City 'Til We Die
Detroit City FCA fan-made history. Every number sourced.

City'Til We Die

Five friends from a rec league. A condemned stadium a president once opened. A crowd that paid to fix it, then bought a piece of the club. Now a 15,000-seat home is going up on the site of a dead hospital in Southwest Detroit.

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By Tom Lucido · October 2026 · Not affiliated with the club. Just a fan who went looking for the receipts.

Photo: Milfodd, CC BY 4.0
01
Where we are

One more season in Hamtramck

I saw my first Detroit City match in 2022. I was visiting. I'd been to a lot of games in a lot of stadiums. I had never seen a crowd like this.

Smoke after every goal. A thousand people who knew every word. Nobody sat. A 1936 stadium in a city two miles square, wedged inside Detroit, where the sausage shops are Polish and the city council is Yemeni and Bangladeshi. Nobody seemed to find any of that unusual.

I went home and started reading. This page is what I found. Every number links to where it came from. Where sources disagree, I say so. Fans built this club. I figured they'd want the receipts.

Here's where things stand the week I'm writing this. October 19, 2026.

Keyworth Stadium at dusk, four light towers over a full grandstand
Keyworth Stadium, Hamtramck, May 2023. Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0
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5
Straight playoff seasons
Clinched Sept 30, 3-1 at Brooklyn. Five USL years, five postseasons.
Every year since joining the USL Championship in 2022, Le Rouge has made the playoffs.WXYZ, Sept 30, 2026
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50
Points, 2nd in the East
A 1-0 win over Rhode Island on Oct 10 locked up a home playoff game. One match left, at Louisville.
Darren Smith's 14th goal of the year did it. Keeper Carlos Herrera leads the league in clean sheets.Yahoo Sports, Oct 10, 2026
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Oct 30
Home playoff match
First round. 8 p.m. Keyworth. Opponent to be decided.
The club announced the first-round home date after the Rhode Island result.WXYZ, Oct 2026
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2028
AlumniFi Field opens
Groundbreaking was July 15. The opening slipped a year. So 2027 is the last season at Keyworth.
In March, Axios called 2026 "the final Keyworth season." In June the club moved the opening to spring 2028. The goodbye got a reprieve.Fox 2, June 16, 2026

The 2026 record works out to 14-7-8 from the match reports. No single page states it. Check after Louisville. Clinch: WXYZ Oct 17 loss at Tampa Bay: DCFC

02
How they got here

Five guys, a rec league, a high school field

It started as a pickup league. And a bet: that Detroit, at its lowest, would show up for something of its own.

Detroit skyline seen across the river from Belle Isle
Detroit from Belle Isle. Photo: TheWxResearcher, CC0
2010

The rec league came first

Sean Mann was a lobbyist. In 2010 he started the Detroit City Futbol League. Co-ed. Neighborhood teams. In his words, "very, very recreational."Howler via Metro Times The club's own history says the seed "was planted in 2010, on the soccer pitch at Belle Isle."DCFC

Each team represented a historic Detroit neighborhood.Model D By 2019: 36 neighborhoods, more than 1,000 players.Urban Pitch It still runs.

A giant maroon and gold flag over the supporters section in 2013
The stands, June 2013. Photo: John C. Mozena, CC BY-SA 4.0
2011

A work trip and some beers

On a 2011 trip to Chattanooga, Mann met an owner of Chattanooga FC. The guy handed over his marketing plan and his budget. Back home, Mann had drinks with a college friend and three players from a rival team. "We decided it would be pretty stupid to try," he said later. "But it was doable."Howler, 2015

The five had first met as opponents in a 2010 league match: Mann, Alex Wright, Todd Kropp, David Dwaihy and Ben Steffans.Metro Times, 2019 Four still run the club. Steffans sold his share in 2018.Crain's

The football field at Cass Technical High School
Cass Tech's field, 2010. Photo: Mike Russell, CC BY-SA 3.0
2012

A $5,000 fee and a tryout for 200

January 2012. The partners paid the NPSL's $5,000 fee. Two hundred players came to the open tryout.Howler That year Forbes had Detroit as the most dangerous city in America. Mann's word for the mood: "optimism during a time of significant, wider pessimism and uncertainty."Metro Times

The name was a dig. "We called it Detroit City because there was talk of a Detroit MLS team playing 40 miles from the city."Mann, Metro Times The color is rouge, not red. The French who founded the city. The River Rouge. The Ford Rouge plant. The crest is the Spirit of Detroit with a fleur-de-lis.Urban Pitch Hence Le Rouge.

