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2016–17 Wigan Athletic F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ24910328 ↗
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The 2016–17 season was Wigan Athletic's 85th year in existence and their first back in the Championship, after gaining promotion the previous season. Along with competing in the Championship, the club also participated in the FA Cup and League Cup. The season covered the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.

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“2016–17 Wigan Athletic F.C. season” enters the record as season of football team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wigan, Athletic and season can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “2016–17 Wigan Athletic F.C. season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.