Every Welcome to Wrexham season has given viewers another chapter in a football fairy tale that somehow kept surviving contact with reality. What began as Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buying a historic Welsh club with Hollywood optimism became a richer story about Wrexham AFC, the Racecourse Ground, local pride, women’s football, financial risk, sporting agony, and impossible-looking promotions.
The FX/FXX docuseries has also become one of television’s most reliable sports documentaries, with Rotten Tomatoes listing strong critical scores across its first four seasons, while Metacritic gave Season 1 a 75 and Season 2 a 78. Here is the ranking that weighs available scores, IMDb reference value, fan response, football drama, emotional craft, and my own analysis.
Welcome to Wrexham Season 5
Season 5 is the hardest season to rank because it is the newest and still lacks a firm critical record. Rotten Tomatoes currently lists Season 5 with 0 critic reviews, while Metacritic also has no critic score yet. That makes any strong numerical judgment premature, although the premise is undeniably rich: Wrexham entering the EFL Championship for the first time in more than four decades after three successive promotions.
Welcome to Wrexham Season 5 follows a club that has outgrown the cute-underdog label. Reynolds, McElhenney, and Phil Parkinson now face the uncomfortable price of ambition, where sentiment alone cannot survive the second tier. New players, Premier League dreams, tougher opponents, and the women’s team’s continued growth give the season serious texture. Still, without the same completed critical consensus or one grand emotional climax to rival the earlier promotions, Season 5 sits at No. 5 for now.
| Snapshot | Detail |
| Rotten Tomatoes | No score yet |
| Metacritic | TBD |
| IMDb | Series page |
| My Score | 8/10 |
Welcome to Wrexham Season 1
Season 1 remains the essential beginning, even if later seasons become sharper. It introduces the unlikely purchase, the town’s bruised history, the Racecourse Ground, the supporters’ emotional inheritance, and the comic oddity of two Hollywood figures learning football in public. Rotten Tomatoes lists Season 1 at 91% with a 95% Popcornmeter, and Metacritic gives it a 75.
The season’s best episodes are the ones that understand Wrexham as a civic organism, especially when the show profiles supporters, old ownership wounds, and the club’s fragile relationship with hope. Its weakness is structural. At 18 episodes, the season occasionally lingers too long on the owners’ learning curve and takes time to find the balance between celebrity access and community portraiture. Still, it lays the bricks with care, and no later triumph works without this first, tender act of trust.
| Snapshot | Detail |
| Rotten Tomatoes | 91% |
| Metacritic | 75 |
| IMDb | Series page |
| My Score | 8.3/10 |
Welcome to Wrexham Season 3
Season 3 proves the show can survive promotion without losing its soul. Rotten Tomatoes lists the season at 100%, while Metacritic has it as TBD because it lacks enough critic reviews for a formal score. The shorter episode count also helps the season feel leaner and more deliberate.
The men’s team adjusts to life back in the English Football League, while the women’s team faces tougher competition in the top Welsh league. The season also gives room to Wrexham’s growing international reach, the Kop stand delays, Arthur Massey’s moving supporter story, and the awkward cost of success. It does not have the same once-in-a-generation catharsis as Season 2, but it has maturity. The documentary stops asking whether the experiment can work and begins asking how much change the town can absorb without losing its old self.
| Snapshot | Detail |
| Rotten Tomatoes | 100% |
| Metacritic | TBD |
| IMDb | Series page |
| My Score | 8.7/10 |
Welcome to Wrexham Season 4
Season 4 ranks high because it captures Wrexham doing something that should have sounded absurd a few years earlier: chasing another promotion, this time out of League One. Rotten Tomatoes lists Season 4 at 100% with an 84% Popcornmeter, while Metacritic still shows TBD because there are not enough critic reviews for a score.
The season has a colder edge than the early years because the club is no longer a charming accident. Wrexham is now a project with money, expectation, infrastructure headaches, and global attention pressing against every decision. That makes Season 4 fascinating. The documentary follows the pressure to build, spend, win, and keep the community close while the club becomes much larger than the version many supporters once knew. It may feel more polished than raw at times, but the sporting achievement gives it tremendous force.
| Snapshot | Detail |
| Rotten Tomatoes | 100% |
| Metacritic | TBD |
| IMDb | Series page |
| My Score | 9/10 |
Welcome to Wrexham Season 2
Season 2 is still the crown jewel because it gives Welcome to Wrexham the rarest thing in sports television: a real ending that feels written by fate without being fictional. Rotten Tomatoes lists Season 2 at 91%, while Metacritic gives it a 78, the best available Metacritic season score for the series.
The Notts County rivalry gives the season its heartbeat. Ben Foster’s late penalty save, the National League title race, Paul Mullin’s importance, the women’s team’s rise, and the long-awaited return to the English Football League after 15 years create a dramatic arc that feels both intimate and enormous. The season also improves the show’s community focus, giving supporters, families, players, and the town more oxygen. It is sentimental, but it earns that sentiment by letting pain, pressure, and history sit beside the joy. This is the season where the documentary becomes more than a good celebrity sports project. It becomes a proper Wrexham story.
| Metric | Value |
| Rotten Tomatoes | 91% |
| Metacritic | 78 |
| IMDb | Series page |
| My Score | 9.4/10 |
So, Season 2 remains the best because it captures the purest version of the show’s promise: a town wounded by years of disappointment finally watching belief become fact. Season 4 may age into a serious challenger because three straight promotions is absurdly rare, while Season 5 could climb once critics and audiences properly weigh the Championship chapter. Which season would you crown: the emotional promotion of Season 2, the polished ambition of Season 4, or the fresh pressure of Season 5?
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Welcome to Wrexham Season 5 airs on FX and streams on Hulu in the U.S.
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