- Sam Allardyce
Samuel "Sam" Allardyce (born October 19 1954 in Dudley, West Midlands) is an English former professional football player and current football manager. He is currently the manager of Newcastle United of the English Premier League. He was manager of Bolton Wanderers between 1999 and 2007, leading them to a League Cup final and guiding them to UEFA Cup qualification for the first time in their history. He is often referred to by the nickname "Big Sam".
- Nicolas Anelka
Nicolas Anelka, or Abdul-Salam Bilal (born March 14, 1979 in Versailles, France) is a French footballer, preferring to play in the forward position. He plays for Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League. He won the 1998-99 PFA Young Player of the Year award after making his name at Arsenal, and has since changed clubs many times. Anelka is the son of two parents from Martinique, Marguerite and Jean-Philippe, who emigrated to Metropolitan France in 1974.
- Sammy Lee
Samuel "Sammy" Lee (born February 7 1959 in Liverpool) was a diminutive but skilful midfield player in the great Liverpool team of the early 1980s, who played for England 14 times. He is currently the manager of Premier League side Bolton Wanderers following the resignation of Sam Allardyce on April 29, 2007.
- Paul Robinson
Paul Robinson (born December 14 1978 in Watford) is an English football player. He currently plays for West Bromwich Albion F.C.. He is a left-sided defender who can also play at centre back. Robinson, a product of Watford's youth system, made his debut against Watford's arch-rivals Luton Town on 29th October 1996, aged just 17. He went on to make 12 more appearances that season.
- Kevin Nolan
Kevin Nolan (born June 24 1982 in Liverpool) is a former England Under-21 international footballer who currently captains Bolton Wanderers of the FA Premier League.
- El Hadji Diouf
El-Hadji Ousseynou Diouf is a Senegalese footballer. He plays for Bolton Wanderers and Senegal.
- Phil Brown
Philip "Phil" Brown (born May 30, 1959 in South Shields, England) is an English former footballer, and the current manager of Hull City. As a player Brown was a dependable full back for many years - most of which was spent at Bolton Wanderers. He also played for Hartlepool and Halifax Town, playing alongside fellow Geordie Billy Ayre at both clubs and under him at the latter. They would have linked up for a third time at Blackpool, …
- Kevin Davies
Kevin Davies (born March 26, 1977 in Sheffield, England) is an English football player who currently plays for Bolton Wanderers as a striker.
- Danny Guthrie
Daniel "Danny" Guthrie (born April 18 1987 in Shrewsbury) is a young central midfielder with Bolton Wanderers. He signed for Liverpool as a 15 year old after being released by Manchester United. His displays in Liverpool's Academy side earned him a call-up to the England schoolboy side. As a regular member of the reserve squad he has moved to Melwood to join training with the senior team. He was a regular captain of the reserve squad.
- Phil Gartside
Phil Gartside is the chairman of Bolton Wanderers. He is an Irish businessman based in Lancashire and is Chairman of Chambers of Commerce North West. Phil was born in Dublin on 23rd August 1941 in the Dublin suburb of Whitehall, to parents Margaret and Patrick. He attended Larkhill Boys School and St. Aidans C.B.S where he first donned studded boots. Phil had a short stint as a semi-professional footballer in his youth with local side St.
- Gary Speed
Gary Speed is a Welsh footballer, who plays in midfield. He is currently the player/coach for Bolton Wanderers, after a £750,000 switch from Newcastle United in July 2004. He was also captain for the Welsh national team until he retired from international football in 2004 after the side's 3-2 defeat to Poland in a World Cup qualifier. As a child, he went to Hawarden High School. Speed began his career with Leeds United, winning the title with them in 1992.
- Nicky Hunt
Nicholas "Nicky" Hunt (born September 3, 1983 in Westhoughton, near Bolton, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom) is an English footballer who plays right back for Bolton Wanderers. He wears the number 2 shirt for the club.
- Jimmy Bullard
James "Jimmy" Bullard (born October 23,1978) is a professional footballer who currently plays as a central midfielder for Fulham.
- Tal ben Haim
Tal Ben Haim (born March 31, 1982 in Rishon LeZion, Israel) is an Israeli professional football player. Ben Haim plays both centre back and right back, and is currently contracted to Chelsea in the Barclays Premier League and is a member of the Israel national football team.
