In a tough first season, Warrington finished 13th out of 22. After only a single season of the cross-county competition, the Northern Union was boosted by a number of clubs defecting from the RFU. Warrington secured Super League status with seven wins out of seven. In the 1933–34 season, Warrington played Australia and for once were beaten.
The final of the Lancashire Cup was reached by gaining a 21–10 victory over Oldham in the semi-final. Huddersfield exacted one of Wire's few defeats in the play-off final as Wire missed out on back-to-back championships by just one point, 13-12. Dedicated to preserving the history of rugby league in WarringtonNearly 1,200 players have pulled on a first team jersey to represent the club now known as Warrington Wolves. After a bad start to the 1927–28 season and a poor previous season, culminating in an all-time low in 1928 when the club suffered its then record defeat 68-14 at Hunslet, Warrington notched up victories over Hull Kingston Rovers, Huddersfield and finally Leeds in the semi-final of the Challenge Cup. Toby King. In 1974-5 Wire returned to Wembley for the Challenge Cup final only to have their celebrations spoiled by Widnes while they also had to settle for runners-up in the Floodlit Trophy. The Wire lost 21–17 to Huddersfield. The need to switch to summer, led to a truncated 1995-6 season which ran from August-January, with October reserved for the World Cup. Ces Mountford used a total of 40 players during the campaign, the highest since World War Two and a figure that was not beaten until 1976-7. This ended in a 80-0 defeat which brought about the departure of coach Brian Johnson, and a run of seven defeats. The Warrington team that day was In 1913, Warrington reached their fifth Challenge Cup Final, with wins over Keighley, Hull Kingston Rovers, Salford and Dewsbury. Wire celebrated their centenary in 1979 owing to an erroneously belief that the club had been founded in 1879 rather than 1876. A crowd of 5,000 watched the match at Wilderspool.
A Lancashire Cup final defeat to Broughton Rangers occurred in the same season. Warrington struggled to a 16-12 success. During the early part of the 1965–66 season floodlights were installed and a friendly match against Wigan was arranged. In 2004 Warrington moved into a new stadium 13,012 capacity stadium. The history of our club. Warrington lost only one of their opening 22 games and ended the season with the League Leader's Trophy.
A home win against Widnes and away to Wigan put Wire in the final of the Premiership Trophy against champions Halifax at Elland Road. Swinton were beaten in the semi-final, but the final against Wigan ended in disappointment. The 1950-1 season saw Warrington finish the year as Lancashire League winners, Lancashire Cup runners-up and Championship runners-up.
So the Challenge Cup performances were a tremendous achievement.Warrington purchased Wilderspool in 1914 with the freehold being held in trust for club members. The icing on the cake was the top eight play-off trophy, secured after a 13-12 success over St. Helens for a four-cup haul. The Warrington RLFC Players Association Hall of Fame inductees. In 2000, retired Australian captain and scrum-half, Their best season in Super League has been the 2005 season (On 22 September 2006, Warrington beat Leeds 18–17 at Headingley to progress to the second round of the Super League play-offs.
The stadium was notable for bucking the common trend of modern stadia by including terracing areas rather than being an all-seater stadium. 2020 Home Players Shirt The Wire fared better in the new Northern Union Challenge Cup and made it to the semi-final against eventual winners Batley before bowing out.