Real Salt Lake’s NWSL side will begin play in April 2018, according to a press release issued by the club and the league today.
“(It’s) a red letter day, very similar to when Real Salt Lake came to Utah,” RSL owner Dell Loy Hansen said in a press conference announcing the team.
The deal came together in a short timeframe, Hansen said during the press conference.
“This deal came together very quickly,” Hansen said. “We always says Rome wasn’t built in a day, but you can’t blame us, we weren’t the contractors.”
From an RSL press release:
"Our goal is build the very best women's sports organization in America," said Hansen, weeks before the club opens the $73 million Zions Bank Real Academy in Herriman, Utah, just 15 minutes southwest of Rio Tinto Stadium.