Detroit City Football Club

Detroit City FC finally went pro, and now it has nowhere to go. The National Independent Soccer Association on Monday announced the cancellation of its men's spring season because of the coronavirus pandemic. This decision affects all of DCFC's matches that were scheduled through mid-June.

Trevor James has seen a lot in his footballing life. In the 1980s, he played for the LA Lazers, a short-lived indoor soccer cousin to the famed LA Lakers, attracting a similarly glitzy Hollywood crowd to the city's Forum arena.

Detroit City Football Club fans will be able to watch Le Rouge on le tube this season.The popular soccer team signed its first television deal ahead of its debut season as a professional sports team, according to a Tuesday news release.The one-year deal applies to men's and women's games. DCFC is...

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Detroit City FC announced Saturday night it is adding a women's soccer team for the 2020 season. The club will play in United Women's Soccer, beginning next spring, with home matches at Keyworth Stadium in Hamtramck.

Detroit goalie Nate Steinwascher (Photo: Daniel Mears, Detroit News) Yazeed Matthews poached his first goal for Detroit City FC and it was perhaps the biggest one in club history. The former AFC Ann Arbor player's strike in the 58th minute lifted DCFC to an improbable 2-1 victory over Liga MX Club Atlas in an international friendly Saturday before a 7,478 spectators at Keyworth Stadium.

In 2012, Detroit City FC (a.k.a. DCFC, City, Le Rouge) started as an experiment in amateur soccer. Since then, it's continually grown in fan support, game day experience, and connection to the community. 2020 is a year of firsts: the men's side will play its inaugural year as a professional club and a women's side will make its debut.

HAMTRAMCK, Michigan - With two boys in maroon soccer jerseys in the back seat of her SUV, Maria Martínez navigates slippery, pot-holed streets past the chain-link fencing of a General Motors assembly plant slated for closure, multi-lingual awnings of Yemeni restaurants and Polish bakeries, a green-and-white brick neighborhood mosque and the neon signs of a hipster bar.

The former City Sports Center is now home to the Detroit City Fieldhouse, complete with new fields and a club house. Leagues started earlier this month, and a grand opening is scheduled for October 27.

Detroit City FC played Frosinone Calcio, representing Italy's Serie A, one of the world's top soccer leagues. The fourth-tier Le Rouge paid dearly, receiving a 10-0 shellacking from the recently promoted side in a friendly Tuesday before a record crowd of 7,887 at Keyworth Stadium.

How does a semi-pro soccer club in Hamtramck land home matches with a first-tier Mexican team and with Germany's legendary second-division punk rock team? The answer for Detroit City FC is a combination of reasons: The foreign teams are seeking to bolster their brands among U.S.

Detroit has become a battleground for the soul of American soccer. With a wildly successful 4th division team enjoying grassroots success and an investment g...

Hamtramck - Detroit City FC's tune-up for the NPSL playoffs turned into a nervy 2-0 victory over Venezia FC in an international soccer friendly Tuesday before 5,418 spectators at Keyworth Stadium. Roddy Green and Elijah Rice supplied the goals for DCFC, which opens the postseason Saturday at home against Dakota Fusion FC.

The legend of the Detroit Cougars, woven into the fabric of Glentoran and Irish League folklore, will forever be retold but never replicated. et, in their own way, the Glens' rookie class of 2017 will be able to look back on their 50th-anniversary celebration of the Cougars' 1967 exploits in Motor City as a one in a lifetime experience.

On a muggy, overcast day in May, Drew Gentry, otherwise known as Sergeant Scary, climbed on top of a Honda CRV in a parking lot, both hands clad in skeleton gloves, clutching a black megaphone that he didn't really need.

Detroit City FC was started by five friends, and the semi-pro team in the struggling city has been accepted with passion by the community. More FIFA Football...

And the owners of the club did not have to look far for inspiration to renovate the stadium - not only to house their increasingly popular team after outgrowing their current facility but, more importantly, for posterity's sake. FDR's speech said it all.

CLOSE Before the pitch about their new pitch, about 400 fans of Detroit City FC gathered, many drinking beer, and some broke into a chant. "This is awe-some!" they chanted, starting to clap. "This is awe-some!" Sean Mann, co-owner of the soccer team, grabbed a microphone. "From the bottom of our hearts, thank you!"

Eventually, the people of Detroit became tired of the unfulfilled promises to bring a professional soccer team back to their city. First, there was the campaign of MLS Detroit, who, in 2004, believed that finding funding for such a team was "only a matter of time." That never materialized.

Soccer flowers in Detroit By Adam Doster | Photographs by Jon Deboer / DCFC Here at Harry's, a two-story brick sports bar on the south end of Detroit's historic Cass Corridor, members of the United States' unlikeliest soccer fan group have spent the last hour inhaling burgers and beer while watching the World Cup round-of-16 match ...

Twenty-one summers ago, a patch of grass was placed in a hulking stadium in suburban Detroit. And from that patch of grass, something amazing would flourish. It was 1994 and the Pontiac Silverdome needed real sod to become the first indoor venue to host the World Cup.

Smoke fills the air but it is not nearly as intoxicating or inescapable as the screams echoing from inside it. It's a stifling hot day in Detroit and there is nothing anyone can do to stop raging masses of people from losing control.