Wigan Warriors are a professional rugby league club in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in the Super League.
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47 Facts About Wigan Warriors
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Wigan Warriors is the most successful club in the history of World Rugby League having won 22 League Championships, 20 Challenge Cups, 4 World Club Challenges and over 100 honours in total.
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Wigan Warriors FC played on Folly Field, near Upper Dicconson Street and used the nearby Dicconson Arms Hotel as a HQ.
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Wigan Warriors made a total of 290 appearances, scoring 131 tries and was involved in the club winning 8 trophies.
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In 1895 Wigan Warriors joined with other clubs from Yorkshire and Lancashire to found the Northern Union which led eventually to the sport of rugby league.
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Wigan Warriors reached the third round before being knocked out by St Helens.
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Wigan Warriors became sub-tenants of Springfield Park, which they shared with Wigan Warriors United AFC, playing their first game there on 14 September 1901.
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On 6 September 1902, Wigan Warriors played at Central Park for the first time in the opening match of the newly formed First Division.
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Between 1906 and 1923 Wigan Warriors won the Lancashire League another seven times and the Lancashire Cup another four times.
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Wigan Warriors played New Zealand on 9 November 1907 and ran out winners by 12 points to 8 in front of a crowd of around 30,000.
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Wigan Warriors's cash value was put at £750, which was a staggering signing-on fee for an adolescent who had not yet played 13-a-side rugby.
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On 25 October 1938 Australian Harry Sunderland arrived in Wigan Warriors to take up the duties of Secretary-Manager at Central Park.
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Outbreak of World War II disrupted the Rugby Football League Championship but Wigan Warriors continued to play in the Lancashire War League and the Emergency War League.
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Wigan Warriors remained at Central Park for another six seasons as coach.
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Wigan Warriors were featured in the first league match to be broadcast, a clash with Wakefield Trinity at Central Park on 12 January 1952.
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Wigan Warriors later became one of the most successful and famous Wigan players of all time.
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Wigan Warriors continued to have regular success in both league and cup competitions until 1974 when Wigan Warriors went eight seasons without winning any leagues or cups.
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In 1966, Wigan Warriors locked television cameras out of their ground in the belief that they affected attendances.
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In 1980, Wigan Warriors were relegated from the top flight for the first time in their history and Coslett was replaced by George Fairbairn as player-coach.
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Wigan Warriors won promotion back to the top flight the following season but Fairbairn lasted no longer than May 1981 before moving to Hull Kingston Rovers.
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Maurice Bamford took over as coach of Wigan Warriors before being sacked in May 1982 and was replaced by Alex Murphy.
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Wigan Warriors became one of the first teams to go full-time professional in the league, this led to an upsurge in the fortunes of the club.
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Between February and October 1987, under new coach, former New Zealand coach Graham Lowe, Wigan Warriors won a record 29 games in a row as follows: 20 Division One matches, 3 Premiership Trophy matches, 4 Lancashire Cup matches, 1 Charity Shield final, 1 World Club Challenge Final.
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Wigan Warriors played in a special 2 match challenge series against Bath RFC in 1996, with one game played under league rules, and the other under union rules.
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Eric Hughes became coach of Wigan Warriors, replacing Graeme West in February 1997 following an early exit from the Challenge Cup in 2 consecutive years.
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Still undefeated in the league and the fact coach John Monie - in his second spell at Wigan Warriors - had never lost a cup tie meant Wigan Warriors were huge favourites against the unfancied Sheffield Eagles.
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In 2007 and 2009 Wigan Warriors made the Challenge Cup Semi-Finals but were defeated on both occasions.
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Wigan Warriors ended the decade by finishing Suoer League in 6th position in 2007,4th in 2008 and 6th in 2009.
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Wigan Warriors started the new season with a 38 to 6 win over the Crusaders.
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Wigan Warriors won their opening 4 games to take them to the top of the Super League table.
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On 27 August 2011, Wigan Warriors won the Challenge Cup final against Leeds at Wembley Stadium.
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Michael Maguire left to return to Australia and Shaun Wane, the former Wigan Warriors forward was given the role of first team coach for the 2012 season.
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Wigan Warriors lost at Wembley to Hull FC extending the club's record to 31 Challenge Cup Final appearances.
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The club did not settle on the colours until 22 December 1888 when after this time there is no mention of Wigan Warriors deviating from these colours as the primary colours.
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Wigan Warriors have used a variation of the Coat of Arms as the club crest for a large part of the club's history.
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In that Charter Wigan Warriors is designated by the King "an ancient borough" and granted a "special token of our favour for its loyalty to us, " so that nothing could be more fitting than its adoption as the town's motto.
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Wigan Warriors had a vibrant Northern Soul scene back in the 1960s when the Northern Soul music and dance movement first emerged.
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Forty days later Wigan Warriors played their last game at Springfield Park when they defeated the Rest of Lancashire Senior Competition.
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In 1902 Wigan Warriors moved to their purpose-built rugby ground called Central Park.
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Wigan Warriors won the 1987 World Club Challenge match against 1987 Sydney Premiers Manly-Warringah at Central Park played on 7 October.
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Towards the end of the 2000 season the Wigan Warriors moved to the newly built DW Stadium which they currently share with the Wigan football club Wigan Athletic.
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Wigan Warriors is one of the most well supported British rugby league clubs.
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In 2010 Wigan Warriors were officially the best supported club in Super League with a higher average attendance than nearest rivals Leeds Rhinos.
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From early 2008, the Wigan Warriors fans have often chanted to the tune of The Entertainer.
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Leeds and Wigan Warriors dominated Super League from the late 2000s and through the 2010s, with either Leeds or Wigan Warriors winning Super League every year, aside from 2014, between 2007 and 2018.
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Wigan Warriors carry out extensive community work that stretches from Amateur Rugby League Football clubs to Schools as well as running highly successful community training camps for young people.
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Wigan Warriors became the first club in the country to receive Sport England's Clubmark Gold Award.
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