Wrexham’s ambitious stadium plans mark the next step in the club’s journey toward long-term success. With growing support and momentum under their high-profile ownership, the club is looking to expand and modernise the Racecourse Ground to accommodate their rising stature and future aspirations.
Investment in infrastructure is a crucial part of Wrexham’s vision, ensuring they have the facilities to support their push up the football pyramid while maintaining a strong connection with their passionate fanbase.
Investment in infrastructure is a crucial part of Wrexham’s vision, ensuring they have the facilities to support their push up the football pyramid while maintaining a strong connection with their passionate fanbase.
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00:00Now, Wrexham's ambitious stadium plans mark the next step in the club's journey towards
00:08long-term success. With growing support and momentum under their high-profile ownership,
00:14the club is looking to expand and modernise the racecourse ground to accommodate their
00:19rising stature and future aspirations. Investment in infrastructure is a crucial part of Wrexham's
00:27vision, ensuring they have the facilities to support their push up the football pyramid
00:32while maintaining a strong connection with their passionate supporters. I spoke to Wrexham
00:39podcaster Rich Fay to get the latest from the racecourse ground.
00:46And looking at Wrexham and the stadium redevelopment plans, you know, we mentioned what an impact
00:53it would be for Wrexham as a place as well and sort of making sure they've stamped their
00:58mark on this takeover period, this incredible, you know, time in the club's history as well.
01:04Just your thoughts on the redevelopment? Obviously, it's been sort of confirmed by the council,
01:09they're sort of getting their backing as well. Just show how much has gone into this takeover,
01:15how much is really behind the thought of ensuring that it is a long-term successful plan and,
01:22you know, Wrexham fans can look back and be so proud on this moment as part of their history?
01:28Yeah, again, I think when we talk about longevity of the project and what the actual legacy is,
01:33really, it is that. I mean, ultimately, you know, Wrexham should be now, hopefully for the
01:40foreseeable future, for the rest of my lifetime, should be a football league club. And that is
01:44fantastic. They should become self-sustainable in the way that that works. But I suppose beyond
01:49that, it is what are you leaving behind? Because league places come and go. The division you're in
01:55is fantastic. It's a nice bit of kudos to have. But beyond that, when Rob and Ryan finally sell
02:00the club and they leave, you know, hopefully leave us in a much better place than they found us,
02:05that will be what they gift to the next owners and they gift to the community. It is the fact of
02:09having a rejuvenated stadium. And I know they've spoken in the past that there could be plans to
02:14one day have a 25, 30, 40, 50,000 stadium. That is all pie-in-the-sky stuff right now. It's all
02:20fan support. It's the type of encouragement you want from your owners. But the Kop being rebuilt,
02:27that would be such a monumental and sentimental development for the club, really, because it's
02:34always been the first thing you see. And you watch Wrexham on TV, you look at those barren years in
02:39non-league and there's a three-sided stadium with a derelict stand that's rotting away in front of
02:44your eyes. The most famous stand we have, the place where the Wales national team had some of their
02:49greatest ever moments. Wrexham had their greatest ever moments. European nights, survival from the
02:54Football League, iconic goals, upsets, all at that side of the stadium. And it was just derelict,
03:01disused, abandoned, unloved. And for so long, it felt like that was just going to be the case.
03:05There's been so many false dawns, so many fake promises and ambitions that just never got off
03:11the ground. So, for that stand to finally be built, finally to have that in place,
03:17can't be taken away from you. Yeah, you can get relegated. Yeah, you can fall down the leagues,
03:21but you've got your stadium back. You've got that belief and that sentimentality again. And
03:28that will be the defining legacy of the takeover. Like I said, signings are great,
03:34league positions are great, but just having our stadium back, and not even back, but better than
03:40ever before, state-of-the-art, modern, it would mean so much to the people of Wrexham. Not just
03:45as a football stadium, but just as a landmark, really. Everyone drives past it on the way into
03:52town. It's one of the first things you see when you get into Wrexham itself. And what it can also
03:57provide the community beyond match days, it can be a concert venue, it can have corporate and
04:02business sort of benefits as well. So, it will be massive. It will be absolutely massive. And
04:08particularly because it felt such a distant dream for so long, it felt like it was never going to
04:12happen. So, we could talk about promotions and all that and how great they'd be, but Wrexham fans
04:18would trade going up if it meant that they had their stadium back. There is a warning. You can
04:23have too much too soon, but there's a chance of history here now. Wrexham fans are just living
04:29their best life. Two years ago, we were playing Dorking Wanderers. We've just gone and played
04:33Bolton Wanderers. We played Huddersfield, got Reading away next week. That's two teams who've
04:37been in the Premier League in the last decade. Can you really complain?