Match Preview: Preston North End - Head-to-Head, Statistics, Team News and Predicted XI
14.08.26, 15:30 Updated 14.08.26, 15:42 5 Minute Read
Matt Bottomley
Bolton Wanderers finally begin their return to the Championship as they host Preston North End. The Whites have waited seven long years to return to the second tier, and open their account with a Lancashire derby.
Steven Schumacher's team have had a strong pre-season, but lost their opening game to Sheffield Wednesday, 1-0, in the Carabao Cup. Bolton are looking to change their luck in the league, something that will be their priority this campaign.
Three months on from Wanderers emphatic play-off final victory, over 25,000 people will head to the Toughsheet Community Stadium to see Bolton return to the Championship, hoping this time, things will be different.
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Matt Bottomley A lifelong Bolton Wanderers fan, this club is the reason I began my journalism career. Since sitting in the stands as a kid over 20 years ago, I have gone on to work for the likes of the BBC and The Telegraph before everything led me back to here, to the football club I love.