Wrexham’s Australia and NZ tour diary: Will squad be ready for

Wrexham are touring Australia and New Zealand for the very first time. While the Championship awaits the Welsh side in 2025-26, they will first have to play three A-League clubs across three cities on their preseason tour.

ESPN will be with them every step of the way as Phil Parkinson, Ryan Reynolds, Rob Mac & Co. plot their path to the Premier League.

Wrexham preparing for the grind of the Championship

SYDNEY, Australia –When you secure historic back-to-back-to-back promotions like Wrexham have over the past three seasons, there’s a need to learn on your feet and adjust to the shifting demands and expectations. That goes especially so for the Championship, where, with the Premier League within touching distance, the quality rises along with the budgets and ambitions of your opposition.

But other new challenges the Red Dragons will need to navigate in the second tier of the English league pyramid are the fixture demands and international breaks it observes, something they didn’t need to worry about during their time in the National League and up through the English Football League (EFL)’s League Two and League One. Not only can this affect a side’s rhythm — in a positive or negative sense — but it also means that the fixture list staring down coach Phil Parkinson’s side this season is heavily compacted, with a multitude of midweek league games thrown into consideration alongside their cup commitments.

Parkinson had acknowledged after arriving in Melbourne that “the squad is not where we need it to be at the moment.” The significant time difference between Australia and the UK means that he has been forced to stay up into the wee hours throughout his time Down Under as he looks to strengthen his squad so he can navigate…