Smoke rises over the Cass Tech stands as supporters celebrate a goal
A goal at Cass Tech, June 2013. Photo: BPesqueira, CC BY-SA 3.0
May 12, 2012

First match

11vs AFC Cleveland, Cass Tech

Stefan St. Louis scored the club's first goal.DCFC Fan historians put the crowd at 1,072.fan history Before home games that first year, Mann mowed the field himself.These Football Times

In 2013 they went 11-0-1. Best regular season in a 57-team league.Deadline Detroit The Free Press called the matches "raucous affairs with an air of iconoclastic revelry for the hipster set." Which, fine.

Supporters hold up red cards in a tribute to referee John Bieniewicz
July 2014. Red cards in the 44th minute for John Bieniewicz, a local referee killed on the job. Photo: John DeBoer, CC BY-SA 4.0
2014 to 2015

Turning people away

By 2014 the average crowd was 2,878. Some nights, 300 to 400 people got turned away at the gate.Crain's By 2015 they were drawing "more than 3,500" to a field built for about 2,500.Detroit News

In June 2014 they wore Pride jerseys in a league match and auctioned them for the Ruth Ellis Center. The club believes that was a first for an American team.Model D Co-owner Alex Wright, on the field: "We need a bigger field and more amenities to our fans."Detroit News Mann: "We've kind of outgrown where we're at now."

How fast did the crowd outgrow a high school field?

Average attendance per season at Cass Tech. The gold line is the roughly 2,500 the field held. 2012, 2013 and 2015 from a fan-kept log (Boys in Rouge). 2014 and capacity from Crain's; the Detroit News said 3,500. By year four they were over the line by a thousand people a night.

03
The crowd

The Northern Guard

The crowd I saw was built on purpose. By about ten friends. Starting in the club's first month.

Brothers Ken and Gene Butcher and a designer named Drew Gentry founded the Northern Guard Supporters in 2012. They started "bringing drums, flags and smoke bombs to matches."NGS A few dozen came to the first home game. The ethos, borrowed from South American terraces: make it, don't buy it.Howler

No membership rolls. No dues. So nobody knows how many of them there are.NGS Their site states the rules in one sentence: "We vehemently reject racism, sexism, homophobia and anything else that makes anyone feel unwelcome in our stands." Then: "the only two things we hate are hate and Oh*o."

The logo is a skull. It answers the insult that Detroit is a dead city.Urban Pitch

"As long as you can stand the smoke and stand the swearing, and just stand for 90 minutes, you fit right in."

Drew Gentry, co-founder, to the AP, 2016 source

1

The march

Meet at a bar an hour before kickoff. Walk half a mile to the stadium, "flags waving and megaphones blaring." Kids wave from porches.SI Smoke under the bridge, "marking their territory."WDET

2

The smoke

Run by the "NGS Grenadiers smoke team."NGS The club's own guide promises "periods of smoke (following DCFC goals)."DCFC In the empty-stadium pandemic season, a robot named SmokeyTheBot set it off.Fox 2

3

The songs

"No One Likes Us." "Dirty Old Town," scarves up. "Build a Bonfire." In the 20th and 70th minutes, "Tetris": arms around whoever is next to you.NGS songbook The printed songbook is called Hell's Hymnal.Axios

4

The tifo

Painted at the Russell Industrial Complex. A 40-foot coach Ben Pirmann as Caesar, 2015. "The Club of the People," 200 feet long, for the first Keyworth match. A 2018 hoist that "flew away." "Anarchy in the USL," 2023.NGS

"The fans, they never, ever, shut up."U.S. Soccer, 2022
Keyworth "pulses with sound and smoke." A banner reads CLUB > LEAGUE.Sports Illustrated, 2021
"It's more than being a fan, it's an identity."Alex Wright, co-owner Michigan Public

Money where the noise is

The 2020 season got cancelled. Most of the Guard refused refunds. Wright: "I would challenge any fan base in America to have that attitude about their team."WXYZ

