Home of Bolton Wanderers FC
Opened 1997
Capacity 28,723
★★★★★
★★★★★
Visited 15/09/2024 for work training course. We had use of exec box 2, to get to this there is an entrance which isn’t well signposted near to to the club shop. Once up either via the accessible lift or the stairs there is a reception desk, which when I attended was not staffed. There was however the computer screen to register car registration for free parking (essential to do!). To get to the room booked there was a solitary sign on this job staffed desk, however it is not clear where to go, luckily a member of club staff was passing and kindly showed us to the box located at the end of the corridor we finally found. The room has an average sized screen to use, the free WiFi wasn’t working so the attentive staff member got us on to another connection. Looked after with plenty of tea/coffee being topped up through the session with some biscuits available too. The view from the box is good, the view inside the box is that it’s a bit dated with a very old kitchen cabinets (piece of top cornice missing) next to a place to hang coats.
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2 months ago
1st visit to the toughsheet Community Stadium.
£8 for parking for the match and there is loads of parking spaces. You pay at the machine on leaving.
The fan zone is brilliant, lots of street food, bars and toilets. A big screen playing football match was great before going in to the stadium.
Staff at the ticket office very helpful and the football shop very busy.
The stadium very easy to get around. We had seats in the upper north stand. Great view of the pitch.
Great atmosphere from the Bolton supporters, plenty of singing.
Unfortunately we only got to see Bolton play for 29 minutes before there was a medical emergency.
10 months ago
Proper English football experience. Stadium is often quite full nowadays, never used to be. Atmosphere can be hit and miss but so can the performance of the teams themselves, sometimes Bolton win, and others they lose or draw, and the atmosphere often reflects Bolton's performance, and how many away fans they let in. The stadium also has a standout design with tall floodlights, you can see it a while away. Ticket prices not too expensive either. Would much rather pay these prices for the fun, madness, excitement and unpredictability of a lower league match than a fortune for a Premier League match where you know who's going to win anyway.
a month ago
History (from Wikipedia)
University of Bolton Stadium is an all-seater stadium with a capacity of almost 29,000 and was completed in 1997, replacing the club's old ground, Burnden Park.
Burnden Park, which at its peak had held up to 60,000 spectators, was becoming increasingly dilapidated by the 1980s, and a section of terracing was sold off for redevelopment as a supermarket to help pay off the club's rising debts. Bolton Wanderers had dropped into the Third Division in 1983 and later spent a season in the Fourth Division. In January 1990, the Taylor Report required all clubs in the first and second tiers of the English league to have an all-seater stadium by the 1994-95 season. Bolton were still in the Third Division at this stage, but were aiming for promotion - which was finally achieved in 1993. By this stage, the club's owners had decided to relocate to a new all-seater stadium away from Burnden Park, and by 1995 had identified a location at Horwich as the preferred site of a new stadium.
The lead consultant/architect of the project was Lobb Sports, while local firm Bradshaw Gass & Hope acted as planning supervisors and quantity surveyors, the contractor was Birse Construction, and Deakin Callard & Partners provided structural engineering services. The value of the contract was £25 million (US$42.1 million).[7] The stadium is noted for its distinct gabled architecture, first pioneered by the John Smith's Stadium.
The stadium was opened in 1997 by John Prescott, a Labour Party politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time.[8]
The stadium consists of four stands: The Carrs Pasties (North) Stand at one end; the South Stand (Franking Sense and also the away end) at the other end; the West Stand at one side of the pitch; and the Nat Lofthouse (east) Stand at the other side.
When the stadium was named after long-time team sponsor Reebok in 1997, fans considered the title impersonal and believed that too much emphasis was being placed on financial considerations. This opposition considerably lessened after the stadium was built, as fans grew accustomed to the name and were bolstered by Reebok's status as a local company.[9]
The Macron title was applied in July 2014 after the Bolton Wanderers club finalised a partnership with the large Italian sportswear brand. In April 2014, long-serving club chairman Phil Gartside stated that he was "proud" to be associated with Macron and had "been very impressed with their [Macron's] passion for football". A four-year duration was negotiated for the Macron deal and the club had the option to extend at completion.[10]
When the deal with Macron came to an end in August 2018 the stadium was again renamed, this time as the University of Bolton Stadium.[11]
Burnden Park, which at its peak had held up to 60,000 spectators, was becoming increasingly dilapidated by the 1980s, and a section of terracing was sold off for redevelopment as a supermarket to help pay off the club's rising debts. Bolton Wanderers had dropped into the Third Division in 1983 and later spent a season in the Fourth Division. In January 1990, the Taylor Report required all clubs in the first and second tiers of the English league to have an all-seater stadium by the 1994-95 season. Bolton were still in the Third Division at this stage, but were aiming for promotion - which was finally achieved in 1993. By this stage, the club's owners had decided to relocate to a new all-seater stadium away from Burnden Park, and by 1995 had identified a location at Horwich as the preferred site of a new stadium.
The lead consultant/architect of the project was Lobb Sports, while local firm Bradshaw Gass & Hope acted as planning supervisors and quantity surveyors, the contractor was Birse Construction, and Deakin Callard & Partners provided structural engineering services. The value of the contract was £25 million (US$42.1 million).[7] The stadium is noted for its distinct gabled architecture, first pioneered by the John Smith's Stadium.
The stadium was opened in 1997 by John Prescott, a Labour Party politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time.[8]
The stadium consists of four stands: The Carrs Pasties (North) Stand at one end; the South Stand (Franking Sense and also the away end) at the other end; the West Stand at one side of the pitch; and the Nat Lofthouse (east) Stand at the other side.
When the stadium was named after long-time team sponsor Reebok in 1997, fans considered the title impersonal and believed that too much emphasis was being placed on financial considerations. This opposition considerably lessened after the stadium was built, as fans grew accustomed to the name and were bolstered by Reebok's status as a local company.[9]
The Macron title was applied in July 2014 after the Bolton Wanderers club finalised a partnership with the large Italian sportswear brand. In April 2014, long-serving club chairman Phil Gartside stated that he was "proud" to be associated with Macron and had "been very impressed with their [Macron's] passion for football". A four-year duration was negotiated for the Macron deal and the club had the option to extend at completion.[10]
When the deal with Macron came to an end in August 2018 the stadium was again renamed, this time as the University of Bolton Stadium.[11]
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