Buffalo, San Diego continue to top city list of major sports title droughts

This article was updated on Nov. 2, 2023.

Before the New York City Football Club won the MLS Cup in 2021, the Big Apple had gone a full decade without a major sports championship celebration. That was the longest dry spell in New York, which has eight major sports teams, in more than a century, since before the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919.

Many rival fans and even New Yorkers think the city is still searching for another major sports title. But the MLS Cup…