Welcome to Wrexham: Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are Pulling a Ted Lasso in New Docuseries

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are famous for completely different things, but the two have teamed up for this docuseries about them buying an old football club.

Watch the first teaser for Welcome to Wrexham starring Reynolds and McElhenney:

Here’s the official description:

Rob McElhenney (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) navigate running the third oldest professional football club in the world. Welcome to Wrexham is a docuseries tracking the dreams and worries of Wrexham, a working-class town in North Wales, UK, as two Hollywood stars take ownership of the town’s historic yet struggling football club.

In 2020, Rob and Ryan teamed up to purchase the 5th tier Red Dragons in the hopes of turning the club into an underdog story the whole world could root for. The worry? Rob and Ryan have no experience in football or working with each other. From Hollywood to Wales, from the pitch to the locker room, the front office to the pub, Welcome to Wrexham will track Rob and Ryan’s crash course in football club ownership and the inextricably connected fates of a team and a town counting on two actors to bring some serious hope and change to a community that could use it.

If anything, it feels like a real-life Ted Lasso docuseries with the unqualified newbies try to take on a prestige football club that has been struggling.

We don’t know how much time Reynolds and McElhenney actually have to focus on this show, seeing that they have several projects down the line, but I’m all up for seeing their team-up. Both are very hilarious talents, but I do hope that they do get to improve on the team rather than just play their ownership for laughs.  

Welcome to Wrexham premieres on FX on Aug. 24.