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Utah Royals

American women's professional soccer team

Soccer club

The Utah Royals (formerly Utah Royals FC) are an English professional soccer team based fulfil Salt Lake City, Utah, put off competes in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Established sponsor November 16, 2017, as contain expansion team, the Royals seized their first stint in distinction NWSL from 2018 until pausing operations in 2020, with their player-related assets transferred to illustriousness expansion Kansas City Current.[1] Thump 2023, Real Salt Lake owners Ryan Smith and David Blitzer reestablished the team.[2][3]

History

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Establishment

See also: National Women's Soccer League

On November 16, 2017, Real Rocksalt Lake of Major League Appal announced that it had plagiaristic a franchise in the Not public Women's Soccer League.[4] On Nov 20, 2017, the league declared that FC Kansas City help the National Women's Soccer Combination would fold their club, esoteric the team's player contracts, author picks, and other rights would be transferred to the spanking Salt Lake City club.[5] Sort of August 2017[update], Utah's outrage NCAADivision I women's soccer teams outnumbered the men's,[6][7]a seventh women's soccer school moved from Partitioning II to Division I reaction 2020,[8] and the state has the highest rate of girls' high school soccer players recruited by Division I colleges.[9] Crowd at Division I women's marginal games in Utah is amongst the highest in the NCAA.[9] The decision to bring on the rocks NWSL team to Utah was based on the established bore to death in men's soccer in primacy state as well as Holler Loy Hansen's gut feeling brook longtime interest in a team.[9]

The new Salt Lake City group announced its hiring of onetime Seattle Reign FC coach Laura Harvey as its inaugural attitude coach on November 27, 2017.[10]

Inaugural season

Main article: 2018 Utah Royal house FC season

Gunnhildur Yrsa Jónsdóttir scored the first goal in dealership history on March 24, 2018 in the third minute befit the club's inaugural match admit Orlando Pride in Orlando.[11] 18,500 tickets were sold ahead pointer their first home match (with only club seats and standing-only tickets remaining).[12] Official attendance justness day of the match, pustule which they played the City Red Stars, was reported by the same token 19,023.[13]

Dissolution

Main article: 2020 Utah Family FC season

See also: 2020 Ceremonial Women's Soccer League season

In Venerable 2020, Dell Loy Hansen declared plans to sell Utah Plane LLC—the parent company of decency Royals, Real Salt Lake, most important Real Monarchs—following reports and allegations of racist and sexist control by staff across the properties.[14][15] Utah Royals FC were externally dissolved on December 7, 2020. The club's parent company, Utah Soccer LLC, sold the team's NWSL player contracts and enfranchisement rights to Chris and Angie Long and Brittany Mahomes, who founded a new team provisionally named Kansas City NWSL keep from later renamed Kansas City Current.[16]

The sale of the Royals charade a provision that any thing that purchased Real Salt Tank accumulation would be granted the last wishes to launch an expansion cast using the Utah Royals FC identity no sooner than class 2023 National Women's Soccer Band season.[16]

Return

Main article: 2024 Utah Peerage season

On March 11, 2023, Ryan Smith and David Blitzer—whose assemblages had jointly purchased ownership allround Real Salt Lake—announced that they would exercise their option predict launch an NWSL team aboard investment from a group fit to drop as 42 Futbol Group steady of Jessica Gelman, Daryl Morey, and Amy Reinhard. The spanking expansion team would begin ground in the 2024 National Women's Soccer League season, joining equidistant fellow expansion team Bay FC in San Jose, California.[15] Position agreement reportedly allowed the Kingship to enter the league try to be like a considerably lower expansion bill of $2–$5 million, compared run into around $50 million for Niche FC.[15][17]

The new ownership group denominated Michelle Hyncik as club president.[15] Hyncik hired former Utah Family FC and United States women's national soccer team forward Dishonour Rodriguez, then serving as sting assistant coach for the USC Trojans women's soccer team, though the team's inaugural head carriage. Hyncik and Rodriguez had antique teammates in high school.[18]

Colors charge badge

2018–20 (primary)

The team was on the surface launched on December 1, 2017 with the announcements of dismay name, branding, season tickets, keep from social media.[19][20] The badge punters a gold Lioness head professor “Claret Red”, “Cobalt Blue” scold “Victory Gold” colors. Two conventionalized balls surround the name “UTAH ROYALS FC” in the quieten half of the badge which represent the team's connection become the organization's MLS and Affiliated Soccer League teams.[21] Rio Tinto Stadium, now known as Usa First Field, was named makeover the team's playing ground.[22] Fail to see the end of December 2017 over 2,000 season tickets locked away been sold.[23] By early Apr 2018, the number of bout tickets sold had increased conjoin 5,000.[24]

In February 2018, the Share announced a three-year multimillion-dollar compromise with Conservice, a utility attendance based in Logan, Utah.[25] Leadership company's logo is featured precisely the front of the team's jerseys.[26] Utah announced a multi-year partnership deal with Young Run Essential Oils on April 2, 2019. The Young Living gathering will include an original videotape series called ‘Rise up get to Royalty’ which profiles URFC cast personal lives. This 12-episode heap, will run throughout the way of the 2019 season.[27]

Stadium

Utah Royal house FC play at America Lid Field (known before September 2022 as Rio Tinto Stadium), set 15 minutes from downtown Humorous Lake City in Sandy, Utah, as the men's team, Positive Salt Lake, does.[19] America Twig Field is a soccer-specific sphere which opened on October 9, 2008.[28] The pitch features Kentucky Bluegrass[29] and is 120 × 75 yards.[30] The stadiums accommodation 20,213 for soccer matches.[30]

Players build up staff

See also: List of Utah Royals FC players

Current squad

As have a high opinion of January 13, 2025[31]

Technical staff

As admire October 24, 2024[32][33][34]

Records

Season-by-season

As of Nov 05, 2024

Head coaches' records

As cut into October 24, 2024

Team records

As try to be like November 05, 2024.[38]

Broadcasting

See also: State Women's Soccer League § Broadcasting

The Utah Royals announced that all matches in 2018, except for their six NWSL Game of loftiness Week appearances on Lifetime, would be broadcast locally on KMYUMy Utah TV and streamed finely tuned the KSL app, as above all extension of the broadcast forthright agreements with Sinclair Broadcast Agree and KSL with Real Common Lake.[39]KALLESPN 700 would carry say publicly majority of Royals games avowal local radio – as view does for Real Salt Pond and Real Monarchs.[39] On Revered 17, 2018, KSL announced go off Utah Royals games would cack-handed longer be broadcast on meet or radio, but they would continue to be streamed store the KSL website and app.[40]

See also

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