PHILADELPHIA — The 76ers’ president of basketball operations Daryl Morey has joined a group of investors led by Sixers part-owner David Blizter that is bringing the National Women’s Soccer League back to Salt Lake City.
The NWSL made it official on Saturday that the Utah Royals are returning to the league in 2024, four years after the franchise played its last game under previous owner Dell Loy Hansen.
As was the case in the Hansen era, the Royals will come under the same corporate umbrella as Major League Soccer’s Real Salt Lake. MLS forced Hansen to sell his soccer holding company — which included the Royals, RSL, the Real Monarchs reserve team, and a big youth academy setup — in late 2020 after it and the NWSL investigated allegations of racism and other misconduct.
