Wrexham's Kop: The project matching the club's rise — SkimNews
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- Wrexham's new £70m Kop stand at the Racecourse Ground — the oldest international football ground still in use — is scheduled to be fully operational by the start of next season, with Wrexham County Borough Council officially approving the 7,500-seat expansion this week
- Aidan Miller, Wrexham's chief strategy officer overseeing the project, told BBC Sport Wales the club is "playing catch-up" after three successive promotions took them from non-league to the Championship, where they narrowly missed the play-offs last season
- The new stand will incorporate dressing rooms, media provision, and hospitality, and is part of broader work across four sites including new academy pitches at Darland High School, a refurbished women's team base at The Rock (purchased 2025), and a new first-team pavilion at Colliers Park
- Chief executive Michael Williamson said the Racecourse's ideal capacity would be between 26,000 and 29,000, with the club also purchasing The Turf pub next door and the former Dickens Car showroom land "to protect the future of the club"
- Owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney completed their takeover of the then-National League club from the Wrexham Supporters' Trust in February 2022, and Miller previously spent seven years delivering Everton's Hill Dickinson Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock
Why it matters: Wrexham's new Kop is one piece of a multi-site infrastructure push to ready the club for the Premier League, with three promotions in three years already leaving on-pitch ambition ahead of physical capacity. The CEO's 26,000–29,000 target capacity signals how seriously Reynolds and McElhenney view the top-flight push, and that the rebuild is far from finished.
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