| Club: | New York Cosmos |
| Season: | 1975 |
| Manager: |  Gordon Bradley[1] |
| Stadium: | Downing Stadium |
| League: | NASL |
| League Result: | Division: 3rd Overall: 12th Playoffs: Did not qualify |
| Cup1: | National Challenge Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Did not enter |
| League Topscorer: | Joey Fink (6 goals) Mordechai Spiegler (6 goals) |
| Season Topscorer: | N/A |
| Highest Attendance: | 22,500 vs. TOR (June 18) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 5,227 vs. CON (June 4) |
| Average Attendance: | 10,450[2] |
| American: | true |
| Prevseason: | 1974 |
| Nextseason: | 1976 |
The 1975 New York Cosmos season was the fifth season for the New York Cosmos in the now-defunct North American Soccer League. In the Cosmos' fifth year of existence the club finished 3rd in the five-team Northern Division and 12th out of 20 in the overall league table. Despite Pelé joining the club midseason in what English writer Gavin Newsham said was "the transfer coup of the century,"[3] bringing unprecedented attention to soccer in the United States, the Cosmos missed the playoffs for the second straight year.
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| Date | Opponent | Venue | Result | Attendance | Scorers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1, 1975 | Miami Toros | N | 1-0 | N/A | N/A |
| March 3, 1975 | Victory Club | A | 0-1 | N/A | N/A |
Pld = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points
6 points for a win, 1 point for a shootout win, 0 points for a loss, 1 point for each goal scored (up to three per game).
| width=30 | Pos | Club | width=30 | Pld | width=30 | W | width=30 | L | width=30 | GF | width=30 | GA | width=30 | GD | width=30 | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left | Boston Minutemen | 22 | 13 | 9 | 41 | 29 | +12 | 116 | |||||||
| 2 | align=left | Toronto Metros-Croatia | 22 | 13 | 9 | 39 | 28 | +11 | 114 | |||||||
| 3 | align=left | New York Cosmos | 22 | 10 | 12 | 39 | 38 | +1 | 91 | |||||||
| 4 | align=left | Rochester Lancers | 22 | 6 | 16 | 29 | 49 | -20 | 64 | |||||||
| 5 | align=left | Hartford Bicentennials | 22 | 6 | 16 | 27 | 51 | -24 | 61 | |||||||
| width=30 | Pos | Club | width=30 | Pld | width=30 | W | width=30 | L | width=30 | GF | width=30 | GA | width=30 | GD | width=30 | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | align=left | Chicago Sting | 22 | 12 | 10 | 39 | 33 | +6 | 106 | |||||||
| 11 | align=left | Vancouver Whitecaps | 22 | 11 | 11 | 38 | 28 | +10 | 99 | |||||||
| 12 | align=left | New York Cosmos | 22 | 10 | 12 | 39 | 38 | +1 | 91 | |||||||
| 13 | align=left | Philadelphia Atoms | 22 | 10 | 12 | 33 | 42 | -9 | 90 | |||||||
| 14 | align=left | Baltimore Comets | 22 | 9 | 13 | 34 | 52 | -18 | 87 | |||||||
| Date | Opponent | Venue | Result | Attendance | Scorers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 30, 1975 | Miami Toros | H | 2–3 | 9,328 | Liveric, Correa | |
| May 3, 1975 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | A | 1–0 | 8,378 | ||
| May 7, 1975 | Baltimore Comets | H | 5–1 | 7,016 | Fink (3), Liveric, Correa | |
| May 14, 1975 | Connecticut Bicentennials | H | 1–1 (SOL) | 6,103 | Fink | |
| May 19, 1975 | Toronto Metros-Croatia | A | 1–2 | 4,796 | Dillon, Liveric | |
| May 28, 1975 | Vancouver Whitecaps | H | 0–1 | 7,331 | ||
| June 4, 1975 | Connecticut Bicentennials | H | 2–1 | 5,227 | Paredas, Liveric | |
| June 7, 1975 | Rochester Lancers | A | 3–2 | 4,959 | Spiegler (2) | |
| June 10, 1975 | Philadelphia Atoms | A | 1–0 | 20,124 | ||
| June 18, 1975 | Toronto Metros-Croatia | H | 2–0 | 22,500 | Correa, Spiegler | |
| June 27, 1975 | Rochester Lancers | A | 0–3 | 14,562 | Siega, Pelé, Fink | |
| June 29, 1975 | Washington Diplomats | A | 2–09 | 35,620 | Spiegler (2), Paredas, Pelé (2), Kerr, Fink, Mahy, Maria | |
| July 3, 1975 | Los Angeles Aztecs | A | 5–1 | 12,176 | Spiegler | |
| July 5, 1975 | Seattle Sounders | A | 2–0 | 17,925 | ||
| July 9, 1975 | Boston Minutemen | H | 3–1 | 18,126 | De La Fuente, Correa, Kerr | |
| July 16, 1975 | Portland Timbers | H | 1–2 | 13,423 | Pelé | |
| July 19, 1975 | Toronto Metros-Croatia | A | 3–0 | 21,573 | ||
| July 23, 1975 | San Jose Earthquakes | H | 1–1 (SOW) | 11,137 | Pelé | |
| July 30, 1975 | Rochester Lancers | H | 2–0 | 8,217 | Ord (2) | |
| August 1, 1975 | Connecticut Bicentennials | A | 3–1 | 8,546 | Liveric | |
| August 3, 1975 | Boston Minutemen | A | 5–0 | 4,445 | ||
| August 6, 1975 | Boston Minutemen | H | 1–0 | 6,541 | Paredas |
| Date | Opponent | Venue | Result | Scorers | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 3 | A | 1–0 | 24,000 | ||||
| Apr 1 | A | 1–0 | 11,000 | ||||
| May 22 | H | 1–1 | n/a | [7] | |||
| June 15 | H | 2–2 | 22,278 | ||||
| July 7 | A | 2–1 | 26,495 | ||||
| July 27 | A | 2–3 | 26,127 | ||||
| August 10 | A | 1–2 | 10,180 | ||||
| August 27 | San Jose Earthquakes | A | 2–3 | 19,338 | |||
| August 31 | A | 1–5 | 21,000 | ||||
| September 2 |  Swedish All-Stars | A | 3–1 | 20,448 | |||
| September 4 | Stockholm Alliansen | A | 2–3 | 55,000 | |||
| September 11 | A | 4–2 | |||||
| September 13 | A | 1–3 | 49,700 | ||||
| September 17 | A | 2–1 | |||||
| September 19 | A | 1–2 | |||||
| September 21 | A | 0–1 | |||||
| September 26 | A | 12–1 | |||||
| September 28 | A | 0–0 | 30,000 | ||||
| September 30 | A | n/a | n/a | ||||
| October 2 | Windsor Stars | A | n/a | n/a |