[2] The eight teams for the 2019 NRC season include two from New South Wales, two from Queensland, and one each from Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, Western Australia, and Fiji: One NRC match per round is broadcast live via Fox Sports.
[2] Source: rugbyarchive.net • Teams 1 to 4 (Green background) at the end of the regular season qualify for the title playoffs.
[53] The tournament was a reprisal of sorts of the Australian Rugby Shield which had been disbanded ten years earlier, and most of the representative teams which had featured in the Shield were invited to participate in NRC Division 2 in 2019.
The eight teams scheduled to play in the tournament were:[53] ^FS Fox Sports broadcast match.
^W/D The Northern Territory Mosquitoes team was a late withdrawal from the NRC II for 2019 and did not compete in the tournament.