- Ricardo Gardner
Ricardo 'Bibi' Gardner (born September 25, 1978 in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica) is a Jamaican footballer who currently plays as a left defender or midfielder for Bolton Wanderers of the English Premier League. Gardner began his professional career with Harbour View F.C., where he debuted as a starter at only 14 years old. He also, representing Wolmer's Boys' High School, dominated the local high school football leagues and has gained legendary status.
- Stelios Giannakopoulos
Stylianos Giannakopoulos, popularly known as Stelios, is a Greek football player who currently plays for Bolton Wanderers as a midfielder. He initially started in his homeland of Greece, spending his first playing season with Ethnikos Asteras. Having been thrust immediately into first-team action, he found himself scoring six goals in his opening season, before moving to Paniliakos, where, in the three years he spent there, he scored 26 goals in 84 games.
- John Williams
John Williams (born 8 June 1937, Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales) is a retired Welsh snooker referee. Williams was well educated and passed his 11-plus at the age of nine and when he left school, he had obtained seven O-levels. He got a job in the local steel works and passed up the chance of becoming a professional footballer. He was invited to join Bolton Wanderers as an amateur, but declined their offer because he worked on Saturday mornings.
- Gavin McCann
Gavin Peter McCann (born January 10, 1978 in Blackpool, England) is a combative midfielder playing for Bolton Wanderers who signed him from Aston Villa. He has one England cap to his name, playing against Spain at Villa Park in 2001. He signed for Aston Villa from Sunderland in 2003, who in turn signed him from Everton in 1998, where he was a product of their academy.
- Jim Magilton
James "Jim" Magilton (born May 6, 1969 in Belfast) is a former Northern Irish footballer who currently manages Ipswich Town in the English Football League Championship.
- Jay-Jay Okocha
Augustine Azuka "Jay-Jay" Okocha (born August 14, 1973 in Enugu) is a Nigerian football midfielder who currently plays in the Qatar league for Qatar SC, a move that was completed in July 2006.
- Bernard Mendy
Bernard Mendy is a French Norman football player. He plays as a right wing defender for Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). A great fan of the PSG since his childhood, Mendy achieved his ambitions in 2000 when he joined PSG from SM Caen. Even though he had impressed a lot of people by his qualities during his first two seasons at PSG, he was loaned to Bolton Wanderers of England for a year, where he was appreciated for his offensive and speedy style.
- Lee Carsley
Lee Carsley is a professional football player for Everton, and who represents the Republic of Ireland internationally (his grandmother is from Dunmanway, Co.Cork). He was acquired by the Merseyside club for £1,950,000 from Coventry City in 2002. Prior to playing for Coventry, Carsley also played at Blackburn Rovers (top scorer for the club in 1999/2000) and Derby County. Carsley enjoyed mixed fortunes during his first two seasons at the club, …
- Stephen Ireland
Stephen James Ireland (born August 22 1986 in Cobh, Cork, Ireland) is an Irish footballer playing in England for Manchester City.
- Glen Little
Glen Matthew Little (born 15 October 1975, Wimbledon, England) is an English footballer. His position is right midfield, and he plays professionally for Reading. He previously played for Burnley, Bolton Wanderers, Derry City, Glentoran and Crystal Palace.
- Joey O'Brien
Joey O'Brien (born February 17, 1986 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish international midfielder or defender who plays football for Bolton Wanderers of the FA Premier League. To gain further experience, O'Brien was loaned out to League One team Sheffield Wednesday for the most part of the 2004-2005 season, making 15 appearances and scoring two goals, including one on his debut. O'Brien was named as captain for the last game of his loan spell in honour of his contribution.
- Jlloyd Samuel
Jlloyd Samuel (born March 29 1981 in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago) is an English football defender of Trinidadian descent, who currently plays for Bolton Wanderers.
- Andranik Teymourian
Andranik Teymourian (also spelt Andranik Teimourian,, , born March 6, 1983 in Tehran, Iran) is an Armenian-Iranian football player currently playing for Bolton Wanderers in the FA Premier League and the Iran national football team. He usually plays as a defensive midfielder, but can also play as a winger. He is noted for being the only Christian footballer in the Iranian national team, in which he has excellent relations with all of his team-mates.
- Ben Watson
Ben Watson (born July 9 1985 in London, England) is an English footballer who plays for Crystal Palace in The Championship. He wears the number 14 shirt and is a midfielder. Ben Watson made his debut aged 17 in April 2003, he gave a good performance and kept his place in the side for the final four games of the season. He made 16 appearances in the 2004/2005 season and has made a regular place for himself in the first team. He has represented England in the under-21s team.
