A 130-year-old football programme discovered in a Sussex home has set a new world record at auction.

The Surrey FA Cup final programme dating back to 1882 sold for more than £35,000.

The programme, found in a box of papers and scrapbooks bought as a job lot at an auction, looks forward to the final between the Old Etonians and Blackburn Rovers at the Kennington Oval on March 25, 1882.

The site is now Surrey’s County Cricket Ground.

The document, which had an estimate of £20,000-£25,000, sold at Sotheby's in London yesterday for £35,250.

The programme was originally owned by lawyer Sir Thomas Berry Cusack-Smith.

In a diary entry dated March 25, 1882, a scan of which was offered with the programme, the then 25-year-old wrote that he “saw the Etonians win the Cup after a most exciting match in the presence of 5,000 persons”.

Sir Thomas lived in Hove and then at Nuthurst near Horsham, where he died at the age of 70.

Auctioneer and specialist in charge Graham Budd said: “This has been one of the highlights of my career.

“I am absolutely thrilled with the price which we didn’t expect to be so much.

“World record prices for football programmes usually creep up gradually, by a thousand pounds a time, but to achieve a price that is over £10,000 more than the previous record is amazing.

“Understandably the seller is very pleased too.”

The programme was bought by the Old Etonians Football Club.

It will be presented to Eton College, who will display it in the Museum of Eton Life, which tells the story of the founding of the elite college in 1440 and provides a glimpse of life as an Eton schoolboy both past and present.

The previous record auction price for a football programme was held by one from a Manchester United v Bristol City 1909 FA Cup final which sold for £23,500 in November last year.

Early football programmes are considered very collectable, with one for the 1889 Preston North End v Wolverhampton Wanderers FA Cup final selling for £21,850 in May 2006.