JJB Stadium

The JJB is home of Wigan Athletic Football Club who were promoted to the premiership at the end of the 2004/05 season and of course the equally famous Wigan Warriors Rugby League Club.

The teams moved into this magnificent stadium in 1999. The stadium is an all seater arena with a seating capacity of 25,138 (this was increased from 25,004 in December 2005 following building work), and it was built by Alfred McAlpine and completed in August 1999.

The JJB Stadium has been built to the latest health and safety specifications and complies with the current guide to safety at sports grounds (green guide).
 
Hospitality Lounges Dining Capacities
Fosters lounge - 120 dining
Premier lounge - 120 dining
Chairman’s Suite - 12 dining or 18 standing
Directors Suite - 24 dining or 30 standing
JJB Suite - 24 dining or 30 standing
4 Executive Boxes - 14 each box
Second Floor lounges - 400 dining
Marquee - 350 dining
John Smiths Suite - 350 dining

The Pitch
The pitch is 110 meters long by 68 meters wide.

Media Facilities
There are 10 radio commentary points, 60 press box seats with tables and electricity plug in points and a dedicated press lounges.
 
Signage
The JJB Stadium is extremely well sign posted from all major trunk roads leading into Wigan. The JJB Stadium itself is clearly signposted. Each stand is clearly identified. The ticket office, car parks and entrance turnstiles are also clearly signposted.

Wigan Pier

Times were hard for English workers in the 1930s when the immortalized George Orwell dramatized their plight in this documentary expose of the underclasses. THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER is a trek back through time to an experience suffered by many of our parents and is an unrecognized masterpiece by the author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM. Always courageous and original, Orwell gives us a feeling for what it must have been like to have had to cope with the grinding poverty of half a century ago.

In the 1980s, the canal warehouses were restored into The Orwell Public House and Restaurant, named after the famous author and the Way We Were Museum.Both are a must visit for those interested in a little of Wigan’s cultured history or for those who simply enjoy a good pint of beer and decent meal. 

The original "pier" at Wigan was a coal loading staithe, probably a wooden jetty, where wagons from a nearby colliery were unloaded into barges. The name was brought to popular attention by George Formby Senior in the Music Halls of the early twentieth century.

The original wooden pier is believed to have been demolished in 1929, with the iron from the tippler being sold as scrap. Because of the more recent pride in the area's heritage, a replica tippler has been erected at the original location

The nearby Trencherfield Mill was incorporated into the "Wigan Pier Experience", with a waterbus linking it to the main site.