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National League club Wrexham AFC are pushing for promotion back to the Football League for what would be the first time since 2008.That wouldn't be anything terribly notable, except the Welsh club isn't like most other non-league sides. Purchased by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney in 2021 and brought to popularity by the show , the club has taken its place amongst pop culture and gained popularity acro s the United States and other countries.Add in a recent deep FA Cup run that featured results against teams far above them in the English football tier, and the Wrexham craze continues to grow and spread.The Sporting News brings you everything you need to know about Wrexham AFC as the club continues to gain popularity and push for results that piggyback on the sensation created by new owners "Wryan and Wrob" at the Racecourse Ground.JUMP TO: | | | | | | | is a city in north-eastern Wales, sitting approximately a half-hour from Chester just over the English border and about an hour drive north to Liverpool.The club, Wrexham AFC, is affectionately known as the "Red Dragons" and plays in the National A J Brown T Shirts League, which is the fifth tier of the English football setup. They are one of the oldest football clubs in the world, formed back in 1864. The club's main colors are red and white.Wrexham play at the Racecourse Ground in north-western Wrexham, which dates back to construction in 1807 and has a current capacity of just over 10,000 fans. The stadium is considered the world's oldest football stadium to still host international matches.The Racecourse has hosted Aaron Brewer Jersey the most Wales national team matches of any ground, first welcoming the Welsh national team in 1877 and most recently hosting in 2019 as the hosts beat Trinidad Tobago on a late Ben Woodburn goal. The stadium's crowd record is an impre sive 34,445 who came to watch Wrexham play the famed "Busby Babes" of Manchester United in the 1957 FA Cup.The current club badge debuted for the 1973/74 season and features two dragons on either side, which are the national symbol of Wales, while also boasting the same background colors (green and white) as the Welsh flag. The crest displays the club motto "Ich Dien" which in German means "I serve" but many believe this actually originates from the Gaelic translation "Your Man" which is rumored to be a motto of the Welsh royalty in the 14th century.MORE: current Wrexham AFC squad is bursting with talent.The manager is Phil Parkinson, a 55-year-old who made over 360 appearances for Reading as a midfielder before retiring in 2003 to begin his coaching career. He's previously managed at Colchester United, Hull City, Charlton Athletic, Bradford City, Bolton Wanderers, and most recently Sunderland before joining Wrexham.The club's current leading scorer is 24-year-old striker Paul Mullin, who joined last season from Cambridge United and lit the National League on fire. He scored 26 goals in 38 league matches in his first season at the club, and this year, in season two, he's bagged 20 goals in 28 league games.Mullin is also currently the leading scorer of the 2022/23 FA Cup competition, with eight goals in five games. His latest was a penalty in the replay against Sheffield United, . The next closest player is Armando Dobra of Chesterfield with four, and a host of players back in third with three.Also pouring on the goals for the club is 31-year-old striker Ollie Palmer, who previously played for clubs such as AFC Wimbledon, Crawley Town, Leyton Orient, and Luton Town. Palmer has 14 league goals for the club this season in 28 appearances, a year after scoring 15 times in 21 games last campaign.Thirty-six-year-old goalkeeper Mark Howard leads the team in minutes this season with 2,880, the maximum po sible at this stage in Anthony Rush Jersey the campaign, while center-back Ben Tozer has also logged the maximum po sible minutes. The squad features mostly veteran players, with the youngest regular contributor being 23-year-old defensive midfielder Thomas O'Connor, a former Southampton youth product.Also featuring in the squad at center-back is former Celtic youth product and Ireland youth international Eoghan O'Connell, who just joined on Deadline Day from League One side Charlton Athletic.MORE: AFC were originally thought to be founded in 1872, but in 2012 new documentation was discovered that placed the foundation of the club in 1864.The club claims this to mean Wrexham are the third oldest continuous profe sional a sociation football club in the world. This is a claim that is promoted by the club itself in the bio of their , with just Notts County and Sheffield FC sitting above them.However, this is disputed by a number of other clubs, including Stoke City. Other clubs with claims older than Wrexham are either poorly documented, no longer participate in a fully profe sional environment, or were founded as clubs playing other sports before adding football later.Despite claims from other territories, Wrexham are generally accepted as the oldest football club in Wales. club was founded in 1964 by Wrexham Cricket Club, as the organization wished to form a group Kristian Fulton Jersey to participate in winter sports while cricket was put on hold.Wrexham participated in The Combination league, which featured early football clubs from England and Wales, winning four league championships. They moved to the Birmingham and District League before joining the Football League in 1921, entering in the newly formed Third Division North.When the division merged to form the Third Division in 1958, it saw Wrexham soon relegated for the first time in club history in 1960, dropped to the Fourth Division. They yo-yo'd back and forth between the leagues until they finished dead last, 92nd position, in the Denico Autry Jersey Football League in 1966.Promotion back to the third division in 1970 saw them eventually climb up to the second tier of English football in 1978, reaching that level for the first and only time. Wrexham would spend just four seasons in that league, achieving the club's highest-ever finish in the English football tier with a 15th-placed result in the 1978/79 season, before soon suffering consecutive relegations back to the fourth tier.Wrexham would achieve promotion again in 1993 back to Division Two, but at this point that league was now the third tier of English football following the formation of the Premier League in 1992 as England's top flight. They'd bounce between lower leagues until backroom problems and financial struggles culminated in a terrible 2008 season. Wrexham finished 24th in League Two dead last in the Football League again which resulted in the club's relegation from the Football League completely.The club has remained in this non-League state since, winning the Football League Trophy (open to League One and League Two participants) in 2005 and the FA Trophy (the Football A sociation's non-League Cup competition) in 2012/13, but falling short in the