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.
Final 2025 roster
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.
On December 19, 2024, the USL Championship released the schedule for all 24 teams for both the regular season and the USL Jägermeister Cup.
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.
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 3âÂÂ0 win against Westchester.
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.
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