The 2026 Detroit City FC season is the club's eighth professional season since the club was established in 2012, and the team's fifth season in the USL Championship.
Kits
Home Away Pridefor Ruth Ellis Center Charityfor Capuchin Soup Kitchen
Roster As of September 10, 2026
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/notesDateSource32FW Lexington SC Undisclosed 3DF Indy Eleven 15FW FC Tulsa 19DF Rhode Island FC 21MF Rhode Island FC Undisclosed 33DF Real Salt Lake 4DF Cavalry FC 26FW Al-Jandal SC 18FW Birmingham Legion FC 17FW North Carolina FC 16GK 23FW Indy Eleven Loan 19FW FC Cincinnati 2 Loan
Out No.Pos.PlayerTransferred toFee/notesDateSource
Competitions
Preseason and friendlies Detroit City announced their preseason schedule on January 28, 2026.
USL Championship
Eastern Conference
Matches On December 16, 2025, the USL Championship released the schedule for all 25 teams for both the regular season and the Prinx Tires USL Cup.
Playoffs
Prinx Tires USL Cup
Detroit City was placed into group 4 for the group stage, the only group with seven teams, alongside USL Championship sides Indy Eleven, Lexington and Louisville City, and USL League 1 sides Fort Wayne, Forward Madison, and Union Omaha. They were eliminated on the final day of the group stage despite a 2–1 win against Fort Wayne.
Table
Matches
U.S. Open Cup
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 13 0 1 1 15 2 MF 21 Maxi Rodriguez 3 0 0 1 4 3 FW 32 Ates Diouf 2 0 0 1 3 MF 22 Kobe Hernandez-Foster 3 0 0 0 3 5 FW 15 Alex Dalou 0 0 0 2 2 FW 26 Chisom Egbuchulam 2 0 0 0 2 MF 17 Rafael Mentzingen 1 0 1 0 2 DF 4 Callum Montgomery 1 0 1 0 2 FW 18 Preston Tabortetaka 0 0 0 2 2 10 MF 8 Abdoulaye Diop 1 0 0 0 1 DF 20 Rio Hope-Gund 1 0 0 0 1 FW 9 Ben Morris 1 0 0 0 1 FW 11 Connor Rutz 1 0 0 0 1 DF 33 Tommy Silva 1 0 0 0 1 FW 23 Kian Williams 1 0 0 0 1 MF 14 Haruki Yamazaki 0 0 1 0 1
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