Wigan St. Patricks is an Amateur Rugby League

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 football club. It is situated in the Scholes

Scholes, Greater Manchester

Scholes is an urban area in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Scholes is immediately to the east of Wigan's town centre; separated from the commercial area by the River Douglas....

 area of Wigan

Wigan

Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It stands on the River Douglas, south-west of Bolton, north of Warrington and west-northwest of Manchester. Wigan is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town of Wigan had a total...

, Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester

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The first team plays in the National Conference League Premier Division. There is a Reserve side which plays in the North West Counties League First Division. The club also runs 12 Junior teams from ages under 7s to under 18s. Over the years it has attracted some of the greatest players the game has had to offer.

Notable former players

• Thomas Cunliffe
• Andy Gregory
  Andy Gregory
  Andrew "Andy" Gregory is an English former rugby league footballer. A Great Britain international representative /, he is an inductee of the Wigan Hall of Fame...
  
  
• Shaun Edwards
  Shaun Edwards
  Shaun Edwards OBE is an English rugby union coach and former rugby league player. He is defence coach of Wales, a post he has held since 2008. In November 2011 he left London Wasps after 10 years with the club, latterly as head coach....
  
  
• Joe Egan
  Joe Egan (rugby league)
  Joe Egan is an English former rugby league footballer and coach. He played for Wigan from 1938 to 1950. In the 1948 Challenge Cup final Wigan defeated Bradford Northern 8-3 and Egan was the first captain to receive the trophy from a reigning monarch, King George VI. He was a member of the 1946...
  
  
• Joe Lydon
• Phil Clarke
  Phil Clarke
  Phil Clarke is an English rugby league football commentator and former professional player of the 1980s and 90s. A Great Britain and England international representative loose forward, he spent his club career with Wigan, as well as a stint in Australia with the Sydney Roosters.Phil Clarke is the...
  
  
• Shaun Wane
  Shaun Wane
  Shaun D. Wane is a former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and '90s, and current coach at Wigan Warriors. He played at representative level for Great Britain, and at club level for Wigan St Patricks, Wigan, Leeds, and Workington Town, playing at , /, i.e...
  
  
• Bob Beswick
  Bob Beswick
  Bob Beswick is an English-born Irish international rugby league player.Bob Beswick plays for the Leigh Centurions in Cooprative Championship...
  
  
• Malcolm Alker
  Malcolm Alker
  Malcolm Alker was a and captain for the Salford City Reds rugby league team until 2010.Alker played his entire professional rugby league career at Salford...
  
  
• Mike Gregory
  Mike Gregory
  Michael Keith "Mike" Gregory , was a rugby league player and later coach; the former head coach of Wigan and player for Warrington and Great Britain.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Andy Platt
  Andy Platt
  Andy Platt is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. A Great Britain international representative prop forward, he played for English clubs St Helens, Wigan, Widnes and Salford, as well as in New Zealand for the Auckland Warriors.-Playing career:He started his...
  
  
• Martin Crompton
  Martin Crompton
  Martin Crompton born in Ince-in-Makerfield, Wigan, Lancashire, England is a former rugby league player.Crompton was an Ireland international and played at the 2000 Rugby League World Cup....
  
  
• Sean O'Loughlin
  Sean O'Loughlin
  Sean O'Loughlin is an English professional rugby league footballer who captains the Wigan Warriors of Europe's Super League. A Great Britain and England international representative , and /, he has played his entire career to date with Wigan, with whom he won the 2010 Super League XV...
  
  
• Shaun Briscoe
  Shaun Briscoe
  Shaun Briscoe is an English professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the Widnes Vikings of Super League. An England international representative outside back, he has played club football for Wigan, Hull, and Hull Kingston Rovers....
  
  
• Martin Gleeson
  Martin Gleeson
  Martin Gleeson is an English professional rugby league footballer, who plays for Hull in the Super League. A Great Britain and England international representative , and /, he previously played for Wigan Warriors, Huddersfield Giants, St. Helens and Warrington...
  
  
• Sean Gleeson
• Mark Bayman
• Sam Tomkins
  Sam Tomkins
  A pre-season unofficial friendly match provided Tomkins his first experience against top-flight opposition as he came off the bench during Lee Briers' testimonial match in a 30–22 loss to Warrington Wolves. Noble followed this up by providing Tomkins, aged 19, with his first team debut on 12 May...
  
  
• Joel Tomkins
  Joel Tomkins
  Joel Tomkins is an English professional rugby league footballer for the Wigan Warriors in the European Super League. An England international representative second-row forward, he has played his whole career to date at Wigan, winning the 2010 Super League Grand Final and 2011 Challenge Cup with...
  
  
• Connor Davenport
• Josh Mills
• Daniel Higham
• Stefan Marsh
  Stefan Marsh
  Stefan Marsh is a professional rugby league player who currently plays for Wigan Warriors in Super League. Marsh primarily plays centre and he made his first-grade début at the 2010 Magic Weekend at Murrayfield Stadium in a 28-10 win over Huddersfield Giants....
  
  
• Liam Farrell
  Liam Farrell
  Liam Farrell is an English rugby league player for the Wigan Warriors in the European Super League. He plays in the second-row or at loose forward. He is the cousin of former Warriors player Andy Farrell.-2010 season:...
  
  
• Josh Charnley
  Josh Charnley
  Josh Charnley is an English rugby league player who currently plays for the Wigan Warriors in the Super League competition.Josh showed great promise on his debut against Leeds in 2010 for Hull KR and picked up the club man of the match award...
  
  

Fundraising

Previously the club held a benefit game in aid of Mike Gregory

Mike Gregory

Michael Keith "Mike" Gregory , was a rugby league player and later coach; the former head coach of Wigan and player for Warrington and Great Britain.-Playing career:...

 in which current and former rugby league stars such as Phil Clarke

Phil Clarke

Phil Clarke is an English rugby league football commentator and former professional player of the 1980s and 90s. A Great Britain and England international representative loose forward, he spent his club career with Wigan, as well as a stint in Australia with the Sydney Roosters.Phil Clarke is the...

, Sean Long

Sean Long

Sean Long is an English former professional rugby league and current rugby union footballer with Preston Grasshoppers. He has played for Wigan, Widnes and Hull but is best known for playing for St Helens in the Super League. Internationally he has represented England and Great Britain at /...

, Andy Gregory

Andy Gregory

Andrew "Andy" Gregory is an English former rugby league footballer. A Great Britain international representative /, he is an inductee of the Wigan Hall of Fame...

, Daniel Makin, Lewis Wilson

Lewis Wilson

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, Connor Davenport, Keelan Kelly, Ryan Davenport

Ryan Davenport

Ryan Davenport is a Canadian skeleton racer who competed from 1993 to 1999. He won three medals in the men's skeleton event at the FIBT World Championships with two golds and one bronze ....

, Josh Mills and Paul Cullen

Paul Cullen (rugby league)

Paul Cullen is an English professional rugby league football coach and former player. He is the head coach for the Widnes Vikings of the Co-operative Championship. Cullen previously coached the Warrington Wolves as well as the England national team...

played to help raise money.

External links

• Wigan St. Patricks Pitchero Website