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=== Rugby league football ===
[[Rugby football]] has been played in the town since 1872. [[Wigan Warriors]], originally called Wigan FC, were formed out of the Wigan Cricket Club to provide a sport to play during the winter months. During the rugby football schism of 1895, Wigan FC, along with the other leading northern clubs at the time, split from the [[Rugby Football Union]] to form the [[Rugby Football League|Northern Union]]. Wigan have been a rugby league club ever since and added the Warriors suffix to their name in 1997, shortly after rugby league had switched to a summer sport in 1996. The club are the most successful English club in the sport, winning 22 league championships and 20 challenge cup titles, as well as being crowned world club champions on
[[Liverpool Stanley]] were a professional rugby league club formed in the Highfield area of Wigan in 1902 as Wigan Highfield. The club didn't stay long in Wigan, however, relocating around England several times.
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=== Other sports ===
[[File:Former Wigan International Pool (geograph 2274426).jpg|right|thumb|Wigan International-standard pool, demolished 2008]]
[[American Football]] club Wigan Warhawks compete in the BAFA flag league in the MEC Central division. In 2016, the Warhawks made the playoffs in their rookie season and in 2017 lifted their first silverware, winning the Coventry Cougars Charity Tournament.
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Wigan Sailing Club operates from the {{convert|69|acre|adj=mid}} Scotman's Flash in Poolstock less than a mile from the centre of the town.
▲Wigan was the home of [[The Snake Pit (Wigan)|the Snake Pit]], one of the world's most prominent catch wrestling schools, founded by professional wrestler [[Billy Riley]]. The school has since moved to neighbouring [[Aspull]] and the original building was demolished after a fire.
Wigan & District Motor Club, formed in 1973 by motorsports enthusiasts, runs stage rallies at Three Sisters Race Circuit.
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In the television series ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'', the title characters live at the fictional 62 West Wallaby Street in Wigan.<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 November 2005 |title=A cracking town, Gromit |url=http://www.wigantoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=66&ArticleID=1255444 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020192538/http://www.wigantoday.net/wigan-news/A-cracking-town-Gromit.1255444.jp |archive-date=20 October 2007 |access-date=11 August 2018 |publisher=[[Wigan Today]]}}</ref>
==Media==
Local news and television programmes are provided by [[BBC North West]] and [[ITV Granada]]. Television signals are received from the [[Winter Hill transmitting station|Winter Hill]] TV transmitter.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Winter_Hill |title=Full Freeview on the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter |publisher=UK Free TV |access-date=27 May 2024}}</ref>
The town is served by both [[BBC Radio Merseyside]] and [[BBC Radio Lancashire]]. Other radio stations include [[Capital North West & Wales]], [[Heart North West]], [[Smooth North West]], [[Wish FM|Greatest Hits Radio Wigan & St Helens]] (formerly Wish FM) and Countywide Radio, a community based station that broadcast from the town. <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://countywideradio.com/about/|title= Countywide Radio |access-date=27 May 2024}}</ref>
Local newspaper is the ''[[Wigan Post|Wigan Evening Post]]''. <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.wigantoday.net/|title= Wigan Today |access-date=27 May 2024}}</ref>
== Transport ==
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