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The Utah Royals will return to the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League as a 2024 enlargement membership owned by the identical group that owns Main League Soccer’s Actual Salt Lake.
The NWSL and the MLS workforce house owners introduced the transfer on Saturday, restoring a workforce that went a mixed 19-17 with 12 drawn over the 2018 and 2019 seasons earlier than ceasing operations after the 2020 Problem Cup.
“After we acquired Actual Salt Lake final 12 months, we stated it was a matter of when, not if, the NWSL would return to Utah,” Actual Salt Lake proprietor David Blitzer stated.
“This has at all times been an integral a part of our mission. With immediately’s announcement, we’re thrilled to satisfy the promise we made to our unbelievable fan base.
“We’re grateful for the chance to make use of our sources and platform to take girls’s soccer to the subsequent degree.”
Blitzer’s different sports activities holdings embody stakes in English Premier League facet Crystal Palace, Bundesliga facet Augsburg, Belgian and Portuguese golf equipment, the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers and the NHL’s New Jersey Devils.
Additionally among the many Royals possession group is Ryan Smith, proprietor of the NBA’s Utah Jazz.
Michelle Hyncik, Actual Salt Lake’s common counsel for the previous three years, will function the Royals president.
The workforce, which is able to share a house stadium with Actual Salt Lake, turns into the US girls’s league’s thirteenth membership with speak of extra enlargement earlier than subsequent 12 months’s season kicks off.
“We’re delighted to welcome Utah Royals FC and its devoted fan base again into the league,” NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman stated. “The return of the ladies’s sport to Utah, the place soccer roots run deep, is a victory for gamers and followers alike.”
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