1999 Football League First Division play-off final
The 1999 Football League First Division play-off Final was an association football match which was played on 31 May 1999 at Wembley Stadium, London, between Bolton Wanderers and Watford. The match was to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from the Football League First Division, the second tier of English football, to the Premier League. The top two teams of the 1998–99 Football League First Division season gained automatic promotion to the Premier League, while those from third to sixth place in the table took part in play-off semi-finals; Bolton Wanderers ended the season fifth in the table, one position and one point ahead of Watford. The winners of these semi-finals competed for the final place for the 1999–2000 season in the Premier League. Birmingham City and Ipswich Town were the losing semi-finalists. Winning the final was estimated to be worth up to £10 million to the successful team.
The match took place at Wembley Stadium.
Watford manager Graham Taylor had last managed a team at Wembley in 1993 when he was in charge of England.
Eiður Guðjohnsen (pictured in 2018) had several chances to score.
Bolton Wanderers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Horwich, Greater Manchester, England. The team competes in League One, the third level of the English football league system.
Bolton won the celebrated 1923 FA Cup final
Nat Lofthouse spent his entire career from 1946 to 1960 with Bolton, scoring 255 league goals
Men from Bolton Wanderers Football Club serving together with a battery of artillery in the 53rd (Bolton) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, of the 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division, at Beccles, Suffolk on the east coast of England. The photograph, pictured sometime in 1940, shows the nine footballers in uniform cleaning an artillery piece.
Jussi Jääskeläinen is equal third on Bolton Wanderers' record appearance list, making 530 appearances between 1997 and 2012
