Maimonides Park has not seen many home wins since it began hosting competitive Brooklyn FC matches on March 15, 2025, when the women's USL Super League side made its competitive debut there, a 2-0 loss to Fort Lauderdale United FC.
The two Brooklyn FC teams, women's and men's, have as of this writing played 38 matches at Maimonides Park, and 76% of those matches ended without a win for the home team.
The all-time combined Brooklyn FC record at the Coney Island baseball stadium, across all USL Super League (women's), USL Championship and USL Cup (men's) matches, currently stands at 9W-11D-18L, with Brooklyn teams at an -11 goal differential at home.
The poor home form in Brooklyn helped guarantee that the men's team missed the USL Championship playoffs in its inaugural season, with the club's most recent home loss, a 3-1 defeat at the hands of Detroit City FC, sealing elimination from postseason contention.
That match against Detroit will likely be remembered for the absurd third goal conceded by Brooklyn, a 70-yard finish deposited into an empty Brooklyn net by Detroit's Kobe Hernández-Foster while the home team pushed its goalkeeper forward on an ill-fated corner kick while in search of an equalizer.
FROM JUST OUTSIDE HIS OWN PENALTY BOX 🤯
— USL Championship (@USLChampionship) October 1, 2026
Kobe Hernández-Foster seals the W for @DetroitCityFC from way downtown! pic.twitter.com/5dAZRDna2B
Not an ideal goal to concede, nor is it ideal that Brooklyn has picked up 12 points from 13 home USL Championship matches so far this season, ranking the team 23rd out of 25 Championship teams in terms of home points gained. There are still two home matches left for BKFC to play, the first coming up this Saturday night when they host Rhode Island FC on October 3 at 7:00 pm ET for what will be Fan Appreciation Night, so improvement is still possible, even if playoff qualification is not.
The women's team has had a checkered history with Coney Island, as well, going winless across the first seven home matches ever played at Maimonides Park to close out its inaugural 2024/25 season, then not improving much in the seasons since then.
Their inaugural season started in August 2024, but the first women's home matches in Brooklyn weren't played until March 2025 after a planned home debut in Brooklyn on August 31, 2024 got postponed after the artificial turf installed for soccer was deemed unplayable and unsafe for the players, with all subsequent "Fall" home matches of the split fall/spring season moved to Columbia University's Rocco B. Commisso Soccer Stadium in upper Manhattan.
Initial nomadic weirdness aside, Brooklyn's all-time USL Super League record at Maimonides is 5W-8D-10L, home struggles that correlated with the club failing to make the playoffs in either of its first two full seasons, though the women's side did win its most recent home match there vs Sporting JAX.
BKFC will play five of its remaining eight Super League matches of the truncated 2026 "sprint season" in Brooklyn, so the women have plenty of chances to start course-correcting, beginning this weekend when they host Fort Lauderdale United tonight, Friday, October 2 at 7:00 pm ET.
The struggles at home do require some extra context to understand, or to rationalize. Both Brooklyn women's and men's teams are expansion clubs that had to be built up from scratch in the last three years, with the women's team in particular experiencing heavy turnover among its personnel, be it the players, coaches, or backroom staff — hardly any original players remain on their roster, and the club is on its third head coach in three seasons.
The men's team delayed its planned debut in the USL Championship from the 2025 season to 2026, so they are in a true expansion year and dealing with expected struggles that tend to be there in inaugural seasons for any pro teams.
Still, the lack of success in Brooklyn remains staggering for the USL sides, especially when considering how one-of-a-kind Maimonides Park is as a soccer venue inside the USL ecosystem. There are other converted baseball diamonds used by other USL teams, but it's been a consistent struggle at home for the Brooklyn teams, and those struggles haven't been exclusive to the on-field records.
Attendance, performances both lagging
The performances at home have been largely rough for both sides of the franchise, and attendance at the 7,000-seat stadium has been poor, too. There are announced crowds available for 36 of the 38 matches played at Maimonides to date, and the average across all Brooklyn matches sits right around 1,500 fans per match, as far as announced numbers go.
The women's team was dead-last in home attendance among Super League teams during each of its two full seasons in 2024/25 and 2025/26, drawing an average of 1,200 fans per match when playing at Maimonides Park. Their biggest-ever crowd numbered at 2,830 fans, drawn on March 29, 2025, BKFC's third-ever match played at Maimonides Park.
The men, meanwhile, rank near the bottom of the USL Championship in average attendance, 22nd of 25 teams based on the publicly-available data, announcing an average crowd of 2,000 fans per home match. The men's first-ever USL Championship home match stands out as the highest-attended Brooklyn match out of all of the 38 played at Maimonides Park, drawing an announced crowd of 4,500 fans to see Brooklyn beat Indy Eleven on Sunday, March 8.
The numbers for Brooklyn FC are a far cry from the average crowd drawn in 2026 by the stadium's primary tenant, the Brooklyn Cyclones, the minor-league baseball affiliate of the New York Mets. The Cyclones averaged 2,900 fans per game during their completed 2026 season, not a huge gap between the Brooklyn men's average, but the Cyclones also had plenty of games in which attendance approached or surpassed 5,000 fans, getting the closest of any stadium tenant to reaching Maimonides Park capacity. Just recently in September, the Cyclones celebrated drawing over 15,000 fans across three games, their final three home games of the season, so they continue to be a draw while playing oceanside.
Brooklyn FC's matches haven't gotten there, drawing somewhere between 15%-30% of the capacity of Maimonides Park. The Cyclones have 25+ years of history playing in a stadium built for them on their side, and benefit from playing a schedule that cuts right through the heart of the warm summer weather (not the case of the Brooklyn women's team, at least until the Super League calendar flips), but Brooklyn has not come close to matching that attendance success even while debuting a men's team for this 2026 season.
Hardcore supporters for Brooklyn FC are out there, like the Brooklyn Warriors supporters' group, and they're doing their part to create an atmosphere at Maimonides, but they haven't seen the attendance numbers spike to levels enjoyed by the Cyclones or by other USL clubs.
Winning might help
Turning out fans seems tougher when the home team isn't winning or scoring many goals on its home turf. Brooklyn FC teams have been held goalless 14 different times across their 38 home matches in Brooklyn, another less-than-ideal statistic that doesn't help build hype for watching the hometown USL teams.
The men's team struggled with scoring goals no matter where it played during the 2026 season, as their 26 goals through 26 matches played is the fewest of any of the 25 USL Championship teams this season.
The women's team finished in sixth place in 2024/25, then in seventh place in 2025/26, and currently sits in last, eighth place, through six matches played out of the 14 scheduled for this 2026 "sprint season" before the Super League ditches its European-style competitive calendar and switches to the spring-to-fall, March-to-November scheduled followed by all the other USL leagues, but also by the other first-division-sanctioned women's league in the United States, the National Women's Soccer League.
The women's team does have five home matches left in its truncated third season of existence, and they play three straight at home beginning with tonight's tilt with Fort Lauderdale.
Plenty of time remains for the results to improve out at Maimonides Park, but the unique dimensions of the smaller-sized baseball field, and the unique environment of playing right on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean at one of New York City's longest-running amusement destinations has so far not provided any home-field advantages for either Brooklyn FC squad.
