The sequel turned out to be simply nearly as good for Wrexham.
League Two
Stockport Performed 43, 86 factors (Promoted)Wrexham Performed 44, 82 factors (Promoted)Mansfield City Performed 43, 79 factorsMK Dons Performed 44, 74 factorsCrewe Alexandria, Performed 44, 70 factorsBarrow, Performed 42, 67 factors
* High three groups are promoted, subsequent 4 compete in playoffs for remaining promotion spot
The Welsh crew co-owned by actor Ryan Reynolds clinched promotion to the third tier of English soccer due to a 6-0 dwelling win over Forest Inexperienced on Saturday.
That is back-to-back promotions for the crew because it was thrust into the highlight following the funding by its Hollywood house owners. It’s two tiers away from the Premier League.
“That is the journey of our lives,” Reynolds wrote on X, previously Twitter, after the sport.
Wrexham wanted to each beat Forest Inexperienced and see MK Dons and Barrow drop factors as a way to safe computerized promotion to League One with two rounds to go.
Wrexham’s win was by no means doubtful because the crew was 4-0 up at half-time. MK Dons wasted an early lead in dropping at dwelling in opposition to Mansfield 4-1, whereas Barrow misplaced to Gillingham 3-0.
That sparked mass celebrations at Wrexham as followers ran onto the sphere after the ultimate whistle, regardless of pre-game warnings from the membership urging them to remain within the stands.
Wrexham is second in League Two, 4 factors behind chief Stockport, which additionally clinched promotion on Saturday.
The highest three groups are mechanically promoted to League One, and fourth-placed MK Dons can now not catch Wrexham.
Reynolds and McElhenney took over in November 2020, shopping for the little-known membership for $US2.5m ($3.85m).
They missed out on promotion from the Nationwide League of their first full season, earlier than ending a 15-year exile in non-league soccer within the 2022-23 marketing campaign, getting again into the English Soccer League — the three divisions under the Premier League.
The membership’s trials and tribulations underneath its well-known house owners have come to worldwide consideration by the documentary collection Welcome to Wrexham.
That is the primary time within the membership’s 159-year historical past that it has earned promotion in two consecutive seasons.
“A couple of years in the past, in the event you informed me I might be crying tears of pleasure over a soccer match happening in North Wales, you’d be Rob McElhenney,” Reynolds wrote in his social media submit.
“Congrats to Wrexham and to my co-chairman in crime. Double up the city!”
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