High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Real Salt Lake is an American professional soccer club that participates in Major League Soccer. The club joined the league as an expansion team in 2005, and plays its home games at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. They are the current MLS Cup champions. he title "Real" is derived from the Spanish language where it is traditionally used by certain Spanish football clubs such as Real Madrid of La Liga. It is translated into English as "royal" and it is taken by teams that make the King of Spain an honorary member of the club.