Wrexham finished seventh in 2025-26, their first campaign in English’s football’s second highest division since 1982.<\/p>\n
The north Wales side improved as last season wore on, climbing into the top six for the first time in late January and never dropping lower than seventh throughout the remainder of the campaign.<\/p>\n
Wrexham’s poorest form came during the early part of the season, with only 10 points coming from their opening 10 games.<\/p>\n
Parkinson believes the slow start was thanks in part to the disruption caused by an overhaul of his playing staff last summer \u2013 and says there is more to come from what is now a more settled squad.<\/p>\n
“I feel with us that we have improvement in the group because a lot of the lads came in late [last year] and it took us a while to get to know them individually and to work with them collectively,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We went to Australia [in pre-season] and then the signings kind of rolled in after that.<\/p>\n
“All the boys who missed a lot of pre-season last year – [Lewis] O’Brien, Sheafy (Ben Sheaf), [Josh] Windass, [Liberato] Cacace, Broady (Nathan Broadhead) and Kieffer [Moore]. To have that group together I think us going to give us huge benefit.<\/p>\n
“I feel there is an improvement [to come] from the group we have got.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham finished seventh in 2025-26, their first campaign in English’s football’s second highest division since 1982. The north…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-526268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}