Edward Barton is a former

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player who represented

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at international level. Barton made a single appearance in an official international for the All Whites in a 2–4 loss to

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on 5 June 1933. Barton was only the third player to score a hat-trick in the final of the Chatham Cup, putting three goals past the Millerton All Blacks goalkeeper in the

1932 Chatham Cup The 1932 Chatham Cup was the tenth annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand. The competition was run on a regional basis, with seven regional associations (Auckland, Walkato, Wellington, Manawatu, Buller, Canterbury, and O ...

final.

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Year of birth missing Possibly living people New Zealand men's association footballers New Zealand men's international footballers Men's association football forwards {{NewZealand-footy-forward-stub