Wrexham seals 3rd straight promotion, will play in English soccer's 2nd tier

James Robson · The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 26, 2025 3:08 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Wrexham fans ignored the warnings. They were ever going to.

By the clip the last whistle blew connected Saturday to corroborate promotion to English soccer's 2nd tier, thousands were acceptable and waiting to tempest the tract successful celebration.

Flares were lit, reddish fume filled the air, Welsh flags were waved proudly and songs sung raucously.

Wrexham was 1 measurement from the Premier League and thing was going to halt this party.

There were warnings of constabulary enactment for transportation invaders earlier kickoff. And arsenic a 3-0 triumph against Charlton reached its last moments, an announcement implicit the loudspeaker told fans the crippled could beryllium stopped if they didn't determination backmost down barricades.

But everyone wrong the club's historical Racecourse Ground knew what was coming, and wrong seconds of the whistle the tract was a oversea of reddish arsenic Wrexham supporters celebrated wildly.

The Welsh shot team's singular emergence nether Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney deed a caller precocious arsenic it ensured it would spell up arsenic the 3rd part runner-up down champion Birmingham.

It means that from adjacent play it volition beryllium playing 1 level beneath the Premier League, thing that was unthinkable conscionable 4 years agone erstwhile it was a struggling non-league team.

Reynolds and McElhenney were portion of a afloat location of astir 13,000 fans packed into the stadium to observe a 3rd consecutive promotion.

Who knows what's adjacent for a squad that has defied the likelihood since the actors bought it for $2.5 cardinal successful 2021 and turned it into a household sanction astir the world.

While celebrations greeted the last whistle, the enactment began overmuch earlier aft promotion rival Wycombe mislaid to Leyton Orient 1-0.

Wrexham conscionable needed triumph past to clinch the 2nd promotion spot successful League One.

Reynolds posed for selfies with fans extracurricular and served drinks down the barroom successful a marquee acceptable up extracurricular the adjacent Turf pub, which has earned satellite renown from the docuseries "Welcome to Wrexham."

Fans erupted successful cheers aft the last whistle of Wycombe's loss, which was shown connected a large screen.

Wrexham conscionable needed to decorativeness the occupation disconnected against fourth-placed Charlton and eased nerves with 2 goals successful the abstraction of 3 minutes successful the archetypal half. Oliver Rathbone's agelong changeable successful the 15th infinitesimal was followed by Sam Smith's volley.

When Smith headed successful a 3rd successful the 81st the result was successful nary uncertainty and Wrexham's fans serenaded the players with chants of "We are going up."