2023–24 Ukrainian Women's League

Ukrainian Women's League
Season	2023–24
	← 2022–23 2024–25 →

The 2023–24 season of the Ukrainian Football Championship is the 33rd season of Ukraine's top women's football league. Consisting of two tiers it is scheduled to start on 5 August 2023.^[1]

Due to the 2022 wide scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, several teams are not able to resume competitions.

Format[edit]

The format of competitions for the season changed again. The Higher (Vyshcha) League returned to format consisting of two stages. At the first stage all 12 teams play single round robin with top 6 teams qualify for the Championship group and bottom 6 teams to Relegation group. Each group conducts double round robin tournament. The bottom team is to be relegated while 4th and 5th teams of Relegation table will contest their berth in the Higher League with better teams of the First League (2nd tier).

The First (Persha) League consists of two groups of 8. Each group conducts double round robin tournament with the top 2 teams from each group qualify for the championship play-off consisting of semi-finals, final and the match for the third place. The Champion of the First League gets direct promotion, while 2nd and 3rd will contest their berth in the Higher League with worser teams of the Higher League (1st tier).

Vyshcha Liha teams[edit]

Dnipro-1

Vorskla

Ladomyr

EMS Podillia

Mariupol

Pantery

Shakhtar

Veres

Kryvbas

Dynamo

Kolos

Metalist 1925

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Locations of teams in the 2023–24 Ukrainian Championship Higher League

Team changes[edit]

Promoted	Relegated
Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv (returns)	Ateks Kyiv

Name changes[edit]

On 20 March 2024, WFC Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv has officially changed its name to Metalist 1925 Kharkiv of FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.

Vyshcha Liha teams notes[edit]

In July of 2022, the women football department of the Ukrainian Association of Football decided to preserve place in the Vyshcha Liha for the next season (2023–24) for the main squads of Zhytlobud-1 and Voskhod "due to the difficult situation in their regions related to the Russian aggression against Ukraine".^[2]

Vyshcha Liha stadiums[edit]

Due to ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine, many teams played their games in Kyiv or its suburbs. Critical role in providing a playing turf for the league's participant played Arsenal Arena and Livyi Bereh in the Kyiv's eastern suburbs Shchaslyve and Hnidyn.

Team	Home city	Home ground	Capacity
Dynamo	Kyiv	Dynamo Training Center (Koncha-Zaspa)	1,200
Mariupol	Mariupol	Temp (Kyiv)	2,400
Dnipro-1	Dnipro	Dnipro Training Case	N/A
Shakhtar	Donetsk	Arsenal Arena (Shchaslyve)	1,000
Metalist 1925	Kharkiv	Arsenal Arena (Shchaslyve)	1,000
Kryvbas	Kryvyi Rih	Hirnyk	2,500
Kolos	Kovalivka Kalynivka	Kolos Tsentralnyi Stadion	5,000 N/A
Pantery	Uman	Tsentralny Stadion	7,552
EMS Podillia	Vinnytsia	Tsentralnyi Stadion Stadion Palatsu ditey i yunatstva	24,000 1,500
Veres	Kostopil Mlyniv	Kolos Kolos	2,500 850
Ladomyr	Volodymyr	Olimp	2,000
Vorskla	Poltava	Vorskla	24,795

Vyshcha Liha managers[edit]

Club	Head coach	Replaced coach
Ladomyr Volodymyr	Oleh Bortnik
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Kostiantyn Frolov
Vorskla Poltava	Natalia Zinchenko
Dynamo Kyiv	Volodymyr Yefimako
Veres Rivne	Olena Ruda
EMS-Podillia Vinnytsia	Oleksandr Dudnik
Mariupol	Karina Kulakovska
Pantery Uman	Yuriy Derenyuk
Kolos Kovalivka	Lyudmyla Pokotylo
Shakhtar Donetsk	Roman Zayev
Dnipro-1	Olena Kudziyeva
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	Volodymyr Pyatenko

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Table

Vyshcha Liha league table[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	11	10	1	0	36	6	+30	31	Qualification for the Championship Group
2	Vorskla Poltava	11	9	1	1	63	3	+60	28
3	Kolos Kovalivka	11	8	1	2	31	8	+23	25
4	Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv	11	6	2	3	21	16	+5	20
5	Shakhtar Donetsk	11	6	1	4	32	13	+19	19
6	Ladomyr Volodymyr	11	5	3	3	22	21	+1	18
7	Dnipro-1	11	4	1	6	18	24	−6	13	Qualification for the Relegation Group
8	Dynamo Kyiv	11	3	3	5	12	24	−12	12
9	EMS Podillia Vinnytsia	11	3	2	6	15	38	−23	11
10	Veres Rivne	11	2	0	9	17	38	−21	6
11	Pantery Uman	11	1	1	9	13	42	−29	4
12	Mariupol	11	0	2	9	5	52	−47	2

