They made sure of their place in the last-eight of the competition via a comfortable 4-0 home triumph against Penybont on Sunday.

This brought the curtain down on 2025 action for Jenny Sugarman’s charges and they can now look forward to what they will be hoping is a momentous 2026.

Clark, who grabbed one of the goals, told the club’s YouTube channel: “Obviously, very pleased.

“I think it was a professional performance from ourselves and we managed to get the win, which was the most important thing, I think, especially with being in the final for the last two seasons.

“It’s something that we definitely want to progress in.”

While a four-nil outcome looks to be a comfortable one for the Reds, this wasn’t the case and they had to wait until first half stoppage time before they opened their account.

Clark added: “I think they gave us a lot of challenges in the first half and I think… we had to manage that and kind of find out the answers ourselves, and I think as the game progressed, we managed to open them up and that proved with the amount of goals that we got in the second half, and we created a lot of chances as well.”

Sugarman rotated her squad yet again for the Red’ second cup tie in a fortnight, as goalkeeper Chloe Ankers was given her second start of the campaign.

Rosie Hughes and Abbie Iddenden were selected to lead the line at the Rock. Adran South Penybont did make Wrexham wait to make their breakthrough.

The visitors produced a fine defensive showing, but this resolve was finally broken in first half stoppage time when Hannah Snape scored from distance. Snape fired a dangerous effort into the back post and this flew into the far corner of the net.

Any hopes Penybont may have had of forging a fightback were virtually extinguished a dozen minutes into the second half.

Josie Smith produced an excellent cross in behind the defence and Hughes showed great composure to tap home, scoring for the fifth consecutive match.

Substitute Katie Barker, the Reds’ leading scorer this season, was able to make it 3-0 and put the game to bed, while Clark added the home side’s fourth goal late on.

It was a first goal since September for Clark, who said: “Yeah, special! I think it’s a long time coming.

“I don’t necessarily find myself on the scoresheet often. So, when it comes, it’s a great feeling to have.”

Reflecting on her side’s success, head coach Sugarman said: “We had to work really hard, particularly in that first half, to create the chances that obviously came a lot more in the second half when the space opened up.

“I thought credit to the opposition, they got bodies behind the ball really, really quickly, worked really hard to make it difficult for us and I think first half, we struggled to find the right patterns.

“But, I thought second half, we were excellent, finding our nines, wide players in behind, our full-backs joining in.

“Yeah, just really pleased with the clean sheet. Pleased with the four goals in the end and a couple of really, really good performances out there today. I thought Josie Smith was excellent.”

Next up, on January 4, Wrexham will head south to tackle second-placed Cardiff City in the league.

Then, seven days later, the Reds host Briton Ferry Llansawel with a place in the final of the Adran Trophy at stake.