Racecourse Ground

The Racecourse Ground (Y Cae Ras in Welsh) is recorded as dating from 1807. Before the club was formed it was used mainly for cricket and, occasionally, horse racing. Wrexham Association Football Club was formed in the Turf Hotel public house in October 1864 and has played there ever since, apart from 1881–82 and 1882–83, when a rent rise by the owners, Wrexham Cricket Club, sent the team to the Recreation Ground at Rhosddu.

The ground staged Wales' first home international match in 1877, has hosted more Wales internationals than any other venue, and is the world's oldest international football stadium still used for international fixtures. Before the First World War it was much used for aviation, with Gustav Hamel flying public displays in August 1912 and June 1913, and the borough council weighed making it the town's municipal airport.

Concrete terracing was laid at the Kop end in 1952. Five years later a fourth-round FA Cup tie against Manchester United drew 34,445, the largest crowd the ground has held, and floodlights were switched on for the first time on 30 September 1959. In 1978, after promotion to the old Second Division, the Border Stand was added.

In 1999 grant aid from Sport Lot, the Welsh Development Agency and the Football Trust helped pay for a 3,500-seat stand on the Mold Road side, and seating the old paddocks lifted capacity to 15,500, enough for international football and rugby union to return. Four rugby union internationals have been staged there: three Wales wins over Romania between 1997 and 2003, and a 1999 Rugby World Cup pool match in which Samoa beat Japan 43–9.

In 2002 the then chairman, William Pryce Griffiths, took a 125-year lease on the ground from Wolverhampton Dudley Breweries for £750,000 at a peppercorn rent of £1 a year. On 26 June 2002 Wrexham A.F.C. bought the freehold for £300,000; the same day the chairman, Alex Hamilton, transferred it to another of his companies, Damens Ltd, for a nominal fee. The lease was then renegotiated to let Damens evict the club on twelve months' notice and a payment of £1,000,000, with the rent rising from £1 to £30,000.

Notice to quit was served in 2004, provoking a furious reaction from supporters. Wrexham went into administration that December owing £2,600,000, and in a case running to March 2006 the High Court ruled the freehold had been improperly transferred, returning ownership to the administrators.

The club left administration in May 2006 and the ground passed to Wrexham Football Club (2006) Ltd, owned by Geoff Moss and Ian Roberts, then to their holding company Wrexham Village Ltd, which also bought the Bridgend rugby league club Crusaders. A £40 million student-housing plan with Wrexham University stalled in the 2008 recession, and the freehold was sold on in 2009.

Crusaders played at the Racecourse from 2010, their opening Super League match against Leeds drawing over 10,000, and folded in 2011 after withdrawing their Super League licence application; a new club, North Wales Crusaders, then used the ground until 2016. In August 2011 Wrexham Village agreed to sell the stadium and training grounds to what was then Glyndŵr University, and the ground was rebranded with the university's name. Work begun in May 2014 (a new pitch, changing rooms and better floodlighting) reclassified the stadium to Category 3, making it eligible for international football; in August 2016 the university handed operational control to the club on a 99-year lease branded 'My Racecourse' ('Nghae Ras I).

After Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney took over the club, it bought the freehold from the university on 29 June 2022; Wrexham A.F.C. owns the ground today. A three-year deal with STōK Cold Brew Coffee announced on 25 May 2023 gave it the sponsorship name STōK Cae Ras from 1 July 2023.

The Kop, an all-standing terrace named after the Battle of Spion Kop and officially the Crispin Lane End, was closed on safety grounds in 2008 and demolished in January 2023. A temporary stand adding 2,309 places opened for the visit of Newport County on 23 December 2023; a rebuild was approved on 3 March 2025, revised that July to 7,750 seats, and construction began in December 2025. In August 2025 a £1.7 million pitch overhaul added undersoil heating, drainage and goal-line technology to meet UEFA standards. In July 2026 the club and the Wrexham Supporters Trust collapsed the ground's leases, the club paying the Trust £187,000, matching what fans had raised to save the club in 2011.