2019 NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament

2019 NCAA women's soccer tournament

Women's College Cup (Semifinals & Final)
Tournament details
Country	United States
Dates	November 15 – December 8, 2019
Teams	64
Final positions
Champions	Stanford (3rd title)
Runners-up	North Carolina
Semifinalists	UCLA Washington State
Tournament statistics
Matches played	63
Goals scored	192 (3.05 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Catarina Macario – Stanford (9 goals)
All statistics correct as of 12/09/2019.

The 2019 NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament (also known as the 2019 Women's College Cup) was the 38th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I women's collegiate soccer. The semifinals and championship game were played at Avaya Stadium in San Jose, California from December 6–8, 2019 while the preceding rounds were played at various sites across the country during November 2019.^[1]

All Division I women's soccer programs are eligible to qualify for the tournament. 28 teams received automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments, 3 teams received automatic bids by claiming the conference regular season crown (Ivy League, Pac-12 Conference, and West Coast Conference don't hold conference tournaments), and an additional 33 teams earned at-large bids based on their regular season records.^[1] The bracket was released on November 11, 2019^[2]

Seed	School	Conference	Berth Type	Record	RPI[3]	Appearance[4]	Last bid[4]
1	Stanford	Pac-12	Automatic	18–1–0	1	29th	2018
2	BYU	West Coast	Automatic	18–0–1	12	20th	2018
3	Arkansas	SEC	At-Large	16–3–2	6	6th	2018
4	Penn State	Big Ten	Automatic	15–6–1	22	25th	2018
	Arizona	Pac-12	At-Large	11–6–1	40	7th	2018
	Boise State	Mountain West	Automatic	18–4–0	76	2nd	2009
	Hofstra	CAA	Automatic	15–3–2	16	8th	2018
	Lipscomb	ASUN	Automatic	13–5–2	112	2nd	2018
	Louisville	ACC	At-Large	12–4–2	28	6th	2018
	Loyola–Chicago	Missouri Valley	Automatic	14–4–1	56	5th	2018
	Navy	Patriot	Automatic	16–2–3	90	4th	2007
	NC State	ACC	At-Large	10–6–4	19	15th	2018
	North Texas	C-USA	Automatic	15–5–1	47	7th	2018
	Prairie View A&M*	SWAC	Automatic	13–7–0	246	2nd	2014
	Stony Brook	America East	Automatic	14–5–1	110	3rd	2017
	TCU	Big 12	At-Large	11–7–3	55	4th	2018

• Prairie View won its first-ever conference title this year, but this is their second time to earn a berth in the tournament. In 2014, they were the SWAC tournament runner-up but earn the conference's berth to the NCAA tournament since the winner (Howard) was ineligible that year.

Seed	School	Conference	Berth Type	Record	RPI[3]	Appearance[4]	Last bid[4]
1	Florida State	ACC	At-Large	15–5–0	4	20th	2018
2	UCLA	Pac-12	At-Large	14–4–1	7	23rd	2018
3	Wisconsin	Big Ten	At-Large	14–3–2	17	21st	2018
4	Washington	Pac-12	At-Large	11–6–2	18	14th	2014
	Brown	Ivy	Automatic	14–1–2	10	7th	1994
	Clemson	ACC	At-Large	11–6–1	36	20th	2018
	Duke	ACC	At-Large	8–3–7	14	25th	2018
	Florida	SEC	At-Large	11–8–1	23	22nd	2017
	Lamar	Southland	Automatic	16–6–0	87	2nd	2017
	Milwaukee	Horizon	Automatic	17–1–1	50	13th	2018
	Monmouth	MAAC	Automatic	14–2–2	44	7th	2018
	Seattle	WAC	Automatic	12–7–2	119	5th	2018
	South Alabama	Sun Belt	Automatic	16–3–2	63	6th	2017
	South Florida	American	Automatic	14–4–0	24	6th	2018
	Utah	Pac-12	At-Large	8–8–4	51	8th	2016
	Vanderbilt	SEC	At-Large	14–5–1	33	10th	2018

