37-658: Real Monarchs is a professional soccer club playing in the MLS Next Pro , a third division league of American soccer . The team is an affiliate of the Major League Soccer (MLS) club Real Salt Lake . Real Monarchs are based in the Real Salt Lake training facility in Herriman, Utah , playing out of Zions Bank Stadium . As with Real Salt Lake, the club is owned by David Blitzer and Ryan Smith . In 2017, Real Monarchs won
74-467: A ' shamateur ' basis using side jobs, either real or fabricated, to facilitate payment. The FA espoused the ideal of amateurism promoted by the likes of Corinthian F.C. from whom the phrase "Corinthian Spirit" came into being. The differences between the amateur idealists from southern England and the increasingly professionalised teams from northern industrial towns came to a head in 1884. After Preston North End won an FA Cup match against Upton Park ,
111-687: A common occurrence among Lancashire clubs. In 1880, a dispute began between the FA and Bolton Wanderers (founded in 1874), who had unofficially offered professional terms to Scottish players. Scottish players who played in England professionally were known as the Scotch Professors . The subject remained a heated one through the 1880s, directly or indirectly involving many other clubs besides Bolton. Their neighbours, Blackburn Rovers (founded in 1875) and Darwen (founded in 1870) had also signed Scottish players on
148-617: A docuseries that will highlight the fan cultures of Major League Soccer's franchises). MLS Season Pass uses an in-house staff of commentary teams, with specific commentators expected to be assigned to matches on a regional basis to reduce travel, and provide familiarity to viewers. According to the Sports Business Journal , the service had surpassed one million subscribers in July 2023, including free subscriptions to T-Mobile customers and team season ticket members, critics attributed
185-521: A joint venture between IMG and NEP Group . All MLS matches aired by MLS Season Pass are produced in 1080p high definition with 5.1 surround sound , and utilize "enhanced data elements". Match commentary is available in English and Spanish , as well as French for matches involving Canadian teams ( CF Montréal , Toronto FC , Vancouver Whitecaps FC ). Local radio broadcasts are also available as an option. MLS Season Pass produces three studio shows;
222-699: A majority of their team being made up of Scottish players. In the first season, they went undefeated both in the league and the FA Cup , which led to them being known as " the Invincibles ". The Scottish Football League launched on an amateur basis in 1890 but the nation's most famous club and founders of both the passing and international game, Queen's Park , initially refused to participate as they predicted that professionalism would follow. This suspicion proved correct, with bans issued to clubs for making payments or playing against others who had, and clear indicators that
259-660: A rival British Football Association if the FA did not permit professionalism. 18 months later the FA relented, and in July 1885 professionalism was formally legalised in England. Though English clubs employed professionals, the Scottish Football Association continued to forbid the practice, withdrawing their clubs from the FA Cup in protest against the development, temporarily in 1885 then permanently in 1887. Consequently, many Scottish players migrated southward (although it also meant they were forbidden from playing for
296-495: Is a soccer streaming service operated by Apple Inc. which includes live matches from Major League Soccer . The package was launched in the 2023 Major League Soccer season as part of a new 10-year media rights agreement between MLS and Apple, under which it holds the global over-the-top streaming rights to the league. MLS Season Pass is a subscription-based service on Apple TV app , which carries live coverage of all MLS regular season and playoff matches, as well as coverage of
333-537: The Communist bloc , athletes were presented as amateurs, even if they were de facto professional. Football clubs were no exception, and they were mostly linked to trade unions or government offices, with players being written down as workers of those particular industries. With the collapse of the Soviet Union , clubs and players officially gained professional status. By 2023, the top 3 highest-paid football players in
370-513: The Leagues Cup , selected MLS Next and MLS Next Pro matches, studio programs, and other video content (including match replays and original programming). Under the new contracts, regionally-televised matches have been discontinued, hence all matches stream globally with no blackout restrictions. A selection of matches each week will be made available to stream for free without a subscription. A non-exclusive linear television package of matches
407-536: The Scotland national team ). At first the FA put residential restrictions in place to prevent this trend, but these were abandoned by 1889. In the inaugural season of the Football League (1888–89), champions Preston North End fielded ten Scottish professionals. One of the teams to benefit from the move of Scottish players to England was Sunderland , located close to the border. The club went professional in 1885, and
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#1733084963418444-460: The 20,000-seat home of Real Salt Lake. Last updated: March 11, 2021 Source: Real Monarchs 'Year-by-year' Starting in 2022, every Real Monarchs match is available via stream through MLS Next Pro on their website. In 2023, in conjunction with Major League Soccer , select matches are available via MLS Season Pass on the Apple TV app . The Wasatch Legion is the official Supporters Group for
