New York City FC vs Charlotte Prediction and Betting Tips | November 1st 2025

New York City FC will host Charlotte at the Yankee Stadium on Saturday in game two of the 2025 Major League Soccer playoffs. The hosts will be keen to complete the job they started in game one of the series.

NY City were quite solid when they visited Charlotte during the week as they held on to Alonso Martinez’s first-half goal to come away with a 1-0 win in the series opener. Pascal Jansen put together a tidy regular season, finishing in fifth place in the East but will now shift their focus to postseason football as they hope to at least match last season’s success of getting as far as the Conference semis.

Charlotte finished a place above this weekend’s hosts in the regular season and finished in seventh place on the combined league table and will be disappointed to have lost at home in game one. The visitors have never made it past this stage of the playoffs and will be focused on turning the series on its head going into the remaining two games to advance to the Conference semifinals.

New York City FC vs Charlotte Head-to-Head and Key Numbers

• The sides have met on nine previous occasions going into the weekend. NYCFC have won three of those meetings, one ended in a draw while Charlotte have won the remaining five.
• The hosts have scored nine goals across the last eight meetings with Charlotte but have conceded 12 goals across those games.
• No team in Major League Soccer played out fewer draws than Charlotte (2) during the regular season.
• Only three teams in the Eastern Conference conceded fewer goals in the regular season than New York’s 44 after 34 games played.

New York City FC vs Charlotte Prediction

The Pigeons are favorites to get the win thanks to their home advantage and slightly better defensive quality but will need to be at their best to avoid any surprises.

The Crown will be hoping their fine away form can perhaps help them take game two to penalties, even with the odds stacked against them. Their inability to make the most of home advantage in game one could however, prove costly on Saturday.

Prediction: New York City FC 1-0 Charlotte

New York City FC vs Charlotte Betting Tips

Tip 1 - Result: NYCFC to win

Tip 2 - Goals - Over/under 2.5 - Under 2.5 goals (Four of the visitors' last five matches have featured less than 2.5 goals)

Tip 3 - Both teams to score: No (Both sides have found the back of the net in just one of their last five matchups)

Edited by Peter P