The New York Cosmos and San Francisco Deltas meet in the title game this weekend. It could end up being the league’s final ever game
To an outside observer, it may be hard to believe that the North American Soccer League was able to play at all this season.
Last winter, the league was left for dead. Having just watched two teams fold, another move to MLS, and two more head across the second division landscape to the USL, the six-year-old NASL was left with just eight clubs. News came out that the historic New York Cosmos (linked to the days of Pele and Franz Beckenbauer in brand alone) had lost $30m over their first four years and were likely to fold.
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