Source: womensfootball.com.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored.^[3]

Results[edit]

Home \ Away	DNI	LAD	MAR	KOL	PAN	POD	SHA	DYN	VOR	ZTL	KRY	VER
Dnipro-1			7–2	1–1	3–2	0–1	1–2			2–3
Ladomyr Volodymyr	2–1			1–4		3–1		2–2	0–3	1–1
Mariupol		0–5^[a]			2–3				0–6		0–6	0–6
Kolos Kovalivka			8–0		6–1	5–0	2–1			1–0		1–0
Pantery Uman		2–4						1–4	0–5^[b]		0–3	1–2
EMS Podillia Vinnytsia			1–1		3–3		1–4			0–1	0–5	5–3
Shakhtar Donetsk		0–0	8–0		7–0						2–3	7–2
Dynamo Kyiv	0–1		0–0	1–3		1–2^[c]	1–0
Vorskla Poltava	8–0			2–0		12–1	0–1^[d]	10–0
Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv			2–0		3–0		3–0	0–0	1–8
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	2–0	6–2		1–0				4–0	0–0^[e]	4–1^[f]
Veres Rivne	1–2	1–2						1–3	0–9	0–6	1–2

Source: womensfootball.com.ua
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ Round 9 match scheduled to play on October 14 was postponed to November 10
^ Round 5 match scheduled to play on September 9 was postponed to November 8
^ Round 9 match scheduled to play on October 14 was played earlier on September 23
^ Round 9 match scheduled to play on October 14 was postponed to November 14
^ Round 1 match scheduled to play on August 5 was postponed to August 23
^ Round 5 match scheduled to play on September 9 was postponed to October 11

Results by week[edit]

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Team ╲ Round
Dnipro-1	W	W	W	L	L	L	L	L	D	W	L
Dynamo Kyiv	W	L	W	D	D	L	L	W	D	L	L
Kolos Kovalivka	W	L	W	W	W	L	W	W	D	W	W
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
Ladomyr Volodymyr	D	W	L	L	W	W	W	D	L	W	D
Mariupol	L	L	L	L	D	L	L	L	D	L	L
Pantery Uman	L	L	L	W	L	L	D	L	L	L	L
EMS Podillia Vinnytsia	L	L	L	L	L	W	W	W	D	D	L
Shakhtar Donetsk	W	L	L	W	W	W	L	W	L	W	D
Veres Rivne	L	W	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	W
Vorskla Poltava	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	W
Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv	D	W	W	D	W	L	L	L	W	W	W

Source: womensfootball.com.ua
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Statistics[edit]

Top scorers[edit]

As of 10 November 2023^[update]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[4]
1	Roksolana Kravchuk	Vorskla Poltava	11
2	Mariya Vykalyuk	Shakhtar Donetsk	10
2	Viktoriya Hiryn	Ladomyr Volodymyr	10 (1)
4	Nikol Kozlova	Vorskla Poltava	9 (1)
5	Yana Kalinina	Vorskla Poltava	8
	Iryna Maiborodina	Kolos Kovalivka	8
	Polina Yanchuk	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	8
	Oksana Bilokur	Pantery Uman	8 (3)

Clean sheets[edit]

As of 18 November 2023^[update]

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets	MP
1	Iryna Slavych	Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv	6	540
2	Daryna Bondarchuk	Vorskla Poltava	4	343
	Darya Kelyushyk	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	4	331
	Marina Dudnik	Kolos Kovalivka	4	287
5	2 players		3	<=270
7	5 players		2	<=180
13	9 players		1	<=90

Championship round[edit]

Championship round table[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Vorskla Poltava	17	14	2	1	83	5	+78	44	Qualification for Champions League second round
2	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	17	12	2	3	46	18	+28	38	Qualification for Champions League first round
3	Kolos Kovalivka	17	11	2	4	38	18	+20	35
4	Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	17	9	5	3	34	18	+16	32
5	Shakhtar Donetsk	17	7	1	9	36	25	+11	22
6	Ladomyr Volodymyr	17	6	3	8	29	44	−15	21

Updated to match(es) played on 29 April 2024. Source: womensfootball.com.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored.^[3]

