Championship SCR
How much can Wrexham spend?
Wrexham: the SCR breakdown
- Estimated revenue (football) reported £33.3m
- 85% SCR limit (no owner top-up) £28.3m
- Estimated squad cost reported £20m
- Headroom vs 85% limit +£8.4m
- + Max owner equity top-up (if used) £16m
- Max spending allowance (with top-up) £44.3m
- Headroom vs max allowance +£24.4m
What this means
On these estimates, Wrexham sit comfortably inside the 85% Green Threshold. They have room to invest in the squad without straining the rules.
Summer 2026 window vs SCR headroom
No disclosed net-spend figure for the summer 2026 window. Press-reported transfer fees for Wrexham could not be reconciled closely enough to publish a net figure, so this site records nothing rather than guessing — a reporting gap, not a sign they spent nothing.
- Window spend (gross) reported £33.5m
Re-researched 2026-09-06: Sports Illustrated (published 2-3 Sep 2026, after window close) itemises every signing with fixed fees - Imray £5m, Whiteman £2.5m, Patterson £8m (club record), Kabore £2m fixed, Ekomie £7m fixed, Worrall £2m, O'Hare £7m - summing to £33.5m, resolving the earlier £23.5m vs £33.5-35m discrepancy in favour of the higher, itemised figure (the previous £23.5m Sports Mole total had missed Imray, Ekomie and Worrall). Corroborated in scale by Planet Football's Transfermarkt-derived table (~€39.75m). Of 13 senior departures, only Lewis Brunt's move to Bolton has a disclosed fee (£500k+£250k add-ons); Dan Scarr and Harry Ashfield's moves are confirmed undisclosed by name-brand sources rather than merely unreported. Sales/net_spend stay null - three data points with only one disclosed fee would not support an honest total.
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Spending beyond calculated headroom is not automatically a breach: transfer fees are amortised over the contract, sales offset signings, and none of it reaches SCR squad cost until the next accounts are filed. Every club's window spend vs headroom →
Old rules vs new: PSR compared to SCR
PSR did not apply to Wrexham during this period - they were in the National League (2021/22), League Two (2022/23) and League One (2023/24). League One clubs operated under the Salary Cost Management Protocol (wage caps), not the loss-based PSR. Not comparable.
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