'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.”

With the promotion secured, FX has released the trailer for Season 4, which will cover the team’s rise through the standings for a third consecutive year.

Here's the series synopsis, which helpfully summarizes the first three seasons for those joining the bandwagon, already in progress.

In 2020, Rob and Ryan teamed up to purchase the 5th tier Red Dragons in the hopes of turning the Club into an underdog story the whole world could root for. The world took notice and the Club achieved back-to-back promotions to bring the Reds into the English Football League’s League One for the first time in 20 years. As they continue to rise in the pyramid, the stakes get higher with a new level of intensity, competition and costs, all while the Club continues to be plagued with injury and fans demand the signing of new talent. Dedicated staff and supporters celebrate the team’s climb toward the Premiership while bracing against the new-found challenges that come with each new tier up the EFL. Will Wrexham AFC rise to the challenge and do what no team has ever done before?

Wrexham AFC Women’s Team continues to battle amongst the top teams in the Welsh Adran Premier League and strives to stand out amidst a crowded field of talented women footballers. With new players and continued support from the Club and fans, can they make a name for themselves at the top of the League? Meanwhile, somewhere in a galaxy far away… actually, a series of towns, cities and boroughs likely across Wales, England and California, Humphrey Ker trains for a marathon. Will Wrexham AFC’s beloved Executive Director raise funds for charity, survive humiliation at the hands of the players and staff, and complete 26.2 miles without injury or chaffing?

McElhenney and Reynolds continue to star in the series, along with the current player roster, which will be bolstered by new players following the team's promotion. For Season 4, the women's team will also take center stage for the first time, featuring players viewers have only met in passing and putting their journeys front and center alongside those of the men's team. Whether or not this is will also bring around Reynold's wife, Blake Lively (A Simple Favor), remains to be seen.

The two owners also executive produce the series along with Josh Drisko, Bryan Rowland, Jeff Luini, Humphrey Ker, Nick Frenkel, George Dewey, and Boardwalk Pictures’ Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard, Sarina Roma, and Andy Thomas. More Better Productions, Maximum Effort Productions, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Boardwalk Pictures produce.

Welcome to Wrexham Season 4 debuts with two episodes on Thursday, May 15, 2025, on FX at 9 p.m. ET, and streaming the next day on Hulu. The series will continue with one episode a week through the end of June.