Results[edit]

Home \ Away	KOL	KRY	LAD	SHA	VOR	MET
Kolos Kovalivka		2–1	3–1			0–1
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih			4–3		1–2	2–2
Ladomyr Volodymyr		3–1		0–2		0–7
Shakhtar Donetsk	1–2	0–1			1–3
Vorskla Poltava	6–0		6–0	3–0
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	0–0			3–0	0–0

Updated to match(es) played on 29 April 2024. Source: WFPL.UA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation round[edit]

Relegation round table[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
7	Dynamo Kyiv	17	8	4	5	33	27	+6	28
8	Dnipro-1	17	8	2	7	32	29	+3	26
9	EMS-Podillia Vinnytsia	17	6	3	8	21	49	−28	21
10	Pantery Uman	17	3	2	12	23	48	−25	11	Qualification to relegation play-offs^[6]
11	Veres Rivne	17	2	3	12	20	50	−30	9	Qualification to relegation play-offs^[6]
12	Mariupol	17	0	3	14	7	71	−64	3	Relegation to Persha Liha

Updated to match(es) played on 29 April 2024. Source: womensfootball.com.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored.^[3]

Results[edit]

Home \ Away	DNI	DYN	MAR	PAN	POD	VER
Dnipro-1		1–1	2–1			5–0
Dynamo Kyiv			8–0	3–2	5–0
Mariupol	0–3			0–4		1–1
Pantery Uman	1–2	0–1			3–0
EMS-Podillia Vinnytsia	2–1		1–0			2–1
Veres Rivne		0–3		0–0	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on 29 April 2024. Source: WFPL.UA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs[edit]

	Persha Liha (3)	v	(10) Vyshcha Liha
:		[ Report]

	Persha Liha (2)	v	(11) Vyshcha Liha
:		[ Report]

Persha Liha[edit]

Group A[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	FC Mynai	11	10	0	1	48	3	+45	30	Qualification to playoffs
2	Prykarpattia-DIuSSh-3 Iv.Frankivsk	11	9	1	1	24	8	+16	28	Qualification to playoffs
3	Polissia Zhytomyr	12	8	1	3	50	9	+41	25
4	Ladomyr-2 Volodymyr	12	7	2	3	33	16	+17	23
5	Nadbuzhia Busk	12	3	3	6	23	30	−7	12
6	Iantarochka Novoiavorivsk	12	2	5	5	8	28	−20	11
7	Rukh Lviv	12	1	1	10	10	45	−35	4
8	DIuSSh-1 Khmelnytskyi	12	0	1	11	5	62	−57	1

Updated to match(es) played on 29 April 2024. Source: womensfootball.com.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference in all matches; 4) Goals scored in all matches; 6) Fair play.^[3]

Group B[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Sisters Odesa	12	11	1	0	98	2	+96	34^[a]	Qualification to play-offs
2	Obolon Kyiv	13	11	1	1	49	11	+38	34^[a]	Qualification to play-offs
3	Yunist Chernihiv	12	7	1	4	51	13	+38	22^[b]
4	Lider Kobeliaky	12	7	1	4	35	26	+9	22^[b]
5	Ateks Kyiv	12	3	3	6	10	39	−29	12
6	Kryvbas-2 Kryvyi Rih	14	3	1	10	15	26	−11	10	Withdrew
7	Zhaivir Shpola	13	2	1	10	4	69	−65	7
8	Metalurh Zaporizhia	12	1	1	10	3	79	−76	4

Updated to match(es) played on 29 April 2024. Source: womensfootball.com.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored.^[3]
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head points: Sisters 4, Obolon 1
^ ^a ^b Head-to-head points: Yunist 3, Lider 0

Play-offs[edit]

Semifinals[edit]

	Group A (1)	v	(2) Group B
:		[ Report]

	Group B (1)	v	(2) Group A
:		[ Report]

Third place[edit]

	Looser of A(1)/B(2)	v	Looser of B(1)/A(2)
:		[ Report]

First place[edit]

	Winner of A(1)/B(2)	v	Winner of B(1)/A(2)
:		[ Report]

References[edit]

