Bolton Wanderers Football Club

LC control no.	nb2004301927
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Bolton Wanderers Football Club *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Bolton Wanderers Football and Athletic Co. Bolton Wanderers F.C. (Soccer team) Wanderers (Soccer team) Trotters (Soccer team) Whites (Soccer team) BWFC (Bolton Wanderers Football Club)
Beginning date	1877
Associated country	Great Britain England
Located	Bolton (Greater Manchester, England)
Field of activity	Soccer
Found in	Extra time, autumn 2002: prelim. (Bolton Wanderers Football Club) Bolton Wanderers: official match day programme, 27 Aug. 1983: prelim. (Bolton Wanderers Football and Athletic Co.) Bolton Wanderers F.C., 2002 Bolton Wanderers, 2007: t.p. (BWFC) p.8 (Wanderers) Football.co.uk WWW site, 3 Nov. 2008: Bolton Wanderers (est. 1874 as the Christ Church Sunday School but broke away three yrs. later when the vicar objected to them using their church premises; originally known as The Wanderers; were one of the 12 founder members of the Football League in 1888; also known colloquially as the Trotters) Its website, viewed 5 March 2019: home page (Bolton Wanderers; BWFC [in logo]) contact page (Bolton Wanderers Football Club, University of Bolton Stadium, Burnden Way, Bolton BL6 6JW) Wikipedia, viewed 5 March 2019 (Bolton Wanderers F.C.; Bolton Wanderers Football Club; professional football club in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England; formed as Christ Church Football Club in 1874 and initially run from the church of the same name on Deane Road, Bolton; left the location in 1877 and changed its name to Bolton Wanderers (reflecting its initial difficulty in finding a permanent ground to play on); played at Burnden Park from 1895; in 1997, moved to the Reebok Stadium, renamed the Macron Stadium in 2014, and now known as the University of Bolton Stadium; club's nicknames: The Trotters, The Wanderers, The Whites)
Associated language	eng