One of the most impressive, ongoing records in sports history, ended Tuesday night. The New York Red Bulls set the world record for the most consecutive years making to the playoffs in sports history, making it fifteen years in a row from the 2010-24 seasons. The Red Bulls are currently sitting in tenth place in the MLS Eastern Conference and with only three weekends left to qualify were hoping to qualify for the wildcard match at best. But the Chicago Fire won on Tuesday night against Inter Miami 5-3. This mathematically took the Red Bulls out of the playoffs with a current record of 12-7-13.
Fans of the Club are disappointed at this season’s outcome after making it to the MLS finals last season, only for the second time in their history. Red Bull spent the season selling over ten million dollars in players and only spending 2.4 million in players in the 24-25 season and another 2.9 already agreed upon for the 25-26 transfer window. This isn’t a surprise to fans with the Red Bulls being consistently one of the most profitable teams in the league and the second most profitable in the Red Bulls franchise. To fans it seems like RBNY simply don’t want to spend any money to improve their team. Though important transfers like Emil Forsberg, Tim Parkers and Choupo-Moting did drastically improve the team it wasn’t enough to continue the 15 year record.
Though the 24-25 season is a failure for the NYRB there are major take-aways from the season. For starters The Red Bulls own Emil Forsberg scored ten goals and ten assists this season becoming the fifth player to do it in franchise history and the first to do it since Thierry Henry in 2014. Homegrown players like Julian Hall and Tanner Rosborough received meaningful first team minutes and made major impacts on match days. The Red Bulls roster is also quite young with an average age of 23.5 years meaning our younger stars and Homegrown players have a lot of potential to make the 25-26 season special.
