How Wrexham will fare in League Two?

It’s all well and good dreaming of the Premier League in giddy interviews designed to be split into six-second clips on social media, but Wrexham underscored their lofty ambitions in the release of the club’s official accounts in April.

“The directors do not feel we are anywhere near reaching the ceiling of the club’s potential yet,” the statement read. While the celebrations of Wrexham‘s National League title rumble along, some of the blue sky thinkers in north Wales will have undoubtedly already turned to the club’s assault on the English Football League.

After 15 long years since bowing out of League Two, how will Wrexham fare on their return to the professional slice of England’s football pyramid?

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While Wrexham’s owners may be looking upward, the more pessimistic among the club’s fanbase might not need to fear a swift return to England’s fifth tier. No National League champion in the last two decades has been relegated in their first season after promotion.

However, Crawley Town were the last champions to secure consecutive promotions from the fifth and then the fourth tier of English football back in 2012. Crawley, much like Wrexham, embarked upon a spirited FA Cup run while securing promotion to the Football League after an influx of investment from overseas.

Stevenage achieved the same rare feat a year earlier but are one of only two champions to move from non-League to League One in two years since the turn of the century.

As many as 20 members of Wrexham’s current squad have previously plied their trade in League Two. Wrexham’s chief goal-getter Paul Mullin finished as the fourth tier’s leading scorer as recently as 2021, gobbling up 32 goals for a Cambridge United side that finished second, winning promotion to League One.

Centre-back Ben Tozer finished top of that season’s League Two table while starting every match for Cheltenham Town.

Striker Ollie Palmer was leading the line…