481-488: The 2023 season would stream free-of-charge; during the opening weekend of the 2023 season, all matches streamed for free, while at least six matches per-week were scheduled during the first weeks of the season afterward. Later weeks had as few as two free matches. As it did for Amazon Prime Video 's Thursday Night Football in the NFL, DirecTV acquired rights to distribute MLS Season Pass for its commercial subscribers, ensuring
518-528: The Londoners protested, seeking the result to be overturned due to the presence of paid players in the Preston ranks. This sparked a series of events which threatened to split the FA. Preston withdrew from the competition, and fellow Lancashire clubs Burnley and Great Lever followed suit. The protest gathered momentum to the point where more than 30 clubs, predominantly from the north, announced that they would set up
555-636: The Monarchs. The group stands behind the North Goal at Zions Bank Stadium . Professional soccer Association football is the world's most popular sport and is worth US$ 600 billion worldwide. By the end of the 20th century it was played by over 250 million players in over 200 countries. Around the world, the sport is played at a professional level by professional footballers, and millions of people regularly go to football stadiums to follow their favourite football teams , while billions more watch
592-570: The SFA allowed ' Anglos ' to play for the national team, prompted by poor results in the British Home Championship . Queen's Park remained outside the league until 1900, and remained committed to the amateur principles even after entering into competition with professional clubs. They never claimed another major trophy, but remained an amateur club until January 2020. In the Soviet Union and
629-535: The USL Regular Season Championship, the equivalent in the second division of the Supporters Shield . In 2019, Real Monarchs won their first outright USL Championship , defeating two-time champions Louisville City FC 3–1 at Dr. Mark & Cindy Lynn Stadium , Louisville, Kentucky . The Monarchs are the second MLS reserve team, after New York Red Bulls II to win the second division title, and
666-539: The USL's regular season title with a 1–1 draw against Whitecaps FC 2. The 2018 Season finished with a first round playoff exit after Head Coach Mark Briggs was replaced by interim coach Jamison Olave. Prior to the 2019 season, Martin Vasquez was named head coach. Vasquez resigned from the head coaching position on July 1, 2019. Jamison Olave took over once again as interim coach. On July 13, 2019, Douglas Martinez Jr . recorded
703-467: The amateur ethos. In fact, the entire Sunderland lineup in the 1895 World Championship was made up of Scottish players. On 5 April 1890, the Football League 's founder, William McGregor , labelled Sunderland as "the team of all talents" stating that they had "a talented man in every position". Preston North End, the first English team to win the Championship and Cup " double " in 1889 , did so with
740-563: The club recruited a number of Scotsmen the same year, their first internationally capped players. Founder James Allan left Sunderland in 1888 because of his dislike for the "professionalism" that had been creeping into the club, and subsequently formed Sunderland Albion . The wealthy mine owner Samuel Tyzack funded the professional advancement of the club, often pretending to be a priest while scouting for players in Scotland, as Sunderland's recruitment policy enraged many Scottish fans who supported
777-606: The club's first ever hat trick in a 5-0 win over Tacoma Defiance at Zions Bank Stadium. On November 9, 2019, Monarchs won the 2019 Western Conference Championship and advanced to the USL Championship finals for the first time in club's history by defeating the El Paso Locomotive FC 2–1 in extra time. On November 17, Real Monarchs won their first USL Championship , defeating two-time champions Louisville City FC 3–1 at Dr. Mark and Cindy Lynn Stadium. The Monarchs were
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#1733084963418814-419: The exclusive carrier of all matches not otherwise sub-licensed to a linear broadcaster. It will also carry all Leagues Cup matches, and selected MLS Next and MLS Next Pro matches. As teams can no longer sell packages of matches for regional broadcasts, there are henceforth no blackouts of out-of-market matches. As of the 2023 season, all MLS telecasts will be produced in-house by the league as part of
851-518: The first to do so as USL Championship Western Conference champion. RSL Academy coach Freddy Juarez was named Head Coach on December 23, 2014. The Monarchs played the LA Galaxy II to a scoreless draw in their USL debut on March 22, 2015 in Carson, California . At the end of the 2016 season, Freddy Juarez was promoted to be an assistant coach for the Monarchs' parent team, Real Salt Lake and Mike Petke
888-626: The league's long-term associations with ESPN and Univision; ESPN had been one of Major League Soccer's main media partners since its inception. Univision will continue to televise select Leagues Cup matches, including exclusive linear coverage of the final. ESPN and Univision reportedly declined to renew their contracts due to objections to aspects of the Apple contract, as both companies also operate competing streaming platforms ( ESPN+ —which previously held out-of-market streaming rights—and Vix , respectively), and they would no longer hold exclusive rights to
925-529: The likes of newly-formed Celtic 's accumulation of some of the best talent in the country involved unofficial financial incentives. Faced with this, the Scottish FA lifted its ban on professionalism in 1893, whereupon 560 players were registered as professionals; however, despite the distinction of status between the home players and the England-based players having been removed, it was another three years before
