2019 Chicago Red Stars season

Chicago Red Stars
2019 season
Owner	Arnim Whisler
Head coach	Rory Dames
Stadium	SeatGeek Stadium; (capacity: 20,000)
Top goalscorer	Sam Kerr (18)
Highest home attendance	17,388 vs North Carolina Courage, July 21
Lowest home attendance	2,113 vs North Carolina Courage, May 11
Average home league attendance	7,744
Home colors	Away colors
	← 2018

The 2019 Chicago Red Stars season was the team's eleventh season and seventh season in the National Women's Soccer League, the top tier of women's soccer in the United States.

First-team squad

2019 squad

Updated August 12, 2019 ^[1]Players under contract to play for the club during 2019 season.
bold type indicates player played for her national team.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
15	MF	MEX	Maria Sánchez
16	GK	USA	Alison Jahansouz
18	GK	AUS	Mackenzie Arnold
20	FW	AUS	Sam Kerr
21	GK	USA	Emily Boyd
23	MF	USA	Brooke Elby
24	MF	USA	Danielle Colaprico
28	DF	USA	Zoey Goralski
26	DF	USA	Tierna Davidson
28	DF	USA	Kayla Sharples
30	DF	USA	Hannah Davison
31	DF	USA	Jenna Szczesny
33	FW	MEX	Katie Johnson

Player transactions

2019 NWSL College Draft

Round	Pick	Player	Pos.	Previous Team
Round 1	1	Tierna Davidson	D	Stanford University
Round 2	15	María Sánchez	F	Santa Clara University
Round 3	20	Bianca St. Georges	F	West Virginia University
Round 3	26	Kayla Sharples	D	Northwestern University
Round 4	28	April Bockin	F	University of Minnesota
Round 4	33	Hannah Davison	D	Northwestern University
Round 4	35	Jenna Szczesny	F	Loyola University Chicago

In

Date	Player	Positions played	Previous club	Fee/notes	Ref.
January 9, 2019	Katie Johnson	FW	Sky Blue FC	Acquired in a Trade with Sky Blue FC for the 6th Overall Pick in the 2019 NWSL College Draft and Chicago's highest second round pick in 2020	^[2]
June 19, 2019	Savannah McCaskill	FW	Sky Blue FC	Acquired in a Trade with Sky Blue FC for a First and Second Round Pick at the 2020 NWSL College Draft	^[3]
August 1, 2019	Mackenzie Arnold	GK	Arna-Bjørnar	Signed.	^[4]

Out

Date	Player	Positions played	Destination club	Fee/notes	Ref.
January 7, 2019	Summer Green	FW	Vittsjö	Signed with Vittsjö	^[5]
March 2, 2019	Rosie White	MF	Reign FC	Left team to focus on preparing for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup with New Zealand.	^[6]
March 3, 2019	Stephanie McCaffrey	FW		Retired.	^[7]

Management and staff

Front Office

Owner: Arnim Whisler

Coaching Staff^[8]

Manager: Rory Dames
Assistant coach: Craig Harrington
Assistant coach: Gary Curneen
Goalkeeper coach: Jordi King
Strength & Conditioning Coach: Evan Johnson
Volunteer Assistant Coach: Brian Kibler

Competitions

League standing

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	North Carolina Courage (C)	24	15	4	5	54	23	+31	49	NWSL Shield
2	Chicago Red Stars	24	14	2	8	41	28	+13	44	NWSL Playoffs
3	Portland Thorns FC	24	11	7	6	40	31	+9	40
4	Reign FC	24	10	8	6	27	27	0	38
5	Washington Spirit	24	9	7	8	30	25	+5	34
6	Utah Royals FC	24	10	4	10	25	25	0	34
7	Houston Dash	24	7	5	12	21	36	−15	26
8	Sky Blue FC	24	5	5	14	20	34	−14	20
9	Orlando Pride	24	4	4	16	24	53	−29	16

Source: NWSL
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(C) Champions

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
24	14	2	8	41	28	+13	44	7	1	4	24	15	+9	7	1	4	17	13	+4

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Stadium	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H
Result	D	D	W	L	W	W	L	L	L	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	L	L	L	W	W	W	W	W
Position	4	7	3	5	3	1	4	4	7	6	6	6	3	3	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	2	2	2

Updated to match(es) played on September 29, 2019. Source: NWSLsoccer.com
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Weekly schedule

Win Tie Loss

All times are in Central Time unless otherwise noted.

