Rob McElhenney has been discussing his Wrexham players this week, saying what they do is ‘wild’.
Wrexham players have enjoyed a well-earned break in the last week or so following a triumphant 2024/25 season.
The Red Dragons ended the campaign with a club-high 92 points, securing them second place in League One and automatic promotion to the Championship.
For the third season in a row, the Welsh outfit have been promoted and, as became a tradition on the back of escaping the National League in 2022/23, Wrexham went to Las Vegas to celebrate.
Their partying has come to an end, though, with attention turning toward the 2025/26 season.
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Why Rob McElhenney is ‘fascinated’ by Wrexham players
Wrexham’s 2025 pre-season tour of Australia will get underway on July 11, with three friendlies currently lined up.
The 2025/26 Championship season then begins on the weekend of August 8.
Like League One, Wrexham will play 46 league fixtures across the season while also competing in the FA Cup and Carabao Cup.
Now, when speaking on The Rich Eisen Show on Tuesday evening, Rob McElhenney has shared that he’s ‘fascinated’ by Wrexham players and the schedule they are able to put up with.
He said: “By the way, this is what I’m so fascinated by because yes, they are young men, but still, they just played 44 games, probably 50 games if you include all the all the cups and tournaments, through brutal weather.
“We then went to Vegas, where they brutalised their bodies for four straight days. And then they have off for like 3 weeks, and then they go back to it, where they have to go to Australia and play a bunch of friendlies, and then go back to another 50-game season. It’s wild, I don’t know how they do it.”
Wrexham set for fewer games in 2025/26
While Wrexham will have another gruelling schedule in 2025/26, they are likely to end up playing fewer games.
It may be common knowledge for long-time Welsh fans of Wrexham, but new supporters from abroad brought in via the Welcome to Wrexham documentary may not be aware that the club, now they are in the Championship, will not compete in the EFL Trophy next season.
That competition is only for sides in League One and below, as well as U21 teams, meaning the Red Dragons will have, unless they go deep in the FA and League Cups, at least a few less fixtures to contend with in the next 12 months.