Colours and Badge
Bolton Wanderers' home colours are white shirts with navy and red trim, worn with navy shorts and white socks. Their current away kit is a black and navy striped jersey with white trim worn with white shorts and white socks. Their third-choice kit is a grey jersey with red trim, worn with white shorts and red socks. Bolton did not always wear the white kit they do today, in 1884 they wore white with red spots. Bolton's traditional colours are white shirts with navy blue shorts. The navy blue shorts were dispensed with in 2003, in favour of an all-white strip, but they returned in 2008. The club had previously experimented with an all-white kit in the 1970s.
The Bolton Wanderers club badge consists of the initials of the club in the shape of a ball, with red and blue ribbons beneath. The ribbons controversially replaced the Red Rose of Lancashire, coinciding with the club's move to the Reebok Stadium. The club's original badge was the town crest of Bolton.
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