DETROIT – Detroit City FC announced on Friday the club had acquired defender Morey Doner from fellow USL Championship club Monterey Bay F.C. for an undisclosed transfer fee. Doner subsequently signed a two-year contract with Le Rouge that runs through the 2026 season. The transaction is pending league and federation approval.

Doner has spent the last three seasons with Monterey Bay, joining the club ahead of its inaugural season in 2022. In his three seasons at Cardinale Stadium, Doner started all 34 regular season matches in 2022, 2023, and 2024,and played all-but-63 of the available minutes since his arrival in the league.

As a fullback, Doner has made a name for himself as a box-to-box player, standing tall on defense while also getting involved in the attacking third of the pitch. In three seasons at Monterey Bay, Doner recorded four goals, 10 assists and 90 chances created while also recording 69 interceptions, 145 clearances, 556 recoveries and a duel success rate of 59.7 percent on 552 duels won.

Before joining the USL Championship, Doner spent three seasons between 2019 and 2021 in his native Canada, playing in the Canadian Premier League for HFX Wanderers FC, and York9. He appeared in the CPL on 52 occasions, 32 times for York9 and 20 for HFX Wanderers, playing nearly 5,000 minutes over his three seasons before making the jump to the USL Championship.