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Burnden Park was the home of Bolton Wanderers FC from 1895 to 1997. It hosted the 1901 FA Cup final replay, the 1946 Burnden Park disaster, and was depicted by L. S. Lowry in his painting Going to the Match.
The Burnden Park disaster was a crowd crush that occurred on 9 March 1946 at Burnden Park football stadium, then the home of Bolton Wanderers. The crush resulted in the deaths of 33 people and injuries to hundreds of Bolton fans. [1]
Key facts. Club: Bolton Wanderers | Opening: 1895 | Closing: 1997 | Final capacity: 25,000 | Maximum capacity: 70,000. Description. Burnden Park was for over a hundred years the home of Bolton Wanderers FC. It was also the site of one of the worst stadium disasters in the history of English football.
Mar 9, 2021 · On March 9, 1946, 33 fans died in a crowd crush at Burnden Park during an FA Cup tie between Bolton and Stoke. The club remembers them with a Book of Remembrance, a minute's silence, wreaths and a video.
Mar 7, 2016 · The Burnden Park stadium disaster was the worst loss of life at an English football ground before the 1980s. Thirty-three people died and around 400 were injured in a crush at an FA Cup tie 70...
Mar 9, 2020 · The Burnden Park disaster on 9 March 1946, in which 33 football fans lost their life (Image: Simon Marland) It is the darkest day in the history of Bolton Wanderers and at the time, was the ...
Mar 9, 2011 · The 65th anniversary of the Burnden Park football disaster will be remembered by Bolton Wanderers Football Club on Wednesday. Thirty-three fans were killed and another 400 injured during the ...