Prideraiser, a pledge-per-goal fundraiser, started in 2017 between Detroit and Chattanooga supporters.Howler NGS says it has raised over $250,000 for the Ruth Ellis Center, which serves LGBTQ+ youth.NGS NGS Cares hands out clothing and hygiene supplies at Cass Park twice a month.NGS

The Comic Sans letter

2017. Dan Gilbert and Tom Gores were bidding for an MLS team. Supporters wrote Gilbert an open letter, set in Comic Sans to mock his famous letter about LeBron: "Those hoping to usurp DCFC with a plastic, passionless, MLS club will take nothing from this fight."Metro Times

Detroit lost that bid to Nashville and Cincinnati.WXYZ One sober fact belongs here. In 2019 Metro Times described the fan base as overwhelmingly white in a majority-Black city. An NGS officer agreed there was "a distrust of race."Metro Times The new neighborhood changes that math. More below.

Background photo: Keyworth, August 2017. Brian Hastie, CC BY-SA 4.0

04
The pocket

A New Deal stadium in a city inside a city

The pocket I remember is Hamtramck. The stadium is older than almost anyone who sits in it.

Storefronts along Joseph Campau Avenue in Hamtramck
Jos. Campau Avenue, Hamtramck. Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0
2.1 sq mi

Hamtramck

Two square miles. Entirely surrounded by Detroit.NPR Between 1910 and 1920 the population went from 3,589 to 46,615. Polish immigrants, building cars at Dodge Main.Fox 2 The 2020 census: 28,433 people. Just over 40% born outside the U.S. Just over 71% speaking something other than English at home.

In 2015 it was likely the first American city to elect a Muslim-majority council.CS Monitor In 2021, an all-Muslim council and a first non-Polish mayor, Amer Ghalib, born in Yemen.Michigan Advance The club calls it "the most diverse and dense city in the state."DCFC

Franklin Roosevelt speaking at a podium before a crowd in 1936
FDR on the 1936 campaign trail (Philadelphia, June 1936). Photo: FDR Presidential Library, public domain.
Oct 15, 1936

A president opens a high school stadium

Keyworth was built by the New Deal. Hamtramck Public Schools owns it.Crain's Franklin Roosevelt dedicated it himself, three weeks before his re-election. "My friends, if this stadium can be called boondoggling, then I am for boondoggling, and so are you."American Presidency Project

He also said: "This stadium is one of the things that will last for many years." Remember that line. Twenty-four years later, John F. Kennedy stood on the same spot and called Hamtramck "the strongest Democratic city in the United States."American Presidency Project The name is Maurice Keyworth's, the school superintendent.Wayne County GenWeb

Panorama of the old Keyworth grandstand during the 2016 renovation
Supporters restoring the bleachers, April 2016. Photo: Novak1sm, CC BY-SA 4.0
2015

Condemned

By 2015, "the bleachers on one side have been condemned." The turf was "in tatters."Detroit News The school district had the second-highest poverty rate in Michigan. Next City called the place "derelict."Next City

Mann first noticed its light towers from his barber's porch. Mid-haircut.Urban Pitch In September 2015 the school board approved a lease. Up to 25 events a year.DCFC Ten years. One dollar a year.Crain's Then the club asked its fans to lend it the money to fix the place.

Detroit City players in a huddle with a flag and smoke behind them
Pre-match huddle, May 2014. Photo: John DeBoer, CC BY-SA 4.0
May 20, 2016

7,410 in a 6,000-seat stadium

11vs AFC Ann Arbor, Keyworth opener

A stadium that seated about 6,000. A crowd of 7,410.DCFC Crain's "The type of crowd that fourth tier soccer has never seen in the United States," one writer said.Last Word on Sports

Fans had installed and painted the bleachers themselves.SI Hamtramck residents told Metro Times: "This changes everything."Metro Times

The fans paid to fix it

Michigan's largest community-financed project, by its own count

$741,250
pledged by 527 Michigan residents in 109 days. A state law let locals lend small sums to local businesses.DCFC, Feb 2016
499
investors still in after attrition, lending $725,500. A revenue-share loan, "not a donation."Next City
13%+
internal rate of return when the club paid everyone back. February 2020. Two years early.Detroit News

Mann's pitch, in full: "This is your club."Next City The club called it "the largest community-financed project in Michigan history."Michigan Public I can't find anyone who has checked that claim. I also can't find anyone who has beaten it.

