NEW YORK — The opening of New York Metropolis FC‘s Etihad Park has been pushed again a half-season to the beginning of MLS‘ 2027-28 schedule.
When the staff broke floor in December 2024 for the 25,000-seat venue adjoining to the New York Mets’ Citi Subject, NYCFC mentioned the stadium would open for the 2027 season. The projected opening will now be in the summertime of 2027, when the MLS switches its schedule to a summer-to-spring calendar to match most European leagues.
Within the league’s truncated transition season of 2027, every MLS staff will play a 14-game regular-season schedule adopted by playoffs. NYCFC will proceed to play most house video games that season at Yankee Stadium and Citi Subject.
Since taking the sector in 2015, NYCFC has performed house video games principally at these venues together with some on the house of the rival New York Crimson Bulls in Harrison, New Jersey, and Rentschler Subject in East Hartford, Connecticut.
The brand new stadium will likely be a web site for soccer matches in the course of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
The Main League Soccer staff’s controlling proprietor is Metropolis Soccer Group, the father or mother firm of England’s Manchester Metropolis. The Premier League staff’s venue was renamed Etihad Stadium in July 2011.
