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In 2018, the Real Monarchs began playing home matches at Zions Bank Stadium, a 5,000-seat soccer-specific stadium in Herriman. The stadium is adjacent to the training facilities and academy for Real Salt Lake. the Real Monarchs played their first three seasons at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, the 20,000-seat home of Real Salt Lake.
Professional Referee Organization (PRO) is the organization responsible for managing the referee and assistant referee program in professional soccer leagues in the United States and Canada, working alongside the United States Soccer Federation, Major League Soccer, the Canadian Soccer Association, the United Soccer League, the National Women's Soccer League, and the U.S. Open Cup.
Prior to 2016 the kick-off was required to be in a forwards direction. Typically one player would tap the ball forwards, immediately followed by a teammate passing the ball backwards to the rest of the team. As a result of the International Football Conference of December 1882, it was decided that the kick-off had to be kicked forwards.
The 2025 Real Salt Lake season is planned to be the team's 21st season in Major League Soccer, the top division of the American soccer pyramid. The team also plans to compete in both the 2025 Leagues Cup and the 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup , based on standings from the 2024 season .
Nancy Lay-McCormick (née Lay; born April 27, 1962) is a St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame inductee (2016) [9] and the first woman, along with Sandra Hunt, to referee in the MLS in 1998. [1] She was an ambidextrous soccer star who played forward at the University of Central Florida from 1981 to 1982. She was a leading goal scorer and an All-American.
Mark William Geiger (born August 25, 1974) is an American sports administrator and former soccer referee.He is the senior director of match officials at the Professional Referee Organization (PRO), which oversees domestic referees in Major League Soccer (MLS).
Organized youth soccer affiliated with Major League Soccer began with various MLS academy teams playing in the Super Y-League at its foundation in 1999. In 2007, the United States Soccer Federation created an elite academy league called the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, which featured academy teams of MLS teams, along with several non-MLS academies across the United States and Canada.
The 2024 MLS referee lockout was a labor dispute between the Professional Referee Organization (PRO), the organization responsible for assigning and managing referees and other match officials for Major League Soccer, and match officials represented by the Professional Soccer Referees Association (PSRA), a labor union for professional match officials in Canada and the United States.