By Amanda Langell
As the Red Dragons continues to score both on the pitch and on the screen, the club's value has skyrocketed from what Ryan Reynolds originally paid for Wrexham A.F.C. in 2020.
When Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney purchased the oldest club in Wales, Wrexham were struggling in the National League, unknown to even the biggest soccer fans in the United Kingdom, let alone the world. With such excitement in the Premier League and the Championship, not many spectators paid much attention to a Welsh team that lost more matches than they won.
After getting demoted from League Two in 2008, Wrexham spent the next 15 years outside of the English Football League. The club reached a low point in the 2019/20 season, winning just 11 of their 37 matches. The entire future of the club changed, though, the moment Reynolds and McElhenney purchased Wrexham.
Check out just how much money the two investors spent to own the third oldest professional club in soccer.
How much did Ryan Reynolds pay for Wrexham?
Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney paid $2.5 million for Wrexham A.F.C. in 2020. With a combined net worth of $400 million, the two owners decided to invest their time, resources, and wallets into a team they virtually knew nothing about.
Now, just four years later, the investment has already exceeded expectations. Not only are Reynolds and McElhenney producers of the Emmy award-winning docuseries, Welcome to Wrexham, but they own a club now worth over quadruple what they originally paid.
Wrexham Strategic Board Advisor, Shaun Harvey, revealed, "[Wrexham] was worth nothing, it was an investment that has paid off. Now worth [$11 million]."
He also praised the social media growth of Wrexham, noting "an increase from 152,000 to 3,981,747 [followers] across all platforms" over the last four years.
Now that Wrexham, followed by cameras for the upcoming fourth season of Welcome to Wrexham,
will play in League One in the 2024/25 season, the growth of the club will inevitably continue to rise.
This article was originally published on 90min.com as How much did Ryan Reynolds pay for Wrexham?.
