FX is showing off the first official poster from the upcoming second season of Welcome to Wrexham just hours before Wrexham AFC takes the field to play Manchester United.
Season one premiered on August 24, 2022 and followed the Wrexham Red Dragons as they played their first season under new ownership. Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) and Rob McElhenney (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) knew nothing about owning a team when they purchased Wrexham and season one of the FX docuseries, which tracked their experiences with the team and the town, was a true underdog story.
The documentary series, which helped build up the Wrexham Red Dragons’ international fanbase, earned six Emmy nominations (including Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program) along with a Critics Choice Award for Best Sports Documentary.
Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds appear in the series and serve as executive producers along with Josh Drisko, Bryan Rowland, Jeff Luini, Nick Frenkel, and George Dewey. Boardwalk Pictures’ Andrew Fried, Alan Bloom, Dane Lillegard, Sarina Roma, and Jordan Wynn also executive produce.
Welcome to Wrexham season two premieres on September 12, 2023 at 10pm ET/PT.
The Official Synopsis, Courtesy of FX:
Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds navigate running the 3rd oldest professional football club in the world. Welcome to Wrexham is a docuseries tracking the dreams and worries of Wrexham, a working-class town in North Wales, UK, as two Hollywood stars guide the future of the town’s historic football club.
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 change is afoot. After a painful elimination in the playoffs, season two continues to track the club as they fight for promotion out of the National League and return to the English Football League. Dedicated staff and supporters hold on to the dream of returning the team and town to glory while bracing for the new-found challenges that fame has brought to their small community.
From Hollywood to Wales, from the pitch to the locker room, the front office to the pub, Welcome to Wrexham follows Rob and Ryan’s stewardship and the inextricably connected fates of a team and a town in the midst of history in the making.
