Kick-off Has Arrived at Laithwaite Park!

Kick-off has arrived for Wigan Borough’s new football hubs, providing top-class facilities for local communities and grassroots teams.

Following investment of more than £5m from Wigan Council and a £7.6m grant from the Football Foundation, the two facilities – at Laithwaite Park, Wigan, and Williams Fosters, Ince – are now open to the public.

With the pre-match waiting now over, we were pleased to be given a tour of Laithwaite Park’s facilities this week, by the operators Leisure United.

These state-of-the-art pitches and facilities will make a massive impact for sport, health and wellbeing in our borough.

All in all, there will be five full-size floodlit 3G football turf pitches across the two sites along with changing rooms, meaning football can be played all-year round. A community café and meeting room facilities are also available.