FX has handed Welcome to Wrexham a three-season renewal, keeping the docuseries running through its eighth installment — likely sometime in 2029. The announcement lands just ahead of the season five premiere on May 14, and given where Wrexham currently sit in the Championship, the show has never had more to work with.
Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds, who bought the club in November 2020 when it was grinding through the fifth tier of English football, put it plainly: "A three-season order for a TV series is nearly unheard of." They're right. Most docuseries get a quiet cancellation or a grudging single-season extension. Three seasons in one swing means FX believes this story has legs — and the football is doing its part to justify that faith.
Seventh place and five games left
Wrexham have climbed three divisions in three seasons. That's the kind of trajectory that doesn't happen — and yet here they are, sitting seventh in the Championship with five matches remaining, one spot outside the promotion playoff places. Season five will chronicle their push toward the Premier League. Whether they get there this year or not, the drama writes itself.
For the betting market, Wrexham's playoff position is genuinely live. One spot separates them from a top-six finish. Any swing in form over these final five games could put them in contention for a Wembley playoff final — and a potential place in the most lucrative league in world football.
FX Entertainment president Nick Grad said the renewal reflects "the enduring connection they've built with fans around the world." That's the corporate version of what's actually happening: a non-league club turned Championship contender, documented in real time, pulling in viewers who've never watched a football match in their lives.
What comes next
Three more seasons means the cameras will be rolling regardless of what happens in May. Promotion or playoff heartbreak, the story continues. But the version where Wrexham reach the Premier League — founded in 1864, the oldest international football club in the world, nearly dead before two Hollywood actors bought it — would be something English football hasn't seen before.
The show gets to keep telling that story. The football still has to deliver it.
