New York City Football Club, LLC

Lobbying client

New York City FC, a Major League Soccer club majority owned by City Football Group, which is controlled by Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, alongside the Yankees' Yankee Global Enterprises and investor Marcelo Claure. The club is lobbying the city over Etihad Park, its new stadium under construction on city-owned land in Willets Point, Queens, near Citi Field, targeted to open for the 2027 MLS season. It has filed 18 disclosures since 2024, lobbying City Council Member Shanel Thomas-Henry through Geto & de Milly and Martin Lee Edelman on real-property determinations for the stadium project.

Council members lobbied
1
Filings (since 2024)
18
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$285,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Goods
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $110,010 awarded since 2015
Paid to date
$110,006
Based in
New York, NY

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City contracts

Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).

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