ChampionshipEngland

Bolton vs Preston

Bolton
2–1 Full time
Preston

Regular Season - 1Saturday, 15 August 2026Toughsheet Community Stadium, Bolton

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Bolton 2–1 Preston — Championship, Saturday, 15 August 2026. Full-time result, kick-off time and match details on FutToday.

Match statistics

6 Shots on goal 3
15 Total shots 9
55% Possession 45%
405 Total passes 330
77% Pass accuracy 70%
5 Corner kicks 2
12 Fouls 11
2 Yellow cards 3

Timeline

  1. 13' Ali McCann Yellow Card Preston
  2. 14' Sam Dalby Bolton
  3. 25' Thierry Gale Assist John McAtee Bolton
  4. 27' Jordan Thompson Yellow Card Preston
  5. 42' Pol Valentín Yellow Card Preston
  6. 48' Josh Sheehan Yellow Card Bolton
  7. 63' Leo Leroy off Jordan Thompson Preston
  8. 64' Odeluga Offiah off Pol Valentín Preston
  9. 64' Jusef Erabi off Callum Lang Preston
  10. 75' Samuel Iling Junior off Gaizka Larrazabal Bolton
  11. 75' Ryan Hardie off John McAtee Bolton
  12. 79' Thierry Small off Delano Burgzorg Preston
  13. 79' Andrija Vukčević off Andrew Hughes Preston
  14. 82' Eoin Toal off Max Conway Bolton
  15. 85' Lewis Brunt off Luca Stephenson Bolton
  16. 85' Kyliane Dong off Thierry Gale Bolton
  17. 86' Jusef Erabi Assist Andrija Vukčević Preston
  18. 88' Chris Forino Yellow Card Bolton

Line-ups

Bolton

Steven Schumacher

Starting XI

  1. 1 Jack Bonham G
  2. 27 Luca Stephenson D
  3. 3 Chris Forino D
  4. 14 Akin Famewo D
  5. 25 Max Conway D
  6. 8 Josh Sheehan M
  7. 21 Ethan Erhahon M
  8. 22 Gaizka Larrazabal M
  9. 45 John McAtee M
  10. 11 Thierry Gale M
  11. 10 Sam Dalby F

Substitutes

  1. 16 Samuel Iling Junior F
  2. 39 Ryan Hardie F
  3. 18 Eoin Toal D
  4. 5 Lewis Brunt D
  5. 7 Kyliane Dong F
  6. 23 David Harrington G
  7. 29 Cyrus Christie D
  8. 6 Ben Davies D
  9. 12 David Watson M

Preston

Paul Heckingbottom

Starting XI

  1. 1 Daniel Iversen G
  2. 2 Pol Valentín D
  3. 14 Jordan Storey D
  4. 6 Liam Lindsay D
  5. 16 Andrew Hughes D
  6. 8 Ali McCann M
  7. 15 Jordan Thompson M
  8. 7 Alfie Devine M
  9. 10 Callum Lang M
  10. 37 Delano Burgzorg M
  11. 28 Milutin Osmajić F

Substitutes

  1. 27 Leo Leroy M
  2. 24 Odeluga Offiah D
  3. 9 Jusef Erabi F
  4. 3 Andrija Vukčević D
  5. 11 Thierry Small D
  6. 21 Lee Nicholls G
  7. 32 Ed Nolan D
  8. 23 Andrew Moran M
  9. 30 George Gryba F