Sunday night, Detroit City FC unveiled their 2025 kits at their big annual owner’s meeting on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit. After releasing their “rouge” kit ahead of last night, the Club also debuted their white kit featuring a large emerald stripe down the middle with what looked to be an alternate crest on the left chest of the kit. The club also unveiled two keeper kits, which seemed to be a nod to the old-school Pistons teal days, as well as the Detroit Lions with the light blue and silver color palette.

As usual, the kits were polarizing, especially when it came to the alternate color on the light kit, as well as the traditional crest only being featured on the rouge kit this upcoming season.

But speaking of being polarizing, here are the best and worst kits in the history of Detroit City FC…

The Best Kits

The 2021 Rouge Kits

These are some of the most simplistic kits you’ll ever see, and that’s not a bad thing in this case. Everything is done right with this kit — the darker rouge color, the three gold stripes on the shoulders, and the traditional crest on the chest. Detroit City FC certainly left NISA with a bang when they were wearing these on match days.

The 2022 White Kit

This is essentially the counterpart to the 2021 rouge kit and like that kit, the Club pretty much nailed every detail with this one as well. Furthermore, and perhaps one underrated aspect of this kit was the multicolor piping on the collar and sleeves. It was pretty flawless.

2019 White Kits

You’re probably noticing a theme here. If you’re going with Adidas as your kit manufacturer, you better feature the three stripes in some sense which is exactly what the Club did here with what I think are pretty iconic City kits to go along with an iconic 2019 season.

2018 Blue Chevron

If you ever want to know how to do a chevron right, this is how you do it. I love the blue as well. One of my only issues with this kit is the darkest rouge shade on the chevron doesn’t match the rouge in the crest and the Lyft logo.

2024 Pride Kit

I almost didn’t put this kit on this list for one big reason: the crest doesn’t appear anywhere on the front of the kit. And I get it, the white portion of the Trans flag would’ve clashed with a white crest, but there are still ways to keep all of the elements of the trans flag while not having it clash with the crest. Either way, this is still a really good pride kit. I just wish the men’s and women’s teams were able to wear it more.

2019 Black Stroh’s Kit

I like black kits and jerseys across sports; however, sometimes, I think they can be a little overhyped. That wasn’t the case with these classic Detroit City FC Stroh’s kits. The front sponsor was perfect, and the gold popped.

The 2025 Kits

I’ll probably get shit for this, but I think the Club nailed every single kit style for this season. First, the Club paid homage to the Lions and the Pistons with the keeper kits this upcoming season. The Lions kits featured the old circus/Wild West font to go along with the light blue and silver color palette. The other keeper kit features teal, maroon, yellow, and black, a nod to the 90’s era Pistons, as we also see a return of the controversial Detroit City FC wordmark from last year’s rouge kits. And although the white kits this year don’t feature the crest, the Spirit of Detroit crest serves as a beautiful alternative to go along with the large emerald stripe and gold shoulder stripes which can only be a shout-out to Wayne State and their partnership with the Club.

Finally, the rouge kits this year are, without a doubt, the best kits the club has ever featured. Like the 2021 rouge kits, these hit all of the benchmarks when it comes to the perfect kit for Detroit City FC. I only hope they wear the white shorts more than the rouge ones.

Quick Shout Outs

2021 Gold Kit

I used to not like this kit, but it has kind of grown on me over the years. There are some things they could’ve done better (add some rouge so there isn’t as much clashing with the gold), and you can’t go wrong with how much success the men’s side had in this kit.

2024 Indoor Kits

The red and darker rouge worked out well with these kits. It’s a shame the Club never put them up for sale.

2020 Pin Stripe Kit

This is another one of those kits that I have warmed up to. I’m usually not a big fan of pinstripes, but these aren’t bad. Not to mention, too, they’re in some ways a lost kit when you consider they were mostly used during the pandemic and the bubble tournament at Keyworth.

The Worst Kits

The 2024 Chevron Kit

I view these kits like I view the new Star Wars trilogy, if I may nerd out for a second here. I wanted to like it. I even convinced myself that I liked it. However, as time went on, I slowly began to realize just how bad that new trilogy actually was. That’s 100 percent the case with these. I also have no problem with the navy blue, but no stripes, and instead of the traditional crest, we got that Detroit City FC wordmark that ended up falling off when you ran it a few times threw the wash.

City should’ve taken its own advice from 2018 on how to do a chevron kit properly with this one.

2015 White Kits

It’s crazy to think we used to wear white polos for matches.

2015 Rouge Kits

God, these were awful too. The white stripe across the center may have seemed like a good idea a the time given the Chevy sponsor, but overall it just looks rough.

2023 Pride Kit

I hate putting a pride kit on this list, however, in 2023 City unveiled a pride kit that looked like it was pieced together with scraps. Seriously, it looks like they had a vision then ran out of fabric on what they originally wanted to do then had to piece it together with whatever they could find from Jo Ann Fabrics… RIP.

The Volt Kit

These hurt to look at in more ways than one. They also look like something you’d get off of the 20 percent off rack at Kohl’s for back to school. I was also told they had white numbers on the back… Wow.

2023 White Kits

What really sucks about these white t-shirts the Club wore in 2023 is they beat a historically good Pittsburgh team on the road in the playoffs while wearing these, which means people will continue to look back on them in some nostalgic way. In reality, though, these are terrible, especially when you consider the potential these at one point had. Instead, City gave us a kit reminiscent of a homework assignment that you waited until the last minute to do, only for it to be wildly incomplete.