Wrexham traditions

Wrexham answer to several names: the Reds, the Red Dragons, the Robins and the Town. In Welsh they are Y Dreigiau, the Dragons. The club plays in red, and two dragons sit on the crest.

The Town is the club, and the town is Wrexham (a city since 2022). “Up the Town” is the shout of support that goes with it. A longer version, “Up The Super Town”, took off among fans in 2018 after a pre-season trip to Portugal: it spread on social media as #UTST, and the club made a limited-edition UTST badge to mark it.

The club was formed on 4 October 1864 by members of the town's cricket club, who wanted a winter game, at the Turf Tavern. That pub, later the Turf Hotel, still stands at the corner of the ground. The first match was played on 22 October 1864 on the cricket ground that became the Racecourse: Wrexham lost 2-1 to ten men of the Prince of Wales Fire Brigade.

That makes Wrexham the oldest club in Wales, and the Racecourse the oldest international stadium in the world that still hosts international matches.

The crest comes from a 1973 design competition in a local newspaper. At the top are the Prince of Wales feathers on green; in the middle, two dragons and a football on white (green and white are the two fields of the Welsh flag); at the bottom, the club's name and founding year. The year was changed from 1873 to 1864 when documents showed the club was older than thought.

Wrexham have worn red shirts with white shorts and socks since the late 1930s. For the 150th anniversary in 2014-15 they wore red and black hoops, the club's first recorded home shirt.

Since 2021-22 the number 1934 has been stitched into the back of the neck, in memory of the Gresford disaster: on 22 September 1934 an explosion and fire at Gresford Colliery, near Wrexham, killed 266 men.

In Welsh the club is Clwb Pêl-droed Wrecsam, or CPD Wrecsam. Wrexham hold the record for Welsh Cup wins, 23, though clubs playing in the English league system have not been allowed to enter since 1995. Their great rivals sit just over the border: Chester, Shrewsbury and Tranmere.