Wigan Athletic
Bottom of the leagueTop
- League position 24th
- Goal difference −8
- Home Record
- Away Record
- Getting Away With It
- Holding Leads
- Comebacks
- Dark Arts Index
- Foul Magnet
- Home & Away Home Average Away Well below average This season
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Getting Away With It
Well below average
−4.8 pts
avg −0.3 · 23rd of 24 · This seasonavg
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Dark Arts Index
Well above average
2.80 cards/game
avg 1.90 · 1st of 24 · This seasonavg
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Comebacks
Below average
0.00 pts/game
avg 0.41 · 16th of 22 · This seasonavg
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Foul Magnet
Below average
11.1 fouls/game
avg 12.3 · 18th of 24 · This seasonavg
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Holding Leads
Average
2.41 pts/game
avg 2.39 · 11th of 23 · Last 3 seasonsavg
This season's numbers
- Goals scored 7 =23rd highest of 24
- Goals conceded 15 =12th lowest of 24
- Clean sheets 2 =12th highest of 24
- Shots 129 =17th highest of 24
- Shots on target 28 =23rd highest of 24
- Share of the shots in their games 46% 18th highest of 24
- Corners won 53 14th highest of 24
- Fouls committed 118 18th highest of 24
- Fouls suffered 111 21st highest of 24
- Yellow cards 27 1st highest of 24
- Red cards 1 =2nd highest of 24
- Points dropped from half-time leads 0 =14th highest of 24
Wigan Athletic and each referee
League games since 2021-22, referees with 3 or more. Records like these are mostly chance: across five seasons, a club's record with a referee in one half of their games tells you nothing about the other half. Which refs are card-happy?
| Referee | P | W-D-L | Pts/g | Cards/g | Ref's usual | Fouls net/g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S Stockbridge | 8 | 0-5-3 | 0.63 | 2.8 | 2.1 | +1.9 |
| D Drysdale | 7 | 1-3-3 | 0.86 | 1.6 | 1.7 | +0.6 |
| A Davies | 6 | 4-1-1 | 2.17 | 2.0 | 1.7 | +0.5 |
| C Brook | 6 | 1-2-3 | 0.83 | 2.2 | 2.1 | +2.5 |
| R Joyce | 6 | 3-2-1 | 1.83 | 1.7 | 1.9 | −2.5 |
| S Oldham | 6 | 3-0-3 | 1.50 | 2.0 | 1.7 | −2.0 |
| A Backhouse | 5 | 1-2-2 | 1.00 | 2.8 | 2.0 | −6.2 |
| A Herczeg | 5 | 3-1-1 | 2.00 | 2.2 | 1.8 | −2.4 |
| A Woolmer | 5 | 1-2-2 | 1.00 | 1.4 | 1.7 | −0.4 |
| D Rock | 5 | 2-3-0 | 1.80 | 2.0 | 2.0 | +0.2 |
| P Howard | 5 | 1-2-2 | 1.00 | 1.6 | 1.7 | +0.2 |
| R Madley | 5 | 1-2-2 | 1.00 | 2.4 | 2.0 | −0.2 |
| T Reeves | 5 | 4-1-0 | 2.60 | 2.2 | 1.7 | −2.8 |
| A Chilowicz | 4 | 2-0-2 | 1.50 | 1.0 | 1.7 | +1.0 |
| C Hicks | 4 | 2-1-1 | 1.75 | 1.5 | 1.6 | −1.5 |
| D Whitestone | 4 | 1-0-3 | 0.75 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 0.0 |
| J Busby | 4 | 1-1-2 | 1.00 | 2.5 | 1.8 | −0.5 |
| J Simpson | 4 | 1-2-1 | 1.25 | 3.0 | 2.0 | −1.5 |
| K Stroud | 4 | 1-2-1 | 1.25 | 2.3 | 2.4 | +3.8 |
| L Swabey | 4 | 1-1-2 | 1.00 | 1.8 | 1.9 | −5.0 |
| M Coy | 4 | 3-0-1 | 2.25 | 2.8 | 1.5 | −0.8 |
| O Yates | 4 | 3-0-1 | 2.25 | 2.0 | 2.1 | +0.5 |
| S Barrott | 4 | 1-1-2 | 1.00 | 1.3 | 1.8 | −0.5 |
| S Martin | 4 | 1-1-2 | 1.00 | 0.8 | 2.0 | −0.8 |
| T Nield | 4 | 3-0-1 | 2.25 | 2.5 | 1.8 | −0.8 |
| T Parsons | 4 | 1-1-2 | 1.00 | 2.5 | 2.2 | −1.8 |
| W Finnie | 4 | 0-2-2 | 0.50 | 2.0 | 1.6 | −1.0 |
| A Humphries | 3 | 1-0-2 | 1.00 | 3.0 | 1.8 | −2.3 |
| A Young | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 4.0 | 2.2 | −1.0 |
| B Speedie | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 1.3 | 1.7 | −0.3 |
| B Toner | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 3.0 | 2.1 | +2.0 |
| C Breakspear | 3 | 2-1-0 | 2.33 | 3.3 | 2.2 | +1.3 |
| D Middleton | 3 | 2-0-1 | 2.00 | 2.3 | 1.8 | +1.0 |
| E Duckworth | 3 | 3-0-0 | 3.00 | 1.3 | 2.1 | −4.0 |
| G Eltringham | 3 | 0-1-2 | 0.33 | 1.7 | 2.0 | +0.3 |
| J Bell | 3 | 1-0-2 | 1.00 | 3.3 | 1.9 | +0.3 |
| J Smith | 3 | 2-0-1 | 2.00 | 2.7 | 2.0 | +2.7 |
| M Corlett | 3 | 1-0-2 | 1.00 | 2.7 | 2.3 | +2.7 |
| M Donohue | 3 | 0-2-1 | 0.67 | 2.3 | 2.1 | +2.7 |
| M Edwards | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 2.3 | 1.7 | −4.3 |
| M Russell | 3 | 0-2-1 | 0.67 | 1.0 | 1.6 | +2.3 |
| N Hair | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 2.3 | 1.9 | +0.7 |
| O Langford | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 2.0 | 1.8 | +0.7 |
| R Martin | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 1.7 | 1.9 | −5.3 |
| S Parkinson | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 1.7 | 1.8 | −0.7 |
| T Bramall | 3 | 1-0-2 | 1.00 | 1.3 | 1.9 | +2.3 |
Manager changes
Points per game in the 10 league games before and after. If kept: what clubs on the same run of form averaged when they kept their manager. Does sacking the manager work?
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Ryan Lowe out · Gary Caldwell in 7 Feb 2026 · 22nd at the time
- Before
- 0.60
- After
- 1.40
- If kept
- 1.09
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Shaun Maloney out · Ryan Lowe in 2 Mar 2025 · 15th at the time
- Before
- 1.20
- After
- 1.40
- If kept
- 1.39
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Kolo Touré out · Shaun Maloney in 26 Jan 2023 · 24th at the time
- Before
- 0.60
- After
- 0.90
- If kept
- 1.09
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Leam Richardson out · Kolo Touré in 10 Nov 2022 · 23rd at the time
- Before
- 0.40
- After
- 0.90
- If kept
- 1.01