List of Bolton Wanderers F.C. players

Bolton Wanderers F.C.

Bolton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the area of Horwich in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester. They began their current spell in the Premier League in 2001....

is an English professional football club based in Horwich

Horwich

Horwich is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England. It is southeast of Chorley, northwest of Bolton and northwest from the city of Manchester. It lies at the southern edge of the West Pennine Moors with the M61 motorway close to the...

, Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...

. The club was formed in Bolton

Bolton

Bolton is a town in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England. Close to the West Pennine Moors, it is north west of the city of Manchester. Bolton is surrounded by several smaller towns and villages which together form the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, of which Bolton is the...

in 1874 as Christ Church F.C. and was renamed Bolton Wanderers F.C. in 1877. They played their first competitive match in October 1881, when they entered the First Round of the 1881–82 FA Cup. The club moved to Burnden Park

Burnden Park

Burnden Park was the home of English FA Premier League football club Bolton Wanderers who played home games here between 1895 and 1997. As well as hosting an FA Cup Final replay it was the scene of one of the greatest disasters in English football and the subject of an L. S...

in 1895 and the Reebok Stadium

Reebok Stadium

The Reebok Stadium is the home stadium of English Premier League football club Bolton Wanderers, and is located on the Middlebrook Retail Park in Horwich, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester. It is commonly known as 'The Reebok'...

in 1997. Since playing their first competitive match, almost 140 players have made at least 100 appearances (including substitute appearances); those players are listed here.

Bolton Wanderers's record appearance-maker is Eddie Hopkinson

Eddie Hopkinson

Edward Hopkinson was an English football goalkeeper.He was born in Wheatley Hill, near Peterlee, County Durham....

, who made more than 570 appearances between 1952 and 1970. The club's leading scorer is Nat Lofthouse

Nat Lofthouse

Nathaniel "Nat" Lofthouse, OBE was an English professional footballer who played for Bolton Wanderers for his whole career...

with 285 goals in his 14 years with the club. Along with Hopkinson and Lofthouse, seven other players have made more than 500 appearances, including the current first team goalkeeper, Jussi Jääskeläinen

Jussi Jääskeläinen

Jussi Albert Jääskeläinen is a Finnish football goalkeeper, who plays for Bolton Wanderers.-Club career:Jääskeläinen was born in Mikkeli, and made his Veikkausliiga debut in Finland for MP Mikkeli in 1992, and became the club's first choice goalkeeper in 1994. In 1996, he moved to VPS Vaasa where...

. Other than Lofthouse, only Joe Smith has scored more than 200 goals for the club.

List of players

Table headers

Apps — Number of games played as a starter
Sub — Number of games played as a substitute
Total — Total number of games played, both as a starter and as a substitute

Positions key
GK	Goalkeeper	RB	Right back	RM	Right midfielder	RW	Right winger
CB	Central back	LB	Left back	LM	Left midfielder	LW	Left winger
DF	Defender Defender (football) Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....	FB	Fullback	MF	Midfielder Midfielder A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...	W	Winger
FW	Forward Striker Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...	HB	Half back Defender (football) Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....	CM	Central midfielder

