Supporter Match Pack | Cardiff City (H)

With a huge crowd expected, we urge supporters to arrive in good time to ease the process of entering the stadium on matchday. 

Supporters under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult (18+) whilst attending fixtures at the Toughsheet Community Stadium.*

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Bolton Wanderers and Bolton Wanderers in the Community are proud to support the 2026 Play Safe campaign, helping to raise awareness of the importance of safeguarding throughout football.

Play Safe is a national FA-led campaign, endorsed by the NSPCC, which aims to promote safeguarding and ensure football remains a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.

The campaign is supported throughout the English game, from the professional leagues through to the grassroots game, providing an opportunity for the football community to come together and highlight the importance of safeguarding.

At Bolton Wanderers, the welfare of everyone who engages with the Football Club remains a priority.

From matchdays at the Toughsheet Community Stadium to the work delivered by Bolton Wanderers in the Community, alongside the Club's Academy and wider football operations, safeguarding is an important part of everyday life at Wanderers.

The Club is committed to creating an environment where everyone feels safe, welcome and able to have their voice heard.

Head of Safeguarding, Joe Shaw, commented:

"As Head of Safeguarding at Bolton Wanderers, I am proud to support this Play Safe fixture against Cardiff City. Safeguarding is at the heart of everything we do: protecting children, young people and adults at risk, while ensuring everyone can enjoy football in a safe, respectful environment.

"On behalf of the Club and Hotel, I would like to thank our staff, volunteers and supporters for the part they play in creating that environment.

"We have introduced new reporting methods to make it easier and more accessible for everyone attending Bolton Wanderers fixtures to raise a concern. These can be found on the Club website and will also be displayed on the LED screens around the stadium."

As part of Wanderers' ongoing commitment to safeguarding, one of the club's Academy teams helped to create the club's new Safeguarding Policy on how we want Bolton Wanderers to feel. This policy includes:

• Keep us safe. Allow us to be looked at as a person and look after each other
• We want everyone to be enthusiastic and to be happy and safe
• Be welcome, play as a team, because everyone has a responsibility
• Be happy, safe and in a friendly environment
• Be bothered and think everyone has a voice and gives 100% effort

If you experience or witness anything of concern in regard to safeguarding, please report this through our One Wanderers number on 07476 561 534 or email BWFC@PATRONUS-REPORTING.COM and our dedicated team will respond accordingly. 

This number is displayed across our club website, as well as around the Toughsheet Community Stadium – including our LEDs on matchdays – for fans to use appropriately should they need to. 

For full details on the Play Safe campaign, please visit the FA's website by clicking here.

For full details on your day with us at the Toughsheet, we have complete guides for both home and visiting supporters: 

Home - Please click here

Away - Please click here

The Boxoso Premier Suite is not open for this game. Our Dreams 2 Reality outdoor fanzone remains open as usual.

The Dreams 2 Reality Fan Zone opens three hours before kick-off at 10:30 AM. Arriving early secures your spot and provides immediate access to the Happy Hour, which offers draught beers for a fantastic price of £1.25 off.

Inside the Fan Zone, you find three bars, including a Craft Ale Bar with premium beers. You choose from five food outlets: Namploy, Spice Valley, Fratellis, Northern Ivy Grill, and hot drinks/cakes from Backup. The zone also includes a game area and an enclosed football section for children.

Extend your matchday experience after the final whistle. The Fan Zone remains open for an hour after the match.

Kiosks open at 10:30am

Express Madri bars on lower concourses with pre order for a half time option.

Madri Atlantic pale ale and Carrs pasty booths throughout the stadium with fast pour beer dispense

Bean to cup coffee available at coffee carts

Alcohol free beer and vegan pasties available 

The Hub, located next to our Club Shop and Ticket Office at the Toughsheet Community Stadium, will once again be open this season and on Saturday afternoon.

The Wellbeing Hub operates from 10:30am. It is the perfect spot for families, offering games and refreshments in a relaxed environment before the match begins.

Our Club Shop will be open ahead of kick-off on Saturday for Wanderers fans to get kitted out ahead of the clash with Cardiff.

The club shop is open 9:00 AM until 5:30 PM and Ticket office 9am - kick off.

Make a day of it at Bolton Stadium Hotel on Saturday afternoon!

For a premium pre-match brunch or drink, the Bolton Stadium Hotel bar is open to home fans from 10:00AM. 