Preseason

Sat., Mar. 9 Closed door scrimmage	Chicago Red Stars	––	Missouri Tigers	Bridgeview, Illinois
14:00				Stadium: SeatGeek Stadium
Note: Closed door scrimmage

Sun., Mar. 24 Thorns Spring Invitational	Portland Thorns FC	2–1	Chicago Red Stars	Portland, Oregon
17:00	Lussi 6' Horan 74'		Sharples 54'	Stadium: Merlo Field

Wed., Mar. 27 Thorns Spring Invitational	Reign FC	2–1	Chicago Red Stars	Portland, Oregon
13:30	Andrews 38' Nielsen 64'		Johnson 5'	Stadium: Merlo Field

Sat., Mar. 30 Thorns Spring Invitational	United States U-23	2–1	Chicago Red Stars	Portland, Oregon
13:30	Fox 29' Foster 90+2'		Kerr 14'	Stadium: Merlo Field

Regular season

Sat., Apr. 13 1	North Carolina Courage	1–1	Chicago Red Stars	Cary, North Carolina
18:00	Dunn 66'	Report	Kerr 26'	Stadium: WakeMed Soccer Park Attendance: 4,053

Sat., Apr. 20 2	Chicago Red Stars	4–4	Portland Thorns FC	Bridgeview, Illinois
14:30	Nagasato 18' (pen.), 90+1' Kerr 20' Vasconcelos 78'	Report	Sinclair 16', 51', 87' (pen.) Crnogorčević 33'	Stadium: SeatGeek Stadium Attendance: 12,967 Referee: Karen Abt

Sat., Apr. 27 3	Chicago Red Stars	3–0	Reign FC	Bridgeview, Illinois
19:00	Short 13' Nagasato 53' Elby 90'			Stadium: SeatGeek Stadium Attendance: 2,804
Note: Game played at 12pm on Sunday, April 28 due to poor field conditions

Fri., May 3 4	Utah Royals FC	1–0	Chicago Red Stars	Sandy, Utah
7:00 pm MST	Maemone 66' Rodriguez 83'	Report	K.Johnson 42' Stanton 66' Kerr 80'	Stadium: Rio Tinto Stadium Attendance: 16,556

Sun., May 12 5	Chicago Red Stars	3–1	North Carolina Courage	Bridgeview, Illinois
17:00	Kerr 13' 90+3' Vasconcelos 40' Stanton 72'	Report	Williams 33' Williams 80'	Stadium: SeatGeek Stadium Attendance: 2,113

Sun., May 19 6	Houston Dash	1–2	Chicago Red Stars	Houston, Texas
17:00	Huerta 26' Murray 54'	Box	Kerr 8' 13' Stanton 49'	Stadium: BBVA Compass Stadium Attendance: 3,690

Sun., May 26 7	Chicago Red Stars	0–2	Washington Spirit	Bridgeview, Illinois
17:00	Johnson 90+3'	Box	Nagasato 9' (o.g.) Dougherty Howard 16' Hatch 63'	Stadium: SeatGeek Stadium Attendance: 3,447

Sun., June 2 8	Portland Thorns FC	3–0	Chicago Red Stars	Portland, Oregon
17:00	Purce 27', 31' Ball 37' Everett 85'	*Box	Short 66'	Stadium: Providence Park Attendance: 19,461 Referee: Victor Rivas

Sun., June 23 9	Chicago Red Stars	0–1	Reign FC	Bridgeview, Illinois
17:00	Stanton 29'	Box	Fishlock 80' Barnes 90+3'	Stadium: SeatGeek Stadium Attendance: 2,023

Sun., June 30 10	Orlando Pride	2–3	Chicago Red Stars	Orlando, Florida
16:00	Ubogagu 22' Marta 79' (pen.) Camila 87'	Report	Kerr 7', 45+2', 55' Colaprico 61'	Stadium: Exploria Stadium Attendance: 3,906

Sat., July 6 11	Chicago Red Stars	1–2	Sky Blue FC	Bridgeview, Illinois
19:00	Colaprico 83'		Rodriguez 23' Hoy 81'	Stadium: SeatGeek Stadium

Sat., July 13 12	Houston Dash	0–1	Chicago Red Stars	Houston, Texas
19:30	Hanson 77'		Johnson 7' Stanton 66'	Stadium: BBVA Compass Stadium Attendance: 5,327

Sun., July 21 13	Chicago Red Stars	2–1	North Carolina Courage	Bridgeview, Illinois
17:00	Naughton 14' DiBernardo 37' Kerr 58'		Williams 30' McDonald 51'	Stadium: SeatGeek Stadium Attendance: 17,388
Note: Game was broadcast on ESPN 2

Sun., July 28 14	Reign FC	0–4	Chicago Red Stars	Tacoma, Washington
15:00	Barnes 34'	Box Report	Wright 4' DiBernardo 14' Nagasato 51' Ertz 59' Kerr 81'	Stadium: Cheney Stadium Attendance: 7,479

Sat., Aug. 3 15	Chicago Red Stars	2–0	Utah Royals FC	Bridgeview, Illinois
19:00	Kerr 5' Elby 85'		Jónsdóttir 74'	Stadium: SeatGeek Stadium Attendance: 4,335

Sat., Aug. 10 16	Washington Spirit	0–1	Chicago Red Stars	Boyds, Maryland
18:00	Sullivan 13' Lavelle 64'		Colaprico 46' Nagasato 65'	Stadium: Maryland SoccerPlex Attendance: 5,300

Wed., Aug. 14 17	Sky Blue FC	2–1	Chicago Red Stars	Piscataway, New Jersey
18:00	Monaghan 71', 90+3' Wright 56'	Report	Kerr 90+1' Nagasato 62' Naughton 64'	Stadium: Yurcak Field Attendance: 2,558 Referee: Thomas Snyder

