Paul Mullin has left Wrexham, and Soccer Near Me now has the cleanest line on the move: the club agreed to pay up the final year of his contract. He will become a free agent. The exit closes a run that turned him into the face of Wrexham’s rise.
Paul Mullin and Wrexham
110 goals in 172 appearances is the number that defines the split. Mullin delivered those figures across a spell that also brought three consecutive promotions, and his scoring made him central to Wrexham’s revival during the Hollywood era.
He was also tied to the club’s biggest moments. Mullin scored a dramatic late double in stoppage time that sent Wrexham to Wembley for the only time under Rob Mac and Ryan Reynolds, then later finished with 38 league goals in Wrexham’s return to the English Football League in 2023. He received the FA Cup Golden Boot award at the final after scoring eight goals.
Albi and the celebration
His story reached beyond the numbers. Mullin said his goal celebration creates the letter A with his fingers as a salute to Albi and to raise awareness of autism, and that part of his public image became tied to life away from the pitch as much as to the scoresheet.
That made the final stretch more striking. Mullin has not played for Wrexham since February 2025, despite being described as a hero and poster boy for the revival. The club moved on after an agreement to pay up the last year of his deal, so the parting arrives with his record intact and his status changed.
Wrexham after Mullin
The separation leaves Wrexham without the striker who scored nine goals in seven games during the run-in that fired the club to promotion from League Two, struck six hat-tricks in Wrexham colours, and even produced the curled effort that put Wrexham in front against Boreham Wood when promotion back to the EFL was clinched.
It also leaves Mullin in a different spot. The contract payout ends his tie to Wrexham and opens the free-agent route, while the unanswered football question is whether he can match the standard he set at The Racecourse Ground after such a long spell away from the team sheet.