The world came to Hamtramck

A fourth-division amateur club hosted first-division sides from Italy and Mexico

DateVisitorFromResultCrowd
May 28, 2016FC United of ManchesterEngland3-36,245 FC United
July 18, 2017VeneziaItalyWon 2-05,418 Detroit News
May 19, 2018FC St. PauliGermanyLost 6-27,264, sold out St. Pauli
July 31, 2018FrosinoneItaly, Serie ALost 10-07,887, club record Crain's
Sept 7, 2019AtlasMexico, Liga MXWon 2-17,478 Detroit News

The record crowd came to watch them lose 10-0. That's the whole story in one line.

Friction with the host city

June 2023. Hamtramck's council banned Pride flags on city property. The club called it "inexcusable" and noted the ban stopped at the stadium gate. The Guard kept flying the flags on the march.CBS Detroit

When the new stadium was announced, Mayor Ghalib said: "it's going to be a loss for the community. They're welcome in Hamtramck anytime."ClickOnDetroit Mann, plainly: "We've always been renters there; it's not really a home for us."Planet Detroit

Winning, finally

Capacity went to 7,325 in 2017.WXYZ A foundation grant replaced the turf.DCFC Shipping containers became suites.DCFC In 2017 they won the NPSL Midwest on a stoppage-time goal,DCFC then lost a national semifinal on penalties in front of 7,533.WXYZ In 2019 they won the first NPSL Members Cup.WXYZ Then they turned pro.

05
Going pro, fan-owned

Four trophies, then the jump

Seven years. Amateur to a five-time playoff team in the second division. On the way, they sold a slice of the club to the crowd.

August 15, 2019: the club announced it would join NISA, a new third-division league.ClickOnDetroit U.S. Soccer signed off in December. Mann called it "Detroit's first professional soccer team in nearly 40 years."WXYZ Then the pandemic cancelled the first pro spring.NISA

That July the club put 10% of itself up for sale to fans. Minimum $125.WXYZ More than 2,000 people put in over a million dollars in five days. The lead investor was Iggy Pop.ClickOnDetroit The round closed near $1.5 million from about 2,700 fans.Crain's

Mann: "It's their sweat equity that defines this club."SI

Kick-off at Keyworth Stadium, 2023
Kick-off, Keyworth, May 2023. Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0
Oct 2, 2020

NISA Fall Championship

Beat Oakland Roots 2-1 at Keyworth.WXYZ

Apr 25, 2021

NISA Legends Cup

Beat Chattanooga FC 3-0.WDEF

July 3, 2021

NISA Championship

Beat LA Force 1-0 before more than 7,200.Fox 2

Oct 30, 2021

NISA Fall 2021 title

"Le Rouge's fourth consecutive trophy in the league."DCFC

Ten days after the fourth trophy, they left. "It's clear that the time is right for Detroit City FC to move forward by joining the USL Championship," Mann said.ClickOnDetroit NISA questioned the club's "sporting integrity" in public before the two sides agreed terms.Fox 2 Five seasons later, the move looks like this:

SeasonCoachFinishPlayoffs
2022Trevor James14-8-12, 7th seedLost 3-1 at Memphis in extra timeWXYZ
2023Trevor James8th seedBeat No. 1 Pittsburgh 1-0 on the road,USL then lost 4-0 at LouisvilleLouCity
2024Danny Dichio15-8-11, 3rd in the East, best everFirst home playoff game in club history. Lost to Tampa Bay on penaltiesUSL
2025Danny Dichio8th seedBeat No. 1 Louisville 1-0, "the biggest upset in USL Championship Playoffs history."USL Then lost to Pittsburgh on penaltiesRiverhounds
2026Danny Dichio2nd in the East, one match leftFirst-round home match, Oct 30WXYZ

Giant-killing

21vs Columbus Crew (MLS), Open Cup, April 19, 2022

The club's first match against an MLS team. Maxi Rodriguez scored twice.WXYZ A Guard capo called it "probably the biggest win in terms of clout and stature that the club has ever had."Axios

May 2024: they went to Houston and knocked out the Dynamo. 3-3, then an eleven-round shootout. The Round of 16, for the first time.WXYZ

The academy pays off

The academy launched in October 2022.DCFC In June 2023 Dominic Gasso became the first kid to come through it and sign a pro deal.DCFC Four months later he scored the only goal in the playoff upset at Pittsburgh.OurSports Central

The women's side

Announced in 2019.WXYZ In the USL W League since 2022.DCFC In 2024 they went 10-2-0 and won the Central Conference, the team's first trophy.WXYZ The club was named W League Organization of the Year.USL W Division champions again in 2025.USL W

Detroit City FC wins first-ever matchup with an MLS teamWDIV Local 4, April 2022, on YouTube
Extended highlights: 8 seed Detroit knocks off 1 seed LouisvilleDetroit City FC, Nov 1, 2025, on YouTube
Did going pro change the crowd, or did the crowd come first?

