Wrexham AFC and the Racecourse Ground

The Racecourse Ground is the oldest international football stadium in the world still in use, having hosted international matches since 1877. The ground sits in the centre of Wrexham and is the home of Wrexham AFC, one of the oldest football clubs in existence. Since the club's purchase by Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney in 2020, the stadium has become a pilgrimage destination for fans from around the world, and matchday in Wrexham is a notably good-humoured event combining old working-class football culture with new celebrity attention.

Tours of the stadium are available on non-matchdays, covering the changing rooms, dugout, and boardroom. The club shop is busy on most days of the week. If you're in town for a match, the experience includes the local pub culture of the streets around the ground — very much a Welsh north-of-the-border football atmosphere rather than Premier League sanitised comfort.

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Wrexham AFC was founded in 1864, making it the world's third-oldest professional football club and the oldest international football team in the world. In 2020, the club — then in the National League, five tiers below the Premier League — was bought by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney for £2.5 million. The subsequent documentary series "Welcome to Wrexham" and back-to-back promotions brought the club global attention and a flood of new supporters to a city that had largely been invisible on the map.

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