Wrexham has said that the new Kop stand won’t be ready for the 2024–25 season.
Prior to the upcoming season, the club’s Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney previously pledged to construct a new 5,500-seat stand to increase the capacity at the Racecourse Ground to 16,000 people.
The League Two team has since stated that this will not be achievable and that a start date for the construction work has not yet been decided.
The new Kop is not expected to open for the start of the 2024–25 season; construction is expected to take 12 months from the time work begins on site. There is no set timetable for when construction will begin because various issues must be handled beforehand.
‘The grant financing agreement from Wrexham County Borough Council must be finalized and the Club must be satisfied that the requirements related to the funding offer can be met before a contract to build the Kop can be signed.
However, that will no longer be viable, and the construction work has no set start date.
The goal is to get these talks wrapped up by the end of October 2023.
The club continued by outlining a series of prerequisites that must be satisfied before construction on the stand can start.
One of the needs was to obtain clarification from UEFA regarding the standards Wrexham must satisfy to become a Category four stadium.
Currently, UEFA assigns stadiums a rating from one to four, with the club’s ability to host games in the Champions League, Europa League, Europa Conference League, Nations League, and European Championship depending on the stadium’s classification.
