Supporter Match Pack | Preston North End (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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For full details on your day with us at the Toughsheet, we have complete guides for both home and visiting supporters: 

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Pound to the Ground is back!

As the official Football Club Charity for BWFC, we are calling on all fans to support the continuation of their vital services across Bolton.  Our Pound to the Ground Campaign calls on the support of all fans attending the match to help make a lasting difference across Bolton.

What might seem like an insignificant amount soon adds up and if each fan can donate just £1 at the match, they will raise over £20,000.

By coming together as a club and fans we can make a tangible difference in the lives of vulnerable and high-risk young people across our community. Your £1 donation goes towards keeping our services running and accessible for the most vulnerable in our community, from helping young people find their path to supporting older adults facing isolation.

Support BWFC. Support BWitC. Support Bolton.

Bring your £1 to the match against Preston North End on Saturday 15th August and help raise vital funds to support those most vulnerable in our community. Not got cash on you?

You can donate by texting BOLTON to 70480

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The Boxoso Premier Suite Is Open From 10am - Start Saturday Properly!

The Boxoso Premier Suite Fan Zone opens its doors at 10am on Saturday, two and a half hours before kick-off and it is set up for exactly the kind of build-up this fixture deserves.

Long tables. Pints moving across the bar. Food coming out steady. Giant screens. A live singer through the morning and a room that fills with white shirts and gets louder every half hour as the ground comes to life around it.

Anyone who was in there for the play-off run knows exactly what that room sounds like by the time it is time to go to your seat.

Food, drink and a proper morning

There is a full bar and food throughout, live music and screens showing the build-up to the biggest afternoon this ground has had in a long time. Bring your mates, bring your mum and dad, bring the lot of them. Grab a table, get a drink in and let Saturday build the way the best ones always do - slowly, loudly and together.

Get in early. Please.

Two things are true about Saturday. It is a 12:30pm kick-off and it will be the biggest crowd this stadium has seen for some time. Put them together and everything happens earlier than you are used to - the roads into Horwich, the car parks, the queues at the turnstiles.

The Boxoso Premier Suite also has a limited capacity, and once it is reached, entry stops. Supporters who were in there last season will know how quickly that point comes. On a day like this, it will come quicker.

So set off earlier than feels necessary. You will not regret it.

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.

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 against Preston.

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 Preston

The Ticket Office and shop is open from 9:00 AM until 5:30 PM.

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 Wycombe.

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:

• Preston North End live audio match pass - £2.50
• Preston North End 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 25,000 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.

Greater Manchester Police will have more officers than usual around the ground and at Horwich Parkway on Saturday. That is standard for a fixture of this size.

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.