Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds have taken Wrexham to new heights and are looking to do the same with another club.
The Red Dragons will be competing in the Championship come 2025/26 – the first time ever for the club since the competiton’s rebrand in the early 2000s.
There is no denying the reason Wrexham are now back in the second tier of English football is because of Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds’ decision to buy the club.
The Welsh outfit spent over a decade stuck in the National League before the takeover in 2021 and after one full season that ended in play-off disappointment, they have since won three promotions in a row.
Wrexham are not the only club to have caught the attention of McElhenney and Reynolds in recent years, however.
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Why Wrexham owners Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds invested in Necaxa
McElhenney and Reynolds invested in Club Necaxa in April 2024, with a number of other notable names also involved.
Necaxa play their football in Liga MX, which is the top tier of Mexican football.
Now, speaking on the Away Days YouTube channel this week, McElhenney was asked why he decided to invest in the club.
In his explanation, the actor pointed out the similarities between Necaxa and Wrexham.
He said: “I just wanted to go and be a part of a Latin experience, and so Nexaca was just a club there, for us, that had the same ethos and feeling of a Wrexham.
“Where the system is a little bit different down there, but there are five teams that compete at the top and then everybody else is fighting for six and below.
“They even have an expression where they’ll say well ‘the teams in our league, the teams in our league’ and you’re like ‘wait I thought you guys are on the same league?’ and they say ‘well sorry we are, we’re in the same division, but we don’t consider ourselves in the same league as them’, which is —— up because those top five six teams are so over capitalised and the teams from sixth to 24th they can’t compete, so they don’t even bother. They try, but it just becomes so impossible.
“The idea is to suggest that we belong there, that’s me as the emotional journey that you’re shining the spotlight on people and say, you thought that there are this class of people or this class of team or this community or town that is out of your league, and we are here to say, hopefully put up a mirror in front of them in that light I was talking about and say, you belong, you belong in that league. They’re no better than you, they’re not stronger than you.
“They might just have a little bit more money, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t compete and be in that league.”
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How are Necaxa faring this season
They might not be having the success of Wrexham, but Rob and Ryan’s other team are having a solid 2024/25.
17 games into their campaign, Necaxa are fifth in the division with 10 wins, one draw, and six losses.
They are sat on 31 points and are currently only six adrift of the league leaders, Deportivo Toluca.