Average home attendance by season. Gold bars: first Keyworth year, first USL year. The crowd hit about 6,000 in 2017, three years before the club was professional, and has sat there since. 2012 to 2019: fan-kept log (Boys in Rouge; 2014 cross-checked with Crain's). 2020 and 2021: no fans, then limits. 2022 and 2023: Soccer Stadium Digest. 2024 and 2025: Wikipedia season tables, unconfirmed elsewhere. Hover a bar for its source.

06
Where they're going

AlumniFi Field, spring 2028

15,000 seats. Real grass. On the site of a dead hospital at Michigan Avenue and 20th Street, between Corktown and Mexicantown.HOK Barton Malow

The site has its own long story

A railyard from the 1880s.EGLE Then Southwest Detroit Hospital: four neighborhood hospitals merged into one building in the early 1970s. Bankrupt by 1991. Reopened as United Community Hospital in 1997. Shut for good in 2006.ClickOnDetroit

The club says it was a Black-owned hospital that "hired and accredited African American doctors and nurses." The design includes a permanent installation honoring it.AlumniFi Field I haven't found an independent source for that history yet. The club should be the one to tell it.

Mayor Mike Duggan, at the demolition: "For decades, this vacant hospital has been the first thing people coming across the Ambassador Bridge" saw.City of Detroit

"We built this as our forever home."

Sean Mann, CEO and co-founder Planet Detroit

Introducing the forever home of Detroit soccer: AlumniFi FieldDetroit City FC, Aug 2025, 40 seconds, on YouTube
How it came together
  1. March 2024
    The club buys the hospital site. $6.5 million.Crain's
  2. May 16, 2024
    Stadium announced. Target: 2027.CBS Detroit
  3. Sept 2024
    About 17 acres assembled for more than $15 million, "just adjacent to Michigan Central Station."Crain's
  4. May 13, 2025
    City Council approves up to $5.9 million for demolition.BridgeDetroit
  5. July 7, 2025
    HOK picked as architect.DCFC
  6. Aug 11, 2025
    The name: AlumniFi Field, after a division of MSU Federal Credit Union. Unveiled at the Mercado in Mexicantown.DCFC
  7. Oct 23, 2025
    The neighborhood advisory council approves a benefits deal, 6-3.BridgeDetroit
  8. Nov 25, 2025
    City Council approves the whole plan. Unanimous.CBS Detroit
  9. Dec 2025
    Demolition begins.USL
  10. June 16, 2026
    Opening pushed to 2028. "Being realistic about when we can deliver the venue."WXYZ
  11. July 15, 2026
    Groundbreaking, with Mayor Mary Sheffield. "This property sat vacant for far too long."Stadium Business
  12. Oct 8, 2026
    The state awards a $1 million brownfield grant for soil cleanup.EGLE
Who pays

"Privately financed" and "public money" are both true

The club calls it "Detroit's only privately owned and financed professional sports stadium."DCFC The stadium itself, about $153 million, is. The wider project is about $198 million. For that, the club asked for $88 million in public incentives, mostly a 30-year brownfield tax capture.Crain's

Private
Public incentives
About $110M private, including $50M raised from investorsAbout $88M in incentives over 30 years. 44% of the total

Detroiters for Tax Justice called it "misleading to brag about the stadium being privately financed."Crain's SEC filings describe the club as "currently a money-losing operation."Crain's In July, Jay Farner, who used to run Rocket, made "the largest single investment in the club's history" and joined the board.DCFC

What the neighborhood got

A $1.2 million community fund over 12 years. A $200,000 loan fund. $17 an hour minimum on site. 3,000 free tickets a year for residents. A $100,000 youth mini-pitch. $50,000 for art. No facial recognition.BridgeDetroit The club refused a $1 ticket surcharge for home repairs.BridgeDetroit

Not everyone is sold. Resident Cindy Gamboa: "the human impact of gentrification on our neighborhood, was never addressed." Omar Hernandez of Mexicantown Bakery: "People here have always been soccer fanatics." Same breath, a worry about who gets pushed out.CBS Detroit One fan-owner's ask for the new place: "God created this game to be played on real grass."WDET He's getting it.

