2019 New York Cosmos season

The 2019 season will be the sixth year that the new Cosmos will be fielding a team. The club is coming out of hiatus after the NASL suspended operations for the 2018 season. Including the previous franchise, this will be the 20th season of a club entitled New York Cosmos playing professional soccer in the New York metropolitan area.
Background
This season the club will compete in the amateur (Division 4) NPSL under their "Cosmos B" title. Before moving onto the inaugural NPSL Founders Cup. This new competition will run from August to November 2019. It will be the NPSL"s first attempt at a professional competition, and will look to move to the "standard" American Soccer schedule for 2020. The club will play their home amateur NPSL regular season, and professional NPSL Founders Cup matches in Mitchel Athletic Complex in Uniondale. There is no official word yet on where the club will play if they are the designated "home" team for U.S. Open Cup matches.
On February 27, 2018 the NASL commissioner's office announced that the 2018 season will be cancelled. By the time of the announcement, the league had contracted to 4 member clubs. The New York Cosmos, Jacksonville Armada FC, and Miami FC would later announce that they would field teams in the 2018 NPSL season. Puerto Rico FC did not field a team in 2018 and have not yet announced their plans for 2019. The Following teams left to join other leagues or folded after the 2017 NASL season. FC Edmonton originally went on hiatus, but announced their intentions to join the inaugural CPL season for 2019. North Carolina FC and Indy Eleven joined the USL for the 2018 season. Soccer Bowl 2017 winners' the San Francisco Deltas folded almost immediately after the championship game.
During 2018 rumors spread on the future of the club. The Cosmos agreed to field their "b" squad in the amateur NPSL, while carrying several professional players. For 2019; news spread that the Cosmos were looking into joining either the nascent NISA or the USL. For joining NISA, it seemed that talks had been underway. The league was initially intended to be a feeder league for the NASL. After the sudden death of NISA co-founder Jack Cummins on February 13, 2018 and the stepping down of co-founder Peter Wilt on May 17,2018 the league seemed to go on hiatus as it re-structured. Talks with former NASL clubs did not seem to resume when NISA filed for USSF sanctioning for a Summer 2019 Division 3 start. Joining the USL seemed like the last opportunity for the Cosmos to play professionally in 2019 or 2020 before the announcement of the NPSL's Founders Cup on November 15, 2018.
On July 24, 2019 the NPSL announced the renaming of the NPSL Founders Cup to the NPSL Members Cup. Several weeks prior to the announcement, the Oakland Roots; who were announced as a new club late in 2018, stated that they will drop out of this year's Founder's Cup to join the 2020 Spring NISA season. This left the nascent NPSL Pro league with ten clubs. The re-branding to the Members Cup, came with the official announcement of Miami FC moving to NISA for 2020. The other NPSL Founders Cup Floridan club; Miami United FC was also dropping from the Founders Cup. ASC San Diego; who are the Cosmos B's competition in the NPSL National Semi-Finals; are also removing themselves from the Founder's Cup. The NPSL Members Cup will still commence during the first week of August 2019. The six remaining clubs will play ten matches. The competition will no longer have a divided schedule/table, and all six clubs will face each other in a round-robin style format.
Club
Current roster
This is the current roster for New York Cosmos club. As stated above; the team will compete in an amateur competition and under the "Cosmos B" name. When the professional competition begins, an updated roster will be found here.
Competitions
NPSL
The NPSL regular season is an amateur, division 4 competition.
Starting in May; the Cosmos will field their "Cosmos B" side for the 2019 NPSL season. Because the competition is a division 4 amateur competition AND the Cosmos' reserve team competition, you will find the results and tables on the National Premier Soccer League's page. Players who remain or make the professional team roster will have their statistics shown on this page.
U.S. Open Cup
Similar to the NPSL regular season scenario; The Cosmos will be fielding their "Cosmos B" side in this year's U.S. Open Cup. The spot in this year's competition was allocated for the Cosmos B's performance on reaching the NPSL's Regional Finals in 2018. Therefore this spot is an NPSL allocated spot, and not the New York Cosmos first team spot that is given to all American professional teams. If any players make an appearance in this competition, AND are on the NPSL Founders Cup professional roster, then their statistics will be recorded on this page.
NPSL Members Cup
The inaugural NPSL Founders Cup will be the leagues first attempt at a professional competition. Set to originally consist of 11 clubs divided into an East Region and a West Region. The 6 East Region clubs would have competed in a home - away round robin. The 5 club West Region would have done the same. The top 2 clubs from each Region were set to meet in a play-off to determine a national champion. On July 24th of 2019; it was announced that the competition was reduced to 6 member clubs. These six clubs will compete in a single table round robin, leaving Napa Valley FC as the only club west of the Mississippi River.
Standings
Results
Results by round
Match reports

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