Old Boltonians Association Football Club are a

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

club based in Chapeltown, England. Their ground may be the oldest in the world still in use today. Old Boltonians were founded in 1920 for former members of

Bolton School Bolton School is a private day school in Bolton, Greater Manchester. It comprises a co-educational nursery (ages 0–4), co-educational infant school (ages 3–7), single sex junior schools (ages 7–11) and single sex senior schools including ...

. As of 2023–24, they play the Premier Division of the

Lancashire Amateur League The Lancashire Amateur Football League is an English association football league founded in 1899. Currently the league consists of five divisions – Premier, One, Two, Three and Four. The Premier Division is at level 14 in the English football ...

. Old Boltonians play in black and white striped shirts, black shorts and black socks with white band at top; their second kit is maroon shirts, white shorts and maroon socks.

Ground

Old Boltonians play their home games at Turton Football Ground, on Tower Street in Chapeltown. In the 2020 book ''British Football's Greatest Grounds'' by Mike Bayly, Turton was voted one of the top grounds to visit in the country. Bayly writes: Indeed, Turton may be the oldest football ground in the world still in use today, having hosted a match between Tottington and Darwen in 1830. The ground was later home to Turton F.C., founded in 1871 and instrumental in bringing the rules of

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

from London to the North West. Old Boltonians have played at Turton since 1952. In 1970, they bought the land on Tower Street, and in 2012 built its pavilion.

References

External links

* Football clubs in England {{England-footyclub-stub