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Wrexham returns: It’s not ‘always sunny’ in ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ Season 3

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The American football season may be over, but the English football season sure isn’t. It’s time to get back into cheering for everyone’s favorite underdog when Season 3 of the Emmy-winning docuseries “Welcome to Wrexham” premieres Tuesday, May 2, on FX and streams Wednesday, May 3, on Hulu.

Though Season 2 of the series led by Ryan Reynolds (“Deadpool,” 2016) and Rob McElhenney (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelph­ia”) only concluded late last year, Wrexham fans and football enthusiast­s will be treated with an all-new season of club drama, triumph and turmoil as this third season will break from “Welcome to Wrexham’s” usual release schedule (airing after the year’s season concludes), instead airing alongside the end of the 2023-24 English football season, which will be ongoing until late May.

The series, which follows Reynolds and McElhenney’s stewardshi­p of the Wrexham football club, located in North East Wales, last saw the duo and the Red Dragons returning to the English Football League following an arduous battle to be promoted from the National League, and will now continue as the team begins its first return season in the EFL.

Before the (official) games begin, Season 3’s premiere episode follows Wrexham AFC and their stalwart captains as they head to America to play a series of summer friendlies. Their return to the league, however, is met with a less-than-friendly welcome from other teams, adding to the team’s already-mounting pressure. With new players taking to the pitch and a shocking departure to boot, Wrexham, Rob and Ryan all struggle to find their footing in the big leagues but do their best to train, improve and assimilate throughout the season.

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Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney in “Welcome to Wrexham”

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