[4] It was then further reported in January 2020 that the investor involved in the New York group was rumored to be Laurence Girard, the CEO of medtech company Fruit Street Health.

[3] On July 1, 2020, it was announced that New Amsterdam FC would be participating in the NISA Independent Cup, a pre-season tournament created by the league in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to replace the canceled 2020 Spring Season.

[9] In the lead-up to the NISA Independent Cup, NAFC held its practices at soccer fields in Battery Park City, near the apartment of owner Girard.

[13] Former US international and Major League Soccer player Eric Wynalda was announced as the first coach in team history on July 30.

NAFC finished the Independent Cup in last place in the Mid-Atlantic Region, with one point in three games (a record of zero wins, 1 draw, and two losses).

Owner Girard courted controversy by subbing himself in as goalkeeper in the second half of a tied game against the New York Cosmos on August 20.

With COVID restrictions lifting, the club was able to move to a new home at Hofstra University Soccer Stadium in Nassau County, just seven miles from the Queens border.

[20] Along the way, they set the league's season high for biggest home win with a 4–0 drubbing of San Diego 1904 FC on November 21.

In a mid-December email to the NISA board of governors, Girard threatened to pull his clubs from competition unless he was granted loans from the league.

[21] On January 25, 2022, the league issued a press release to announce that neither NAFC nor Chicago House would be playing in the U.S. Open Cup.

A soccer league should be providing grants or media revenue to clubs to help them launch — not criminally usurious loans.

[27] The away kit was all orange, with a sublimated graphic on the jersey referencing the Dutch national team shirts worn in Euro 1988.

[30] Bronx River Futbol Club, which began play in the United Premier Soccer League in 2020 as a partnership between Sporting Astoria and NAFC, was to change its name to New Amsterdam FC III beginning in the Spring 2021 season,[31][32] but retained its original name when New Amsterdam FC went on hiatus.