FX has released the Welcome to Wrexham Season 3 trailer — set to Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.” Co-owners Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds provide a personal lead into the two-minute trailer that likens Wrexham A.F.C.’s winning pattern to the infamous Rocky Balboa. The new eight-episode season, which follows Wrexham’s 2023/2024 season, premieres on Thursday, May 2, at 10/9c.
Welcome to Wrexham Season 3 sees the “the stakes have never been higher as League Two brings a new level of intensity and the club continues to be plagued with injury and setbacks. Dedicated staff and supporters celebrate the city’s return to glory while bracing for the new-found challenges that come with a return to the EFL. Will Wrexham AFC stand up to the challenge and rise again?” according to the logline, per TV Line.
One of the setbacks featured in the trailer is star player Paul Mullin’s injury, which sent him to the emergency room. As the club’s Executive Director, Humphrey Ker, says, “This whole thing is never more than two or three steps away from catastrophe.”
Welcome to Wrexham‘s third season chronicles The Red Dragons’ first time in the European Football League since 2008. The show’s second season ended with the team’s return to EFL for the first time in over 15 years. In the trailer, Reynolds describes Season 3 as “a very harrowing, edge-of-your-seat season.”
Coincidentally, the upcoming season comes just after the club’s promotion to League One, which the team secured after their 6-0 win over Forest Green Rovers on April 13. This accomplishment means Wrexham has won back-to-back promotions since McElhenney and Reynolds bought the third-oldest professional football club in the world in 2020.
The trailer teases more celebrity cameos showing support for the club, like Hugh Jackman at a game at the Racecourse. Additionally, the new footage spotlights McElhenney’s 2023 birthday gift to Reynolds, which features Chris Pratt.
The season’s logline continues: “Meanwhile, Wrexham AFC’s Women’s Team, fresh off an undefeated season that saw them promoted to the Welsh Adran Premier League, continue to show why women were meant to be footballers. With new players, a new pitch, and a whole new level of competition, can they continue to dominate and make a name for themselves at the top of the League?” Unfortunately, the Welcome to Wrexham Season 3 trailer doesn’t feature much of the women’s team.
It does highlight some of the other people who make this sports docuseries unique. Of course, Welcome to Wrexham takes a behind-the-scenes look at running a football club. But it also goes further to get to know the people who make it all happen. It puts in the effort to know and understand the players on and off the pitch. From the fans who loyally attend the matches and the staff who tirelessly help the club run to the passionate community and town, Welcome to Wrexham is invested in it all.
Ryan Reynolds sums it up nicely in the trailer: “People expected to see a documentary about us changing Wrexham, but I think it’s about Wrexham changing everyone else.”
Watch the Welcome to Wrexham Season 3 trailer below:
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Welcome to Wrexham Season 3 premieres on Thursday, May 2, at 10/9c on FX and streams the next day on Hulu.