NYCFC Stadium Search

Justin Egan
Feb 15, 2023
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The Outfield provides the most comprehensive coverage of NYCFC's quest to find a soccer-specific stadium within the confines of New York City that can't be found anywhere else. Here’s our full archive:

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The Clock Has Started: NYCFC's Stadium Now Under Public Review
The clock has started, the first meeting is scheduled, and the public review process has begun for NYCFC’s Willets Point stadium. On March 1st, Queens Development Group, New York City Football Club, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation jointly submitted preliminary environmental review documents to the City of New York. The documents, …
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2 years ago · 9 likes · 4 comments · Chris Campbell
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NYCFC’s Willets Point Stadium to Open Spring 2027
Folks, it’s time to mark your calendars. “The goal is to open for the first game of the NYCFC stadium in spring of 2027”, declared Ethan Goodman, a spokesperson for the Queens Development Group, during Queens Community Board 7’s Land Use Meeting Wednesday evening. Goodman then presented a comprehensive timeline of the development team’s plans to achieve …
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2 years ago · 5 likes · 6 comments · Chris Campbell
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For Abu Dhabi: Why CFG Intentionally Scuttled NYCFC's Stadium At Flushing Meadow
On May 21, 2013, Ferran Soriano, flanked by Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber and New York Yankees president Randy Levine, was in New York City to announce the next step in the City Football Group’s (CFG) plan for global expansion. Unlike the franchise across the Hudson River in New Jersey, New York City Football Club was to be the true team w…
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2 years ago · 2 likes · Justin Egan
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The Bronx Comeback
Next Wednesday will mark one year to the day when a vote was scheduled to occur in Bronx Community Board 4 that would have started the dominoes falling towards a multi-billion dollar development in the South Bronx and a brand spanking new soccer stadium for NYCFC. Over multiple years, NYCFC put all its stadium eggs in the GAL location basket, and in the…
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3 years ago · 4 likes · 6 comments · Chris Campbell
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Stuck in Park
As first reported by The Outfield, the community board vote that was supposed to kick off the development planning and public review process for New York City FC’s planned South Bronx stadium was postponed, filibustering the long idled project and souring local community support…
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3 years ago · 3 comments · Chris Campbell
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Damn Yankees: NYCFC Stadium Partners Strike Out
New York Yankees President Randy Levine was as clear as he could be…
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4 years ago · 1 like · Chris Campbell
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Is NYCFC's Stadium Ready to Ramp Up?
It’s safe to say this year hasn’t gone according to plan—including the one set of plans NYCFC fans have been waiting years to see finalized. In February, NYCFC CEO Brad Sims confirmed reports by The Outfield and the New York Times that the club was preparing to go public with a stadium proposal in the South Bronx, just south of Yankee Stadium. “In the c…
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4 years ago · Chris Campbell
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NYCFC's Stadium Still Has One Stakeholder to Convince: the Bronx
On Tuesdays and Thursdays in May, Vanessa Gibson and Diana Ayala, New York City’s councilmembers for the districts surrounding Yankee Stadium, have donned masks to hand out food to Bronx residents with an organization called Bridge Builders Community Partnership. Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. has dropped by. Each week, Ayala and Gibson’s posts o…
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5 years ago · Chris Campbell
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A First Look at NYCFC's Bronx Stadium Plan
And signs it may be closer than you think. On July 30, 2018, a team led by the developer Maddd Equities met with the NYC Department of City Planning to lay out a neighborhood-wide vision for a stadium project near Yankee Stadium. The new stadium would be soccer-specific, home to New York City Football Club. NYCFC, City Football Group, the Yankees, and a …
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5 years ago · Chris Campbell
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NYCFC Stadium Plans Gather Steam in the Bronx
New records show preparations for a soccer stadium near Yankee Stadium. There's smoke rising in the South Bronx, and it's not coming from the Yankee Stadium smokestacks. Although a deal to build a soccer stadium next door to New York City Football Club's current home has yet to be announced, a drumbeat of local activity—including records obtained by…
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5 years ago · Chris Campbell

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