch)
• Saint Albans
• Technical Old Boys
  Christchurch Technical
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   (Christchurch)
• Western (Christchurch)

Otago

• Maori Hill (Dunedin)
• Mosgiel
  Mosgiel (soccer)
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• Northern
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   (Dunedin)
• 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

1929 Chatham Cup

The 1929 Chatham Cup was the seventh annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand.The competition was run on a regional basis, with six regional associations each holding separate qualifying rounds.Teams taking part in the final rounds are known to have included Wellington YWCA...

. 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

Hat-trick

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, 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

1940 Chatham Cup

The 1940 Chatham Cup was the 17th annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand, and the last such competition before the suspension of the Chatham Cup due to World War II. The competition resumed in 1945 as hostilities were drawing to a close....

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