Wrexham’s U.S. tour: A chance to grow ‘mindblowing’ support and push turnover towards $26m

Wrexham’s turnover this season could hit £20million, a remarkable sum that would eclipse the income levels of even some established Championship clubs. “The support for the club was mindblowing,” he says about a four-day competition in June that saw half of the 30,000 tickets sold to fans backing a team of former Wrexham players. “When Rob and Ryan took over, one of the objectives away from delivering success on the pitch and benefiting Wrexham as a town was to grow the global appeal of the club,” Harvey says. In terms of Wrexham’s programme of fixtures across the Atlantic, former EFL chief executive Harvey says: “We were adamant that, if playing Manchester United in San Diego, we needed another game on the west coast. Then the opportunity to play Chelsea came up, primarily because they were contracted with an agent who believed Wrexham was a lot more attractive a proposition than our league status would suggest.” Even allowing for how the United XI is likely to be made up of Under-21s players due to the first team facing Real Madrid in Texas the following day, landing fixtures against two of the Premier League’s biggest names raised plenty of eyebrows.