New York City FC v. Inter Miami CF 2025 MLS Regular Season - Matchday 36 Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 | Kickoff: 7:40pm ET Location: Citi Field | Flushing, NY Television: MLS Season Pass Radio (English/Spanish): New York City FC App | Tune In App newyorkcityfc.com/radio
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NEW YORK CITY FC HEAD COACH PASCAL JANSEN
On the additions of Midfielder Nicolás Fernandez Mercau and Defender Raul Gustavo... “Personality-wise and quality-wise is something that they add to this dressing room, and both also show the extra quality that we were looking for. Another aspect is the flexibility of both players. They can play in multiple positions, which helps the team, and they still show high quality in their game. Mentality-wise, also, both players are winners, and they add a lot of energy to the winning mentality of the team. So, we’re very happy that they have chosen to come and support our project. You’ve seen that in the past few games. But there are still a few games to go.”
On whether it’s a greater challenge to raise the group when form isn’t good or to rein them in when form is really good... “We have several tools in our program and in our approach for how we deal with our people in order to try and be as proactive as we can, to have the energy flowing through the team in the dressing room and in the building, in order to make sure that we always can focus on the right details going into training or into matches. So, I would say in general, it’s about being very proactive in every scenario, and that includes when you’re in a good phase or in a little less good phase. It is about making sure that you stay proactive in order to achieve and maintain a team and staff members [who are] in the positive phase of a season.”
NEW YORK CITY FC DEFENDER TAYVON GRAY
On the confidence in the locker room... “The energy right now is obviously buzzing. We're in good form right now, honestly. Me and the coach and everyone spoke about it today. Honestly, it just feels like relief. We're here now and we just set our next goal. We just want to be top four and then whatever good happens after that can happen too, but at the moment, we're just focused on being in the top four.”
CAPTIVATING IN CITI FIELD New York City FC heads back to the World’s Borough to host at Citi Field for the first time since May, when Miami comes back into town.
Seventeen matches have been played between New York City’s last home game at Citi Field—against the New York Red Bulls on May 17, 2025 (Matchday 14)—and their upcoming home game against Inter Miami on September 24, 2025 (Matchday 36)
This will be not only the fourth match for the team at Citi Field this year, but the Club’s penultimate match at home in general for this regular season.
The other three matches at Citi Field were played against the following opponents this year:
Philadelphia Union (1-0, W).
FC Cincinnati (1-0, W).
New York Red Bulls (2-0, W).
Four goals have been scored in Queens this year, with none conceded.
As it stands, this season marks the fewest goals conceded at Citi Field, surpassing the previous record of two goals allowed in a single game in 2017.
The highest total came in 2023, when eight goals were conceded across seven games at Citi Field.
Matt Freese has recorded three shutouts on the Citi Field pitch in 2025, adding to his total of seven clean sheets when playing there all-time.
He is on a three-match clean sheet streak when at Citi Field, which is his longest string of consecutive shutouts while playing there in his career.
In general, Freese has only conceded six goals in Queens all-time over 11 GP there in the MLS Regular Season.
This makes for a GAA of 0.55 for him when playing at Citi Field, while he made 30 saves.
Freese’s record stands at 8-1-2 through 11 GP in Queens.
The team’s overall Citi Field record is 12-3-6.
The opponents played at this stadium include Toronto FC, Sporting Kansas City, Chicago Fire FC (x3), FC Cincinnati (x2), Nashville SC, FC Dallas, Philadelphia Union (x2), Charlotte FC, Minnesota United FC, Orlando City SC, Atlanta United FC, D.C. United, Columbus Crew, New York Red Bulls (x2), CF Montréal, and Colorado Rapids.
This will be the first time New York City hosts Miami at Citi Field in regular season play. The two sides previously met there in the postseason on October 17, 2022, when the ‘Boys in Blue’ earned a 3-0 victory.
This would also make Miami the 17th different team to play against New York City in Queens.
The instance at Citi Field where New York City scored the most in a single match (5) but also conceded the most (4) was the same match: April 24, 2022, when the team played Toronto FC.
New York City won 5-4. The only current roster player to have goal contributions in this game includes Keaton Parks (1G, 1A).
The team is currently on a three-match winning streak at Citi Field.
This marks the longest run of consecutive victories in Queens since the team started playing there in 2017.
Similarly, the team has not lost a game in Queens since May 5, 2024, when New York City played Columbus and was shutout 0-2.
This marks a six-match unbeaten run at Citi Field—five wins and one draw—the second-longest streak in the team’s history at the venue.
The longest stretch of going unbeaten at Citi Field was seven matches, which was active from October 22, 2017, to April 22, 2023.
The record then was 4W-3D before falling 1-3 to Philadelphia on May 27, 2023.
Over 21 GP there, New York City FC has scored 32 goals and conceded 21. The team has nine recorded clean sheets.
As for current players who have scored in Queens, the list includes Alonso Martínez (6G), Forward Julián Fernández (3G), Parks (2G), Forward Hannes Wolf (1G), Maxi Moralez (1G).