- Ian Walker
Ian Michael Walker (born October 31, 1971 in Watford) is an English footballer currently playing for Bolton Wanderers.
- Owen Coyle
Owen Columba Coyle (born July 14, 1966 in Paisley, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish-born footballer who played international football for the Republic of Ireland, and a football manager. He is currently player-manager of St. Johnstone in the Scottish Football League First Division. Despite being born in Scotland he was never picked by that country, so he played for the Republic of Ireland, earning one international cap, against Holland in a friendly in Tilburg in April 1994.
- Mario Melchiot
Mario Melchiot (born November 4, 1976 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch football defender who currently plays for Wigan Athletic in the English Premier League. Having been part of the youth system at Ajax Amsterdam, Melchiot played three seasons for the club, winning the Eredivisie in 1998 and the KNVB Cup in 1998 and 1999. He moved to Chelsea under the Bosman ruling in the summer of 1999, where he won the FA Cup in 2000.
- Zat Knight
Zatyiah "Zat" Knight (born May 2 1980 in Solihull, West Midlands) is an English footballer currently playing for Fulham Football Club in London, England. He is a very imposing figure, standing at 6 ft 6 in and was signed from Rushall Olympic in exchange for 30 tracksuits. As Knight was not a professionally contracted player to Olympic, Fulham were not obliged to pay a fee for him and sent the clothing as a gesture of thanks.
- Henrik Pedersen
Henrik Pedersen (born June 10, 1975) is a Danish professional football player who plays as a forward. He has played three games for the Danish national team and has recently left Bolton Wanderers after six years. Pedersen started his career with Danish club Silkeborg IF in 1995. He made his debut for the Danish national team in an August 2000 game against the Faroe Islands.
- David Thompson
David Anthony Thompson (born September 12, 1977 in Birkenhead Beechwood Estate, England) is an English football player currently without a club. During his career Thompson has played for Liverpool F.C., Coventry City F.C., Blackburn Rovers F.C., Wigan Athletic F.C., Portsmouth and Bolton Wanderers.
- Peter Reid
Peter Reid (born June 20, 1956 in Whiston, Knowsley, Lancashire (Now Merseyside) is an English former professional football player, manager and pundit. In his playing career Reid played for Bolton Wanderers, Everton and QPR, as well as representing his country, after which he managed Manchester City, Sunderland, Leeds and Coventry. He currently works as a TV pundit and as a football agent.
- Chris Eagles
Christopher Eagles (born 19 November 1985 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire) is an English footballer whose most favoured position is as an attacking right-sided midfielder. He currently plays for Manchester United. Originally coming through the youth system at Watford, he left when he was 14 to join the Manchester United academy. The compensation owed to Watford for this move would later form part of the package which took Danny Webber in the opposite direction.
- Alan Stubbs
Alan Ross Farley Stubbs (born October 6, 1971 in Kirkby) is an English footballer who currently plays for Everton. He is an experienced central defender. His started his career at Bolton Wanderers, making almost 200 appearances for the club before moving to Celtic in May 1996. He won several medals with Celtic including the domestic treble and twice overcame testicular cancer. He joined Everton in July 2001.
- Andy Todd
Andrew John James "Andy" Todd (born September 21, 1974 in Derby, England) is an English football player who currently plays for Derby County. He is a central defender who can also play as a defensive midfielder, and he is the son of former Derby County and England defender Colin Todd who was manager of Middlesbrough when Andy made his debut. Todd's strengths are his ability to read the game, strength in the tackle and good passing ability out of defence.
- David Weir
David Weir (born 1863 in Aldershot, died 1933 in Bolton) was an English footballer who played for several clubs in the 19th century, including Bolton Wanderers and Ardwick (Manchester City), and won two caps for England. In the infancy of professional football Weir played for a number of teams, including Hampton, Glasgow Thistle, Maybole and Halliwell. He then signed for Bolton Wanderers, where he was an ever-present in the first ever season of the Football League.
- Franck Queudrue
Franck Queudrue (born August 27, 1978 in Paris, France) is a French footballer, currently playing for Fulham. Queudrue is a French B international defender, who currently plays for English Premiership football team Fulham. He joined Middlesbrough on loan from French club Lens in October 2001 and stayed until the summer of 2006. His prefered position is left-back, though he is comfortable at centre-back and, on certain occasions, …