The switch to a Friday night will have an impact, as will the granting of permission for us to stream the game live, but nevertheless, our FA Trophy game at Notts County will be played out in front of an impressive away support.

You don’t need me to tell you that attendances have been utterly remarkable this season. We’ve attracted in excess of 7,500 fans to The Racecourse 16 times in the National League or the play-offs, and 12 of those occasions were this season! It would have been 13, but we had to play with a reduced capacity for the first home game of the campaign.

The FA Trophy doesn’t tend to attract big crowds, but even in that competition we’ve racked up some impressive figures, breaking the club record for a home attendance in the competition in the last round.

These figures are a remarkable testament to the superb support we enjoy, and illustrate why the funding of the Wrexham Gateway project is so important. We need to expand our capacity to cope with the excitement our club is generating.

You have to go back a long way to find attendances like this. In fact, it was when we were in the old Second Division that we last attracted such support. This is the first season in which Wrexham’s first 14 home league games all attracted attendances in excess of 5,000 since the start of the 1979-80 season, and the first time 13 consecutive Wrexham home league games had attendances in excess of 7,500 since the 1978-9 campaign.

On the road, the crowds are just as eye-catching, especially when you consider that this is a division where away ends can be empty places, often populated by a travelling support in double figures.

Our most recent away game, at Chesterfield, was the 6th time this season in which Wrexham have brought over a thousand travelling fans. That overtook the most times we’ve taken a thousand fans to away games in a National League season, in 2018-19.

At Altrincham and Halifax this season we accounted for over a third of the total attendance; at Solihull Moors it was nearly half!

The consistency of our away support is remarkable too. Only three distant matches have seen the number of Wrexham fans present dip below 500: the games at Dover and Kings Lynn, plus the rearranged midweek match at Aldershot. 

Those loyal travelling supporters have been rewarded with some thrilling performances. The win at Chesterfield was our 10th away league win of the season, which is already the 4th most we’ve managed in a season in our history that we’ve managed this feat, while 4 goals in our remaining 5 away league games will equal the club record. We’d also equal the club record for most points in away games in a season if we can win all our remaining matches on the road.

The takeover of our club has had so many positive effects, but this reawakening of the region’s love for the club is one of the most significant. Local fans are excited again, pride in the town is growing, and the coincidence of the town’s bid to be the capital of culture is serendipitous. There’s a positivity growing across the town, and every fortnight a remarkable amount of us are exporting it around the country. What better campaigners could you have?