Seed	School	Conference	Berth Type	Record	RPI	Appearance[4]	Last bid[4]
1	Virginia	ACC	At-Large	16–1–2	3	32nd	2018
2	South Carolina	SEC	Automatic	16–1–3	5	13th	2018
3	Kansas	Big 12	Automatic	15–4–3	9	9th	2018
4	Rutgers	Big Ten	At-Large	15–3–2	13	14th	2018
	Central Connecticut	Northeast	Automatic	12–4–4	149	9th	2018
	Georgetown	Big East	At-Large	13–4–3	35	10th	2018
	Iowa	Big Ten	At-Large	15–4–1	45	2nd	2013
	Memphis	American	At-Large	17–2–1	26	8th	2018
	Notre Dame	ACC	At-Large	10–7–2	34	26th	2017
	Radford	Big South	Automatic	16–5–0	139	8th	2018
	Saint Louis	Atlantic 10	Automatic	17–3–2	38	4th	2018
	Samford	SoCon	Automatic	13–3–5	58	5th	2012
	Virginia Tech	ACC	At-Large	12–4–2	15	10th	2018
	Washington State	Pac-12	At-Large	12–6–1	27	13th	2018
	West Virginia	Big 12	At-Large	10–7–2	31	20th	2018
	Xavier	Big East	Automatic	16–3–2	42	3rd	2000

Seed	School	Conference	Berth Type	Record	RPI	Appearance[4]	Last bid[4]
1	North Carolina	ACC	Automatic	19–1–1	2	38th	2018
2	USC	Pac-12	At-Large	14–4–1	8	18th	2018
3	Oklahoma State	Big 12	At-Large	15–2–3	11	12th	2017
4	Texas Tech	Big 12	At-Large	15–3–2	20	7th	2018
	Belmont	Ohio Valley	Automatic	8–8–5	217	2nd	2008
	Bowling Green	MAC	Automatic	14–5–3	84	4th	2018
	California	Pac-12	At-Large	13–4–3	30	26th	2017
	Cal State Fullerton	Big West	Automatic	14–2–4	102	8th	2017
	Colorado	Pac-12	At-Large	11–7–2	43	11th	2017
	Michigan	Big Ten	At-Large	15–5–1	25	14th	2016
	Northern Colorado	Big Sky	Automatic	9–10–4	224	2nd[5]	2015
	Pepperdine	West Coast	At-Large	11–6–2	46	11th	2017
	Santa Clara	West Coast	At-Large	13–5–2	29	29th	2018
	South Dakota State	Summit	Automatic	15–4–3	118	5th	2016
	Texas	Big 12	At-Large	11–7–1	48	14th	2018
	Texas A&M	SEC	At-Large	13–4–3	21	25th	2018

The bracket was announced on Monday, November 11, 2019.^[6]

	First round Campus Sites					Second round Regional Campus Sites					Round of 16 Regional Campus Sites					Quarterfinal Campus Sites
	1	Stanford*	15
		Prairie View A&M	0
						1	Stanford	4
							Hofstra	0
		Hofstra* (a.e.t.)	1
		Loyola–Chicago	0
											1	Stanford	2
											4	Penn State	0
		Arizona*	1
		TCU	0
							Arizona	3
						4	Penn State (a.e.t.)	4
	4	Penn State*	3
		Stony Brook	1
																1	Stanford	5
																2	BYU	1
	3	Arkansas*	3
		North Texas	0
						3	Arkansas	1
							NC State	2
		NC State*	3
		Navy	0
												NC State	0
											2	BYU	3
		Louisville*	1
		Lipscomb	0
							Louisville	0
						2	BYU	4
	2	BYU*	5
		Boise State	1

* Host institution

Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Final Regular Season Rankings

	First round Campus Sites					Second round Regional Campus Sites					Round of 16 Regional Campus Sites					Quarterfinal Campus Sites
	2	UCLA*	4
		Lamar	1
						2	UCLA	5
							Clemson	0
		Clemson* (p)	0 (5)
		Vanderbilt	0 (4)
											2	UCLA	2
											3	Wisconsin	0
		Duke*	4
		Utah	0
							Duke	0
						3	Wisconsin	1
		Milwaukee	0
	3	Wisconsin*	1
																2	UCLA	4
																1	Florida State	0
	4	Washington*	1
		Seattle	0
						4	Washington	0
							South Florida	2
		Florida*	2
		South Florida	4
												South Florida	1
											1	Florida State	2
		Brown* (p)	0 (4)
		Monmouth	0 (1)
							Brown	0
						1	Florida State	2
		South Alabama	0
	1	Florida State*	2

