Ambitious Welsh side Wrexham secured back-to-back promotions with a thumping 6-0 victory over Forest Green on Saturday to ensure a top-three place in League Two and rewrite the script for Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.
Paul Mullin scored twice in the emphatic victory against the bottom side in the division to move Wrexham to 82 points from 44 games, ensuring their promotion with two matches to spare.
Defeats for MK Dons and Barrow meant Wrexham cannot be overhauled in the top three and will be playing in the English third tier next season for the first time since 2005.
Wrexham promotion to League One
Wrexham [P] pic.twitter.com/QbbJuTx8jt
— Fearless In Devotion- WREXHAM AFC podcast (@fearlessidzine) April 13, 2024
Wrexham fans storm the pitch in celebration after securing back-to-back promotions and will be playing in League ONE next year…
Fair play
pic.twitter.com/yzcV8Eh4WF— george (@StokeyyG2) April 13, 2024
It’s been an enjoyable Saturday afternoon at the Cae Ras
Congratulations on another promotion @Wrexham_AFC
We are going up we are going up pic.twitter.com/cTaUJw0oTN— Waynne Phillips (@WaynneP) April 13, 2024
WE ARE GOING UP!
— Wrexham AFC (@Wrexham_AFC) April 13, 2024
Reynolds and McElhenney took over the club in November 2020 but missed out on promotion from the National League in their first full season, before ending a 15-year exile in non-league football in the 2022-23 campaign.
A few years ago, if you told me I would be crying tears of joy over a football match taking place in North Wales, you would be Rob McElhenney. Congrats to Wrexham and to my co-chairman in crime. Double up the town! This is the ride of our lives. https://t.co/gP6Oh2NNl4
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) April 13, 2024
The club’s trials and tribulations under its famous owners have come to international attention through the documentary series "Welcome to Wrexham."
Division leaders Stockport County also sealed their place in League One next season, but the third promotion place has yet to be decided with Mansfield Town favorites to earn it.
(Reporting by Nick Said, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
