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The Utah Royals (formerly Utah Royals FC) are an American women's professional soccer club based in Salt Lake City. Established on November 16, 2017, as an expansion club, the Royals played its first stint in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) from 2018 to 2020.
In December 2020, the NWSL announced that the Royals would cease operations and their player-related assets transferred to the expansion Kansas City NWSL team, now known as the Kansas City Current. Real Salt Lake owners David Blitzer and Ryan Smith reestablished the Royals in 2023, with play to resume in 2024.
History
Establishment
On November 16, 2017, Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer announced that it had acquired a franchise in the National Women's Soccer League. On November 20, 2017, the league announced that FC Kansas City of the National Women's Soccer League would fold their club, and the team's player contracts, draft picks, and other rights would be transferred to the new Salt Lake City club. As of August 2017[update], Utah's six NCAA Division I women's soccer teams outnumbered the men's, a seventh women's soccer school moved from Division II to Division I in 2020, and the state has the highest rate of girls' high school soccer players recruited by Division I colleges. Attendance at Division I women's soccer games in Utah is among the highest in the NCAA. The decision to bring a NWSL team to Utah was based on the established interest in men's soccer in the state as well as Dell Loy Hansen's gut feeling and longtime interest in a team.
The new Salt Lake City team announced its hiring of former Seattle Reign FC coach Laura Harvey as its inaugural head coach on November 27, 2017.
Inaugural season
Gunnhildur Yrsa Jónsdóttir scored the first goal in franchise history on March 24, 2018 in the third minute of the club's inaugural match against Orlando Pride in Orlando. 18,500 tickets were sold ahead of their first home match (with only club seats and standing-only tickets remaining). Official attendance the day of the match, in which they played the Chicago Red Stars, was reported as 19,023.
Utah Royals FCs farger er kongeblå, gull og hvit. Lagets logo består av en løve på toppen av en fotballsko. Løven er et symbol på styrke og stolthet, mens fotballskoen representerer lagets lidenskap for spillet.
I løpet av sin korte historie har Utah Royals FC oppnådd betydelig suksess. De har vunnet NWSL Shield én gang, i 2019, og har kvalifisert seg til sluttspillet to ganger. Laget har også representert USA i International Champions Cup, hvor de har konkurrert mot noen av de beste kvinnefotballagene i verden.
Nåværende hovedtrener for Utah Royals FC er Craig Harrington. Han har tidligere trent Chicago Red Stars i NWSL. Harrington er kjent for sin offensive tilnærming til fotball, og han har hjulpet Utah Royals FC til å bli et av de mest spennende lagene å se på i ligaen.
Noen av de mest kjente spillerne som har spilt for Utah Royals FC inkluderer Abby Dahlkemper, Amy Rodriguez og Christen Press. Dahlkemper er en forsvarsspiller som har spilt for det amerikanske landslaget. Rodriguez er en spiss som har scoret over 100 mål i NWSL. Press er en vingspiller som har spilt for både det amerikanske og det kanadiske landslaget.
Utah Royals FC er et ambisiøst lag med et lyst fremtidsperspektiv. De har en talentfull gruppe spillere og en erfaren trener, og de håper å fortsette å oppnå suksess i årene som kommer.