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A New Era Begins: New York City FC to Start 2027-28 Season at Etihad Park | New York City FC
New York City FC today announced the Club will play their first match at Etihad Park, New York City’s first soccer-specific stadium, with the beginning of the 2027-28 MLS season in the summer of 2027. Before the calendar change, MLS will stage a transition season from February to May 2027,www.newyorkcityfc.com
can a Concacaf Champions Cup game be a "test" event?
Call me cynical but given all the recent reporting about the massive revenue gains they will get from the new stadium I find it hard to believe they are leaving all that money on the table just for a clean launch.
watch the first event be a concert. i was thinking maybe they host gold cup games but that may be too close to their completion deadline.
Do other stadiums do soft launch tests events before they use the full capacity? I'd have to imagine they would want to
I'm interested to see if some of the soft launch events are actually NYCFC games that would have otherwise ended up at Redbull arena. They will just claim they are a practice event so it doesn't count as the first official NYCFC game.
From the Post:
nypost.com
As an aside, I don't follow the US Open Cup at all. What would be the schedule for MLS teams joining the competition by summer time?
NYCFCII vs Royal Delaware United is the perfect soft opening to iron out any bugs.
NYCFC plans move into new $780 million Queens stadium for summer 2027
New York City FC now knows when it will be moving into its new stadium in Queens.
nypost.com
As an aside, I don't follow the US Open Cup at all. What would be the schedule for MLS teams joining the competition by summer time?
NYCFCII vs Royal Delaware United is the perfect soft opening to iron out any bugs.
From the Post:
NYCFC plans move into new $780 million Queens stadium for summer 2027
New York City FC now knows when it will be moving into its new stadium in Queens.
As an aside, I don't follow the US Open Cup at all. What would be the schedule for MLS teams joining the competition by summer time?
NYCFCII vs Royal Delaware United is the perfect soft opening to iron out any bugs.
MLS teams join in the round of 32. We don't know the schedule exactly in 2027 but MLS usually joins late march/early april. If we qualify for CCC then we won't play in USOC at all.
There's just too much uncertainty this far out. The schedule for the sprint season needs to be determined well in advance, likely before the club will feel solid enough about being able to host.
They also need to negotiate planning with the Yankees/Mets into it in case they weren't able to host, so need to get ahead of that.
They were also slated to start the new season with at least 4-5 games on the road (similar to Miami this year), so in a 14 game sprint season, that gets really wonky.
It's hard for me to believe that they were ever strongly considering opening it for the sprint season. The only consideration, IMO, would be opening it midway through that, and then they lose a ton of fanfare associated with that, so I'm not even sure that was ever a true consideration.
