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Emiliano Marcondes added his name to an illustrious list of players to have scored a hat-trick for the Cherries in the FA Cup.
Marcondes’s exploits against Yeovil Town last month earned Scott Parker’s team a 3-1 win at Huish Park and set up tonight’s fourth-round clash with Boreham Wood.
Danish frontman Marcondes became only the 12th player in the Cherries’ history to score a hat-trick in the FA Cup since the club joined the Football League in 1923.
He joined a select group which includes the club’s post-war record goalscorer Ted MacDougall who plundered a hat-trick of hat-tricks in an 11-0 rout of Margate in 1971/72.
MacDougall also scored six times in an 8-1 win over Oxford City the previous season, while club record goalscorer Ron Eyre netted two FA Cup hat-tricks in the Cherries’ run to the fifth round in 1928/29.
Here, afcb.co.uk takes a trip down memory lane and looks back at the FA Cup hat-tricks scored by the 12 Cherries players during the Football League era.
RON EYRE – 1928/29
Guildford City 1 Bournemouth & Boscombe 5
Prolific marksman Ron Eyre netted the club’s first FA Cup hat-trick of the Football League era when they saw off Southern League Guildford City 5-1 on their way to the fifth round.
Eyre’s double and goals from Pat Clifford and Percy Cherrett earned the Cherries a 4-1 win over Southern League neighbours Poole Town in the first round, setting up a trip to Surrey.
And the Cherries eased into the third round for the fourth season in succession thanks to Eyre’s treble, another goal from winger Clifford and a Jack Hayward penalty.
Clifford and Bob Bryce were on target as Frank Richards’s team progressed into the fourth round after triumphing 2-0 against Accrington Stanley in a replay at Dean Court.
RON EYRE – 1928/29
Bournemouth & Boscombe 6 Watford 4
Ron Eyre (pictured below), whose real name was Roland Eyre, maintained his rich vein of form in front of goal as Bournemouth & Boscombe overcame Third Division (South) rivals Watford 6-4 at Dean Court in the fourth round.
Eyre, who went on to become the club’s all-time leading marksman with 229 goals in 337 games, plundered a second hat-trick in the competition to help the Cherries set up a home tie with First Division West Ham.
He scored eight times during the FA Cup run of 1928-29 and was joined on the scoresheet against the Hornets by Bob Bryce, Percy Cherrett and Pat Clifford who netted five goals in the first four rounds.
The Cherries, who exited 3-1 against West Ham following a replay at Upton Park, were aided against Watford by a rather erratic display from Watford goalkeeper Joe Hewitt.
WILLIE CHALMERS & EDDIE PARRIS – 1935/36
Bournemouth & Boscombe 8 Walthamstow Avenue 1
Scottish inside-forward Willie Chalmers and Welsh winger Eddie Parris both notched hat-tricks in a club record 8-1 victory over Walthamstow Avenue at Dean Court.
The amateur club, which lifted the Athenian League title five times in the 1930s, proved stubborn opposition and held the Cherries to a 1-1 draw on home soil in the first round.
It was a different story in the replay, however, as Parris, who netted the Cherries’ goal in the first game at Green Pond Road, and Chalmers ran riot.
They were joined on the scoresheet by Billy Barrow, another Welshman, and Meynell Burgin, who scored three goals in just eight games for the Cherries having been signed as cover for Joe Riley.
EDDIE PARRIS – 1935/36
Bournemouth & Boscombe 5 Barrow 2
The convincing win against Walthamstow Avenue earned the Cherries a home draw in the second round with Third Division (North) outfit Barrow the visitors to Dean Court.
And just ten days after putting Walthamstow to the sword, Parris repeated the feat against the Bluebirds, his exploits leading Bob Crompton’s team to a 5-2 victory.
Had it not been for Parris’s hat-trick heroics, headline writers would have been in dreamland as one of the Cherries’ other two goalscorers was none other than Billy Barrow!
Joe Riley, who finished the campaign with 28 goals to his name, was also on the scoresheet with the Cherries going on to lose 1-0 against Bradford City in the third round.
OLLIE NORRIS – 1956/57
Bournemouth & Boscombe 8 Burton Albion 0
Irish inside-forward Ollie Norris (pictured above) played a starring role as the Cherries reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time in their history.
Birmingham & District part-timers Burton Albion arrived at Dean Court on the back of reaching the third round the previous season when they went down 7-0 against Charlton Athletic.
Norris’s hat-trick together with Stan Newsham’s double, an own goal and efforts from Mike Lyons and Brian Bedford ensured the Cherries would go one better in this first-round tie.
Freddie Cox’s Pippins saw off Swindon Town and Accrington Stanley before claiming top-flight scalps in Wolverhampton Wanderers and Tottenham to reach the last eight.
