The 2008 Real Salt Lake Season was the fourth season of the team's existence. It was the first season that the team made it to the
MLS Cup Playoffs
The MLS Cup Playoffs is the annual postseason elimination tournament of Major League Soccer. The final match of the tournament is the MLS Cup, the league's championship game. Under the current format adopted for the 2019 season, 14 teams quali ...
, thanks to some last minute heroics by
Yura Movsisyan
Yura Movsisyan ( hy, Յուրա Մովսիսյան; born 2 August 1987) is an Armenian former professional footballer who played as a forward. Most notably, Movsisyan played for Spartak Moscow in the Russian Premier League. He played for the ...
. After defeating
Chivas USA
Chivas USA (pronounced ''CHEE-vahs'') was an American professional soccer team based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California. The club played from 2005 to 2014 in Major League Soccer (MLS) and was a subsidiary of Mexican club C.D. G ...
in the first round of the playoffs, Real Salt Lake lost to
New York Red Bulls
The New York Red Bulls are an American professional soccer club based in the New York metropolitan area. The Red Bulls compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference. The club was established in October 1994 and be ...
in the Western Conference finals. The 2008 season was also the last season that Real Salt Lake played at
Rice-Eccles Stadium, as they moved to the
soccer-specific Rio Tinto Stadium
America First Field (formerly Rio Tinto Stadium and referred to as The RioT) is an American soccer-specific stadium in Sandy, Utah, that serves as home stadium for Major League Soccer club Real Salt Lake. The stadium opened on October 9, 2008, ...
on October 9, 2008.
Squad
First Team
''As of November 15, 2008''
Formation
Starting XI vs.
New York on November 15, 2008
Results
League table
Conference
Overall
Summary
Regular season
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
MLS Playoffs
Kits
References
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/team/stats?teamId=4771&season=2008&cc=5901&leagueId=19&league=usa.1&seasontype=1
External links
{{2008 in American soccer
Real Salt Lake Season, 2008
Real Salt Lake
Real Salt Lake, often shortened to RSL, is an American professional soccer franchise based in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The club competes as a member club of Major League Soccer (MLS) in the Western Conference. RSL began play in 2 ...
Real Salt Lake seasons