Season Ticket Holders receive a 10% discount on all food and drink purchases at the hotel bar. Please ensure you have your match ticket or season card ready to show on entry

Our matchday programme ‘The Wanderer’ is back for 2026/27!

The perfect-bound publication contains a number of exciting, exclusive features and content for supporters to enjoy for the clash with Preston.

With the cover price available at £4, ‘The Wanderer’ offers great value with the programme available to buy in all the usual places on Saturday.

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At just £1 per ticket, Wanderers fans have three chances per ticket to win a £500 cash prize of the minute and second the first goal is scored at every BWFC home league game.

Available to purchase outside the Club Shop, Dreams 2 Reality Fan Zone, Bolton Stadium Hotel and throughout the Lower Concourse at the Toughsheet.

Good luck!

For 2026/27 - for supporters based in the UK, Ireland and Nordic regions - Wanderers TV is no longer be able to provide live video streaming services to anyone based domestically – for any fixture. 

A specific audio match passes will be available for Saturday's game, as well as part of a monthly/annual pass to the club's TV channel. 

For Wanderers fans located internationally, the game will be available for live streaming. 

Prices are as follows:

• Cardiff City live audio match pass - £2.50
• Cardiff City live video match pass (INTERNATIONAL ONLY) - £10
• Wanderers TV monthly subscription (that includes live audio commentary of games during that month but no video streaming) - £5
• Wanderers TV annual subscription (that includes live audio commentary of all eligible games during the season but no video streaming) - £50

Click below for full details on subscriptions available to supporters based both domestically and internationally:

See Available Subscriptions Here

Supporters are reminded of the ANPR car parking system in place at the Toughsheet Community Stadium, so please remember to pay for your parking either at the machines in the car parks or online.

Supporters are encouraged to utilise www.parkgood2go.com for match day payments.

The portal allows users to register their number plate and payment details and once registered, the ANPR cameras will recognise the number plate as the vehicle enters into the stadium car park and payment will automatically be taken.

Please be aware of local residents and park responsibly, using official Club car parks.

More than 20,000 people will get Saturday right as they do every week. This is a family club - grandparents, parents and children together - and it stays that way because of how the overwhelming majority of you carry yourselves.

All we ask is that you tell us the moment the very small minority try to spoil it. That is what One Wanderers Family is for. Text or WhatsApp 07542 850 902 with the block, row and seat number if you can, speak to your nearest steward, or report it here through the club website. Discrimination of any kind can also be reported directly to Kick It Out. Every report is treated in strict confidence and every report is acted on.

See It. Report It. Stop It. Love Football, Protect The Game.

A reminder on pyros

A flare burns hot enough to take skin off. It goes off in a stand where children, older supporters and people who cannot breathe easily are sitting shoulder to shoulder with it and they have nowhere to go.

They are also illegal inside a football ground. Anyone caught with one faces arrest, a club ban and a football banning order. Where an incident meets the threshold for criminal action, the club will pursue it alongside Greater Manchester Police, without exception.

The same applies on the trains, where a single device takes a service out of use and strands hundreds of Wanderers who did nothing wrong.

Your match day experience is important to Bolton Wanderers Football Club. Our aim is to deliver access and inclusion for all.

Disabilities are wide-ranging and not always visible; the emphasis on removing barriers to ensure accessibility to services and facilities has changed the focus to enable you, where possible, to come to a match independently here at the Toughsheet Community Stadium.

Should you have any further questions, please contact Daniel Scott, Disability Liaison Officer by calling 01204 328 888 or email dscott@bwfc.co.uk. 

For full details on accessibility at the Toughsheet Community Stadium on matchdays, please click here.

The official matchday bus service is in operation for this league fixture. Please note that standard timetables apply to ensure you reach the stadium safely for kick-off at 12:30pm.

We will have the Sink Your Shot halftime game. There will be two brave contestants talking part in the “Boss Your Bathroom Challenge” !

Now think of this as footballs twist on curling or bowls, whichever you fancy. The rules are simple:  the contestants will each take turns to kick the ball onto the plughole cover. The goal ?To get as close as possible !

Whoever’s ball is closest to the middle after all 3 shots, wins either a signed BWFC shirt or ball  or you can risk it all for an additional shot with the chance to win a £2,500 bathroom voucher.