The New York Cosmos are an American professional soccer club based in Paterson, New Jersey, within the Greater New York area. The club is majority-owned by Baye Adofo-Wilson, and competes in the third-division USL League One. It is the third iteration of the Cosmos, after the original team, which played from 1971 to 1985, and its immediate predecessor, which played parts of six seasons between 2013 and 2020.