List of Wigan Athletic F.C. records and statistics

Wigan Athletic Football Club is a professional football team based in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The club was formed in 1932, and joined the Football League in 1978. Wigan Athletic currently compete in the third tier of English football, the EFL League One.

Club records

Matches

Firsts

• First competitive match: Wigan Athletic 0–2 Port Vale Reserves, Cheshire League, 27 August 1932.
• First FA Cup match: Wigan Athletic 1–1 Great Harwood, preliminary round, 16 September 1933.
• First Northern Premier League match: Scarborough 0–2 Wigan Athletic, 10 August 1968.
• First Football League match: Hereford United 0–0 Wigan Athletic, 19 August 1978.

Record results

• Record win: 14–0 against Chorley (pre-season friendly) 1 August 2017
• Record Football League win: 8–0 v Hull City, Championship, 14 July 2020.
• Record Football League defeat: 1–9 v Tottenham Hotspur, Premier League, 2009.

Attendances

• Highest attendance (Springfield Park): 27,526 v Hereford United, FA Cup, 1953.
• Highest attendance (DW Stadium): 25,133 v Manchester United, Premier League, May 2008.

Player records

Appearances

• Youngest player ever : Jensen Weir, aged 15 years, on 7 November 2017.
• Oldest player ever: Dave Beasant, 43 years, 235 days, v Doncaster Rovers, 12 November 2002.
• Most League appearances: Kevin Langley, 317, 1981–1986 & 1990–1994.
• Most consecutive League appearances: Jimmy Bullard, 123, January 2003 to December 2005.

Goalscorers

• Most goals in the League: 70, Andy Liddell, 1998–2004.
• Most League goals scored in a season: 31, Graeme Jones, 1996–97.
• Most goals in the Premiership: 24, Hugo Rodallega, 2009–2012.
• Most goals at the DW Stadium: 41, Nathan Ellington, 2002–2005.

Transfer fees

• Highest transfer fee paid: Charles N'Zogbia, £7 million,^[A] February 2009.
• Highest transfer fee received: Antonio Valencia, £15 million, June 2009.

Progressive record fees paid

Date	Player	Bought from	Fee
January 1982	Eamonn O'Keefe	Everton	£65,000
July 1995	Chris Lightfoot	Chester City	£87,500
November 1995	Kevin Sharp	Leeds United	£100,000
July 1996	Graeme Jones	Doncaster Rovers	£150,000
April 1997	Roy Carroll	Hull City	£350,000
October 1998	Simon Haworth	Coventry City	£600,000
March 2001	Lee McCulloch	Motherwell	£700,000
September 2001	Tony Dinning	Wolverhampton Wanderers	£750,000
March 2002	Nathan Ellington	Bristol Rovers	£1,200,000
January 2004	Jason Roberts	West Bromwich Albion	£2,000,000
August 2005	Henri Camara	Wolverhampton Wanderers	£3,000,000
July 2006	Emile Heskey	Birmingham City	£5,500,000
January 2009	Charles N'Zogbia	Newcastle United	£7,000,000

Progressive record fees received

Date	Player	Sold to	Fee
February 1980	Joe Hinnigan	Sunderland	£130,000
February 1986	Warren Aspinall	Everton	£150,000
October 1989	Paul Beesley	Leyton Orient	£175,000
January 1991	Ray Woods	Coventry City	£200,000
August 1991	Peter Atherton	Coventry City	£329,000
July 2001	Roy Carroll	Manchester United	£2,500,000
August 2005	Nathan Ellington	West Bromwich Albion	£3,000,001
August 2006	Pascal Chimbonda	Tottenham Hotspur	£4,500,000
August 2007	Leighton Baines	Everton	£6,000,000
January 2009	Wilson Palacios	Tottenham Hotspur	£12,000,000
June 2009	Antonio Valencia	Manchester United	£16,000,000

Player of the Year

Year Winner 1978–79 Tommy Gore 1979–80 John Brown 1980–81 Colin Methven 1981–82 Les Bradd 1982–83 Jimmy Weston 1983–84 John Butler 1984–85 Tony Kelly 1985–86 Colin Methven 1986–87 Barry Knowles 1987–88 David Hamilton 1988–89 David Thompson

Year Winner 1989–90 Peter Atherton 1990–91 Peter Atherton 1991–92 Phil Daley 1992–93 Allen Tankard 1993–94 Andy Lyons 1994–95 Neill Rimmer 1995–96 Roberto Martínez 1996–97 Graeme Jones 1997–98 David Lowe 1998–99 Colin Greenall 1999–2000 Andy Liddell

Year Winner 2000–01 Arjan de Zeeuw 2001–02 Arjan de Zeeuw 2002–03 Jason de Vos 2003–04 John Filan 2004–05 Jason Roberts 2005–06 Arjan de Zeeuw 2006–07 Leighton Baines 2007–08 Paul Scharner 2008–09 Titus Bramble 2009–10 Charles N'Zogbia 2010–11 Ali Al-Habsi

Year Winner 2011–12 Gary Caldwell 2012–13 Shaun Maloney 2013–14 Jordi Gómez 2014–15 James McClean 2015–16 David Perkins 2016–17 Dan Burn 2017–18 Nathan Byrne 2018–19 Reece James 2019–20 Sam Morsy 2021–22 Jack Whatmough 2022–23 James McClean

Notes

A. ^ Wigan paid Newcastle United £6 million for N'Zogbia, with Ryan Taylor (valued at £1 million) transferring to Newcastle in a part-exchange deal.

References

General

• Hayes, Dean (1996). The Latics: The Official History of Wigan Athletic F.C. Harefield: Yore Publications. ISBN 1-874427-91-7.

Specific