Is Gotham FC moving to New York City?
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Is Gotham FC headed to the city of bright lights?
On this episode of Full Time Focus, host Jillian Sakovits sits down with The Athletic's Melanie Anzidei for a conversation about the reports that 2025 NWSL champions could move into New York City FC's Etihad Park in Queens. The duo chats about what this move could mean for Gotham's aspirations to break into the New York market, what the new stadium looks like and why this is overall a good move if it happens. The pair close the conversation with a discussion about potential changes to the High Impact Player rule in NWSL.
Plus, Washington Spirit head coach Adrián González joins the show to talk about his team's current unbeaten run, the return of Andi Sullivan and, of course, Jose the lucky coyote.
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUEST: Tamerra Griffin, Melanie Anzidei, Adrián González
This podcast was produced by The Athletic.
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| 0:00.0 | Whether or not this becomes a permanent home, I think we have to see with the success of, |
| 0:04.9 | you know, the July game, the Queens Classic. I think that's going to be a very, very important |
| 0:09.3 | match to see how the team is received into Queens. Maybe it's a stopgap. Maybe it's temporary |
| 0:15.3 | while the team looks for maybe available and elsewhere. Maybe they come back to New Jersey and build their own beautiful stadium somewhere else. |
| 0:23.6 | Like I don't think this means that the team will be in Queens forever. |
| 0:26.5 | I think it's a necessary step, like you said, the growing pains to kind of get Gotham to like |
| 0:31.0 | this next level. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello, hello, Jillian Sackavits with you. |
| 0:47.9 | On today's episode of Full Time Focus, it is presented by Amazon Crime. |
| 0:50.3 | Today's show is all NWSL. |
| 1:05.8 | We are going to dive into the reports that the reigning champions, Gotham F.C FC could be packing up their bags and moving to Queens, New York, potentially moving into New York City FC's new home of Etiad Park, very close to City Field in Flushing. |
| 1:11.1 | Plus, a potential update to the league's high-impact player role and what it could mean for roster building across the NWS. Then we are joined by Washington Spirit head coach Adrian Gonzalez |
| 1:17.1 | to get his take on all that, this crazy, unbeaten run that the spirit are on, and the return |
| 1:23.1 | of Andy Sullivan, but of course, Jose the Coyote. Let's get into it. |
| 1:29.6 | We start today's show in the great state of New Jersey, but that could be changing to the great state of New York. |
| 1:37.1 | For that and so much more, we bring in the athletics, Melanie Anzi Day. |
| 1:41.2 | Melanie, on Wednesday, it was reported by Sportico that the reigning champions, |
| 1:44.7 | Gotham FC, are exploring a move to Etienne Park, the new stadium for New York City FC that sits |
| 1:51.1 | right next to City Field in Flushing Queens. And for New York City FC, just so people know, |
| 1:57.5 | yes, they are still playing at Yankee Stadium and sometimes city field, but they are set |
| 2:02.7 | to move into their new home come summer of 2027. And it seems that there could also be Gotham |
| 2:11.3 | FC not too far behind them, Melanie. What is the latest that we know? Okay. So obviously this was not a surprising move or |
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