• Matchday 4: New York City FC vs Colorado Rapids
• Date and Time: Saturday, March 14, 7:40 pm ET
• Venue: Yankee Soccer Stadium, The Bronx, NY
• Forecast: Breezy and bone-chilling air will make it feel colder than the mercury, 42F/6C
• Watch: MLS on Apple TV
• Apple Broadcast Team: Chris Wittyngham and Ian Joy (English), Alejandro Figueredo and Tony Cherchi (Spanish)
• New York City FC Radio: Glenn Crooks and Matty Lawrence (English), Roberto Abramowitz and Ariel Judas (Spanish)
• Officiating Crew: Brandon Stevis (referee), Logan Brown and Jeremy Kieso (asistant referees), Sergii Boiko (4th official), Kevin Stott and Jeff Muschik (VAR)
• Kits: New York City will wear the new blue, white, and orange All Nations Kit; Colorado will wear the foam-green Headwaters Kit
It's Matchday 4, and New York City FC are back at Yankee Stadium to host Colorado Rapids on a bracingly cold day in The Bronx. It's a battle between two in-form teams early in this season, with both New York City and Colorado riding two-game winning streaks going into tonight.
NYCFC are looking to build on the 5-0 demolition of Orlando City at Yankee Stadium last Saturday, when the home team capitalized on an early red card and turned the game into a turkey shoot. The question dogging New York City going into this season – where will the goals come from without a No 9? – has been addressed for now, with six players combining for eight goals in three games. By comparison, NYCFC didn't reach eight goals in 2025 until Matchday 6 — with three of those coming from Alonso Martínez and another three from Hannes Wolf.
But can NYCFC get a result when facing 11 players? Every team that New York City faced so far this season were reduced to 10 players by a red card. Then again, the same can be asked of Colorado: Both of their wins came when the opposition went down to 10 players.
Pascal Jansen will be looking for his 20th league win as NYCFC head coach. Tonight will be his 37th game in charge, and he could reach that milestone faster than any coach in club history: It took Ronny Deila 38 games to reach 20 wins, Domé Torrent 40 games, Patrick Vieira 43 games, and Nick Cushing 64 games. (Note that Mehdi Ballouchy was in charge of one of NYCFC's games last year.)
Jansen leads all head coaches with a win rate 52.8% in league games, and in points per game with 1.75 PPG, just ahead of Domé Torrent's 1.74 PPG over 53 games in 2018 and 2019.
New York City FC | MLS record by head coach
| Name | Year | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pascal Jansen | 2025- | 36 | 19 | 6 | 11 | 58 | 45 | 13 | 52.8% | 1.75 |
| Mehdi Ballouchy | 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0.0% | 0.00 |
| Nick Cushing | 2022-24 | 89 | 31 | 27 | 31 | 121 | 119 | 2 | 34.8% | 1.35 |
| Ronny Deila | 2020-22 | 70 | 34 | 14 | 22 | 118 | 71 | 47 | 48.6% | 1.66 |
| Domé Torrent | 2018-19 | 53 | 26 | 14 | 13 | 92 | 67 | 25 | 49.1% | 1.74 |
| Patrick Vieira | 2016-18 | 83 | 39 | 22 | 22 | 148 | 120 | 28 | 47.0% | 1.67 |
| Jason Kreis | 2015 | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 49 | 58 | -9 | 29.4% | 1.09 |
| Total | 366 | 159 | 90 | 117 | 586 | 481 | 105 | 43.4% | 1.55 |
This will be the first MLS game refereed by Brandon Stevis. A regular in the National Women's Soccer League and the US Open Cup, Stevis called a second-division USL Championship game last week, and oversaw the USL League One Final last November.
But there will be a familiar face in the Apple TV broadcast booth, as Ian Joy will provide analysis for the second straight week at Yankee Stadium. His return for the Orlando blowout last Saturday was Joy's first New York City game since 2022, when MLS signed a long-term broadcast deal with Apple TV.
New York City vs Colorado H2H
| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 7 |
New York City and Colorado have faced each other just seven times in 11 years. NYCFC not only boss the head-to-head with a record of 3W-3D-1L, they dominate hosting responsibilities, with four of those games played in New York City — tonight will make it five.
Colorado's sole win came in the last meeting between these two teams, in May of 2024, when they faced each other in Matchday 11. It was a classic trap game: A New York City coming off three consecutive home wins fell 2-0 at Citi Field behind an early goal from Rafael Navarro and a late goal from Cole Bassett. NYCFC dominated possession and finished with the higher xG, but Colorado went home with three points.
