How To Watch Real Salt Lake Vs C.S. Herediano In Concacaf Champions Cup
Feb 19, 2025, 1:25 PM
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HEREDIA, Costa Rica- Real Salt Lake makes its return to international play as part of the CONCACAF Champions Cup, qualifying via their third-place finish in the MLS Western Conference last year.
As the higher-ranked club, the Claret-and-Cobalt will get the second leg of the opening round at home at America First Field, meaning the first leg will take Real Salt Lake to Central America to take on C.S. Herediano in Costa Rica.
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Who Is Real Salt Lake Opponent CS Herediano?
Liga FPD’s round-robin regular season called the “Torneo de Apertura”, which stretches from July to December, just wrapped up at the beginning of this month with Herediano placing fourth out of 12 teams. They finished with 35 points, 11 points back of the Torneo de Apertura winners, Alajuelense, who had 46. They had ten wins, five draws, and seven losses with a goal differential of +6. Herediano’s top scorer during the Apertura was Marcel Hernandez Campanioni who had 10 in 16 appearances.
Their top-four finish earned them a spot in the Torneo de Clausura, Liga FPD’s post-season tournament, where the league’s top-four teams play each other in six additional match days. The winner of the Torneo de Apertura and the winner of the Torneo de Clausura play each other to determine a national champion unless the same team wins both tournaments.
In the 2024 Central American Cup, Herediano was in Pot 1 as one of the four highest-ranking clubs in the competition. They went on to win their group, receiving a bye to the quarter-finals of the knockout stage. In those quarter-finals, Herediano defeated Honduran side Motagua by an aggregate score of 3-0.
In the semi-finals, Herediano met Real Estelí from Nicaragua. They drew 0-0 in the first leg and 2-2 in the second leg, but the away goal rule pushed Real Estelí past Herediano. Regardless, their finishing position in the competition qualified them for the CONCACAF Champions Cup.
This will not be the first time that Real Salt Lake and CS Herediano have met. In fact, they faced off in the 2012 edition of this same competition. Real fell 0-1 at Herediano and drew 0-0 in Sandy.
How To Watch Real Salt Lake vs C.S. Herediano
The Round One matchup between Real Salt Lake and C.S. Herediano in the CONCACAF Champions Cup will be held on Wednesday, February 19, and Saturday, February 22. The first leg between RSL and Herediano will be played at Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero in Heredia, Costa Rica. The match will begin at 4:30 p.m. MT.
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