Watch
Detroit City FC officially breaks ground on AlumniFi FieldDetroit City FC, July 2026, on YouTube
Where We Stand: On Dreams. A stadium-series filmDetroit City FC, July 2026, 13 min, on YouTube
How Detroit City FC built a soccer club from the ground upVICE TV, June 2026, on YouTube
"This is Detroit." The best atmosphere in American soccerDetroit City FC, Jan 2025, 30 seconds, on YouTube
Sights and sounds from the sold-out Keyworth openerMLive, May 20, 2016, on YouTube
Detroit City vs. Chicago Fire, 2026 U.S. Open Cup highlightsU.S. Soccer, April 2026, on YouTube

The league's new top division, USL Premier, is slated for 2028. Same year the stadium opens. Detroit is listed among clubs building new stadiums, but hasn't said it's going.Fox Sports Mann in 2019, on promotion and relegation: "I do believe that's the right approach to the game, being in an open system."Urban Pitch

Background photo: Southwest Detroit Hospital, 2013. Sean Marshall, CC BY 2.0

07
The same job, three addresses

Fourteen years, a few miles

They named it Detroit City because someone else wanted Detroit's team forty miles away. The fans rebuilt a 1936 stadium with their own loans. Then they bought ten percent of the club. Now the permanent home is going up inside the city, on a lot Detroit spent thirty years looking at as blight.

Roosevelt said Keyworth was "one of the things that will last for many years." It lasted long enough for a club that didn't exist yet to save it, fill it, and outgrow it.

Cass Tech. Hamtramck. Southwest Detroit. Three neighborhoods, a few miles apart. Fourteen years to end up where the name always said.

2027 is the last season in Hamtramck. If you've never been, go.

Detroit River Windsor, Ont. Hamtramck Belle Isle, where the rec league played Downtown Cass Tech2012 to 2015. A high school field. Keyworth Stadium2016 to 2027. Built 1936, fixed by fans. AlumniFi FieldSpring 2028. 15,000 seats, real grass. Ambassador Bridge Schematic. Positions roughly to scale. Hover a home.
Detroit City FC, 2012 to forever

Three homes. One job. Be Detroit's team.

Detroit City FC Northern Guard Supporters AlumniFi Field

Photo: Ambassador Bridge, 2025. Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0

Receipts

Sources, conflicts and credits

Every linked claim goes to a page that was opened and read. Where sources disagree, the table says which number I used and why. The Detroit Free Press and MLive block automated reading, so nothing here rests on them alone.

Where the sources disagree
ClaimWhat the sources sayUsed here
Keyworth crowdfund$741,250 from 527 at close (DCFC, 2016) vs. $725,500 from 499 after attrition (Detroit News, 2020)Both, labeled
2020 fan ownership roundOver $1M in five days; final about $1.5M from about 2,700 (Crain's, 2025)$1.5M, 2,700, 10%
Keyworth capacity6,000 (2016), 7,325 (2017), 7,933 (2020), 7,231 (2022 listing), about 8,000 (2026)Year-specific figures
First-match crowd, 20121,072 from fan historians only; U-M News says "more than a thousand"1,072, labeled as fan source
Fifth founder's nameSteffans (Crain's, Model D, Urban Pitch) vs. Steffan (Howler, Metro Times)Steffans
"First WPA project in Michigan"SI and Fox 2 say first; the Detroit News says "one of the first"Left the superlative out
Stadium costStadium $150M or $153M; whole project $185M to $200M$153M and $198M, per Crain's filing coverage
2018 average attendance5,274 competitive matches (Boys in Rouge) vs. 5,946 over 13 home dates including friendlies (Crain's)5,274, competitive only, to match the series
Pope John Paul II at KeyworthClaimed in SI (2021); his 1987 Detroit Mass was at the SilverdomeLeft out
"Most diverse city in America"Only "in Michigan" is sourced"In the state"
Club, primary and official sources
Reporting and features
Photo credits