Fans of Welcome to Wrexham will have a chance to watch their team take on one of the biggest teams in the world on Wednesday night as Wrexham A.F.C. faces Chelsea, the sixth place finisher in the English Premier League last season.
Wrexham just earned a promotion after last season to EFL League One, the third-highest tier of association football in England. There’s a pretty wide talent gap here, but this Wrexham team has impressed since Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney purchased the team in 2020.
At the time that the two actors took ownership of the club, Wrexham played in the National League, the fifth-tier in the English system. The team has already earned promotion twice due to how the funding brought in by Reynolds and McElhenney has helped revamp the program.
Wrexham last played on July 20 against another EPL team, Bournemouth, and the League One side managed a draw in the contest.
That will be a harder task against Chelsea, though. Bournemouth was 12th in the EPL last season; a solid result, but it scored 48 points to Chelsea’s 63.
This is Chelsea’s first match since the Premier League season ended, with the team defeating Bournemouth 2-1 behind goals from Moises Caicedo and Raheem Sterling.
Wednesday’s game will take place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Following the match, Wrexham next plays the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday while Chelsea plays Celtic on that same day.
WATCH: Chelsea vs. Wrexham on Fubo
This match will air on Wednesday, July 24, 2024 at 10:00 p.m. ET.
Looking to watch this game? The English version will air on ESPN while the Spanish version will air on ESPN Deportes. Fubo will have both the English and Spanish language broadcasts in the United States.
