2006–07 was Bolton Wanderers Football Club's eighth season in the Premier League, and their sixth consecutive season in the top division of English football and covers the period from 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007. Their failure to win the Premier League title made it the 68th time that they have competed at the top level of English football without winning the title, the most of any club.
Premier League Bolton overcame the previous season's disappointment of failing to qualify for Europe and finished in seventh, enough for UEFA Cup football. Bolton had spent much of the season challenging for a Champions League and had peaked as high as third, but for a club of Bolton's size and resources to be challenging at the top end of the table was something for Bolton supporters to be proud of.
Three games before the end of the season, manager Sam Allardyce announced his resignation as Bolton manager and was replaced by Sammy Lee for the final three games of the season.
Results summary
Results per matchday
Final league table
FA Cup
League Cup
First-team squad Squad at end of season
Left club during season
Transfers in +DatePositionNameClub FromFee1 July 2006MF Idan Tal Maccabi HaifaFree14 July 2006DF Abdoulaye Méïté MarseilleUndisclosed26 July 2006MF Quinton FortuneManchester UnitedFree25 August 2006FW Nicolas Anelka Fenerbahce SK£8,000,00029 August 2006MF Andranik Teymourian FC AboomoslemUndisclosed26 January 2007DF Ľubomír MichalíkFC SenecUndisclosedFW Zoltán HarsányiLoan31 January 2007MFDavid ThompsonPortsmouthNominal20 February 2007DF César MartínFree AgencyFree
Transfers out +DatePositionNameClub ToFee30 June 2006MF Jay-Jay OkochaFree AgencyReleased30 June 2006DF Bruno NgottyFree AgencyReleased30 June 2006FWMatt JansenFree AgencyReleased30 June 2006MF Khalilou FadigaFree AgencyReleased30 June 2006MF Oscar PerezFree AgencyReleased31 July 2006DFRadhi JaïdiBirmingham City£2,000,000
Squad statistics No.Pos.NameLeagueFA CupLeague CupTotalDisciplineAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals1GK Ali Al-Habsi00000000002DF Nicky Hunt3302020370304MF Kevin Nolan31321113451015DF Abdoulaye Méïté3503120401406DF Gary Speed3882020428407MF Stelios Giannakopoulos2303020280108MF Iván Campo34420213851219FW Henrik Pedersen18120102111011MF Ricardo Gardner18030002106012GK Ian Walker001020300014FW Kevin Davies308211033910115MF David Thompson800000803016MF Andranik Teymourian17222202141017DF Quinton Fortune601000703020FW Ricardo Vaz Tê25030203000021FW El Hadji Diouf33510103557122GK Jussi Jääskeläinen38020004003023MF Idan Tal16021202011024DF Joey O'Brien000000000025DF Abdoulaye Faye322200034210026DF Tal Ben Haim320101033011127DF César Martín100000100028DF Ľubomír Michalík410000411029FW Zoltán Harsányi000000000030GK Chris Howarth000000000037MF James Sinclair200000202039FW Nicolas Anelka3511301139121041DF Jarosław Fojut000020200042FW Johann Smith101010302044DF Błażej Augustyn001000100045MF000000000046DF Scott Jamieson0000000000––Own goals–2–0–0–2 Statistics accurate as of match played 13 May 2007
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