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Rio Tinto Stadium's makeover will be unveiled sooner than initially expected.

Real Salt Lake announced Friday that its fourth-round home match in the 2016 U.S. Open Cup tournament will be played on Tuesday, June 14, at 8 p.m., in Sandy. The match against the winner of Wilmington Hammerheads FC (USL) or Miami FC (NASL) was initially scheduled for June 15, but was rescheduled due to potential scheduling conflicts with the winner of the third-place match.

Wilmington and Miami FC face off at FIU Stadium in Miami on Wednesday, June 1.

Rio Tinto Stadium will host a match four days earlier than anticipated, after the grass field at Rio Tinto underwent a total replacement two weeks ago. That resulted in a six-week hiatus for RSL, who is in the midst of a five-game road trip while the new pitch is prepared for play.

RSL's first match back was going to be its June 18 matchup against Nat Borchers and the reigning MLS Cup champion Portland Timbers. Instead, the club opens up its 2016 U.S. Open Cup hopes on June 14 — 12 days after its most-recent league match at New York City FC on June 2.

RSL has an 8-2-0 record at Rio Tinto Stadium in U.S. Open Cup play. And there are painful home memories of the tournament, too. In the 2013 Open Cup final, RSL lost 1-0 to D.C. United. Most recently, its 2015 Open Cup run ended in the semifinals in a 3-1 loss at Sporting Kansas City last summer.

Midfielder Luke Mulholland began his professional career with Wilmington in 2011 and started for the Hammerheads when the two teams met in Open Cup play that July. In RSL's first-ever Open Cup match at Rio Tinto Stadium, defender Tony Beltran scored the lone goal in his nine-year career in the 2-0 win over the Hammerheads.

Miami FC is coached by Italian soccer legend Alessandro Nesta. The NASL side also features former RSL striker Pablo Campos, who was part of the 2009 MLS Cup winning team. Honduran midfielder Wilson Palacios, a regular in the English Premier League for nearly a decade, moved to Miami FC this year.

-Chris Kamrani

Twitter: @chriskamrani