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The result was delete. Neither of the keep arguments are particularly persuasive. Smartyllama states that this is an academy of a major soccer club, but it's not clear how that make this notable. And ATrain asserts that there is online coverage, but doesn't cite any specific sources. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:14, 5 September 2016 (UTC) reply

New York City FC Academy

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Youth sports league which fails WP:GNG and WP:BRANCH, almost all youth leagues are non-notable, and "[a]s a general rule, the individual chapters of national and international organizations are usually not considered notable enough to warrant a separate article - unless they are substantially discussed by reliable independent sources that extend beyond the chapter's local area." SanAnMan ( talk) 15:26, 12 August 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 17:27, 16 August 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 17:27, 16 August 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 17:27, 16 August 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone 13:11, 22 August 2016 (UTC) reply

• Delete - no evidence of notability. Giant Snowman 18:58, 22 August 2016 (UTC) reply
• Redirect to New York City FC - info can be merged there.-- Pawnkingthree ( talk) 13:58, 23 August 2016 (UTC) reply
• Keep It's not a youth league or a local affiliate of a national organization. It's an academy of a major soccer club. As neither reason specified in nomination is actually true, I don't know what there is to discuss here. Smartyllama ( talk) 20:37, 26 August 2016 (UTC) reply

• Delete - per nom Spiderone 12:11, 3 September 2016 (UTC) reply
• Keep. The nominator of this AfD (and several other like it) seems to have mistaken MLS professional development and reserve teams for "youth leagues" -- this and all of the other AfDs from this crop are fundamentally misinformed. Current references in the article are, unfortunately, all to 1st party sites but there's absolutely no shortage of coverage of the team and its players online. A Train ^talk 23:08, 4 September 2016 (UTC) reply

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