New York Cosmos

The New York Cosmos (also known as simply the Cosmos) are a professional soccer club based in Paterson, New Jersey. The club is majority-owned by Baye Adofo-Wilson, and plans to field a men's team in the third-division USL League One in 2026. It is the third iteration of the Cosmos, after the original team, which played from 1971 to 1985, and its immediate predecessor, which played parts of six seasons between 2013 and 2020.