Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2019 New York Cosmos season


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The result was delete. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 06:16, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

2019 New York Cosmos season

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Article fails WP:N. The New York Cosmos are not playing in a sanctioned professional league in 2019. The second team competed in the National Premier Soccer League, a non-professional league that is not sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation. The main team will compete in the NPSL Members Cup this year but that is not a USSF sanctioned league. ColeTrain4EVER (talk) 03:54, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 12:10, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 12:10, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

As stated in the article, this page is for the 2019 New York Cosmos season in the NPSL Members Cup. The information about the NPSL and the U.S. Open Cup is included for a narrative story about the 2019 season and it is stated repeatedly that it is the amateur Cosmos B squad in these competition. The NPSL Members Cup is a USASA sanctioned league. Though the USASA is the governing body for amateur clubs, the competition is a professional league. The teams in the NPSL Members Cup consist of paid, non collegiate binded players. If there is a rule that only USSF sanctioned leagues may have club season pages on wikipedia, that is fine. But I was under the impression that as long as the team AND league are professional, this is allowed. Tychu9 (talk) 3:10 11 August 2019
 * None of these reasons are valid for why the Cosmos should have a page for the 2019 season. Per WP:NSEASONS and WP:GNG, the only reason an individual club may have a season page is if they played in a fully-professional league or if there is enough independent secondary coverage of their season, neither of which apply here. The only competition the Cosmos are playing this year is the NPSL Members Cup. The club only played their "B" team in the National Premier Soccer League and the U.S. Open Cup. Neither of these three tournaments is a fully-professional soccer league. The NPSL is a semi-professional soccer league and the U.S. Open Cup is a soccer cup competition which encompasses clubs from very amateur to fully-professional. The NPSL Members Cup is also just a soccer cup tournament, not a league. It doesn't matter if the club itself is fully-professional, the league overall needs to be professional, which the Cosmos have not played in. You can argue that the Members Cup is a fully-professional league but you would have to go to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Fully professional leagues and make your case there, not here. ArsenalFan700 (talk) 02:57, 12 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete: Article fails WP:NSEASONS and WP:GNG. The NPSL is not a WP:FPL and the Cosmos only fielded a "B" team in that anyway. The NPSL Members Cup is also not a fully-professional soccer league, and just a soccer cup tournament. Also, since there is no reliable independent secondary sources upon which to base this article on, we shouldn't have this article. ArsenalFan700 (talk) 02:57, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete - no evidence of notability, can be summarised on the main page if required. GiantSnowman 07:59, 12 August 2019 (UTC)


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