Real Salt Lake Travels Wednesday to Face Seattle Sounders FC

RSL Off to Pacific Northwest Midweek for Rescheduled Match from April;

Claret-and-Cobalt Looking to Snap Several Winless Streaks This Week;

Back Home Saturday vs. New England with 10W-4L-3T Record in Sandy This Season;

Tickets for All Home Events Remain Available via www.RSL.com/Tickets

HERRIMAN, Utah (Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026) – Wednesday, Real Salt Lake (8W-12L-5T, 29 points, 12^th West / 22^nd Shield MLS) continues a congested month of September, with a 7:30p MT kickoff Wednesday away at Western Conference rivals Seattle Sounders FC (7W-9L-8T, 29 points, 12^th West / 23^rd Shield). Wednesday’s jaunt to the Pacific Northwest for a game rescheduled from April 12 against the Sounders gives RSL the opportunity to snap a 12-game overall winless run in MLS action dating back to May 16, as well as an 11-game road winless streak across all competitions dating back to March 7 at Atlanta.

Wednesday’s RSL at Seattle contest on Apple TV features Brian Dunseth and Max Bretos on the primary English-language call, while Carlos Mauricio Ramirez will provide the Spanish-language analysis. Simultaneously, the KSL Radio team of David James and Jay Nolly return to the mic, with Nelson Moran – now in his 22^nd RSL season as RSL’s Spanish radio voice – conducting the Spanish call on KBMG Latino 106.3 FM.

RSL playmaker Diego Luna underwent a successful meniscus repair in his knee Friday performed by U.S. Soccer Chief Medical Officer and Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Bert Mandelbaum in Santa Monica, Calif., with Luna now expected to miss approximately six months. Luna suffered the knee injury back on Sept. 9 in Houston while playing 70 minutes in the 2-1 road loss, with the meniscus tear identified via MRI a day later.

In addition to Luna, two RSL players will miss this week’s action due to the ongoing FIFA international break, as Uruguayan World Cup standout Juan Manuel Sanabria and Canadian World Cup centerback Luc de Fougerolles have departed for their nations’ four-game slates. Trinidadian centerback Kobi Henry will join his country following Saturday’s home New England match, as will U.S. Youth National Team standout Colin Guske; another USA youth international, RSL Academy midfielder Luca Moisa, will join his camp in progress after Wednesday’s Seattle trip.

This Saturday, RSL returns home to host New England Revolution looking to snap a five-game home winless stretch. Tickets are available via www.RSL.com/tickets, in what is expected to be RSL’s 16^th consecutive MLS sellout at America First Field. Despite last weekend’s 0-3 home loss to Vancouver, RSL still boasts an impressive 10-4-3 (W-L-T) overall record on Utah soil this season. Recent setbacks in Sandy since the FIFA World Cup break have dropped the Claret-and-Cobalt to 18-7-5 (W-L-T) at its America First Field fortress since June 1, 2025.  

GAME NOTES for Wednesday’s RSL @ Seattle Match Available Online 

The Adobe PDF version of the 2026 RSL Game Guide in advance of Saturday’s contest between Real Salt Lake and Seattle Sounders FC can be found HERE. Media members looking to receive the document as an attachment or have further questions are asked to please contact RSL Communications via email at RSLcommunications@RSL.com.

Last Saturday at a sold-out America First Field – hosting its 15^th consecutive MLS sellout, dating back to last September – RSL fell 0-3 against Western Conference leaders Vancouver Whitecaps FC, suffering back-to-back home shutouts for the first time since April, 2025. The highlight of Saturday’s match was the return of former captain and versatile fourth-year man Emeka Eneli, recovering from a knee injury to come off the bench to make his first appearance since last October’s Wild Card playoff match at Portland.

Also, newly-acquired attacking player Taylor Booth – a former RSL Academy star and a native of Eden, Utah, who became the 14^th Club debutant of 2026 and all-time RSL player No. 243 with his late appearance off the bench against NYCFC on Sept. 12 – saw extended minutes in the second half.  Two other newcomers – DF Luc de Fougerolles, Canadian World Cup starter and FW Dušan Žagar, the 19-year-old Serbian winger, each of whom were added at the transfer window deadline on Sept. 2 – still await their Club debuts.

While Booth joined FW Jason Shokalook, MF Colin Guske and Academy M/F Owen Anderson in making their first-ever RSL appearances this month, nearly a dozen players were out due to injury or visa status during several recent games. For Wednesday, midfielder Stijn Spierings is expected to return to availability, as is defender Sam Junqua, who saw a few minutes off the bench this past weekend.

Real Salt Lake Head Coach Pablo Mastroeni has now managed the Club in 213 matches across all competitions, registering 85 wins, 78 losses and 50 draws in MLS, Audi MLS Cup Playoffs, Leagues Cup, Open Cup, Concacaf Champions Cup and international friendly contests since late August, 2021. The former U.S. Men’s National Team World Cup standout (2002, 2006), MLS Cup Champion (2010) as a player, and former Colorado Rapids manager (2014-16) has averaged 1.60 points per game with RSL in his 202 matches at the helm. Only Cup-winning former manager Jason Kreis (2007-13) – now the Club’s President of Soccer – boasts more games, more wins and a higher PPG average than Mastroeni in RSL’s 22 seasons.

During the Mastroeni era, resilience, grit and determination have served as trademarks for RSL, with the Club suffering back-to-back losses on just 24 occasions in those 213 games. Wednesday’s contest against Seattle will be the latest opportunity for the Claret-and-Cobalt to display its “xDAWG” mentality to earn the result, now winning 35 and drawing 18 times in “bounce-back” games following a loss in Mastroeni’s five-plus seasons in Utah.