USL Championship · USA · Round 1

Birmingham Legion FC
1 - 2 Full time
Detroit City FC

Protective Stadium · Birmingham, Alabama

Lineups

Birmingham Legion FC4-2-3-1
JK1Koleilat
ST21↓69'Tregarthen
PK3Kavita
BW27Washington
NB77Brown
SA18Antwi
SS10↓70'Shashoua
TP15⚽Pasher
PV16↓69'Vassell
GD19↓86'Diarbian
RD9↓86'Damus
CH1Herrera
HY14↓90'Yamazaki
DA30Amoo-Mensah
RH20⚽Hope-Gund
TS33↓70'Silva
KH22Hernández-Foster
AS3Stanley
AD8↓81'Diop
RM17↓46'Mentzingen
AD32Diouf
DS7↓70'Smith
Detroit City FC4-1-4-1

Birmingham Legion FC substitutes

11 Dawson McCartney 6.2 ↑69'
7 Sebastián Saucedo 6.3 ↑69'
6 Samuel McIllhatton 6.4 ↑70'
17 Romario Williams ↑86'
81 Serge Ngoma ↑86'
12 Trevor McMullen
8 Kadeem Cole

Coach: Jay Heaps

Detroit City FC substitutes

9 Ben Morris 7.2 ⚽↑46'
21 Maxi Rodriguez 6.4 ↑70'
15 Alexander Dalou 6.4 ↑70'
6 Ryan Williams ↑81'
4 Callum Montgomery ↑90'
91 Carlos Saldaña
11 Connor Rutz

Coach: Daniele Dichio

Match events

2'Rio Hope-Gund assist: Kobe Hernández-Foster 0 - 1⚽
24'Tyler Pasher (penalty) 1 - 1⚽
31'Tommy Silva
37'Seth Antwi
45+6'Kobe Hernández-Foster
Second half
46'↑ Ben Morris ↓ Rafael Mentzingen⇄
52'Sebastian Tregarthen
69'↑ Sebastián Saucedo ↓ Peter-Lee Vassell⇄
69'↑ Dawson McCartney ↓ Sebastian Tregarthen⇄
70'↑ Samuel McIllhatton ↓ Samuel Shashoua⇄
70'↑ Alexander Dalou ↓ Tommy Silva⇄
70'↑ Maxi Rodriguez ↓ Darren Smith⇄
81'↑ Ryan Williams ↓ Abdoulaye Diop⇄
84'Nico Brown
86'↑ Romario Williams ↓ Ronaldo Damus⇄
86'↑ Serge Ngoma ↓ Gevork Diarbian⇄
88'Aedan Stanley
90+2'Ben Morris 1 - 2⚽
90+3'↑ Callum Montgomery ↓ Haruki Yamazaki⇄
90+9'Sebastián Saucedo

Where to watch

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Match details

CompetitionUSL Championship
Kick-off (UTC)Friday, 3 July 2026, 00:00 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

1Birmingham Legion FC wins2Draws5Detroit City FC wins

8 past meetings on record. Biggest Birmingham Legion FC win: Detroit City FC 1–0 Birmingham Legion FC (2023). Biggest Detroit City FC win: Birmingham Legion FC 0–1 Detroit City FC (2024).

18 May 2025Birmingham Legion FC 1 - 1 Detroit City FCUSL Championship
22 Mar 2025Detroit City FC 2 - 2 Birmingham Legion FCUSL Championship
17 Aug 2024Birmingham Legion FC 0 - 1 Detroit City FCUSL Championship
26 Jun 2024Detroit City FC 1 - 2 Birmingham Legion FCUSL Championship
27 Aug 2023Birmingham Legion FC 2 - 3 Detroit City FCUSL Championship
27 May 2023Detroit City FC 1 - 0 Birmingham Legion FCUSL Championship
18 Aug 2022Birmingham Legion FC 1 - 2 Detroit City FCUSL Championship
15 Apr 2022Detroit City FC 1 - 0 Birmingham Legion FCUSL Championship