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Despite an unprecedented rise, Wrexham are continuing to look up.
Improving their iconic Stok Cae Ras home is viewed as a “key enabler of both sporting and commercial success”.
The Kop Stand – which will house 7,500 fans, taking the stadium’s total capacity to more than 18,000 – is due to be completed in early 2027.
Earlier this season, the club spent £480,000 to purchase land from Wrexham University and
One of the joint-administrators for Sheffield Wednesday says wages can be paid on time for November and December after fans ended their boycott of the club.
Kris Wigfield, managing partner at Begbies Traynor, confirmed cash flow had increased to meet short-term costs thanks to the efforts of Wednesday supporters in buying match tickets and merchandise.
Fans had stayed away from Hillsborough in the opening weeks of the campaign to protest
Sheffield Wednesday’s administrators have said players and staff have received their full wages a day early, ending a lengthy pattern of monthly payment delays.
The Championship club were placed into administration and hit with a 12-point penalty last week after months of turmoil under owner Dejphon Chansiri.
In the days since, fans have ended a boycott of the club and Kris Wigfield, of administrators Begbies Traynor, said supporters had already
Sheffield Wednesday, who are run by owner Dejphon Chansiri, have had cashflow issues for some time.
There has been no official explanation by Chansiri on what has led to the problem but things have escalated recently.
The club has gone from delayed payments to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in 2023 and 2024 to players, coaches and staff now not being paid on time in both May and June.
The Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) has said the delay in Sheffield Wednesday players and staff receiving their wages for May is “unacceptable”.
Payment had been due on 30 May and the club and owner Dejphon Chansiri have both been charged by the English Football League with multiple breaches relating to payment obligations and they have subsequently been placed under a registration embargo.
It is eight days since the Championship club
BBC Radio Sheffield reporter Rob Staton
Sheffield Wednesday fans ended the season protesting against chairman Dejphon Chansiri in a way we haven’t seen from this fanbase in the past.
There was concern the last time wages were not paid on time – in March – that if it happened again within a certain timeframe, the club faced a potential transfer embargo. I suspect that can still be avoided, depending on
Sheffield Wednesday have confirmed that the club’s players and staff have now received their wages for March.
Salaries were supposed to be paid last week, with the club saying it was a “temporary issue” due to debts owed to owner Dejphon Chansiri, whose family control the Thai Union Group, the world’s largest producer of canned tuna.
Chansiri bought the Championship side from Milan Mandaric in 2015 but this was the
Sheffield Wednesday have failed to pay their players’ wages for March due to cashflow problems suffered by owner Dejphon Chansiri.
The club said it was a “temporary issue” due to debts owed to the 56-year-old Thai businessman, whose family control the Thai Union Group, the world’s largest producer of canned tuna.
Wednesday are 12th in the Championship – five points outside the play-off places – and face Hull City at
“The Football League may have seen an uptick in revenues in 2022-23, but clubs across the EFL are still battling to manage cash requirements,” said Deloitte’s business sport group’s lead partner Trevor Bridge.
“Many clubs are propped up by owner funding as they aspire to win promotion, but exiting the league at the wrong end exposes a club to instability.
“This makes a strategy for long-term stability critical, underpinned by