From non-league to the Championship in three seasons, Wrexham are now the Hollywood-owned Welsh club who have written themselves a chapter in the English Football League record books. Never before had a team in the top five tiers of the English game been promoted in three successive years – until now. Even their owners, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, would have been laughed out of town for writing a script like this.
In the end it was a dominant 3-0 win over Charlton that sealed their spot in the Championship for 2025-26, another former Premier League team toppled. Ollie Rathbone’s strike and Sam Smith’s double put the Reds on the path to League One promotion with a game to spare, and consigned the Addicks, along with Wycombe and Stockport, to the playoffs.
