Wrexham A.F.C.
Also written as Wrexham.
The club
Wrexham were founded on 4 October 1864 and are the oldest club in Wales and the third-oldest professional club in the world. They play at the Racecourse Ground, capacity 10,771, described as the world's oldest international stadium still hosting international fixtures. They are the Reds, the Red Dragons or the Robins, and have worn red shirts with white shorts since the late 1930s. Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds bought the club through Wrexham Holdings LLC in February 2021.
Recent seasons
Wrexham were a National League club in 2020/21, finished second in 2021/22, and won the National League in 2022/23 to end fifteen years outside the Football League. They were runners-up in League Two in 2023/24 and runners-up in League One in 2024/25, three promotions in three seasons. In 2025/26, their first second-tier campaign since 1981/82, they finished seventh in the Championship with 71 points from 19 wins, 14 draws and 13 defeats, 69 goals scored and 65 conceded. It is the highest league finish in the club's history. They missed the play-offs by two points, sixth place having required 73. Josh Windass was top scorer with 16 league goals and 17 in all competitions. They reached the fifth round of the FA Cup and the fourth round of the EFL Cup. Average home league attendance was 10,645, with a high of 10,716 against Middlesbrough on 2 May 2026.
Honours and landmarks
Wrexham won the Welsh Cup a record 23 times, beginning with the inaugural competition in 1877/78 and last in 1994/95. They won the FAW Premier Cup a record five times between 1997/98 and 2003/04, the Football League Trophy in 2004/05, the FA Trophy in 2012/13 (runners-up in 2014/15 and 2021/22) and the Football League North Cup in 1943/44. Their one Football League title is the Third Division championship of 1977/78; they were Third Division North runners-up in 1932/33 and League One runners-up in 2024/25, and Fourth Division or League Two runners-up in 1969/70, 1992/93 and 2023/24. Before joining the Football League they won The Combination four times and the Welsh Senior League twice.
The club reached the European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals in 1975/76 and beat Porto on away goals in 1984/85 before losing to Roma. In the FA Cup they reached the quarter-finals in 1973/74 and again in 1996/97, and beat holders Arsenal 2-1 in the third round in 1992. The club entered administration in 2004 and dropped out of the Football League in 2008.
Record attendance is 42,402 against Liverpool at Yankee Stadium on 30 July 2026, a friendly. The record league attendance is 29,261 against Chester City in Division Three on 26 December 1936, and the record average attendance is 12,781, set in 2024/25. Most league wins in a season is 34 and most goals 115, both in 2022/23, when Wrexham also went 28 matches unbeaten between October 2022 and 7 April 2023. Ten consecutive wins between 5 April and 8 May 2003 is the record winning run. The record fee received is £800,000 from Birmingham City for Bryan Hughes in 1997; the record fee paid is £7.5 million to Ipswich Town for Nathan Broadhead in 2025.
Notable scorelines
Record league win: 10-1 against Hartlepools United on 3 March 1962. Worst league defeat: 0-9 against Brentford in Division Three on 15 October 1963, though that entry is flagged on Wikipedia as lacking a citation. Biggest cup win: 6-0 against Charlton Athletic in the FA Cup third round on 5 January 1980, also flagged as uncited. The best-known match remains the 2-1 win over Arsenal in the FA Cup on 4 January 1992, when Wrexham had finished bottom of the Football League the previous season.
Head-to-head notes
Wrexham have a published all-time league record by opponent, but it is broader in scope than the equivalent tables kept by Football League clubs and appears to include pre-Football League league fixtures, so the totals do not always agree with an opponent's own figures. Read with that caveat, it gives: Lincoln City 96 games, 34 wins, 26 draws, 36 defeats, first met 1921/22 and last in 2024/25; Stoke City 44, 12-4-28; Cardiff City 30, 8-6-16, from 1975/76 to 2001/02; Swansea City 30, 15-7-8, from 1967/68 to 2002/03; Birmingham City 30, 11-7-12; Burnley 30, 8-7-15; Preston North End 30, 8-9-13; Millwall 26, 9-11-6; West Bromwich Albion 24, 9-5-10; Bristol City 24, 7-4-13; Watford 20, 7-4-9; Queens Park Rangers 18, 5-4-9; Blackburn Rovers 14, 3-9-2; Charlton Athletic 14, 5-6-3; Bolton Wanderers 12, 2-3-7; Derby County 8, 2-2-4; Norwich City 6, 0-1-5; Portsmouth 6, 4-0-2; West Ham United 6, 2-2-2; Sheffield United 4, 2-1-1; Southampton 4, 2-0-2.
Wolverhampton Wanderers is the one to treat carefully: Wrexham's table shows 30 meetings from 1905/06 to 1987/88 with Wrexham leading 14-6-10, while Wolves' own table counts six Football League meetings with Wolves leading 3-1-2. The tables are counting different things. Middlesbrough do not appear on Wrexham's table at all, so no record could be established for them.
Right now (2026/27)
Phil Parkinson remains manager, in post since 2021, with Dominic Hyam as captain. The one significant signing so far is right-back Danny Imray from Crystal Palace on 29 July 2026 for £5 million. Paul Mullin, the striker who scored through the promotion years, was released on 26 June and joined Rotherham United on 29 July. Thomas O'Connor was released on 30 June and joined Peterborough United on 1 July. Modou Faal went to Port Vale on loan for the season on 8 July.
Pre-season was played largely abroad: a goalless draw with Wisła Kraków on 11 July, a 1-0 win over Manchester United in Helsinki on 18 July, a 3-2 win over Leeds United in Tampa on 25 July and a 1-0 defeat to Liverpool in New York on 29 July, the match that set the club's attendance record. Wrexham open competitively away at Middlesbrough in the EFL Cup first round on 7 August 2026, and start the Championship away at Cardiff City on 17 August 2026.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrexham_A.F.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrexham_A.F.C._league_record_by_opponent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%9326_Wrexham_A.F.C._season https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026%E2%80%9327_Wrexham_A.F.C._season https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%9326_EFL_Championship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026%E2%80%9327_EFL_Championship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026%E2%80%9327_EFL_Cup https://www.wrexhamafc.co.uk/news/2026/july/30/report--wrexham-afc-vs-liverpool/
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