'Welcome to Wrexham's Trailer Welcomes Wrexham's Season 4 Promotion

There are very few reality shows that we cover here at Telly Visions; other than the breakout global smashes The Great British Baking Show and The Traitors, the format rarely produces quality viewing week to week. However, Welcome to Wrexham, a real-life take on the Ted Lasso premise of an American in charge of U.K. football, has turned out to be far more engaging than it initially looked. The series began with Canadian Ryan Reynolds and American Rob McElhenney pooling their Hollywood earnings to buy one of the cheapest football clubs available at the time, Wrexham A.F.C., the third-oldest club in the country, and a team that had not been relevant for ~50 years.

Five years and four seasons in, Reynolds and McElhenney have achieved what was assumed to be impossible: they’ve taken the team, known colloquially as the Red Dragons, from the bottom of the standings and the lowest division through a record-breaking three back-to-back promotions. Season 1 saw the team miss the cut by a metaphorical inch, but since the show’s second season, Wrexham has progressed from the 5th tier, where it had been mired since the turn of the century, to EFL League Two, to EFL League One, and now to the Championship League, a place the team hasn’t been since 1980.

“It just seemed like an impossible dream,” Reynolds told the AP. “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.”