Wed., Aug. 21 18	Chicago Red Stars	1–2	Orlando Pride	Bridgeview, Illinois
18:30	Davidson 90+6'	Report	Hill 33' Ubogagu 61' Krieger 81' Kennedy 90'	Stadium: SeatGeek Stadium

Sun., Aug. 25 19	Portland Thorns FC	3–0	Chicago Red Stars	Portland, Oregon
14:00	Sinclair 12' Purce 24', 56' Heath 70'		Stanton 63' Nagasato 84'	Stadium: Providence Park Attendance: 17,542

Sun., Sep. 8 20	Chicago Red Stars	3–0	Houston Dash	Bridgeview, Illinois
17:00	Kerr 7', 44' McCaskill 65' Nagasato 90'		Agnew 40'	Stadium: SeatGeek Stadium Attendance: 3,345

Wed., Sep. 11 21	Orlando Pride	0–1	Chicago Red Stars	Orlando, Florida
18:30	Emslie 24'	Report	Johnson 39' 64' Short 90+5'	Stadium: Exploria Stadium Attendance: 4,592 Referee: Elvis Osmanovic
Note: Televised on ESPNews

Sun., Sep. 15 22	Sky Blue FC	0–3	Chicago Red Stars	Piscataway, New Jersey
16:00	Rodriguez 78'		Brian 31' Kerr 33' Nagasato 80'	Stadium: Yurcak Field Attendance: 2,871

Sat., Sep. 21 23	Chicago Red Stars	3–1	Washington Spirit	Bridgeview, Illinois
19:00	Kerr 9', 49' Nagasato 23'		Nielsen 53' Staab 62' Daugherty Howard 65' Pugh 80'	Stadium: SeatGeek Stadium Attendance: 4,317

Sat., Sep. 28 24	Chicago Red Stars	2–1	Utah Royals FC	Bridgeview, Illinois
19:00	DiBernardo 40' Short 67' Nagasato 85'		Press 42'	Stadium: Toyota Park Attendance: 4,839

Postseason playoffs

October 20 (20-10) Semifinal	Chicago Red Stars	1–0	Portland Thorns FC	Bridgeview, Illinois
2:30 p.m. CDT	Kerr 8'	Report	Ball 45+1'	Stadium: SeatGeek Stadium
Note: Televised on ESPN2

October 27 (27-10) Final	North Carolina Courage	4–0	Chicago Red Stars	Cary, North Carolina
4:30 p.m. EST				Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park

Statistical leaders

As of September 28, 2019 *Denotes League Leader

Top assists

Rank	Player	Assists
1	Yuki Nagasato	8 *
2	Sam Kerr	5
3	Michele Vasconcelos	3
	Casey Short
	Katie Johnson
6	Vanessa DiBernardo	2
7	Julie Ertz	1
	Arin Wright
	Savannah McCaskill
	Morgan Brian
	Zoey Goralski

Shutouts

Rank	Player	Clean sheets
1	Alyssa Naeher	6
2	Emily Boyd	2

Honors and awards

As of October 3, 2019.

NWSL Monthly Award

NWSL Player of the Month

Month	Result	Player	Ref.
May	Won	Sam Kerr	^[9]
September	Won	Sam Kerr	^[10]

NWSL Team of the Month

Month	Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards	Ref
April		Casey Short	Yuki Nagasato	Sam Kerr	^[11]
May		Casey Short	Yuki Nagasato	Sam Kerr	^[12]
June		Casey Short			^[13]
July		Casey Short Sarah Gorden	Vanessa DiBernardo	Sam Kerr	^[14]
August		Casey Short			^[15]
September	Alyssa Naeher	Casey Short Julie Ertz	Morgan Brian	Yuki Nagasato Sam Kerr	^[16]

NWSL Weekly Awards

NWSL Player of the Week

Week	Result	Player	Ref.
3	Won	Yuki Nagasato	^[17]
5	Won	Sam Kerr	^[18]
6	Won	Sam Kerr	^[19]
11	Won	Sam Kerr	^[20]
14	Won	Sam Kerr	^[21]
16	Won	Sam Kerr	^[22]
23	Won	Sam Kerr	^[23]

NWSL Goal of the Week

Week	Result	Player	Ref.
3	Nominated	Yuki Nagasato	^[24]
5	Nominated	Sam Kerr	^[25]
11	Nominated	Sam Kerr	^[26]
14	Nominated	Sam Kerr	^[27]
15	Nominated	Yuki Nagasato	^[28]
16	Won	Sam Kerr	^[29]

NWSL Save of the Week

Week	Result	Player	Ref.
1	Nominated	Alyssa Naeher	^[30]
2	Nominated	Alyssa Naeher	^[31]
5	Nominated	Emily Boyd	^[32]
6	Nominated	Emily Boyd	^[33]
11	Nominated	Emily Boyd	^[34]
14	Nominated	Alyssa Naeher	^[35]
15	Nominated	Alyssa Naeher	^[36]

References

Match reports (preseason)

Match reports (regular season)

Match report (postseason playoff)

Notes

External links

Official website

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