Three promotions in three years. People laughed at Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney when they promised Premier League football for a club that was grinding through the National League. Nobody's laughing now.
Season 5 of Welcome to Wrexham picks up with the Red Dragons in the Championship — the second tier of English football — and Phil Parkinson trying to hold together a squad that has been rebuilt almost from scratch to meet the demands of a far harder division. One more promotion and this whole fairytale actually reaches the top flight. That's the stakes.
What Season 5 Actually Covers
It's not just the league campaign. The series follows an FA Cup run, profiles club legend Joey Jones, and tracks the progress of Wrexham's women's team. Eight episodes, premiering in the US on FXX and Hulu from May 14 — a double bill to open, then one episode weekly through to June 25.
Outside the US, it lands on Disney Plus a day later, from May 15. Canada gets the Disney Plus option plus the same-night FXX broadcast. UK and Australian viewers are Disney Plus only.
How to Watch
- US: FXX (Thursdays, 9pm ET/PT) or stream on Hulu — plans from $11.99/month after a free 30-day trial. Also available via YouTube TV, Fubo, and Hulu + Live TV, all with free trial periods.
- UK: Disney Plus — from £5.99/month
- Canada: Disney Plus (CA$8.99/month) or FXX cable broadcast
- Australia: Disney Plus — from AU$9.99/month
- Travelling? A VPN like NordVPN lets you connect back to your home country and access your usual service.
From a football perspective, the Championship is a serious step up — relentless fixtures, physical sides, and opponents with far deeper squads than anything Wrexham faced on the way up. Whether Parkinson can navigate that in year one is genuinely uncertain. The promotion odds will tell you the same thing.
The cameras will capture all of it either way.
