Stockport County are bidding to reach the second tier for the first time since the 2001-02 campaign, and would do so just four years after being promoted from the National League.

This is the sixth time in club history that Bolton Wanderers have reached the EFL play-off finals across the Championship and League One, though both of their attempts at promotion in the third tier have ended in defeat, losing 1-0 to Tranmere Rovers in 1991 and 2-0 to Oxford United in 2024.

Stockport have won three of their last four games against Bolton (D1), keeping a clean sheet in each victory across that time. The Hatters’ three clean sheets in that run are just one fewer than across their prior 25 games across all competitions against the Trotters combined between April 1909 and November 2023.

The 2025-26 League One play-off final will be Bolton’s 16th trip to Wembley Stadium across all competitions, winning seven of those matches. The Trotters have won just one of their last five however, a 4-0 victory over Plymouth Argyle in the 2023 Football League Trophy final, while failing to score in the other four.

Stockport have lost three of their four Football League play-off finals, winning the other against Rochdale in 2007-08. They’ve lost both finals as a third tier side, against Peterborough United in 1991-92 and Burnley in 1993-94.

During their play-off semi-final tie against Bradford City, Bolton kept clean sheets in both of their matches against the Bantams, the first time that they’ve ever managed to get through the semi-final stage of the play-offs without conceding.

Stockport have won just one of their seven matches at Wembley Stadium (D1 L5), beating Rochdale 3-2 in the League Two play-off final in 2007-08.

Stockport's Corey Addai kept a clean sheet in both legs of the semi-final, while he last recorded three successive shutouts in the league in August 2024. Meanwhile, Addai kept a clean sheet in his only previous play-off final appearance – for Crawley Town vs Crewe Alexandra in the 2024 League Two final.

With his strike against Stevenage in the semi-final, Stockport County’s Kyle Wootton became the second player to score 20 goals in League One (including play-offs) this season, after Leyton Orient’s Dom Ballard (23).

Only Reading’s Lewis Wing (22) has more goals contributions in League One this season among midfielders than Bolton’s Amario Cozier-Duberry (19 - inc. play-offs). In the third tier this season, the 20-year-old also ranks second for dribbles completed (68), behind only Stockport’s Jack Diamond (89).