New York City FC came flying out of the gates at the start of this Major League Soccer season, three wins and a draw in their first four played, but their current and ongoing six-match winless run in the league completely changed the tenor of the conversation around the 2026 team.
Instead of humming along among the top spots in the Eastern Conference, as it looked like they would when they defeated Colorado Rapids 3-1 at home on Matchday 4 to make it 10 points earned from an available 12, they've not won since and have mustered only two home draws, with each one of those "positive" results feeling like losses given that the visiting team scored an equalizer in stoppage time in each case.
The 12 points NYCFC collected through 10 league matches is the second-fewest the club has ever picked up at this stage of a regular season, with only the expansion-season squad in 2015 picking up fewer.
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This year's New York City team has conceded the most goals through 10 games — 16 — of any squad in club history, though the 19 goals they've scored is also tied for second-most.
It has to be said that this is a limited sample of results, only representing the first 29% of each MLS regular season, but a round number like the 10th game does work neatly as a place to stop and take stock of how a season is shaping up. The margins are thin from season-to-season, but there are a few standouts when looking at the first 10 matches of 2026 compared to the other 11 seasons in club history.
NYCFC first 10 regular-season matches, all-time
| Season | W | D | L | Pts | GF | GA | GD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 12 | -5 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 0 |
| 2017 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 18 | 11 | 7 |
| 2018 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 5 |
| 2019 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 1 |
| 2020 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 2 |
| 2021 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 18 | 11 | 7 |
| 2022 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 21 | 10 | 11 |
| 2023 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 1 |
| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 13 | -1 |
| 2026 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 16 | 3 |
