SANDY, UT (Monday, March 7, 2022) – With Real Salt Lake’s 18th Major League Soccer season now underway, the Club excitedly announces a great mix of new partners for the Club, joining long-standing blue-chip organizations that include WCF Insurance, Zions Bank, Rio Tinto, Ford, LifeVantage, America First Credit Union, Les Olson Company and General Distributing.
“Our corporate partners are the lifeblood of Real Salt Lake,” said Real Salt Lake President John Kimball. “These partners, and the people we work with inside these companies literally become part of our RSL Family. They are right there with us in the community engaging with the people of Utah and in the stands activating with our fans and supporting the team on the field. The impact these partners have is immeasurable, and amplifies throughout our entire organization.”
The Club has amassed an impressive list of partner companies, many that have been with Real Salt Lake since its inception in 2005. The companies represent consumer-facing and business-to-business focused brands that operate in numerous industries, servicing markets throughout Utah and the United States. The complete roster of partners includes: (Listed alphabetically)
Adidas
Alsco
Altabank
America First Credit Union
Atlas Disposal
Bacon
BODYARMOR
Bohemian
City Creek Center
Coca-Cola, Swire
Collins Roofing
Continental Tire
England Logistics
FORD
General Distributing – Anheuser-Busch
Great Clips
Industrial Supply
Interform
KeyBank
KUTV/KMYU/KJZZ
Les Olson Company
LifeVantage
Makers Line
Mountainland Supply
Reagan Outdoor
Rio Tinto
Sew Sweet Minky
Sherwin Williams
Siegfried & Jensen
Toro
Toyota
U of U Health
Utah Children’s Dental Network
WCF Insurance
ZAGG Brands
Zions Bank
Real Salt Lake continues to enlist new entities interested in partnering to engage with both the Real Salt Lake fanbase and the community at large. And, in an effort to offer unique interactions with our audiences, the Corporate Partnership team continues to identify new activations to provide genuine and authentic engagement opportunities. For more information about how to become an official partner with Real Salt Lake, contact RSL Vice President, Corporate Partnerships Brook Bingham at brook.bingham@rsl.com.
ABOUT REAL SALT LAKE
During the first week of January 2022, the RSL compendium of properties was acquired by global sports entrepreneur David Blitzer – who boasts interests in the Philadelphia 76ers (NBA), the New Jersey Devils (NHL), and six European soccer entities, including Crystal Palace (England), FC Augsburg (Germany), Estoril (Portugal), ADO Den Haag (Netherlands), Alcorcón (Spain) and Waasland-Beveren (Belgium). The new ownership group also includes Utah-based Smith Entertainment Group, which owns the Utah Jazz (NBA), led by Ryan Smith.
Real Salt Lake kicked off its 18th Major League Soccer season this Spring, its first full season under Head Coach Pablo Mastroeni, who led the Utah side for the final 100 days last year, advancing to the 2021 Audi MLS Cup Playoffs for the 11th time in the last 14 years.
The club's MLS Cup 2009 victory marked the state of Utah's only major professional championship in nearly 40 years, the title preceding an historic run to the 2010/11 CONCACAF Champions League Final. Buoyed by a passionate base boasting several thousand season ticket holders, RSL has enjoyed a prominent home-field advantage – posting a dominant 146-43-46 (Win-Loss-Draw) record across all competitions at home (2.07 points per game for a 0.781 win pct.) – since building its permanent Rio Tinto Stadium home in Sandy 13 years ago.
In 2015, the club expanded its development pyramid with the addition of Real Monarchs SLC, one of several MLS-operated clubs playing in the USL Championship, the United States' Division II setup. The Monarchs boast a pair of titles in its brief history, as the 2017 USL regular-season champions, later winning the USL Final in 2019. For the 2022 season and beyond, Real Monarchs will compete in the newly launched “MLS NEXT Pro” as part of a joint United States and Canada endeavor to complete the professional player pathway by connecting youth academies in MLS NEXT to first teams in Major League Soccer.
The entire RSL development pipeline, which includes the RSL Academy’s U-15 and U-17 teams, calls the expansive Zions Bank Training Center in Herriman, Utah their daily training home. With five world-class grass fields, two indoor turf fields, a residential dormitory, the STEM-based RSL Academy High School and the 5,000-seat Zions Bank Stadium located on a 42-acre campus, Utah’s sporting future is bright.
Added in 2020 was the elite RSL Academy basketball program, already earning accolades internationally for its vision, mission, and accomplishments.
The RSL Community Foundation was established in 2016, created with the goals of being active in the community year-round, utilizing the popularity and reach of RSL and the Monarchs in promoting health and wellness in children throughout the region, engaging supporters of soccer to raise funds and volunteer time for various local initiatives.
Early in 2021, the Claret-and-Cobalt unveiled “The RSL Way,” a document which publicly informs the Club’s core cultural values of Pride, Industry, Harmony, Community and Integrity, with the intention of stating the RSL’s founding principles and holding each employee accountable to both collective and individual missions.
