Real Monarchs SLC has only eight games remaining in the 2019 USL Championship Season, currently sitting in eighth place in the compact and highly competitive Western Conference table.
Just four points separate fourth place (36 points) and 11th place (40 points) while the Monarchs hold 37 points, a single point over the playoff line. After a rough start to the club’s fifth season in the Championship saw it sit near the bottom of the West early, Real Monarchs saw a meteoric rise to fight for a third consecutive playoff appearance in as many years.
In the expanded USL Cup Playoffs format, 10 teams from each conference will be included with the lowest four seeds opening the post-season in the Play-In Round, with the seventh seed hosting the tenth while the eighth seed hosts the ninth for a place in the Conference Quarterfinals.