Manager Dean Keates reverts to his Scottish Challenge Cup squad, but there are returns from injury for both Tyler Reid, Adam Barton and JJ Hooper.

Second-year trainees Max Cleworth and Bobby Beaumont look set to anchor central defence.

FC Halifax Town: Johnson, Duckworth, Binnom-Williams, Clarke, Brown, Allen, Sho-Silva, Staunton, D Williams. Redshaw, Maher.
Subs: Nolan, King, Appleyard, McAlinden, MacDonald, Cooper, McCoulsky.

Wrexham: Dibble, Reid, Cleworth, Beaumont, Barnum-Bobb, Harris, Redmond, Barton, Tollitt, Hooper, McIntosh.
Subs: Szczepaniak, C Williams, M Jones, Huxley, Robinson-Murray, Bickerstaff, Oswell.

Referee: Joe Hull (Gtr Manchester)