⚽️ Wrexham first English team ever to get 3 straight promotions [View all]

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WREXHAM, Wales -- Wrexham are one step away from the Premier League. The club with the Hollywood owners is now writing a script way beyond the most extraordinary plots in Tinseltown, but after achieving a historic third successive promotion, they are potentially one year away from joining Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal in football's most glamorous league.

When Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought Wrexham for just £2 million in February 2021, the Welsh team had been marooned in English football's fifth tier for 13 years and were facing the likes of Wealdstone, Dover Athletic and King's Lynn Town in league games. The Premier League wasn't even a dream; Wrexham's fans just wanted their cash-strapped club to live to fight another day.


No club in English football has ever been promoted in three consecutive seasons. Until now. Wrexham's 3-0 win against Charlton Athletic at Stok Cae Ras on Saturday ensured promotion from League One to the EFL Championship to continue the team's incredible rise from the National League.


But Wrexham's advantage is their ability to make up for that financial shortfall through their owners' ability to attract more high-profile sponsorship deals like the front-of-shirt partnership they have with United Airlines that enabled the club's turnover to climb to £26.7 million -- growth of 155% on the previous year -- in accounts for the year ended Jun 30, 2024. Those figures, which reported commercial revenue increasing to £13.18 million from £1.88 million, are the most recent published by the club and only cover their season in League Two. They'll grow exponentially with every level that Wrexham climb up the ladder.