- Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney own Wrexham.
- The pair paid around £2 million for the club in 2020.
- Reynolds has invested several millions.
Wrexham have grown from a small, local football club into a team watched all over the world. The club’s accounts, released in 2024, showed an enormous increase in revenue from outside the United Kingdom.
Significant investment led to Wrexham becoming online sports betting favourites for promotion, and there has been a stark increase in the number of people including the Red Dragons in their soccer parlays.
Who Owns the Wrexham Football Club?
Wrexham Holdings LLC owns Wrexham Football Club. Wrexham Holdings LLC is 80% owned by RR McReynolds Company LLC, which is the joint company of Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds.
In 2024, Mexican club Club Necaxa purchased a 5% stake in Wrexham with McElhenney and Reynolds also acquiring minor stakes in Club Necaxa. Six months later, the Allyn family bought around a 15% stake in Wrexham.
How Much Has Ryan Reynolds Invested in Wrexham?
Reynolds initially invested around £1 million to buy Wrexham in 2020. Since then, finance expert Kieran Maguire estimates Reynolds and McElhenney have invested a combined £20 million.
The duo have also loaned the club significant sums of money after initially investing £1 million apiece after the takeover.
Why Did Rob and Ryan Buy Wrexham?
Reynolds and McElhenney bought Wrexham as a business venture, with the aim of taking a lower-league club with a strong sense of community and a rich history and building it into a force on the pitch.
Reynolds and McElhenney became friends after the former contacted the latter about a particularly outrageous dance sequence in an episode of “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” in 2018.
In an interview with The Athletic, Reynolds explained how the idea gained momentum.
“Rob had done a sequence on ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ that I just thought, pound for pound, was one of the most beautiful three minutes I’d ever seen, on this show that he’d obviously created and worked on for so many years.
“So I just let him know. We kind of became friends, like text friends. We never actually met or anything like that. So then one day Rob sends me an email that outlines his plan to buy a lower-league club and grow it into something more resembling a global force.
“I just saw the path that he laid out, the phosphorescence in the water so to speak, and I was in. I just thought it was so unexpected and so interesting and I love building businesses and this is a business.”
What Percentage of Wrexham Does Ryan Reynolds Own?
Reynolds owns 40% of Wrexham as of May 2025.
RR McReynolds Company LLC, which is co-owned by Reynolds and McElhenney, owns 80% of Wrexham.
