Gotham F.C., the Women's Soccer Team, Is Leaving New Jersey for Queens
Every soccer team that’s still in the World Cup wants to get to New Jersey for the final on July 19. But one professional soccer team is going in the opposite direction.
Gotham F.C., the defending champion of the National Women’s Soccer League, is set to announce on Tuesday that it is abandoning its current home in Harrison, N.J., and will play its home games at Etihad Park, the future home of New York City F.C. in Flushing, Queens. The stadium will open next year and Gotham F.C. will move there in 2028.
Since 2019, Gotham has been playing home games at Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, home of the Red Bulls, N.Y.C.F.C.’s rival in Major League Soccer. But Gotham’s owners said the team can attract more fans in New York.
Carolyn Tisch Blodgett, the governing owner of the club, said the move is part of a grand ambition to make Gotham, winner of two of the last three women’s soccer league titles, as popular as any sports team in the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/nyregion/gotham-fc-etihad-park-queens.html