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| Event | 1928–29 FA Cup | ||||||
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| Date | 27 April 1929 | ||||||
| Venue | Wembley Stadium,London | ||||||
| Referee | A. Josephs (South Shields) | ||||||
| Attendance | 92,576 | ||||||
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The1929 FA Cup final was anassociation football match betweenBolton Wanderers andPortsmouth on 27 April 1929 atWembley Stadium.
Bolton won 2–0, with goals byBilly Butler andHarold Blackmore. It marked the54th final of theFootball Association Challenge Cup (FA Cup), the world's oldest football cup competition. It was Portsmouth's first FA Cup final and Bolton's fifth. En route to the final, Bolton defeatedOldham Athletic,Liverpool (after areplay),Leicester City,Blackburn Rovers (after a replay) andHuddersfield Town; Portsmouth beatCharlton Athletic,Bradford City,Chelsea (after a replay),West Ham United andAston Villa.
The match was played in a front of 92,576 spectators and wasrefereed by Arnold Josephs. After a goalless first half, two late goals in the second half fromBilly Butler andHarold Blackmore secured Bolton the FA Cup. For Bolton this meant that they had won their third FA Cup title.
No live radio commentary of the match was broadcast by theBBC, as permission to do so had been refused by theFootball Association.[1] Instead, the organisation sent various reporters to the ground, who each left the match at 15-to-20-minute intervals to go to a nearby house where a broadcasting set-up had been arranged. From there, they transmitted accounts of the game as they had seen it up to the point of their departure.[2]
| Round | Team #1 | Score | Team #2 |
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| 3 | Bolton Wanderers | 2–0 | Oldham Athletic |
| 4 | Liverpool | 0–0 | Bolton Wanderers |
| Replay | Bolton Wanderers | 5–2 | Liverpool |
| 5 | Leicester City | 1–2 | Bolton Wanderers |
| 6 | Blackburn Rovers | 1–1 | Bolton Wanderers |
| Replay | Bolton Wanderers | 2–1 | Blackburn Rovers |
| Semi-Final | Bolton Wanderers | 3–1 | Huddersfield Town |
| Round | Team #1 | Score | Team #2 |
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| 3 | Portsmouth | 2–1 | Charlton Athletic |
| 4 | Portsmouth | 2–1 | Bradford City |
| 5 | Chelsea | 1–1 | Portsmouth |
| Replay | Portsmouth | 1–0 | Chelsea |
| 6 | Portsmouth | 3–2 | West Ham United |
| Semi-Final | Portsmouth | 1–0 | Aston Villa |

![]() ![]() Bolton Wanderers | ![]() ![]() Portsmouth |
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