Wigan Athletic FC

Club: Wigan Athletic
Formed: 1932
Nickname: Latics
Colours: Blue and white pinstripe
Stadium: JJB Stadium (25,000)
Address: The JJB Stadium Robin Park Complex Newtown Wigan WN5 0UZ
Official Website: www.wiganlatics.premiumtv.co.uk

Wigan Athletic were created in 1932 following the end of Wigan Borough the previous year. Wigan Athletic were the 5 th effort to stabilise a football club in the town following the demise of Wigan County, Wigan United, Wigan Town A.F.C and Wigan Borough.

Wigan Athletic played at Wigan Borough's Springfield Park ground until 1999 when the 25,000-seat JJB Stadium was built at Robin Park. Wigan was promoted to the top flight as Northern League champions in 1978 in place of Southport who had finished bottom of the Fourth Division. The next 25 years they bounced between the 2 bottom divisions of the Football League before winning the Division 2 championship under Paul Jewell in 2002-03. Wigan finished 7 th in the 2003-04 Division One campaign - just one place short of the promotion playoffs. In the following season the Latics earned promotion to the Premier League by finishing second in the Coca Cola Championship behind Sunderland A.F.C..