Wigan Athletic F.C.

**Wigan Athletic Football Club** is an English football club from Wigan, Greater Manchester. The club plays in the Championship, currently managed by Owen Coyle. They play their home games at the DW Stadium. In 2012-13 they won the FA Cup by beating Manchester City 1-0 and so they played in the UEFA Europa League in the season 2013/14. A few days later they were relegated from the English Premier League to the Football League Championship, becoming the first FA Cup-winning side to be relegated in the same season. Manager Roberto Martínez left the club shortly after to join Everton. Owen Coyle replaced him.

## Supporters

Wigan Athletic Official Supporters Club (formally known as Wigan Athletic Supporters Travel Club) is the official supporters' association of Wigan Athletic Football Club. The supporters club are a non-profit organisation run by volunteers and meet before home matches in the South Stand Bar.

## Rivalries

Since Wigan Athletic's admission to the Football League in 1978, the club has built up several rivalries, mainly with Bolton Wanderers. They also have a rivalry with Manchester City, due to the two clubs' proximity and  being in the same division for much of the past 30 years.

## League position

|Season|League|Position|
| --- | --- | --- |
|2000/01|Second Division|6th|
|2001/02|Second Division|10th|
|2002/03|Second Division|**Champions**|
|2003/04|First Division|7th|
|2004/05|League Championship|**2nd (promoted)**|
|2005/06|Premier League|10th|
|2006/07|Premier League|17th|
|2007/08|Premier League|14th|
|2008/09|Premier League|11th|
|2009/10|Premier League|16th|
|2010/11|Premier League|16th|
|2011/12|Premier League|15th|
|2012/13|Premier League|**18th (relegated)**|
|2013/14|EFL Championship|5th|
|2014-15|EFL Championship|**23rd (relegated)**|
|2015-16|EFL One|**1st (promoted)**|
|2016-17|EFL Championship|**23rd (relegated)**|
|2017-18|EFL One|**1st (promoted)**|
|2018-19|EFL Championship|18th|
|2019-20|EFL Championship|**23rd (relegated)**|
|2020-21|EFL One|20th|
|2021-22|EFL One|**Champions**|
|2022-23|EFL Championship|**24th (relegated)**|

## Managers

As listed on the official Wigan Athletic website.

|Period|Manager||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|valign="top"|{| class="wikitable"||||||
|1932–37|Charlie Spencer||||||
|1946–47|Jimmy Milne||||||
|1949–52|Bob Pryde||||||
|1952–54|Ted Goodier||||||
|1954–55|Walter Crook||||||
|1955–56|Ron Suart||||||
|1956|Billy Cook||||||
|1957|Sam Barkas||||||
|1957–58|Trevor Hitchen||||||
|1958–59|Malcolm Barrass||||||
|1959|Jimmy Shirley||||||
|1959–60|Pat Murphy||||||
|1960|Allenby Chilton||||||
|1961–63|Johnny Ball||||||
|1963–66|Allan Brown||||||
|1966–67|Alf Craig||||||
|1967–68|Harry Leyland||||||
|1968|Alan Saunders||||||
|1968–70|Ian McNeill||||||
|1970–72|Gordon Milne|}|width="1"||valign="top"|{| class="wikitable"|
|1972–74|Les Rigby||||||
|1974–76|Brian Tiler||||||
|1976–81|Ian McNeill||||||
|1981–83|Larry Lloyd||||||
|1983–85|Harry McNally||||||
|1985–86|Bryan Hamilton||||||
|1986–89|Ray Mathias||||||
|1989–93|Bryan Hamilton||||||
|1993|Dave Philpotts||||||
|1993–94|Kenny Swain||||||
|1994–95|Graham Barrow||||||
|1995–98|John Deehan||||||
|1998–99|Ray Mathias||||||
|1999–00|John Benson||||||
|2000–01|Bruce Rioch||||||
|2001|Steve Bruce||||||
|2001–07|Paul Jewell||||||
|2007|Chris Hutchings||||||
|2007–09|Steve Bruce||||||
|2009–13|Roberto Martínez||||||
|}|width="1"||valign="top"|{| class="wikitable"|||
|2013|Owen Coyle||||||
|2013–14|Uwe Rosler||||||
|2014–15|Malky Mackay||||||
|2015–16|Gary Caldwell||||||
|2016–17|Warren Joyce||||||
|2017–|Paul Cook|}|||||

### League

- **Football League Championship (English second tier)
- Runners-up (1): 2004–05
- **Football League Second Division (English third tier)
- **Winners** (1): 2002–03
- **Football League Third Division (English fourth tier)
- **Winners** (1): 1996–97
- **Football League Fourth Division**
- Promoted (1): 1981–82

### Cup

- **FA Cup**
- **Winners** (1): 2012-13
- **League Cup**
- Runners-up (1): 2005-06
- **FA Community Shield**
- Runners-up (1): 2013
- **Football League Trophy**
- **Winners** (2): 1984–85, 1998–99
- **UEFA Europa League'''
Wigan's victory in the 2013 FA Cup Final qualified them for European football for the first time, earning them an automatic place in the group stage of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League.

|Season|Competition|Round|Opponents|Home|Away|Group position|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3"|2013–14|rowspan="3"|UEFA Europa League|rowspan="3"|Group stage|Maribor|style="text-align:center;"|3–1|style="text-align:center;"|1–2|rowspan=3 style="text-align:center;"|**4th**|
|Rubin Kazan|style="text-align:center;"|1–1|style="text-align:center;"|0–1|||||||||
|Zulte Waregem|style="text-align:center;"|1–2|style="text-align:center;"|0–0|||||||||

## Infobox (football club)

- **clubname**: Wigan Athletic F.C.
- **fullname**: Wigan Athletic Football Club
- **nickname**: The Latics
- **founded**: 1932
- **ground**: DW Stadium
Wigan
Greater Manchester
England
- **capacity**: 25,138
- **chairman**: Dave Whelan
- **manager**: Leam Richardson
- **league**: EFL Championship
- **season**: 2018-19 EFL Championship, 2018-19
- **position**: 18th of 24