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Wigan Athletic Football Club are a football team based in Wigan, England.

They are known as the "Latics".

In 2003 they were promoted to the Football League Championship for the first time.

Wigan Athletic were formed in 1932 following the demise of Wigan Borough the previous year. Wigan Athletic were the fifth attempt to stabilise a football club in the town following the demise of Wigan County , Wigan United , Wigan Town A.F.C and the aforementioned 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 elected to the Football League as Northern League champions in 1978 in place of Southport who had finished bottom of the Fourth Division. It spent the next 25 years bouncing between the bottom two divisions of the Football League before winning the Division Two championship under Paul Jewell in 2002-03. Wigan finished seventh in the 2003-04 Division One campaign - just one place short of the promotion playoffs - and after their first 15 games of the 2004-05 Coca-Cola League Championship campaign are unbeaten leaders of the division. In 2005-06, top division football could well be played in Wigan for the first time ever.

Honours

Second Division Champions 2002-03

Auto Windscreen Shield Winners 1998-99

Third Division Champions 1996-97

Freight Rover Trophy Winners 1984-85

Promoted to Third Division 1981-82

Elected to Football League 1978

Northern Premier Shield Winners 1972-73, 1973-74, 1975-76

Northern Premier League Champions 1970-71, 1974-75

Northern Premier Cup Winners 1971-72

Lancashire Combination Champions 1947-48, 1950-51, 1952-53, 1953-54

Cheshire League Champions 1933-34, 1934-35, 1935-36, 1964-65

Football League Cup Best Season 5th Round 2002-03

FA Cup Best Season 6th Round 1986-87

#REDIRECT Football League Championship