But despite drawing first blood against Manchester United in front of a crowd of 28,799 at Dean Court, the Busby Babes hit back through Johnny Berry’s second-half double to fire the reigning league champions into the semi-final.
BRIAN BEDFORD – 1957/58
Oswestry Town 1 Bournemouth & Boscombe 5
Brian Bedford, a hero of the 1956/57 FA Cup run and scorer of the Cherries’ goal against Manchester United in the quarter-finals, took centre stage in this first-round clash in Shropshire.
Centre-forward Bedford was joined on the scoresheet by summer signings Dickie Dowsett from Southampton and Mike Burgess from Newport County as the Cherries eased through.
Oswestry, relegated from Division One of the Birmingham & District League, had started out in the preliminary round and had played six games in the competition before meeting Freddie Cox’s team.
However, there would be no repeat of the previous season’s exploits for the Cherries as they were dumped out by Northampton Town in the second round, with Ollie Norris scoring at both ends.
KEN HODGSON – 1964/65
Bournemouth & Boscombe 7 Gravesend & Northfleet 0
Centre-forward Ken Hodgson (pictured above) maintained his impressive start to his Cherries career by bagging a hat-trick in this convincing first-round win over the Kent non-leaguers.
A product of the youth ranks at hometown club Newcastle United, Hodgson joined the Cherries in a £5,000 move from Scunthorpe in June 1964 and hit 11 goals in his first 17 games in the Third Division.
He added to his tally with a clinical treble against Gravesend & Northfleet with further goals from Ronnie Bolton, Ray Bumstead, Billy Coxon and John Groves helping the Cherries see off the Southern League visitors.
Despite the win against a team which had taken First Division Sunderland to a replay in the fourth round two years previously, supporters’ hopes of a cup run were ended when Reg Flewin’s team went down 3-0 to Bristol City in front of a crowd of 10,635 at Dean Court in the second round.
DENIS COUGHLIN – 1965/66
Bournemouth & Boscombe 5 Bath City 3
Frontman Denis Coughlin provided a rare high during a season of relative lows as the Cherries overcame Southern League Bath City in an eight-goal thriller at Dean Court.
Coughlin, signed by Bill McGarry from Yeovil in March 1963, topped the goal charts in his first full season, his tally of 28 in the league seeing the Cherries finish fourth in the Third Division.
Two years later, Coughlin was again the Cherries’ leading marksman, although his total of seven in 32 league games told its own story about the team’s lack of attacking threat.
Coughlin’s double against Weymouth in a first-round replay helped set up a visit from Bath City, the striker going one better and adding to goals from Tommy Naylor and Ken Hodgson as the Cherries conquered the Romans.
It was only the second time in the season that the Dean Court faithful saw their team score more than two goals in a game, the Cherries drawing a blank in 21 league games.
The FA Cup provided the only real excitement with a crowd of 16,082 packing in to watch the Cherries hold First Division Burnley to a 1-1 draw in the third round before the Clarets triumphed 7-0 at Turf Moor in the replay, Andy Lochhead netting five times for the hosts.
TED MACDOUGALL – 1970/71
Bournemouth & Boscombe 8 Oxford City 1
Ted MacDougall (pictured above) continued his explosive start to what proved to be a record-breaking season by helping himself to a double hat-trick as the Cherries saw off non-league Oxford City.
MacDougall had plundered no fewer than 18 goals in 19 league games when John Bond’s team travelled to Oxfordshire to face the Isthmian League outfit in the first round.
And his dramatic equaliser four minutes from time dashed the Hoops’ hopes of pulling off a giant-killing and earned the Cherries a replay at Dean Court four days later.
MacDougall set a new club record when he scored six times to emphatically book the Cherries a place in the second round with Dennis Longhorn and Eddie Rowles also on the scoresheet.
The Scotsman went on to bag a record 42 goals in the league as the Cherries claimed a first promotion after finishing as runners-up in the Fourth Division.
However, their brief FA Cup run came to an ignominious end when they went down 1-0 against Southern League Yeovil Town in front of a crowd of 11,583 at Dean Court – with Bond making his players run to the end of Boscombe Pier as a punishment for the defeat.
The following season, Oxford City were involved in the longest FA Cup tie in history when their fourth qualifying round encounter with Alvechurch was settled in favour of the Midlanders after a fifth replay.
TED MACDOUGALL – 1971/72
Bournemouth & Boscombe 11 Margate 0
Ted MacDougall penned his own chapter in the FA Cup history books by plundering a hat-trick of hat-tricks in this memorable first-round rout of Southern League Margate.
His haul, which included a penalty, remains an individual goalscoring record in the competition proper and MacDougall has often said he believes it will never be broken.
