Bolton Wanderers Reserves play their base games at the Eddie Davies Academy in Bolton. celebrated graduates of the team include early captain Kevin Nolan, Republic of Ireland international Joey O’Brien and eventual inaugural team regulars such as Nicky Hunt, Ricardo Vaz-Te, Josh Vela, Zach Clough and Rob Holding. Of the current team, graduates Harry Brockbank, Dennis Politic and Ronan Darcy have featured extensively at elder level since coming from the Academy in 2019, whilst Matthew Alexander, Adam Senior, Finlay Lockett, Jay Fitzmartin, Bright Amoateng, Mitchell Henry, Arran Pettifer and Matthew Tweedley have besides made appearances for the first base team team.
From 2021 they will once again participate in the Central League, having previously been part of that contest between 1911 and 1999. [ 1 ] They will besides take contribution in the Central League Cup for the 2021-22 season .
history [edit ]
Bolton first base ever reserve team was set up in 1921. [ 2 ] They have won the Central League doubly in 1955 and 1995. Their most recent achiever came in the FA Premier Reserve league in 2007. former years have seen the club compete in the Avon Insurance Premier League, FA Premier League North and Professional Development League 2. They besides participated in the Manchester Senior Cup and Lancashire Senior Cup in previous years, winning their third gear Manchester Senior Cup deoxyadenosine monophosphate recently as 2015 and winning the Lancashire Senior Cup twelve times, the last juncture coming in 1990-91 season. In August 2016, the U21 side was renamed as the U23 english, after a consultation involving all 31 clubs in the Professional Development League 2, voted in favor of the new historic period parameters. [ 3 ]
abolition and re-formation [edit ]
due to Bolton dropping to Category Three in March 2020 Bolton had no Development Squad in the 2020–21 season. [ 4 ] This was the first time since the reserves were created in 1921 that Bolton had not had a reserve team. [ 2 ] After about a year without military reserve team football, Bolton started setting up allow friendlies in March 2021 so that their fringe players could get game time and plan to relaunch a reservation team for the 2021–2022 season. [ 5 ] Bolton Reserves entered The Central League starting with the 2021–2022 season. [ 6 ]
Grounds [edit ]
previous modesty grounds at Bolton include their old home at Burnden Park, Hilton Park the former dwelling of Leigh Centurions, Bury ‘s ground at Gigg Lane, Spotland Stadium, home of Rochdale and Rochdale Hornets and County Ground ( Leyland ). Since re-forming in 2021, the modesty team play at the Eddie Davies Academy in Lostock. occasionally matches are played at the first gear team anchor at the University of Bolton Stadium .
The Academy [edit ]
The Bolton Wanderers Academy was established in 1998 and is based at the clubhouse and the independent train ground. It replaced the older, more cozy youth system, and enabled the club to focus their young person development and scout, employing newly techniques and FA standards. It was last oversee by former Bolton Wanderers F.C. player Jimmy Phillips. It provides a stepping pit for youngsters to progress to the highest levels of football at Bolton Wanderers. Scouts attend many local youth matches looking for talented boys. A male child will then be invited to attend aim sessions at the Academy. They are taken in arsenic unseasoned as the historic period of eight. At this age, the boys start by merely attending after-school train sessions, but as they reach their middle-teens, their academician needs will be taken over by the Academy if they are deemed athletically talented enough. Between the ages of eight and twelve the boys play in eight-a-side games of three twenty-minute periods. It allows the boys to play as defenders or as attackers in small groups within a arrangement and is not as physically demanding as playing eleven-a-side matches. The first player to graduate from the Academy to the first team was the former baseball club captain, Kevin Nolan who had previously been on the young books of Liverpool. He has since been followed into the first team by Joey O’Brien, Ricardo Vaz Tê, Nicky Hunt. Josh Vela, Zach Clough and Rob Holding amongst others. In December 2012, the Bolton Academy was awarded Elite status by the Premier League. [ 7 ] In June 2015, it was announced that the clubhouse had sought to downgrade from a Category One status in order to save money. [ 8 ] On March 2020, the golf club announced it would down grade to Category Three. [ 4 ]
Players [edit ]
Academy ( Under-18s ) [edit ]
As of July 2021.
| Name | Position | Date of Birth | Nationality |
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| Joseph Brown | Defender | (
2004-04-23 )23 April 2004 ( old age 17 ) |
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| Joel Burgess | Defender | |
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| Max Conway | Defender | (
2003-09-05 )5 September 2003 ( age 18 ) |
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| Jack Dallimore | Goalkeeper | |
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| Wes Frimpong | Defender |  |
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| Noah Halford | Defender | |
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| Mitchell Henry | Striker | (
2003-09-02 )2 September 2003 ( age 18 ) Read more: Chord (music) – Wikipedia |
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| Daniel Jones | Midfielder | |
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| Abdul Kamara | Midfielder | |
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| Ellis Litherland | Goalkeeper | (
2004-05-05 )5 May 2004 ( age 17 ) |
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| Rio McEvoy | Striker |  |
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| Arran Pettifer | Midfielder | (
2003-10-01 )1 October 2003 ( age 18 ) |
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| Sonny Sharples-Ahmed | Midfielder | (
2005-03-03 )3 March 2005 ( old age 16 ) |
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| Jack Thompson | Defender | (
2003-11-02 )2 November 2003 ( age 18 ) |
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| Lamine Toure | Defender | (
2003-12-24 )24 December 2003 ( long time 17 ) |
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| Matthew Tweedley (C) | Midfielder | (
2004-04-16 )16 April 2004 ( senesce 17 ) |
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| Max Wilcox | Midfielder | (
2003-09-11 )11 September 2003 ( long time 18 ) |
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managerial history [edit ]
Reserves/Development Squad [edit ]
young Team/Academy [edit ]
staff [edit ]
In addition, the academy use staff from the first-team .
Graduates [edit ]
The following players have been associated with the Bolton Wanderers Academy and have gone on to play league football for Bolton or other clubs since the Academy was founded in 1998. Academy Graduates who have made at least one senior appearance for the Bolton Wanderers beginning team .
other players associated with the Academy who have made at least one senior appearance for league clubs in Britain or abroad .