Wrexham to play Championship after third straight promotion

Wrexham hammered Charlton Athletic 3-0 to seal a historical promotion to the EFL Championship connected Saturday.

Ollie Rathbone and Sam Smith scored wrong 3 first-half minutes to acceptable the Welsh broadside connected their way.

Smith, who arrived astatine the nine successful a grounds £2 cardinal transfer, added a 3rd successful the 81st minute.

The triumph secured 2nd spot for Wrexham successful League One and the last automatic promotion spot down runaway champions Birmingham City.

Wrexham’s promotion sees them instrumentality to English football’s 2nd tier for the archetypal clip since they were relegated from the part astatine the extremity of the 1981-82 season.

Charlton had gone into the lucifer arsenic 1 of lone 2 teams, alongside Wycombe Wanderers, who could contradict Wrexham the 2nd spot successful the division.

However, with Wycombe losing 1-0 distant to Leyton Orient earlier successful the day, Wrexham knew that a triumph successful their last location crippled of the play would clinch a grounds 3rd successive promotion.

No squad successful English shot history, dating backmost to the archetypal competitory play successful 1888, had ever achieved 3 consecutive promotions crossed the apical 5 divisions.