MacDougall, who is still the club’s post-war highest marksman with 144 goals from 223 games, was joined on the scoresheet by Mel Machin and Mickey Cave.
Margate manager Les Rigg apparently jokingly asked John Bond to substitute SuperMac at half-time, the striker having netted five of his nine goals before the interval.
Although MacDougall added his 31st goal of the season and Phil Boyer also scored in a 2-0 win over Southend United in the second round, the Cherries’ cup run ended with a disappointing 1-0 defeat at Walsall in the third.
HOWARD GODDARD – 1974/75
AFC Bournemouth 5 Southwick 0
Howard Goddard was just 17 when he plundered his first career hat-trick against non-league Southwick in a 5-0 win in the first round in November 1974.
An apprentice at Dean Court, the Over Wallop-born striker made his debut as a 15-year-old on the final day of the 1972/73 season in a 2-0 defeat at Halifax.
He turned professional in July 1974 and scored three times as Trevor Hartley’s team beat Sussex League Southwick, the first and only time the Wickers reached the first round.
However, although Goddard was on target a second-round replay against Wycombe Wanderers, a 2-1 home defeat at the hands of the Isthmian League champions cost Hartley his job.
Following spells at Swindon Town and Newport County, Goddard returned to Dean Court in December 1981 and featured in the Cherries’ Division Four promotion campaign.
DAVID PUCKETT – 1986/87
AFC Bournemouth 7 Fareham Town 2
Striker David Puckett (pictured above) bagged his FA Cup hat-trick just six weeks before he sustained a season-ending injury during the Cherries’ Third Division promotion campaign.
Puckett, who moved to Dean Court as part of the deal which saw Colin Clarke join Southampton in July 1986, had been ever present for Harry Redknapp’s team in his debut season.
He took his goal tally into double figures by scoring three times against Southern League Fareham Town as the Cherries triumphed 7-2 in the first round.
Carl Richards (two), Trevor Aylott and an own goal saw Redknapp’s team beat a Fareham side managed by former Poole Town and Bashley boss Trevor Parker.
Puckett also started as the Cherries went down 1-0 to Orient in the second round before he suffered a broken leg in the Boxing Day win against Bristol Rovers at Bath’s Twerton Park.
JOSH MCQUOID – 2010/11
AFC Bournemouth 5 Tranmere Rovers 3
Josh McQuoid (pictured below) bagged FA Cup and League One hat-tricks in successive games during a memorable month which also saw him make his international debut and earn a move to the Championship.
Lymington-raised McQuoid progressed through the ranks at Dean Court and featured in the 2008/09 Greatest Escape and the Cherries’ League Two promotion campaign of 2009/10.
His breakthrough season came following Brett Pitman’s sale to Bristol City in August 2010, McQuoid netting five goals in his first four games after being asked to lead the line by boss Eddie Howe.
McQuoid’s FA Cup treble against Tranmere settled in Cherries’ favour a pulsating first-round encounter at Dean Court with Marc Pugh and Liam Feeney also on target.
He repeated the feat against Walsall the following Saturday before making his debut for Northern Ireland in a friendly against Morocco just four days later.
And after scoring again in a 2-0 win against Yeovil, McQuoid joined Millwall on loan, the move made permanent in January 2011 for a reported fee of £550,000.
EMILIANO MARCONDES – 2021/22
Yeovil Town 1 AFC Bournemouth 3
Emiliano Marcondes became the first Cherries player to score an FA Cup hat-trick since 2010/11 and the first Danish player to achieve the feat since Nicklas Bentdner in the same season.
Marcondes’s treble against Yeovil Town in the third round saw him match Josh McQuoid’s exploits against Tranmere 11 years ago and those of countryman Bentdner who netted three times in Arsenal’s 5-0 win against Leyton Orient in a fifth-round replay in March 2011.
Perennial giant-killers Yeovil never looked likely to add to their tally of 21 Football League scalps as a non-league club after Marcondes had given the Cherries a 2-0 interval lead.
The 26-year-old scored two exceptionally well-taken goals in the 19th and 43rd minutes after being assisted by Chris Mepham and Jaidon Anthony, respectively.
And although Joe Quigley reduced the arrears early in the second half, Marcondes put the tie to bed 20 minutes from time when he fired home from close range after Jamal Lowe’s initial shot had been saved.
PRE-FOOTBALL LEAGUE FA CUP HAT-TRICKS
1910/11 – Penton v Weymouth (4-3 first qualifying round)
1912/13 – Blanchard v Gosport United (7-1 first qualifying round replay)
1919/20 – Dunford v Poole St Mary’s (9-0 preliminary round)
1921/22 – Bailey v Bournemouth (6-0 first qualifying round replay)
1922/23 – James v Gosport Athletic (4-0 third qualifying round)
