The most recent win marks a major victory for the soccer club Wrexham AFC, which Reynolds co-owns with Rob McElhenney
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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds packed on the PDA while celebrating a major win!
The couple — who were spotted at a Wrexham AFC soccer team match in Wales on Saturday, April 26 — could be seen cuddling and cheering in the stands during the game, which Wrexham won against Charlton with a final score of 3-0.
Lively, 37, sported a cozy checked long-sleeved shirt, while Reynolds, 48, wore a casual white T-shirt with a gray button-up.
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The win is especially significant for Reynolds, who purchased the team together with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-creator Rob McElhenney in 2021.
The victory means that the former fifth-tier team has officially been promoted to the Championship, which is the second tier in English soccer. It also means that the Premier League, which is the most prestigious league in the U.K., is potentially within their reach in the relatively near future.
“It just seemed like an impossible dream,” Reynolds told the Associated Press after the game, reflecting on the team’s promotion. “We said five years ago our goal was to make it to the Premier League. There were understandably a lot of laughs, but it feels like a thing that could make it to fruition right now.”
The last time the team ranked in the second tier was during the 1981-1982 session, per the AP.
While Lively is seemingly now just as invested in the team’s success as her husband, Reynolds previously revealed that his decision to make such a major and unexpected purchase didn’t initially go over too well with his wife.
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“I remember seeing Blake and saying, ‘I have bad news and I have really bad news,’ ” he said while appearing with McElhenney, 48, on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in August of 2022.
“ ‘The bad news is I slipped into someone’s DMs again,’ ” he jokingly recalled. “ ‘The really bad news is that I might have bought half of a fifth-tier national football league in Wales.’ “
“We’re still working through that one,” he added.
Reynolds and McElhenney extended their business collaboration again in October 2024, announcing that they had acquired Wrexham Lager Beer Co Ltd., the oldest lager brewery company still in existence in Great Britain.
Additionally, in January 2025, the pair revealed that they were among a number of celebrity investors who had acquired a stake in La Equidad, a Colombian soccer club.
