No club in the history of the Football League had previously completed back-to-back-to-back promotions.
That was until Saturday, April 26, 2025.
With a 3-0 victory over Charlton, the side of Phil Parkinson followed champion Birmingham in sealing automatic promotion of Sky Bet League One to the championship with one match about.
Three of the eight promotions of the club in history have now come in the last three seasons; Their rapid rise of the Goldrums saw them to the National League Champions in 2022/23 and Sky Bet League Two Runners-Up in 2023/24.
Just over four years after Hollywood -Superstars Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mcelhenney completed their acquisition of the Welsh Club, the Premier League is in sight.
Here, Sky Sports looks in a journey that has been downright incredible so far.
Hollywood is coming to Noord -Wales such as Rob and Ryan
From 1921 to 2008, Wrexham was a Football League club. But after relegation from League Two under Brian Little, they disappeared from the heads of many.
More than a decade passed without them managing to find a way out of the notoriously challenging National League.
In both 2010/11 and 2011/12 they lost to Luton in the play-off semi-final. They were defeated in the final by Newport in 2012/13 and in 2018/19 Eastleigh played them on the quarterfinals.
Then, at the end of 2020 – almost incredible – a takeover of Reynolds – the man behind the mask of Marvel's 'Deadpool' – and Mcelhenney – star of long -running sitcom 'it is always sunny in Philadelphia' – announced. It was completed in February 2021, when 98.6 percent of the Wrexham supporters voted for Trust -members.
Although television cameras descended on the racecourse Ground, when production started in FX's documentary series 'Welcome to Wrexham' for the first time, the first few months of the couple were not very glamorous. There was a late dashboard for the play-offs under Dean Keates, but Wrexham finally finished one point short.
But this was a project – and there is often failure on the way to success.
As important as starting an increase in divisions, the community was to involve. Mcelhenney spoke about visions that Wrexham's house was full again, as it was in the 1970s. “Our hope is that we can help Wrexham become a global force,” said Reynolds.
Failure and success as the basis for the historical rise are laid
The 2021/22 campaign was transforming for Wrexham. Phil Parkinson – a man with three management promotions on his CV – was installed as a manager, social media platform Tiktok became their main shirt sponsor and the signing of Paul Mullin on a free transfer from Cambridge turned out to be a masterstroke because he scored 26 goals in 38 league matches.
The Parkinson's side finished second on 88 points, but that was six shortage of Champions Stockport. Another new non-successful play-off campaign followed, while Grimsby threw them away through an exciting 5-4 semi-final victory after extra time. That extra insult to injury, because they lost the FA Trophy final to Bromley in Wembley six days earlier.
After 15 long years, they were promoted to the EFL in 2022/23 and were working on a title fight for the ages with Notts County. An almost perfect home record of 22 victories, one draw and zero defeats was undoubtedly the key factor when breaking the magpies to the title with 111 points to 107.
Last season there was just no let-up.
The signing sessions of enormously experienced couple – on a domestic and international level – James McClean and Steven Fletcher, besides Ben Foster who signed a new deal, brought the much needed nous and know -how. Otherwise, the majority of the team that was there in the National League was there in League Two.
From October 21 to the last day of the season, Wrexham did not fall below the fifth. And five consecutive victories to close the season, they only saw four points behind Champions Stockport. The migration of 88 points was their best EFL recovery in history.
“A few years ago, if you told me that I would cry tears of joy about a football match that took place in Noord -Wales, you would be Rob Mcelhenney,” Reynolds posted on X after promotion was confirmed. “Congratulations on Wrexham and my co-chairman in crime. Double double the city! This is the ride of our lives.”
No room for sentiment when planning a route to the next level
To then be competitive in League One, sentiment had to go out the window. Players with experience playing in the third level or higher, as well as young people with high potential, were brought in. Promotion winners, including Anthony Forne, James Jones and Jacob Mendy, were either released or had to settle for a reduced role.
The same can be said for Mullin. In his first three seasons, he became the poster boy of the club, who led two consecutive promotions with 105 goals in just 140 games in all competitions. This time he has managed only nine starts and three goals in the competition and has not played against Stevenage on 28 January since the 3-2 defeat.
“We had to speed up the quality of the team,” said Parkinson's, speaking with Sky Sports in the run -up to the Easter weekend.
“For years, by nobody's fault, but only the club that has no money and has really difficult times, the quality of the team and the depth was far away where it had to be the kind of challenge that we have done in recent years.
“So we had to speed up the quality level within the group, while we also watched the sustainable model for a football club in the future.
“The Academy is a great example. In the National League we didn't really have a youth structure. We could not and gradually, year after year, we become stronger in that department because Rob and Ryan listen to everyone's advice. They understand that the infrastructure is in place.
“In the coming years we have to produce our own players, because if it comes to a level that you cannot always compete with teams in and around you, it is nice to let players get through. We currently have a few, which is brilliant for us and there are nothing more than their own players.”
Momentum never dies on the racecourse
This term has just been a case of rinse and repetition. Four wins and a draw in the first five – holding four clean sheets along the way – would look like the happiness of beginners for most teams. But Wrexham are not most teams.
In addition to the 3-1 loss in Birmingham on September 16, each of their seven other defeats have come a margin of one goal. Only five teams – Burnley (13), Arsenal (27), Birmingham (29), Leeds (29) and Liverpool (31) – have admitted fewer goals to the top four divisions of English football. Goalkeeper Arthur Okonkwo has the most clean sheets in League One, with 17.
That does not mean that it has been smooth sailing. Ten of their 24 wins have come so far due to a 1-0 scoreline and five of those 24 were won by goals scored on or after the 80th minute. But with two Hollywood actors at the helm, what would this story be without a touch of drama?
“I just told the boys today that we are not going into a game that are expecting someone else, it is only about concentrating on our own track,” Parkinson said.
“We have previously been in this situation in the National League with Nottts County, where we went toe with them. The only thing you can do is determine what you can control – and that is your own performance level.
“There are certain things that are outside of our control and one of them is the performances and results of the other team, so we know what to do.”
And that is exactly what they did.
Wycombe pushed hard, but Wrexham prevailed to write history. Their incredible achievement will stand out in themselves for many years in the history books.
Now comes the championship, where they have never played before.
There were four seasons of the Second Division after they won the third in 1977/78, but since 1982 every competition match they played has been in the third, fourth and fifth level of football. This is unknown territory for large parts of the fan base.
To have achieved what Wrexham has has in the past three seasons, something is needed. Potential obstacles and heartache will be incorporated into their plans, but still, remarkable, has delayed very little their momentum.
The work will not stop there. Why would it? Admittedly, promotion of the championship to the Premier League will be a different huge task. But Rob and Ryan did not come here to settle for a little less.
And now they have achieved it unlikely, what is to prevent Wrexham from believing that they can reach the impossible?