12/21/2025
to a visit to the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Texas. Sir Thomas Dewar (the same of the Dewars Whiskey fame across the world) sponsored the famous Dewar Cup that was originally meant for the American Amateur Football Association Cup. Yonkers Football Club won the last ever edition of AAFA Cup before they officially were admitted as a member of FIFA in 1913, and the AAFA Cup was superseded by the National Challenge Cup, now known as the . All the winners of the Open Cup have been engraved on the cup, but not the winners of the AAFA Cup. We are asking to retroactively admit Brooklyn Celtic and Yonkers FC to the winners list of this famous cup. Yonkers did not win a national cup in US Soccer again until 1987 when Yonkers Polonia won the separately formed National Amateur Cup. Lansdowne Bhoys / Yonkers are the 2 most recent winners of the Amateur Cup in 2017 and 2021, making Yonkers one of the winningest cities outside of NYC and Milwaukee in Amateur Soccer in America.