Bolton Wanderers 2021/22 season player ratings - Ricardo Santos & Dapo Afolayan great

Bolton Wanderers finished ninth in League One this season in a successful first season back in the division.

Wanderers played in the third tier of English football for the first time since 2020 this campaign after securing automatic promotion from League Two last season.

The Whites ended up in the top 10 with a points tally of 73 points, 10 behind the play-off places as the standard needed to make the top six went up a level.

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Ian Evatt used a total of 37 players in the club's first team this campaign across League One, the FA Cup, Carabao Cup and the Papa John's Trophy.

So now that the season has concluded, we've gone through the Wanderers squad and given ratings for those who turned out for the Whites in the 2021/22 campaign.

We've opted to only rate players with five appearances or more, so there is no number for the likes of Matt Gilks, Adam Senior, Andrew Tutte, Ronan Darcy and Brandon Comley.

Goalkeepers

Joel Dixon - 6

The stopper arrived from Barrow over the summer and quickly became the club's number one goalkeeper ahead of Matt Gilks in the first half of the campaign. But was ultimately ousted as first choice after not convincing consistently enough and one of last acts this season was error which led to Hartlepool United dumping Wanderers out of the Papa John's Trophy in early January.

James Trafford - 7.5

Teenage stopper arrived from Manchester City midway through the January transfer window and became Bolton's new first choice goalkeeper, breaking a club record by keeping clean sheets in his first four games. Notched two assists during his loan spell two and was an assured precense for the most part between the