EFL League One · first half goals
Bolton Wanderers First Half Goals
In 238 EFL League One matches, 67.6% of Bolton Wanderers’ first halves produced a goal, 25th of the 35 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 41.6% of them and conceded in 42.9%.
What Bolton Wanderers’ first halves look like
Home advantage arrives early for Bolton Wanderers: they open the scoring account before halftime in 47.5% of home matches and only 35.6% of away ones, 11.9pp between them. There is more record to read here than for most of the division: 238 matches against a typical 138.
Bolton Wanderers guard the first half better than they attack it: 16th of 35 in the division for early goals conceded, 21st for scoring them. Bolton Wanderers come 25th of 35 in the published EFL League One field for the share of their first halves that produce a goal.
A goal arrives before halftime in 67.6% of Bolton Wanderers’ EFL League One matches. The EFL League One figure is 70.1%, leaving them 2.5pp short of it. A goalless first half remains common all the same, at 32.4%. Neither end of the pitch is much busier than the other early on in Bolton Wanderers’ matches: they find the net before the break in 41.6% of matches and let one in during 42.9%.
Every figure on this page rests on 238 completed Bolton Wanderers matches over 5 seasons (2021 to 2026). That is enough to separate a clear tendency from noise, and not enough to split it much further by venue or opponent.
Bolton Wanderers first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 67.6% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 32.4% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 11.3% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.14 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 41.6% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 42.9% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.61 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.53 |
| Matches counted | 238 |
| Seasons covered | 5 (2021 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 70.0% | 38.3% | 47.5% | 41.7% | 1.25 | 120 |
| Away | 65.3% | 26.3% | 35.6% | 44.1% | 1.03 | 118 |
Bolton Wanderers score before halftime 47.5% of the time at home against 35.6% away, a gap of 11.9pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Bolton Wanderers against EFL League One
| Line | Bolton Wanderers | EFL League One | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 67.6% | 70.1% | −2.5pp |
| Over 1.5 | 32.4% | 32.8% | −0.4pp |
| Over 2.5 | 11.3% | 10.5% | +0.8pp |
Counted from 238 matches · 5 seasons · 2021 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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