Wrexham defeated Charlton Athletic 3-0 on Saturday to secure an “historic third successive promotion,” claiming a place in the EFL Championship. Club co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney -- who bought the club for $2.5M in 2021 and “turned it into a household name around the world” -- were part of a full house of nearly 13,000 fans “packed into the club’s historic stadium to celebrate.” Reynolds said, “Our goal is to make it to the Premier League” (ESPN.com, 4/26).
Reynolds pulled “pints in The Turf, the pub adjoining The Racecourse which has become a much requested stop on the North Wales tourist trail since its rise to fame” in the “Welcome to Wrexham” docuseries. No club in English soccer has “undergone a greater, or better documented, transformation than Wrexham.” The docuseries has made “global celebrities out of the club” (London TIMES, 4/26).
ESPN.com’s Mark Ogden wrote under the header, “Wrexham promotion is a miracle. The next will be even harder.” Wrexham’s average attendance of 12,757 during their 2024-25 League One campaign would be the “third-smallest in the Championship this season.” Those numbers alone “point to the club taking a leap into the big leagues next year, facing rivals who have much greater earning potential through the turnstiles” (ESPN.com, 4/26).