962-451: The matches they televise. MLS Season Pass is sold on a subscription basis via the Apple TV app , either monthly or per-season; the U.S. price was set at US$ 14.99 per month or $ 99 per season. MLS Season Pass is separate from and does not require an Apple TV+ subscription, but discounts are available to Apple TV+ subscribers. Season ticketholders of MLS teams also receive MLS Season Pass for free. A selection of matches throughout
999-675: The matches' availability to venues (such as bars and restaurants) not readily equipped to handle streaming-only broadcasts. A one-year subscription to MLS Season Pass was offered by T-Mobile US to their subscribers in February 2023 through the T-Mobile Tuesdays app. A similar offer was introduced in June 2023 by Optus Sport , a sports channel in Australia. MLS Season Pass will carry all MLS regular season and playoff matches live and on-demand, and be
1036-768: The pre-match show MLS Countdown , MLS 360 (which carries "whiparound" coverage of each Saturday matchday), and the highlights show MLS Wrap-Up . All three are produced at Metropolis Studios, a 7,000-square-foot (650 m ) studio in Manhattan , New York City , with adjacent facilities for English and Spanish control rooms. The video feeds are transmitted to an NEP Group data center in Dallas for encoding and distributed from an Apple facility in Van Nuys, California . The service also offers on-demand content such as classic matches, team-produced videos, and original series (such as The Ritual ,
1073-420: The same time. On June 14, 2022, MLS announced a 10-year broadcasting deal with Apple Inc. taking effect in the 2023 season, under which it would hold the global over-the-top media rights to the league. It marked the second major foray by Apple into professional sports rights, after having launched Major League Baseball 's Friday Night Baseball earlier that year. The name and United States pricing of
1110-561: The second MLS reserve team, after New York Red Bulls II to win the second division title. The club announced on December 6, 2021, that it was joining the inaugural 21-team MLS Next Pro season starting in 2022. In 2018, 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. Real Monarchs played their first three seasons at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy ,
1147-432: The service was announced on November 16, 2022, with availability beginning February 1, 2023, for the start of the season on February 25, 2023. To maintain a presence on linear television , MLS reached three-year, non-exclusive rights agreements with Fox Sports (United States for Fox and Fox Deportes ) and Bell Media (Canada for TSN and RDS ) to carry packages of MLS matches on their networks. The contract ended
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1184-474: The spike to the high-profile signing of Lionel Messi by Inter Miami CF . Data collected by analytics company Antenna found a major spike in subscriptions for Messi's debut match for Miami, with 110,000 new subscriptions in the United States alone. While Apple and MLS share subscription information to MLS Season Pass, they do not share actual viewership data; this has made companies hesitant to advertise on
1221-483: The sport on television or on the internet. Football has the highest global television audience in sport. The sport had amateur origins and evolved into the modern professional competition. Association football was first codified in 1863, with the formation of the Football Association (FA) in England. At this time the sport was played mainly by public schools , or teams with public school roots, and amateurism
1258-557: The world ( Neymar Jr. from Al Hilal who was earning £240 million per year; Cristiano Ronaldo from Al Nassr who was earning £173 million per year; and Karim Benzema from Al-Ittihad who was earning £172 million per year) were all playing in the Saudi Pro League earning record-breaking salaries. This table details the year in which professionalism was introduced, country by country. See also Professional sports#Association football MLS Season Pass MLS Season Pass
1295-586: Was brought in as his replacement along with Mark Briggs and Jamison Olave as his assistants. On March 29, 2017, Petke was promoted to Real Salt Lake's head coach following the dismissal of Jeff Cassar , and Briggs was announced as his replacement. On June 19, 2017, the Real Monarchs broke the All-Time USL Record with nine consecutive victories by beating Reno 1868 2–1 at Rio Tinto Stadium. The club won their first ever trophy on October 7, 2017, claiming
1332-661: Was sold to Fox Sports in the United States and Bell Media in Canada. MLS had requested that its teams not negotiate regional television rights to their matches beyond the 2022 season, suggesting that the league was considering switching to a centralized model for its media rights (more akin to the National Football League and European club leagues such as the Premier League ) after its present national television agreements with ESPN , Fox Sports , and Univision expire at
1369-431: Was the norm. This remained the case until the 1880s, when working-class teams began to vie for supremacy. Blackburn Olympic , a team composed mainly of factory workers, won the 1883 FA Cup Final . They were the first working-class team to win the competition since its inception in 1870. Though professionalism was not permitted, Olympic arranged jobs for their players, and supplemented their income with additional payments,
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