The Utah Royals are an American professional football team based in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area that competes in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). The club was established in 2017.Â
Jimmy Coenraets  is a Belgian professional football manager who is the head coach of the Utah Royals of the NWSL. He was previously the manager of Belgian club OH Leuven.

The NWSL has come a far way from how the league started out in 2013. Among those changes is the amount of investment that clubs and club owners have poured into their teams. Which clubs are leading the way in giving women’s football the investment and respect it deserves?
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In 2024, two new clubs joined the NWSL as expansion teams. One was brand new and the other, the Utah Royals, was coming back after initially playing in the league from 2018 to 2020. The Royals’ return to the NWSL was not quite the comeback story they were hoping for: they finished their first two seasons in 11th and 12th place in the table out of 14 total clubs, winning 13 of 52 games across those two years.Â