Upon Phil Parkinson's arrival at the club four years ago, Wrexham played against the likes of Tamworth, Fleetwood Town, Spennymoor Town and Curzon Ashton in the manager's first pre-season with the Welsh side.
Fast forward to the summer of 2025 and Wrexham find themselves touring Australia and New Zealand as their bid to reach all sectors of the globe continues at a rapid pace.
It comes after they had previously locked horns with Premier League sides Chelsea, Bournemouth and Manchester United during tours of the United States of America.
On an annual basis since the takeover by Hollywood pair Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, the club's accounts have demonstrated a vast surge in revenue.
Regeneration of the club's famous Stok Cae Ras home, big-money sponsorship deals with huge brands including TikTok, Expedia and Aviation American Gin, plus their Disney documentary Welcome to Wrexham - it has all played a part.
Three successive promotions have been rather useful in that regard, too.
They all go hand in hand, and it has left Parkinson - a man who has doubled his tally of promotions as a manager from three to six since joining Wrexham - scratching his head as to how the Red Dragons have gone from the National League days to preparing for a Championship season that will be their first in the second tier since 1981-82.
“Looking back at the National League days to now, outside Sydney Harbour, on a tour of Australia and New Zealand, it just seems slightly surreal," he said.
“It's just been great to be a part of it because it's not just the football team, it's the whole area that has had an uplift in Wrexham, and obviously the attention we've had around the world as well.
“Obviously, America and Canada, last year on tour, now Australia and New Zealand, you know, it's quite extraordinary really, from where we've come.
"I would say to the lads and staff to really enjoy this as it is a unique experience to be a part of this story.”
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In the opening month of this year, Parkinson joined legendary bosses, including Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Jurgen Klopp and Jose Mourinho, in reaching the 1,000-game landmark as a manager - an occasion that was marked in fitting style with a 1-0 win over Peterborough United in north Wales.
But for a man with such a wealth of experience as both a player and now a manager to feel somewhat overcome by his side's history-making run from the fifth tier to the Championship in three years, is arguably the biggest measure of Wrexham's success.
Aside from the gut-wrenching but dramatic 5-4 play-off semi-final loss to Grimsby Town at the end of Parkinson's debut season at the club, there has been almost exclusively joy for the Wrexham faithful to experience.
But a quick glance at the upcoming 46 Championship fixtures could quite easily put the shivers into even the most optimistic of Wrexham supporters.
The Red Dragons could not have asked for a much tougher start to the 2025-26 season - which sees them travel to St Mary's Stadium to face newly-relegated Southampton on the opening day.
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As ambitious and over-achieving as the club have been over recent years, they know only too well that this is a whole new level to what they have experienced during the astonishing roller coaster of a ride so far.
There were signs in the 2-1 defeat to Sydney FC of the A-League on Tuesday that Wrexham still have gaps to fill and bodies to hire.
There will also be blows along the way, such as the one suffered Down Under when key midfielder Ollie Rathbone was taken to hospital with a nasty-looking ankle injury.
It all means there could well be some regular pain for supporters to endure for the first time in a number of years - although this is a fanbase that is battle-hardened when it comes to hardship given their true struggles when the club was on the brink of collapse in the not-too-distant past.
Football has a brutal habit of always leaving you wanting more, but this may truly be the time for Wrexham fans to take a step back and afford themselves the chance to fully absorb what has been going on.
And so they should, because Wrexham's achievements have been quite simply ridiculous - thankfully, in an incomprehensibly positive way - so much so, that even their manager has had to pause for breath.
He needs to catch that breath quickly, as Wrexham now finish their pre-season tour against Wellington Phoenix in New Zealand on Saturday.
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