A top trailer maker has pledged to stick by Wrexham AFC as it battles a massive financial crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

At the reveal of the new kit, Ifor Williams Trailers was unveiled as the main shirt sponsor for the fifth season running – whenever the 2020-21 campaign gets going.

The fan-owned club lost £250,000 in match-day income when the National League ended prematurely because of coronavirus.

News that the iconic company’s distinctive logo will be on the front of all the home and away shirts once again for the men’s, women’s and youth teams was described by the club as a “huge boost”.

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Wrexham player Luke Young in the home kit. Picture Mandy Jones

This time the logo is woven into the fabric of the shirts rather than being pressed on and an image of the Mold Road stand has been embossed below it.

The green away shirt is a replica of the home shirt from 100 years ago.

Club director Gavin Jones couldn’t thank Ifor Williams Trailer enough for its continued support at such a difficult time.

He said: “It’s really is a huge deal for the club. Ifor Williams is a massively successful North Wales company that has once again stepped up to the plate in backing the football club.

“When the going gets tough you find out who your friends are and Ifor Williams Trailers is a true friend to Wrexham AFC.

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Captain Shaun Pearson in the away kit

“It’s now up to the club to push on and get back into the Football League where we belong."

He added: “We simply have no idea as yet when the new season will start. It could be September, we just don’t know anything concrete at the moment and we can’t say when fans will be allowed back into stadiums.

“For clubs at the bottom end of the football pyramid that’s huge. We have already lost in the region of £250,000 in lost match-day income. Unlike Premier League clubs we don’t have TV millions to fall back on.

“We have had to furlough full-time staff, including players, and have launched a fundraising campaign, Unite to Save the Town, which will run for three months. We do have some financial reserves but those are being eaten into.

“While everyone at the club knows how difficult it is fundraising during difficult times such as these, we have also committed to help Nightingale House Hospice and the NHS North Wales charity Awyr Las.

“Each will receive five per cent of everything raised through the Unite to Save the Town campaign. By helping the club with their donations supporters will also be helping these two amazing charities too.”

The shirts were designed by Tim Williams, 48, from Bala, a self-confessed Welsh football fanatic and Wrexham fan who turned his passion into a successful business he calls The Spirit of 58, a nod to Wales’ appearance at the 1958 World Cup.

He said: “I was asked to come up with some ideas for the design of the new home and away shirt and I’m really happy with the result.

“For the away shirt we decided to go back in time and it’s based on the club’s shirt worn between 1919 and 1921 so the design is actually vintage."

Wrexham FC club captain Shaun Pearson, 31, said the commitment shown to the club by Ifor Williams Trailers as main sponsors is “amazing”.

He said: “The world’s an uncertain place at the moment and the economic outlook isn’t exactly rosy. So, to have a successful North Wales firm like Ifor Williams come supporting us in this way gives us all a big boost."

Shaun, who chalked up 34 appearance last season before the campaign’s premature end, added: “The aim has to be to come out of the blocks flying when the new season starts, whenever that may be, and get promoted.

“A club like Wrexham should be playing at a much higher level and the backing of a top company such as Ifor Williams Trailers will make that task just a little bit easier.”