New York Red Bulls Tickets

The New York Red Bulls carry one of the more layered backstories in American soccer. The franchise was established in October 1994 and kicked off in Major League Soccer's inaugural 1996 season as the New York/New Jersey MetroStars, an original MLS club assembled around Tab Ramos, the first player ever to sign with the league, alongside goalkeeper Tony Meola and AC Milan midfield great Roberto Donadoni. In 2006, Red Bull GmbH purchased the team and rebranded it completely, folding the club into the Austrian energy drink company's global soccer network. A decade of MetroStars underachievement gave way to the most successful stretch in club history.

The turning point came in 2010. After 14 seasons at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, the club moved into its own purpose-built ground in Harrison, New Jersey, a 25,000-seat stadium that opened as Red Bull Arena and now carries the Sports Illustrated Stadium name. That summer, Thierry Henry and Rafael Marquez arrived to join Juan Pablo Angel, making the Red Bulls the first MLS team with three designated players, and the squad jumped from 21 points the year before to 51, an MLS record for a single-season turnaround. The stadium earned the nickname "The Fortress" for a home record that ranks with the best in the league since opening day, and that home crowd is a big part of what makes Red Bulls tickets in Harrison worth the trip across the river.

The trophy era followed. New York lifted its first major trophy, the Supporters' Shield, in 2013 under Mike Petke, the first former MetroStars and Red Bulls player to coach the club, then added Shields in 2015 and 2018 behind Jesse Marsch's relentless pressing style, a brand of play fans embraced as "Energy Drink Soccer." The 2018 side set club records with 22 wins and 71 points and reached the CONCACAF Champions League semifinals. From 2010 through 2024 the club made 15 consecutive playoff appearances, and the 2024 run delivered the second MLS Cup final appearance in club history: an upset of the defending champion Columbus Crew, a win over New York City FC in the first postseason Hudson River Derby, a 1-0 Eastern Conference Final victory in Orlando, and a 2-1 MLS Cup loss to the LA Galaxy. Underneath it all runs MLS's first cost-free youth academy, the pipeline that produced Tyler Adams, the club's first academy product to represent the United States at a World Cup. That academy feeds the first team through reserve side New York Red Bulls II.