Wrexham Promoted To Championship League As Team Nears Coveted Premier Rank; Co-Owner Ryan Reynolds Celebrates With Blake Lively

With a place of origin victory towards Charlton Athletic FC at Racecourse Ground, the Wales-hailing Wrexham AFC has cemented its second-tier standing — a hopeful forestall resulting in the coveted Premier League.

Co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, who megastar in and government produce FX’s docuseries at the soccer membership’s underdog adventure, had been in attendance on the April 26 sport, observed celebrating along fellow actor and Reynolds’ spouse Blake Lively. The 3-0 triumph by way of the once-fifth-rank Red Dragons is now the workforce’s 1/3 such promotion in as many seasons, which means the membership is now within the Sky Bet Championship League. The feat marks the primary such access by way of Wrexham AFC for the reason that 1981-82 season.

In a video shared by way of the Welsh football workforce’s X account, the Welcome to Wrexham actors had been captured having stormed the pitch along enthusiasts (regardless of police caution forward of kickoff), dumping gallons of Gatorade in party. Per the Associated Press, the raucous target market replied in tandem, lighting fixtures flares and proudly waving flags.

“It just seemed like an impossible dream,” Reynolds instructed the AP in a while. “We said five years ago our goal was to make it to the Premier League. There were understandably a lot of laughs, but it feels like a thing that could make it to fruition right now.”

Friends, trade companions and fellow actors Reynolds and McElhenney purchased Wrexham AFC for $2.5 million again in 2020, with the (then-unlikely) goal of taking the oldest Welsh football workforce (and third-oldest total) from the National League to the highest rank of English football. Though the Ted Lasso jokes proceed to be apropos, the FX docuseries tracks the real-life desires and worries of Wrexham, a operating magnificence town in North Wales, U.Ok., as the 2 Hollywood stars information the way forward for its ancient membership.

Season 4 of Welcome to Wrexham will premiere May 15 at 9 p.m. ET/PT with two episodes and repeats to be had by means of Hulu day after today.