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Rochester New York FC, formerly known as the Rochester Raging Rhinos and later the Rochester Rhinos, was an American soccer team based in Rochester, New York, United States. In 2023, the club withdrew from the professional level in MLS Next Pro .
Rochester New York FC (RNY), formerly known as Rochester Raging Rhinos and Rochester Rhinos, is an American professional soccer club based in Rochester, New York that has been on hiatus since the end of the 2017 season, but will return to play in 2022 in MLS Next Pro, one of three leagues that form the third division in the United States.
But all is back to normal in Rochester after the Rockets punched their ticket for a ninth time for the final football weekend with a 42-14 win over Murphysboro in the Class 4A semifinals on Saturday.
The stadium then became known as Rochester Rhinos Stadium. In mid-2009, the team had a raffle to determine the naming rights for the stadium. For each $1,000 an individual, group, company, or other entity paid to the Rhinos, they were given one chance to win the right to name the stadium.
The NFL flexed this Week 11 "Sunday Night Football" into prime-time to replace the New York Jets' face-off with the Indianapolis Colts, which will now occur during the 1 p.m. ET slate.
The 2022 Rochester New York FC season was the club's 23rd overall and first in MLS Next Pro. It was the first year since 2017 the club has played, and their first season under the Rochester New York FC name, after spending the first 22 seasons branded as the Rochester Raging Rhinos and Rochester Rhinos. [ 2 ]
Monroe and East/WOI hope to extend their football seasons further than any RCSD team has gone before with wins in the NYS semifinals.
In 2017, the long-time professional soccer team in Rochester, the USL's Rochester Rhinos, announced that they were going on hiatus as of the 2018 season.The departure of the Rhinos left Rochester without a professional soccer team for the first time since 1995 and left the team's stadium, Rochester Community Sports Complex Stadium, without a tenant in 2019.