With his six goals, Martínez is the top scorer in Citi Field all-time, surpassing former Midfielder Santiago Rodríguez (5G).
When it comes to assists recorded, the list includes Wolf (4A), Parks (3A), Moralez (2A), Tayvon Gray (2A), Mitja Ilenič (2A), Forward Malachi Jones (1A), Defender Justin Haak (1A), and Martínez (1A).
In the 12 matches won at Citi Field, the team scored first in all of them but one (5-4 v. Toronto).
The team is 11-1-2 when scoring first.
When recording a clean sheet in Queens, the team has a record of 8-0-1.
The team is undefeated when scoring at least two or more goals, with a record of 8-0-2.
SCORING AND SAVING New York City FC’s players have had record-setting seasons, impacting not only the Club and its record books but, in some instances, the league’s as well.
With another game winning goal game when the Club played Charlotte FC in the most recent matchday, Alonso Martínez now ranks second in MLS history in game-winning goals (GWG) scored in a singular season with 10.
He is tied with San Jose Earthquakes Forward Josef Martínez.
He is one game-winning goals away from tying former San Jose Forward Chris Wondolowski (11) in all-time MLS GWG.
Martínez is tied with Maxi Moralez for third most goals scored in MLS play (including postseason) in Club history with 34.
Ahead of them are Valentín Castellanos (53G) and former Forward David Villa (80G).
Hannes Wolf is tied for having the third most multigoal games in the league (4), alongside New York Red Bulls Forward Maxim Choupo-Moting, LAFC Forward Denis Bouanga, and Philadelphia Union Forward Tai Baribo
Only FC Cincinnati Midfielder Evander and Nashville Forward Sam Surridge (5) and Inter Miami Forward Lionel Messi (7) have more.
Several players have recorded their first MLS goals for the Club this season.
Most recently, Midfielder Nicolás Fernández Mercau, Forward Seymour Reid, and Midfielder Jonathan Shore.
Matt Freese earned his eighth clean sheet of the season, tying former Goalkeeper Josh Saunders for the fourth-most shutouts in Club history during a single MLS Regular Season.
Freese has the fifth highest save percentage among all goalkeepers in the league during this 2025 season, with 74.78% through 27 GP.
The goalkeepers included in this statistic must have a minimum of 30 saves made.
Riding off that, New York City FC has the highest save percentage in the league, with 76.19%.
Additionally, New York City has the fourth lowest goals against average in the league, with 1.17 through 30 GP.
The team has had six different seasons with at least 15 wins since 2016, the most in the league over that duration.
New York City recently matched their second highest win total all time in regular season play with 16, after the positive result against Charlotte FC. This was achieved during the 2017, 2018 and 2022 seasons as well.
Their highest win total was 18 in the 2019 season.
MEETING WITH MIAMI New York City FC meets Inter Miami CF for the second and final time of this MLS Regular Season, hosting the opponent this time around.
This match is the 11th time these two teams will face off in MLS play (not including the postseason). New York City has a 6-1-4 (W-L-D) record against Miami in the regular season.
New York City has a 3-1-3 record while on the road, but 3-0-1 while at home.
Over these 11 games played, New York City FC has scored 19 goals and conceded 11.
The team has 19 assists to match their goal total.
When away, New York City FC has scored 13 but conceded 10.
When home, the team has scored six against Miami and conceded just one.
The leading goal-scorer in the series for the Club is former Forward Valentín Castellanos, who has four goals.
However, on the current roster, it’s Forward Alonso Martínez, who has two goals registered.
Only two other current New York City players have scored against Miami, and it is Midfielder Maxi Moralez (1G) and Defender Mitja Ilenič (1G).
When it comes to scoring, more than half of New York City’s goals in this series come in the first half (12) as opposed to the second (7).
For goals scored in 15-minute intervals, New York City’s most prolific interval is 31-45, where the team has six scored.
In 1-15, New York City has two.
In 16-30, the team has two.
The second most prolific interval is 46-60, where the Club has four goals.
In 61-75, New York City has two.
Lastly, in 76-90, the Club has three.
The most goals scored by New York City FC against Miami in a single game is three, which occurred twice (October 3, 2020 and October 30, 2021).
As for assists recorded in this series, Midfielder Maxi Moralez has the most in the series over players from both sides, with four.
Similarly, only two other players on the active roster have recorded assists in this series, including Midfielder Keaton Parks (2A) and Defender Tayvon Gray (1A).
Goalkeepers Matt Freese and Tomás Romero both have minutes played against Miami.
Freese has five games played (GP), 450 minutes, 21 shots faced, 15 saves, six goals conceded, and a goals against average (GAA) of 1.20.
One of Freese’s appearances came with the Philadelphia Union on July 25, 2021, when he made five saves, faced six shots, and allowed one goal in a 1-1 draw.
Romero has played one game, 90 minutes, five shots faced, one save, and a GAA of 4.00.
Romero’s appearance came on September 20, 2023, with Toronto FC in a match that ended in a 4-0 defeat.
