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New York City Football Club, frequently shortened to New York City FC or NYCFC, is an American professional soccer club based in New York City. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference. New York City FC is co-owned by City Football Group, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi United Group, Yankee Global Enterprises, owners of the New York Yankees, and investor Marcelo Claure.
New York City FC played its first league game in the 2015 MLS season, as the twentieth expansion team of the league; it is the first franchise based in the city, and the second in the New York metropolitan area, after the New York Red Bulls, with whom they contest the Hudson River Derby. Since 2015, the club have primarily played their home games at Yankee Stadium (shared with baseball's New York Yankees) in the Bronx; several alternative venues have been used when Yankee Stadium is unavailable, such as Citi Field in Queens, and Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, New Jersey. Since the 2022 season, NYCFC has played at least six of its 17 home matches at Citi Field, across the street from the site of its planned home of Etihad Park scheduled to open in 2027.
After five years of performing well in the regular season but falling short in the playoffs, New York City FC won the club's first trophy, the 2021 MLS Cup. The club then won its first international trophy when they defeated Atlas at the 2022 Campeones Cup, becoming the first New York–based club to win an international trophy.
Based on attendance from the 2024 regular season and valuations by Forbes, New York City was the fifteenth best attended club in the league, and the fifth most valuable, worth $850 million.
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