MANHATTAN'S FOOTBALL CLUB IS RETURNING
New Amsterdam Football Club was founded with an ambitious vision: to build a professional soccer club in the heart of Manhattan—one that reflects the energy, diversity, ambition, and international spirit of New York City.
The idea for the club began while members of our ownership group were living in London, surrounded by one of the world's great football cultures and imagining what a truly global football club could become in Manhattan.
That transatlantic beginning inspired our name. Centuries earlier, Dutch ships crossed the Atlantic and arrived at the southern tip of Manhattan, where settlers established New Amsterdam. Before there was New York, there was New Amsterdam—a growing international settlement connected to Europe by the ships, people, and ideas that traveled across the ocean.
Our club was born from a similar connection between Europe and New York. The name represents Manhattan's beginnings, its enduring relationship with the wider world, and the spirit of ambition and reinvention that has always defined the city.
New Amsterdam f.c.
THREE SEASONS OF
PROFESSIONAL SOCCER
3
PROFESSIONAL SEASONS
36
MATCHES PLAYED
4TH
FINAL NISA STANDING
Beginning in 2020, during one of the most challenging moments in modern history, New Amsterdam played three seasons of professional soccer in the National Independent Soccer Association, then a professional league sanctioned by the U.S. Soccer Federation.
During the global pandemic, our ownership group did more than launch one professional team. We also helped launch our sister club, Chicago House AC, supporting NISA and helping protect its U.S. Soccer sanctioning during an unprecedented period for professional soccer.
Over those three seasons, New Amsterdam played 36 professional matches against clubs from across the country, including the New York Cosmos, Detroit City FC, Chattanooga FC, Los Angeles Force, Michigan Stars, Maryland Bobcats, Chicago House AC, and San Diego 1904 FC.
In our final NISA season, New Amsterdam finished fourth in the national standings, level on points with two other clubs and separated by goal difference.
Our coaches included former U.S. Men's National Team players Eric Wynalda and Jermaine Jones, former New York Red Bulls and Senegal national team goalkeeper Bouna Coundoul, and New Amsterdam FC co-founder Maximilian Mansfield.
Our players came from New York City and around the world, united by the opportunity to represent a new kind of football club.
NEW AMSTERDAM FC
IS PREPARING TO BEGIN AGAIN
NEW YORK
New Amsterdam FC
CHICAGO
Chicago House AC
LONDON
Westfield FC
Today, our ownership group's football ambitions span three cities and two continents. In addition to New Amsterdam FC, we own Chicago House AC and Westfield FC, an English non-league football club based just outside London that competes in the qualifying rounds of two of England's historic national competitions: the FA Cup and the FA Trophy.
Now, following the 2026 FIFA World Cup, New Amsterdam FC is preparing to begin again.
Just as the original New Amsterdam was built by people who crossed the Atlantic with the ambition to create something new, our relaunch represents another transatlantic beginning. We are bringing the experience gained through clubs in New York, Chicago, and England back to Manhattan.
Our renewed mission is to bring high-level soccer to the heart of the city, establish a lasting home for the club, and launch a youth academy that gives talented young New Yorkers a genuine pathway toward the professional game.
New Amsterdam has always represented beginnings, international ambition, and reinvention.
NOW, THE SHIPS ARE POINTING HOME.