The iconic New York football club which brought football legends Pele, Franz Beckenbauer and Johan Cruyff to the USA is back - albeit with a rebrand.
The Cosmos have been relaunched, dropped references to the Big Apple from their name, and will be based in Paterson, New Jersey.
From 2026 Cosmos' men's team will play in USL League One, the third tier of the United Soccer League, which operates independently of Major League Soccer.
The club plan to enter a women's team into the USL Super League in 2027.
Cosmos will play their matches at the 7,800-seat Hinchliffe Stadium, which has predominantly been used as a baseball ground in the past.
It is a much smaller venue than the club's heyday of the 1970s and 1980s when they drew sizeable crowds to the Giants Stadium.
North Jersey Pro Soccer, headed up by real estate developer Baye Adofo-Wilson, has acquired the intellectual property rights and a majority holding in the Cosmos from Fiorentina owner Rocco Commisso.
Italian-born American businessman Commisso has retained a small stake in the Cosmos having effectively mothballed them in 2021 after he bought the Serie A club.
