Wigan Athletic
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| Surname | Wigan Athletic Football Club |
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| Seat | Wigan , England | ||
| founding | 1932 | ||
| Website | wiganathletic.com | ||
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| Head coach | vacant | ||
| Venue | DW Stadium | ||
| Places | 25,138 | ||
| league | EFL League One | ||
| 2019/20 | 23rd place ( EFL Championship ) | ||
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Wigan Athletic (officially: Wigan Athletic Football Club ) - also known as The Latics - is a professional English football club from Wigan . The club rose in 2003 for the first time in its history in the second highest English division. Only two years later succeeded as runner-up in the Premier League , in which Wigan was able to hold until relegation in 2013 . During this time, winning the FA Cup in 2013 was also the greatest success in the club's history. Since 1999 Wigan Athletic has played its home games at DW Stadium , which is owned by the club.
history
Wigan Athletic was founded in 1932 as the successor to Wigan Borough , which was dissolved the previous year . Wigan Athletic was the fifth attempt to establish a football club in the city. This was preceded by the failed attempts with Wigan County , Wigan United , Wigan Town and the already mentioned club Wigan Borough .
Wigan Athletic played its home games in Wigan Borough's Springfield Park , until the DW Stadium in Robin Park was completed in 1999 with its nearly 25,000 seats. Wigan was accepted into the English league in 1978 as champions of the so-called Northern League and replaced FC Southport in the Fourth Division, the fourth-highest division at the time, the bottom of the previous season . In the following 25 years Wigan always shuttled between the third and fourth highest division of England, before they succeeded under Paul Jewell in the 2002/03 season promotion to the second-rate Division One . As a climber, they reached seventh place in the following season, which means that participation in the play-offs was just missed. A year later they were able to celebrate direct promotion to the Premier League as runner-up behind Sunderland . The extraordinary success of the past few years is closely linked to the strong financial commitment of Chairman David Whelan , owner of the sports goods chain JJB Sports .
In the 2005/06 season , Wigan Athletic, and thus the city of Wigan, celebrated its premiere in the English top division, the Premier League. May 8, 2005 will go down in the history of the association. On that day Wigan was able to secure second place in the Football League Championship and thus promotion with a 3-1 home win against Reading FC . In the first year under coach Paul Jewell an outstanding 10th place could be achieved. At times even participation in the UEFA Cup seemed possible, but at the end of the season the necessary results were missing. In the following season, however, could not be built on the previous year's performance, so that the relegation came about on the last day of play with a 2-1 at Sheffield United . In the next two years Wigan was able to establish himself under the new coach Steve Bruce with placements in midfield in the Premier League. With the start of the 2009/10 season was Roberto Martinez , who had previously been active as a player with the Latics, coach. Wigan stayed true to his line and was able to keep relegation at the end of the season despite the sometimes extremely poor starting positions. This was achieved in 2009/10 with a 3-2 home win over Arsenal on the penultimate matchday, and in 2010/11 with a 1-0 away win at Stoke City on the last matchday when Hugo Rodallega scored the decisive goal. The biggest comeback so far came in the 2011/12 season , when they were in last place in the table with 20 points on matchday 27 and were already considered relegated. Unexpected victories over Liverpool FC, Arsenal FC, Manchester United and Newcastle United were able to secure relegation on the penultimate matchday with a 1-0 away win at Blackburn Rovers , who were relegated as a result.
On May 11, 2013 Wigan won 1-0 against favorites Manchester City in the 132nd FA Cup final . The decisive goal by Ben Watson came in the 90th minute and ensured the greatest success in the club's history. As a cup winner, Wigan qualified for the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League and thus for the first time for the European Cup. Wigan's relegation from the Premier League on May 14, 2013, one matchday before the end of the season, was inevitable with a 4-1 defeat against Arsenal. The club is the first FA Cup winner to be relegated from the top division at the same time. In the quarter-finals of the FA Cup in the following season 2013/14 they again prevailed against the "Citizens": Wigan won 2-1. The final destination was the long-fought semi-final game on April 12, 2014 against the “Gunners” , which was only lost on penalties. After finishing the 2013/14 season in fifth place, the following year on the penultimate matchday a 0-1 defeat by Wolverhampton Wanderers sealed relegation to the third division . In the following year, however, they managed the foreseeable promotion to the championship, which was sealed by a 4-0 in Blackpool.
Due to the corona pandemic, the club had to file for bankruptcy in the 2019/20 season and was punished with a deduction of 12 points. The deduction led to Wigan losing the 13th place in the table and being second to last with two points to the 21st place in the table, which would have been enough to keep the league, at the end of the season.
successes
- Football League Trophy : 1985, 1999
- FA Cup : 2013
Wigan Player of the Year
For a complete listing of all Wigan Athletic players, see Wigan Athletic Player List .
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Trainer
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Steve Bruce (2001) -
Uwe Rösler (2013-2014)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wigan Athletic Football Club . In: PremierLeague.com . Retrieved June 12, 2009.
- ↑ JJB Stadium - Facts & Figures . Wigan Warriors. Archived from the original on October 14, 2006. Retrieved on December 23, 2006.
- ^ Dan Warren: Wigan dreams become reality , BBC Sport. May 8, 2005. Retrieved June 12, 2009.
- ^ Wigan Athletic: Statistics . www.11v11.com (The Football Genome Project). Retrieved June 12, 2009.
- ↑ kicker.de: Wigan creates the cup sensation article from May 11, 2013 at Wembley
- ↑ Arsenal 4-1 Wigan on BBC Sport May 14, 2013, accessed May 15, 2013
- ↑ http://qwww.focus.de/sport/fussball/int_ligen/ueberraschung-im-fa-cup-roeslers-zweitligist-kegelt-manchester-city-raus_id_3674202.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
