Wrexham AFC is shifting up as soon as once more. The Welsh membership has secured promotion to the EFL Championship league, one tier beneath the Premier League, after a 3-0 win over Charlton on Saturday.
Midfielder Oliver Rathbone opened the scoring for Wrexham within the fifteenth minute, adopted by a pair of objectives from striker Sam Smith within the 18th and 81st minutes. With the win, Wrexham secured 89 factors with one recreation remaining, clinching a second-place end and its third consecutive promotion.
Wrexham presently performs in League One, the third tier of English soccer; they are going to now start play within the Championship, the second tier, subsequent season. The highest two golf equipment in League One are promoted on the finish of the season, plus the winner of a playoff between the golf equipment in third by means of sixth place. (Birmingham, who has 102 factors, has already clinched the highest place within the league.)
It has been fairly a run for Wrexham, who has now been promoted 3 times in three straight seasons — an accomplishment that’s unprecedented at this stage of the English leagues.
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Wrexham has had an enormous increase underneath the possession of American actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, who purchased the crew in Nov. 2020. The pair have chronicled the method of buying and overhauling the membership by means of their common sequence “Welcome to Wrexham.”
Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds bought the membership in 2020. (Picture by Martin Rickett/PA Pictures by way of Getty Pictures)
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Within the second 12 months after Reynolds and McElhenney took over, Wrexham , returning to the skilled league for the primary time in additional than a decade. Final 12 months, , touchdown in League One after back-to-back promotions.
Regardless of Wrexham’s resounding success over the previous few years, the chances of promotion to the Premier League are comparatively slim. Groups within the Championship — a lot of which have lately performed within the Premier League — are likely to have higher gamers, greater stadiums and more cash, making it tough for a smaller crew like Wrexham to compete.
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Wrexham has averaged 12,757 followers per recreation — a quantity that’s related for ticket gross sales and income in addition to residence setting. In distinction, Southhampton, which is on the very backside of the Premier League this season and is about to be relegated consequently, has common attendance nearer to 30,000.
With that mentioned, Wrexham has actually overcome the chances earlier than: If we have discovered something with this crew, it is that something is feasible.