A TOTAL of 13 Bolton Wanderers supporters have been banned from the World Cup, it was revealed today.

The fans are among 1,007 hard-core England football hooligans banned from travelling to Japan and Korea for the competition.

Only four other Premiership teams -- Leeds United with 66, Derby County with 37, Manchester United with 26 and Chelsea with 22 -- have more supporters banned.

In other divisions, Cardiff City has the most supporters banned with 112, and 23 Millwall fans are also black-listed. The Bolton fans, who all have previous hooligan convictions or are suspected by police of planning violence during the World Cup, had to surrender their passports at midnight on Thursday and will not get them back until the end of the tournament.

British and Japanese police have worked closely together to compile the list in an attempt to make the event run as smoothly as possible.

Japanese intelligence officers have been in the UK for the last week and profiles of another 200 potential troublemakers have been passed to them.

More than 8,000 English fans are expected to make the journey to Japan to support their team, 4,000 of those have secured their tickets through the Football Association and 2,000 through FIFA. The other 2,000 are expected to travel without tickets.

Strict Japanese security measures will ensure no one who has served a prison term for drugs or violent offences will be allowed into the country, and British police will be at airports and ports and will have spotters on the streets of Japan and South Korea.

A Wanderers spokesman said the club was unable to comment about the World Cup bans.