Bolton ended the 2025/26 campaign by earning a 15th promotion.
Only Notts County (16) have achieved more amongst current Premier League and EFL clubs, also doing so via the Play-Offs over the recent Bank Holiday weekend.
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๐Teams to score FOUR goals in a play-off final (Third tier; fr. 1990):
โช๏ธ Sheffield Wednesday (2005)
โช๏ธ Preston North End (2015)
๐ BOLTON WANDERERS (2026)
Congratulations @OfficialBWFC ๐ฅณ๐
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Ruben Rodrigues and Josh Dacres-Cogley today became the first players to have featured both for and against Bolton in separate EFL Play-Off Finals.
Dacres-Cogley represented Wanderers in 2024, when they were beaten by an Oxford United side which included Rodrigues.
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Bolton have won promotion via the EFL Play-Offs for a third time.
They have done so having won both legs of their semi-final, as well as the final itself, for the very first time.
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Ruben Rodrigues today became only the fourth player to register more than one goal in fixtures involving Bolton at Wembley Stadium.
Rodrigues joins Nat Lofthouse (3), Fabian de Freitas (2) and David Jack (2) in achieving this feat.
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.@JoshSheehan_ today became the 11th player to represent Bolton on three separate occasions at Wembley Stadium, following Gudni Bergsson, Billy Butler, Scott Green, Bob Haworth, Harry Nuttall, Jimmy Phillips, Dick Pym, Jimmy Seddon, Alan Stubbs and Steve Thompson.
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Bolton's 4-1 victory over Stockport County was the first time since 2015 that the League One Play-Off Final was won by a margin of 3+ goals.
On that occasion, Jermaine Beckford, on loan from Wanderers, netted a hat-trick as Preston North End beat Swindon Town 4-0.
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Steven Schumacher won promotion in his first full season in charge of Plymouth Argyle.
Now, he has won promotion in his first full season at Bolton.
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Bolton have won promotion via the Play-Offs for a third time. Only Blackpool (6), Charlton Athletic (4), Crystal Palace (4) and Huddersfield Town (4) have done so more often.
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After providing both assists in Oxford Unitedโs Play-Off Final victory over Bolton in 2024, Ruben Rodrigues took less than three minutes to register a goal for Wanderers in the 2026 edition.
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Having faced Bolton as manager of Plymouth Argyle in the 2023 Papa Johns Trophy final - a game in which Wanderers emerged 4-0 winners - Steven Schumacher is set to become the first person to take charge both for and against the club in a competitive final.
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The Play-Off Final will mark Bolton's 16th trip to Wembley, ranking them joint-eighth all-time alongside Aston Villa.
Only Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Everton have visited more often for competitive one-off ties.
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Reminder that in tomorrow's @TheBoltonNews we'll be running a 16-page Play-off Final pull-out.
Personal highlights include: Behind the scenes on play-off preparations, interviews with Sheehan, Burstow and Forino, a @BWFCStats -a-thon, globetrotting fans & 1926 and all that! #bwfc
Reminder that in tomorrow's @TheBoltonNews we'll be running a 16-page Play-off Final pull-out.
Personal highlights include: Behind the scenes on play-off preparations, interviews with Sheehan, Burstow and Forino, a @BWFCStats -a-thon, globetrotting fans & 1926 and all that! #bwfc