Which English football club is nicknamed 'The Trotters'?
Bolton Wanderers Football Club is a professional football club based in Bolton near the town of Horwich, Lancashire, England, which competes in EFL League One, the third tier of English football.
The club played at Burnden Park for 102 years from 1895. On 9 March 1946, thirty-three Bolton fans lost their lives in a human crush, the Burnden Park disaster. In 1997, Bolton moved to the Reebok Stadium. The stadium was renamed the Macron Stadium in 2014 and University of Bolton Stadium in 2018.
The club's nickname of 'The Trotters' has several claimed derivations; that it is simply a variation on 'Wanderers', that it is an old local term for a practical joker, or that one of the grounds used before the club settled at Pikes Lane resided next to a piggery, causing players to have to 'trot' through the pig pens to retrieve the ball if it went over the fence.
Bolton have spent more seasons, 73, than any other club in the top flight without winning the title. They finished third in the First Division in 1891–92, 1920–21 and 1924–25. Bolton won the FA Cup three times in the 1920s, and again in 1958. The club spent a season in the Fourth Division in 1987–88, before regaining top-flight status in 1995 and qualifying for the UEFA Cup twice; reaching the last 32 in 2005–06 and the last 16 in 2007–08. FA is the Football Association, and UEFA is the Union of European Football Associations.
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