Stadiums and locations

The Dash does not make its stadium's entire capacity available for home games, instead restricting ticket sales at a lower level. The full capacity of this venue is included in parentheses and italics.

Two stadiums were renamed during the season. First, on June 4, Exploria Resorts acquired the naming rights to Orlando City Stadium, which was accordingly renamed Exploria Stadium.^[1] Then, on June 13, the U.S. arm of the Spanish multinational bank BBVA announced a rebranding of the U.S. operations from "BBVA Compass" to "BBVA". As part of the rebranding, BBVA Compass Stadium became simply BBVA Stadium.^[2]

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Team Stadium Capacity Chicago Red Stars SeatGeek Stadium 20,000 Houston Dash BBVA Stadium 7,000 (22,039) North Carolina Courage Sahlen's Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park 10,000 Orlando Pride Exploria Stadium 25,500 Portland Thorns Providence Park 25,218 Reign FC Cheney Stadium 6,500 Sky Blue FC Yurcak Field[lower-alpha 1] 5,000 Utah Royals FC Rio Tinto Stadium 20,213 Washington Spirit Maryland SoccerPlex[lower-alpha 2] 4,000 Sky Blue played two home games at Red Bull Arena (capacity 25,000). The Spirit played two home games at Audi Field (capacity 20,000).

Red Stars Dash Courage Pride Thorns Reign Sky Blue Royals Spirit Locations of the National Women's Soccer League teams in 2019.

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Personnel and sponsorship

Note: All teams use Nike as their kit manufacturer.

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Team	Head coach	Shirt sponsor
Chicago Red Stars	Rory Dames	—
Houston Dash	James Clarkson	—
North Carolina Courage	Paul Riley	Continental AG
Orlando Pride	Marc Skinner	Orlando Health
Portland Thorns	Mark Parsons	Providence Health & Services
Reign FC	Vlatko Andonovski	Zulily
Sky Blue FC	Freya Coombe (interim)	Meridian Health
Utah Royals FC	Laura Harvey	Conservice
Washington Spirit	Richie Burke	GEICO

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Coaching changes

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Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Ref.
Washington Spirit	Tom Torres	End of interim period	September 2, 2018	Richie Burke	January 8, 2019	[3][4]
Orlando Pride	Tom Sermanni	Mutual separation	September 14, 2018	Marc Skinner	January 14, 2019	[5][6]
Houston Dash	Vera Pauw	Mutual separation	September 20, 2018	James Clarkson	December 11, 2018	[7][8]
Sky Blue FC	Denise Reddy	Fired	June 28, 2019	Freya Coombe (interim)	September 4, 2019	[9][10]

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Tiebreakers

The initial determining factor for a team's position in the standings is most points earned, with three points earned for a win, one point for a draw, and zero points for a loss. If two or more teams tie in point total, when determining rank and playoff qualification and seeding, the NWSL uses the following tiebreaker rules,^[11] going down the list until all teams are ranked.

1. Head-to-head win–loss record between the teams (or points per game if more than two teams).
2. Greater goal difference across the entire season (against all teams, not just tied teams).
3. Greatest total number of goals scored (against all teams).
4. Apply #1–3 to games played on the road.
5. Apply #1–3 to games played at home.
6. If teams are still equal, ranking will be determined by a coin toss.

NOTE: If two clubs remain tied after another club with the same number of points advances during any step, the tiebreaker reverts to step 1 of the two-club format.

Average home attendances

Ranked from highest to lowest average attendance.

Updated through end of regular season on October 12, 2019.^[12]

Highest attendances

Regular season

Updated through end of regular season on October 12, 2019.^[12]