{"id":156016,"date":"2025-06-03T23:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T23:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156016\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T23:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T23:27:11","slug":"wrexham-get-one-over-on-tom-bradys-birmingham-city-after-24-25-rankings-highlight-meteoric-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156016\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham get one over on Tom Brady’s Birmingham City after 24\/25 rankings highlight meteoric rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wrexham spent 2024\/25 battling it out with Birmingham City at the top end of the League One table.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Birmingham City broke the EFL points record in the most recent campaign, with their total of 111 more than any club has ever managed in the top four tiers of English football.<\/p>\n

This was not that surprising given that Birmingham broke the League One transfer record for Jay Stansfield<\/a>, paying over \u00a310m for the forward.<\/p>\n

Wrexham lost to Birmingham<\/a> in the first meeting between the two sides this past season and were held to a 1-1 draw at the Racecourse Ground.<\/p>\n

In the end, the Dragons finished on 92 points, well off the pace of the Blues but still enough to clinch second.<\/p>\n

\"Co-OwnersPhoto by Karwai Tang\/WireImageWrexham outperform Birmingham City in 2024\/25 rankings<\/p>\n

However, while Wrexham<\/a> didn\u2019t really come close to challenging Birmingham for the title, they did outperform Tom Brady\u2019s club in Opta\u2019s<\/a> 2024\/25 power rankings.<\/p>\n

What are Opta\u2019s power rankings? Well, as the data-driven site explains: \u201cThe Opta Power Rankings are a global team ranking system that assigns a score to over 13,000 men\u2019s domestic football teams and over 2,000 women\u2019s domestic football teams on a scale between zero and 100, where zero is the worst-ranked team in the world and 100 is the best.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can use them to objectively compare the quality of clubs from different leagues, countries and continents, though on this occasion we\u2019ve used them to compare a single club\u2019s performance over the course of a season by looking at their position in the rankings today relative to where they were at the start of 2024-25.\u201d<\/p>\n

In that department, Wrexham absolutely dominated every side in League One and the majority of teams in world football.<\/p>\n

Phil Parkinson\u2019s side ended 2024\/25 with a post-season ranking of 380. In comparison, they were ranked 1,522nd in the world in August.<\/p>\n

That is a fourfold increase and meant Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds\u2019 club saw the fifth-biggest percentage increase in their position of every single team Opta covers.<\/p>\n

Birmingham did crack the top ten, but were unable to match Wrexham.<\/p>\n\nTeam<\/strong><\/td>\nPre-season ranking<\/strong><\/td>\nPost-season ranking<\/strong><\/td>\nRanking increase<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLiverpool<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nx8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nNottingham Forest<\/td>\n109<\/td>\n22<\/td>\nx5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nBurnley<\/td>\n205<\/td>\n46<\/td>\nx4.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAl Ittihad<\/td>\n524<\/td>\n126<\/td>\nx4.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nWrexham<\/td>\n1522<\/td>\n380<\/td>\nx4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nBrighton<\/td>\n52<\/td>\n13<\/td>\nx4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAston Villa<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nx4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nBirmingham<\/td>\n645<\/td>\n166<\/td>\nx3.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nStockport County<\/td>\n1452<\/td>\n392<\/td>\nx3.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCrystal Palace<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n12<\/td>\nx3.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Via Opta\"PhotoPhoto by Alex Pantling\/Getty ImagesTom Brady dig at Wrexham<\/p>\n

It has been a largely friendly rivalry between the two clubs over the last year.<\/p>\n

However, Brady made a dig at Wrexham<\/a> recently when he was a guest on CBS Sports ahead of the 2025 Champions League final.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cYou know what, we beat Wrexham. Let\u2019s not talk about Wrexham. But we kicked their \u2014 this year, multiple times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Birmingham beat Wrexham once in 2024\/25, drawing the other fixture.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham spent 2024\/25 battling it out with Birmingham City at the top end of the League One table.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,12905,748,393,4884,8160,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-156016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-tom-brady","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114622027775001188","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}