About Drita SC (formerly Detroit Besa)
- Area served:
- Metro Detroit
Drita SC is a men's Albanian-American soccer club based in Rochester Hills, Michigan, playing its home matches at the field of St. Paul Albanian Catholic Church at 525 W. Auburn Road. The club describes itself as a collective of young soccer players from across Metro Detroit — former collegiate, club, and recreational players brought together as friends and family to represent the area's soccer community.
On the field, Drita competes in the United Premier Soccer League's Midwest East division at the Premier tier, and has also fielded sides in the Michigan Premier Soccer League and APSL across recent seasons. Its Instagram identifies it plainly as a Michigan men's UPSL and APSL team, and UPSL fixture pages list the club under Rochester Hills, MI.
Beyond league play, the club hosts the Drita Cup, an Albanian soccer tournament held on Memorial Day weekend at the St. Paul Albanian Catholic Church grounds. Community event listings describe Drita SC as the Metro Detroit Albanian men's club that calls this field home and organizes the day around a game so many Albanian families grew up on.
That dual role — a competitive men's side in regional adult leagues and the organizer of a community Albanian tournament on church grounds — is what places Drita SC in the Albanian-American sports landscape of southeast Michigan. A separately listed youth program once operated at the same Auburn Road address under the name Drita Soccer Club but is now marked permanently closed on Facebook.
Researched by NAR from public sources: albanianregistry.org · premier.upsl.com · premier.upsl.com · dritasoccer.com · rhs.rochester.k12.mi.us · facebook.com
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