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Gender:Male

Est:1872

Players:23

Wigan Warriors

Also known as: Warriors

📍 Wigan, England•English Rugby League Super League

ID: team_135222

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Wigan Warriors Rugby League Football Club is a professional rugby league club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The club competes in the Super League and is the most successful Rugby League club in the world. Founded in 1872, Wigan was a founding member of the Northern Rugby Football Union following the schism from the Rugby Football Union in 1895. Wigan is the most successful club in the history of British rugby league, having won 20 League Championships (including 3 Super League Grand Finals), 19 Challenge Cups and 3 World Club Challenge trophies. The club is the third most successful in the Super League era, behind St Helens and Leeds. Wigan had a period of sustained success from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, winning the Challenge Cup eight seasons in succession and the League Championship seven seasons in succession. The club plays its home matches at the DW Stadium, having played at Central Park between 1902 and 1999.

City:Wigan

Country:England

Stadium:The Brick Community Stadium

Capacity:25,100

Home Venue

The Brick Community Stadium

Capacity:25,100

Location:Wigan

The DW Stadium is a sports stadium in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The ground is owned and managed by Wigan Athletic Holdings Ltd, and it is used by Wigan Athletic football club trading under the name Wigan Athletic AFC Ltd and it is also used by Wigan Warriors rugby league club. Built and opened in 1999, it is named after its main sponsor, DW Sports Fitness, In UEFA matches, it is called Wigan Athletic Stadium due to UEFA regulations on sponsorship. Its current capacity is 25,138—seated in four single-tier stands—and its record attendance was on 11 May 2008 when 25,133 people watched Wigan Athletic play Manchester United in the title-deciding match of the 2007–08 Premier League season.