Английская Википедия:Brooklyn FC (USL)
Шаблон:Infobox football club Brooklyn Football Club is a planned American professional soccer team based in Brooklyn, New York. First announced in 2023, the team plans to play in USL League One beginning in 2025.
History
On June 8, 2023, the United Soccer League announced that North Sixth Group had been granted a USL League One expansion team in Brooklyn, to start play in the 2025 season.[1][2] The club will begin in the third division with an option to move up to the second-division USL Championship by 2028, if certain benchmarks are met. The club's youth academy team will begin play in 2024, and the club also intends to field a women's team in the USL Super League.[2][3]
North Sixth Group specializes in purchasing and developing lower-tier soccer clubs. In addition to Brooklyn FC, it owns sixth-tier Swiss club FC Locarno, Serie D side ASD Campobasso 1919, and a stake in Serie B club Ascoli Calcio.[4][5] Among the minority owners in North Sixth Group are television personality Kelly Ripa and actor Mark Consuelos.[6]
The club's name and logo were unveiled on November 9, 2023.[7]
Academy
On December 7, 2023, Brooklyn FC announced that Two Bridges Football Club, a New York City-based youth soccer organization, would become the club's official youth academy and would start playing in the USL Academy League in 2024. Maximilian Mansfield, the executive director of Two Bridges, was named President and CEO of Brooklyn FC.[3]
Stadium
On January 19, 2024, it was reported that Brooklyn FC plan to play their matches at Maimonides Park in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn.[8] That was confirmed by the league on January 31, announcing that the team had signed a multi-year deal.[9]
Maimonides Park is a 7,000 seat stadium on the Coney Island Boardwalk. It had briefly been the home of the second New York Cosmos in 2017, prior to that club going on hiatus. Brooklyn FC intends to use a different field orientation than the Cosmos previously used, leaving the pitcher's mound intact and "maximiz(ing) a lot of the space around the field".[10]
Club chairman Matt Rizzetta has indicated that the club has had preliminary conversations with city officials and private developers on a location for a permanent stadium, one of the required benchmarks before the club can move up to the second division.[10][2]
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