The 2025 Detroit City FC season was the club's seventh professional season since the club was established in 2012, and the team's fourth season in the USL Championship.
Kits
Home Away Third Pridefor Ruth Ellis Center Charityfor Michigan Immigrant Rights Center
Roster Final 2025 roster
Coaching staff Technical staff
Transfers
For transfers in, dates listed are when Detroit City FC officially signed the players to the roster. Transactions where only the rights to the players are acquired are not listed. For transfers out, dates listed are when Detroit City FC officially removed the players from its roster, not when they signed with another club. If a player later signed with another club, his new club will be noted, but the date listed here remains the one when he was officially removed from the Detroit City FC roster.
In No.Pos.PlayerTransferred fromFee/notesDateSource4DF Sacramento Republic FC 33DF Monterey Bay FC Undisclosed fee 21GK Monterey Bay FC 45MF Valour FC 7FW FC Inter Turku 14MF Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC 6MF Hartford Athletic Undisclosed fee 32FW Lexington SC Loan 99FW Minnesota United FC Loan 16GK Michigan Stars FC 22MF Las Vegas Lights FC Undisclosed fee 33DF Philadelphia Union Loan
Out No.Pos.PlayerTransferred toFee/notesDateSource33DF Oakland Roots SC Undisclosed fee
Competitions
Preseason and friendlies
USL Championship
Eastern Conference
Matches On December 19, 2024, the USL Championship released the schedule for all 24 teams for both the regular season and the USL Jägermeister Cup.
Playoffs
Detroit City clinched their fourth consecutive trip to the USL Championship playoffs on the final day of the regular season, keeping their perfect playoff streak since joining the league alive. In the first round, they equalled their 2023 feat of eliminating the supporter's shield winner after narrowly making the playoffs as the number 8 seed.
USL Jägermeister Cup
Detroit City was placed into group 4 for the group stage, alongside Hartford Athletic, Pittsburgh Riverhounds, Portland Hearts of Pine, Rhode Island FC and Westchester SC. They were eliminated on the final day of the group stage despite a 3–0 win against Westchester.
Table
Matches
U.S. Open Cup
As one of the top four teams in the USL Championship Eastern Conference in the 2024 season, Detroit City entered the tournament in the third round as a guaranteed host. They were eliminated in the round of 32 by Chicago Fire of MLS.
Statistics
! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Goalkeepers
! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Defenders
! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Midfielders
! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Forwards
Top scorers RankPositionNumberNameTotal 1 FW 7 Darren Smith 10 0 2 1 13 2 FW 32 Ates Diouf 6 0 1 0 7 3 FW 10 Jeciel Cedeño 4 0 0 1 5 4 DF 13 Matt Sheldon 0 0 3 0 3 5 DF 3 Alex Villanueva 2 0 0 0 2 FW 9 Ben Morris 2 0 0 0 2 FW 11 Connor Rutz 2 0 0 0 2 DF 30 Devon Amoo-Mensah 0 1 1 0 2 MF 12 Michael Bryant 2 0 0 0 2 10 DF 33 Isaiah LeFlore 1 0 0 0 1 MF 6 Jay Chapman 1 0 0 0 1 MF 22 Kobe Hernández-Foster 1 0 0 0 1 DF 33 Morey Doner 0 0 0 1 1 FW 23 Sebastián Guenzatti 0 0 1 0 1
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