Warrington Wolves

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Warrington Wolves
Full name Warrington Wolves Rugby
League Football Club
Nickname (s) The Wire, The Wolves
Founded 1876
Stadion Halliwell Jones Stadium
Places 15,200
president Lord Hoyle
Trainer Tony Smith
Homepage www.warringtonwolves.org
league Super League
2013 2nd place
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The Warrington Wolves are a professional rugby league -Verein from the city Warrington in the English county of Lancashire , in the Anglo-French-Canadian League Super plays. The team plays their home games at Halliwell Jones Stadium , which can seat 15,200 spectators.

The Wolves have never won the championship trophy of the Super League, which has existed since 1996. In the previous competition, the Rugby League Championship , they were three times champions. They also won the Challenge Cup eight times . Team colors are light yellow and blue. The club is usually short (Engl. For a "wire" wire ), respectively. This nickname goes back to a previously important industry in the city of Warrington.

history

In 1879, players from the Padgate Rugby Union Club and Zingari Rugby Union Club formed a new club to represent the city of Warrington. The first game took place on October 18, 1879. In 1881 the Padgate Excelsior association was integrated, and in 1884 the Warrington Wanderers . While in the south of England mainly representatives of the middle and upper classes played rugby, the clubs in the north were mostly made up of workers. The players did not receive any compensation because the Rugby Football Union (RFU) insisted on strict amateurism . On August 29, 1895, representatives of 22 clubs from northern England, including Warrington, met for a meeting in Huddersfield and decided to leave the RFU. They founded their own association, the Northern Rugby Football Union (today's Rugby Football League ).

After the team had played on six different courses in the first twenty years of its existence, they moved into a stadium at Wilderspool Causeway in 1898, which was to be the home stadium for the next 105 years. After a break of seven years, an English championship was played again in 1902, the Rugby League Championship . Warrington is the only team that has never been relegated from the top division since then. In 1905 and 1907 Warrington won the national cup competition, the Challenge Cup . In October 1921, Warrington defeated the Australian national team, which was on a European tour.

The team had its most successful years after the end of World War II . Between 1948 and 1955 she won the championship title three times and the Challenge Cup twice. On January 22, 1949, 34,303 spectators saw the game against the Wigan Warriors at Wilderspool Stadium , which means a record attendance. There was another record attendance, this time in the Challenge Cup, on May 5, 1954: In Bradford , Warrington won in front of 102,569 spectators in the repeat of the cup final against the Halifax RLFC .

In the following decades, the club was only able to pick up on the successes of the 1940s and 1950s, for example with the fifth win of the Challenge Cup in 1974. In the championship, they slipped permanently into midfield.

In 1996 the Super League was created as the new top division. The club renamed itself in the same year in Warrington Wolves . The new Halliwell Jones Stadium was occupied in 2003 and replaced the Wilderspool Stadium, which is still used by amateur and youth teams. In 2009, for the first time since 1974, the prestigious Challenge Cup was won, which was won again in 2010 and 2012.

In 2012 the Wolves moved into the Grand Final of the Super League for the first time, but were defeated there by the Leeds Rhinos with 18:26. For this they won the Challenge Cup against the same team. In 2013 Warrington made it to the Grand Final again, but this time had to admit defeat to the Wigan Warriors with 16:30. So the team is still waiting for its first championship since 1955.

They won the Challenge Cup again in 2019,

successes

  • Championship : 1947/48, 1953/54, 1954/55 (3 titles)
  • Challenge Cup : 1904/05, 1906/07, 1949/50, 1953/54, 1973/74, 2009, 2010, 2012 (8 titles)
  • Lancashire League: 1937/38, 1947/48, 1948/49, 1950/51, 1953/54, 1954/55, 1955/56, 1967/68 (8 titles)
  • Lancashire Cup: 1921/22, 1929/30, 1932/33, 1937/38, 1959/60, 1965/66, 1980/81, 1982/83, 1989/90 (9 titles)
  • Regal Trophy : 1973/74, 1977/78, 1980/81, 1990/91 (4 titles)

Well-known former and active players

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