FC Kansas City players’ rights will be assigned to Real Salt Lake’s new National Women’s Soccer League team, the league announced Monday.
The NWSL has re-acquired FC Kansas City’s membership interest in the league, and the club has ceased operations. The announcement comes four days after RSL announced that it is launching an NWSL team for the 2018 season.
While the Salt Lake side is technically a new club, it also will be assigned Kansas City’s 2018 draft picks, positions the discovery and waiver tiebreakers, and distribution ranking order. The RSL-owed-and-operated team also will receive the No.