Statistics correct as of match played 26 November 2011

Name	Bolton Wanderers career	Apps	Sub	Total	Goals
	1888-1898	255	0	255	8
	1890-1901	293	0	293	2
	1895-1901	136	0	136	14
	1889–1898	219	0	219	101
	1895–1901	125	0	125	29
	1905–1921	388	0	388	4
	1908–1927	492	0	492	277
	1910–1931	512	0	512	70
	1912–1921	146	0	146	6
	1912–1930	287	0	287	2
	1914–1922	117	0	117	14
	1919–1932	375	0	375	5
	1920–1928	324	0	324	161
	1920–1933	449	0	449	74
	1921–1931	336	0	336	0
	1921–1932	326	0	326	6
	1922–1928	174	0	174	87
	1922–1937	530	0	530	2
	1928–1935	262	0	262	40
	1930–1939	334	0	334	23
	1930–1947	333	0	333	144
John Atkinson	1931–1948	263	0	263	5
Thomas Woodward	1935–1949	169	0	169	19
	1935–1955	423	0	423	0
	1936–1950	171	0	171	19
	1937–1947	144	0	144	0
	1940–1954	118	0	118	0
	1942–1952	154	0	154	1
	1943–1955	358	0	358	134
	1944–1956	357	0	357	27
	1946–1960	503	0	503	285
	1947–1965	518	0	518	9
	1947–1961	255	0	255	2
	1949–1961	183	0	183	9
	1949–1953	132	0	132	18
	1950-1958	212	0	212	2
	1950–1962	463	0	463	44
	1950–1962	310	0	310	101
	1951–1956	205	0	205	18
	1951–1966	498	1	499	13
	1952–1970	578	0	578	0
	1952–1955	109	0	109	34
	1952–1961	202	0	202	0
	1953–1960	299	0	299	79
	1955–1964	191	0	191	28
Graham Stanley	1955–1965	161	0	161	4
	1957–1969	410	2	412	79
Syd Farrimond	1958–1971	403	1	404	1
	1958–1975	521	7	528	17
	1959–1967	210	0	210	106
	1961–1969	259	0	259	8
David Lennard	1961–1969	121	5	126	3
	1962–1966	170	0	170	74
	1962–1970	281	5	286	46
	1962–1972	213	2	215	9
Brian Bromley	1963–1968	183	1	184	26
	1965–1980	567	8	575	85
	1965–1975	160	15	175	19
	1966–1976	340	11	351	130
	1966–1978	375	3	378	13
	1967–1971	116	1	117	12
	1967–1971	108	2	110	30
Gary Jones	1968–1975	236	11	247	55
	1969–1977	153	17	170	9
	1970–1983	502	4	506	43
	1970–1975	176	1	177	2
Peter Nicholson	1971–1982	352	18	370	14
	1972–1976	158	0	158	0
	1973–1979	189	4	193	0
	1973–1980 1985-1986	226	5	231	24
	1973–1978	126	6	132	2
	1973–1981 1982-1983 1983-1984 1987-1988	322	16	338	121
	1974–1982	257	4	261	25
	1974–1981	192	9	201	5
	1976–1980 1981-1983	274	0	274	1
	1976–1980	177	2	179	12
	1977–1981 1990-1994	208	8	216	2
	1978–1982	163	2	165	31
	1979–1983	93	11	104	15
	1980–1985	125	2	127	2
	1981–1986	139	1	140	0
	1982–1991	416	6	422	57
	1982–1985	120	1	121	2
	1983–1987	216	5	221	21
	1983–1987 1993-2001	390	21	411	8
	1983–1987	166	9	177	78
	1984–1992	246	13	259	11
	1985–1987	101	0	101	10
	1986–1993	333	12	345	52
	1986–1994	279	6	285	6
	1987–1993	300	0	300	0
	1987–1993	127	38	165	15
	1988–1994	330	2	332	17
	1988–1992	157	3	160	6
	1989–1992	180	2	182	75
	1989–1993	142	31	173	42
	1990–1996	232	24	256	15
	1990–1997	221	65	286	31
	1990–1995	190	5	195	9
	1992–1995	139	6	145	15
	1992–1997	230	15	245	118
	1992–2000	263	0	263	0
	1992–1997	164	35	199	20
	1993–1998	180	18	198	42
	1995–2003	306	11	317	26
	1995–1998	118	6	124	48
	1995–1999	119	7	126	16
	1995–2000	84	23	107	2
	1996–1999 2000-2004	277	27	304	36
	1996–2000	140	30	170	21
	1997–	522	1	523	0
	1997–	340	69	409	25
	1997–2000	125	2	127	4
	1997–2001	85	18	103	7
	1997–2003	118	68	176	49
	1997–2003	149	14	163	2
	1998–2003	89	17	106	0
	1998–2000	108	1	109	10
	1999–2009	291	54	345	50
	1999–2002	78	41	119	17
	2000–2003	68	44	112	46
	2000–2010	143	18	161	1
	2000–2004	120	14	134	0
	2000–2005	92	24	116	0
	2001–2006	164	8	172	7
	2001–2007	109	62	171	29
	2002–2006	123	22	145	18
	2002–2008	166	28	194	14
	2003–	331	13	344	72
	2003–2008	118	59	177	28
	2003–2008	114	22	136	24
	2004–2008	130	9	139	14
	2004–2007	103	7	110	1
	2008–2011	114	23	137	23
	2008–	140	0	140	14
	2008–	124	8	133	4
	2008–	118	3	121	5
	2008–2011	89	19	108	22

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