* Host institution

Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Final Regular Season Rankings

	First round Campus Sites					Second round Regional Campus Sites					Round of 16 Regional Campus Sites					Quarterfinal Campus Sites
	1	Virginia*	3
		Radford	0
						1	Virginia	2
							Washington State	3
		Washington State*	1
		Memphis	0
												Washington State	3
												West Virginia	0
		Georgetown*	0
		West Virginia	2
							West Virginia (a.e.t.)	1
							Central Connecticut	0
		Central Connecticut	1
	4	Rutgers*	0
																	Washington State (a.e.t.)	1
																2	South Carolina	0
	3	Kansas*	1
		Iowa	0
						3	Kansas	3
							Xavier	0
		Virginia Tech*	0
		Xavier	1
											3	Kansas	0
											2	South Carolina	2
		Notre Dame*	1
		Saint Louis	0
							Notre Dame	0
						2	South Carolina	1
		Samford	0
	2	South Carolina*	3

* Host institution

Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Final Regular Season Rankings

	First round Campus Sites					Second round Regional Campus Sites					Round of 16 Regional Campus Sites					Quarterfinal Campus Sites
	2	USC*	5
		Cal State Fullerton	1
						2	USC	2
							Texas A&M	1
		Texas A&M*	4
		Texas	1
											2	USC	1
												Santa Clara	0
		Santa Clara* (a.e.t.)	1
		California	0
							Santa Clara	3
						3	Oklahoma State	1
		South Dakota State	0
	3	Oklahoma State*	1
																2	USC	2
																1	North Carolina	3
	4	Texas Tech* (a.e.t.)	2 (4)
		Pepperdine	2 (3)
						4	Texas Tech	2
							Michigan	3
		Michigan*	2
		Bowling Green	1
												Michigan	0
											1	North Carolina	4
		Colorado*	6
		Northern Colorado	0
							Colorado	0
						1	North Carolina	1
		Belmont	0
	1	North Carolina*	5

* Host institution

Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Final Regular Season Rankings

	Semifinals December 6 Avaya Stadium San Jose, California					Final December 8 Avaya Stadium San Jose, California
	2	UCLA	1
	1	Stanford	4
						1	North Carolina	0 (4)
						1	Stanford (a.e.t.)	0 (5)
	1	North Carolina	2
		Washington State	1

Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Final Regular Season Rankings

Conference	Bids	Record	Pct.	R32	R16	QF	SF	F	NC
Pac-12	9	20–8–0	.714	7	4	4	3	1	1
ACC	9	14–8–2	.625	8	3	2	1	1	–
Big 12	6	5–6–1	.458	4	2	–	–	–	–
SEC	5	5–4–1	.550	3	1	1	–	–	–
WCC	3	5–2–1	.688	2	2	1	–	–	–
Big Ten	5	6–5–0	.545	3	3	–	–	–	–
American	2	2–2–0	.500	1	1	–	–	–	–
Big East	2	1–2–0	.333	1	–	–	–	–	–
Ivy	1	0–1–1	.250	1	–	–	–	–	–
CAA	1	1–1–0	.500	1	–	–	–	–	–
Northeast	1	1–1–0	.500	1	–	–	–	–	–
MAAC	1	0–0–1	.500	–	–	–	–	–	–

• The R32, S16, E8, F4, CG, and NC columns indicate how many teams from each conference were in the Round of 32 (second round), Round of 16 (third round), Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final, and National Champion, respectively.
• The following conferences received one bid and finished the tournament with a record of 0–1–0: A10, America East, ASUN, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, C-USA, Horizon, MAC, Mountain West, MVC, OVC, Patriot, SoCon, Summit, Sun Belt, Southland, SWAC, WAC. In the interest of conserving space, these teams are not shown in the table.

There were 192 goals scored in 63 matches, for an average of 3.05 goals per match.

9 goals

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

• NCAA Women's Soccer Championships (Division II, Division III)
• NCAA Men's Soccer Championships (Division I, Division II, Division III)