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Hard to know who'll be good and who'll be bad next year, but on paper looks like we have a brutal schedule to start the year and a pretty easy schedule in the 2nd half.
2026 Schedule Thread
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Consider me one of them
My guess is that without having to pause for any FIFA breaks they will revert to the 2019 single elimination format everyone loved. I think that would end the season December 12 probably. They do have leeway to end later in December since the following season doesn't start until summer 2027, and they can make the mini-season any number of games they want.
It pleases me that our first home match in March is an afternoon match.
It annoys me that they list LA Galaxy as LA instead of LAG. Simple action to avoid confusion.
It annoys me that our at NJ match is our 3rd in 7 days.
It annoys me that they list LA Galaxy as LA instead of LAG. Simple action to avoid confusion.
It annoys me that our at NJ match is our 3rd in 7 days.
didn't stop us this year
I think it's always been like that...
By the way, Chicago wins the schedule announcement this year.
That wasn't just well done. That was an extraordinary amount of effort. I don't want my daughter who has been an NYCFC fan since the beginning and just moved to Chicago to switch allegiance to her new home town team. But if she did, I can't say I'd blame her.
Looking to 2026, I’d like to go to LA, VAN, MTL (another game in Canada on my birthday weekend), MIA (at their new stadium), and RSL. Made 15 away day trips in 2025, my most in history. Don’t think I’ll likely reach that again in 2026, but who knows. You always want the last trip to be the best one (if it's MLS Cup away).
2026 kicks off in 84 days.
2026 kicks off in 84 days.
we'll be in US Open Cup again in 2026
Can't wait to lose to Pittsburgh again
Maybe the new SD won't take the whole season to sort the roster out, and we can enter the Cup Open with a complete squad for the first time in years!
we ended the season a different team than when we started. I don't think we would lose to a USL side that easily. Sure, it can happen and there are no guarantees, especially with a rotated side. But even our home growns are ballers.
hopefully the roster holes and depth issues get addressed this off season.
id like to think with him playing in MLS and winning he gets green light to get good pieces from within the league, because there are some for sure but under Lee they rarely went that route. not everything has to be an academy kid that they wont even play.
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I know some of our academy kids are officially off-roster and don't count towards the salary cap, but we have far too many academy kids signed to first-team contracts who never play. The team listed 29 players on our active roster after the moves were announced, but only 20 of them can be considered full members of the roster. Three players out on loan and 6 academy kids who basically never even saw the gameday squad, much less received playing time.
This got me thinking, and I'm certain that others can compile this data much faster than I could. 29 players is a lot, so of course a good number of those 29 will get little or no minutes.
How many players made more than 1 appearance for us in MLS league play this season? How does that stack up league wide?
I'm sure it's not uncommon for other teams to have academy or draft picks filling out their rosters and getting only emergency minutes.
My records show 25 players got minutes. Of those Musu had 1 game appearance, Amponsah 3, Gustavo 5, Carrizo 6, Reid 9, and all others (20) double digits.
I'm not looking it up but for other teams anyone curious can go to
Major League Soccer Stats | FBref.com
Information, stats and more for the 2020 Major League Soccer season.
fbref.com
Click on any team, then click the MP or Mins column to put in order, and count.
ETA I checked 2021 and 2019 NYCFC as comps.
2021 28 players got minutes; 6 fewer than 10 games.
2019 25 players got minutes; 6 fewer than 10 games.
I guess this year is more or less in normal range.
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A great example of this is Perea.
My records show 25 players got minutes. Of those Musu had 1 game appearance, Amponsah 3, Gustavo 5, Carrizo 6, Reid 9, and all others (20) double digits.
I'm not looking it up but for other teams anyone curious can go to
Major League Soccer Stats | FBref.com
Information, stats and more for the 2020 Major League Soccer season.
Click on any team, then click the MP or Mins column to put in order, and count.
ETA I checked 2021 and 2019 NYCFC as comps.
2021 28 players got minutes; 6 fewer than 10 games.
2019 25 players got minutes; 6 fewer than 10 games.
I guess this year is more or less in normal range.
I was looking this up myself, but you beat me to it. The only thing I’d add is that two of the 25 players who logged minutes left (Bakrar and Risa), and we had three mid-season additions in Nico, Oneil, and Raul. If you want to split hairs, you could subtract two from the total if we treat Nico and Raul as direct replacements for Risa and Bakrar, since their minutes didn’t overlap.
Tangentially, I was surprised by how few minutes Reid and Carrizo played. Both looked reasonably capable in their limited appearances and at minimum seemed just as capable as Ojeda and Fernández, who received most of the attacking substitute minutes. Did Pascal really rate Ojeda and Fernández that much higher? Was he prioritizing the development of the expensive players to appease the club? Or does the club intentionally limit minutes for the sub-18-year-old, high-potential prospects to protect them?
Depends on what you're trying to measure. If you're comparing squads, almost every team has 2-3 players like that so it washes out. If you specifically want to know how many players were there all year you have to do what you did there, though I also think on average you are right and assume you can subtract 2
Good questions; I'd like to know as well.
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