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Wikipedia - Utah Royals
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.
유타 로열즈는 2018년에 창단되었으며, NWSL에서 4번의 정규시즌 우승, 2번의 챔피언스십 우승을 차지했다. 팀의 주요 선수로는 미국 대표팀 선수인 알렉스 모건, 켈리 오하라, 로즈 라벨 등이 있다.
유타 로열즈는 미국에서 가장 인기 있는 여자 축구팀 중 하나이며, 많은 팬들의 지지를 받고 있다. 팀은 홈경기에서 매번 만원을 기록하며, 전국 각지에서 많은 팬들이 찾아온다.
유타 로열즈는 NWSL에서 가장 강력한 팀 중 하나로 평가받고 있다. 팀은 뛰어난 공격력과 수비력을 바탕으로 많은 경기에서 승리를 거두고 있다. 유타 로열즈는 앞으로도 NWSL에서 많은 성공을 거둘 것으로 기대된다.