page_title: Wigan Warriors
section_title: 2000–present: DW Stadium
hierarchical_section_title: Wigan Warriors / Stadiums / 2000–present: DW Stadium
caption_attribution_description: English: 2013 Rugby League World Cup quarterfinal between England and France at DW Stadium, Wigan.
context_page_description: Wigan Warriors Rugby League Football Club is a professional rugby league club in Wigan, England, which competes in the Super League.
  Formed in 1872 as Wigan Football Club, Wigan was a founding member of the Northern Rugby Football Union following the schism from the Rugby Football Union in 1895. Wigan have won 22 League Championships, 19 Challenge Cups and 4 World Club Challenges. Wigan are the most successful club in English rugby league and had a period of sustained success from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, winning eight successive Challenge Cups and seven successive League Championships.
  The club plays home matches at the DW Stadium, having played at Central Park between 1902 and 1999.
  The head coach is Adrian Lam; the club captain is Sean O'Loughlin.
context_section_description: Towards the end of the 2000 season Wigan Warriors moved to the newly built DW Stadium which they currently share with the Wigan football club Wigan Athletic. The stadium is owned by the football club who gave Warriors a 50-year lease on the Stadium. Warriors first game at the then JJB Stadium was a Super League play-off match against Castleford Tigers which Wigan lost 14–10.
  Wigan also have a state-of-the-art training facility at the small stadium Edge Hall Road in Orrell (now named the Co-Operative Community Stadium) where the first team, reserve team & academy team prepare, train and rehabilitate ahead of and after matches. It is also where the Reserve & Academy sides play their home games.
  DW Stadium has an official capacity of 25,133. The Warriors record attendance at DW is 25,004 set against St Helens on 25 March 2005.
caption: DW Stadium before the 2013 Rugby League World Cup Quarter-final between England and France
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