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Topics: Wrexham, Non-League, Ryan Reynolds, Football
Marcus Chan
AFC Wrexham fans are struggling to get their hands on a club shirt ahead of their crucial match against Boreham Wood this weekend.
On Saturday, Wrexham will seal promotion back to the English Football League if they beat Boreham Wood.
The Non-League club, backed by their Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney will also be crowned champions with a victory on Saturday.
Ahead of the crucial match at The Racecourse, it has been reported that Wrexham shirts have been in high demand due to the drastic rise in the club’s popularity.
On the club’s website, this season’s home, away and goalkeeper shirts have all been sold out.
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The club’s strategic advisor Shaun Harvey has recently spoken about the demand for Wrexham shirts.
As per The Leader, Harvey said: “24,000 shirts have been and gone. At first, well, I thought we'd ordered too many. And I suspect if you'd have asked most people how many they think we should order at the start of the year, they wouldn't have got to 24,000 either.
“Next season, we're going to order a lot more shirts. We're looking at ordering 35,000 shirts next season across three kits. I'm still no wiser now to this day if that's the right number. We'll do better, because there will be more shirts earlier. We can top up that order again when the first lot of orders come in.”
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The arrival of Reynolds and McElhenney has also given Wrexham’s tourism a huge boost.
Jim Jones, the CEO of North Wales Tourism told the BBC: “We could not buy the promotion that [the owners] are bringing to the area.
“It's a great gateway for people who visit Wrexham to then visit the rest of beautiful north Wales. I think there's not a lot that we really have to do because Rob and Ryan are doing it all for us.
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“Hopefully Wrexham will go from strength to strength, not just on the pitch but also in terms of their economic regeneration which includes tourism.”