^ "ВИЩА ЛІГА 23/24: У БУДИНКУ ФУТБОЛУ ВІДБУЛОСЯ ЖЕРЕБКУВАННЯ КАЛЕНДАРЯ" [Higher League 23/24: In the House of Football took place of the season's calendar draw]. womensfootball.com.ua (in Ukrainian). All-Ukrainian Association of Women Football. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
^ ВИЩА ЛІГА 22/23. ПРОЕКТ НОВОГО СЕЗОНУ: 12 КОМАНД, 22 ТУРИ, 132 МАТЧІ. womensfootball.com.ua. 16 July 2022
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "ВСЕУКРАЇНСЬКИХ ЗМАГАНЬ З ФУТБОЛУ СЕРЕД ЖІНОЧИХ КЛУБІВ СЕЗОНУ 2021-2022 РОКІВ" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 September 2021.
^ "ВИЩА ЛІГА 2023/2024. ТУРНІРНА ТАБЛИЦЯ + БОМБАРДИРИ ЛІГИ". womensfootball.com.ua (in Ukrainian). 21 June 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b (Вища ліга 19/20: гарячий липень у жіночому футболі!). Womensfootball.com.ua. 5 July 2020
^ ^a ^b 29-й Чемпіонат України з футболу серед жінок. Вища ліга: матчі липня Archived 2020-02-25 at the Wayback Machine. womensfootball.ua. 17 July 2019.

External links[edit]

WFPL.ua
Women's Football.ua womensfootball.com.ua

[table_note_1_MAR_LAD0.34918084989729-4] Round 9 match scheduled to play on October 14 was postponed to November 10

[table_note_1_PAN_VOR0.34918084989729-5] Round 5 match scheduled to play on September 9 was postponed to November 8

[table_note_1_DYN_POD0.34918084989729-6] Round 9 match scheduled to play on October 14 was played earlier on September 23

[table_note_1_VOR_SHA0.34918084989729-7] Round 9 match scheduled to play on October 14 was postponed to November 14

[table_note_1_KRY_VOR0.34918084989729-8] Round 1 match scheduled to play on August 5 was postponed to August 23

[table_note_1_KRY_ZTL0.34918084989729-9] Round 5 match scheduled to play on September 9 was postponed to October 11

[table_hth_STO0.81041667042785-13] Head-to-head points: Sisters 4, Obolon 1

[table_hth_YUN0.81041667042785-14] Head-to-head points: Yunist 3, Lider 0

[1] "ВИЩА ЛІГА 23/24: У БУДИНКУ ФУТБОЛУ ВІДБУЛОСЯ ЖЕРЕБКУВАННЯ КАЛЕНДАРЯ" [Higher League 23/24: In the House of Football took place of the season's calendar draw]. womensfootball.com.ua (in Ukrainian). All-Ukrainian Association of Women Football. Retrieved 23 July 2023.

[2] ВИЩА ЛІГА 22/23. ПРОЕКТ НОВОГО СЕЗОНУ: 12 КОМАНД, 22 ТУРИ, 132 МАТЧІ. womensfootball.com.ua. 16 July 2022

[reglament-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "ВСЕУКРАЇНСЬКИХ ЗМАГАНЬ З ФУТБОЛУ СЕРЕД ЖІНОЧИХ КЛУБІВ СЕЗОНУ 2021-2022 РОКІВ" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 September 2021.

[10] "ВИЩА ЛІГА 2023/2024. ТУРНІРНА ТАБЛИЦЯ + БОМБАРДИРИ ЛІГИ". womensfootball.com.ua (in Ukrainian). 21 June 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2023.

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[womensfootball.com.ua-12] 29-й Чемпіонат України з футболу серед жінок. Вища ліга: матчі липня Archived 2020-02-25 at the Wayback Machine. womensfootball.ua. 17 July 2019.

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v t e Ukrainian Women's League
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v t e 2023–24 in Ukrainian football
« 2022–23 2024–25 »
Domestic leagues	Premier League Under-19 First League Second League Amateur League Women League
Domestic cups	Ukrainian Cup Final Women's Cup Amateur Cup
Regional championships	Cherkasy Oblast '23 '24 Chernihiv Oblast '23 '24 Chernivtsi Oblast '23 '24 Dnipropetrovsk Oblast '23 '24 Donetsk Oblast '23 '24 Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Kharkiv Oblast '23 '24 Kherson Oblast '23 '24 Khmelnytskyi Oblast '23 '24 Kyiv Oblast Kirovohrad Oblast '23 '24 Luhansk Oblast '23 '24 Lviv Oblast '23 '24 Mykolaiv Oblast '23 '24 Odessa Oblast '23 '24 Poltava Oblast '23 '24 Rivne Oblast '23 '24 Sumy Oblast '23 '24 Ternopil Oblast '23 '24 Vinnytsia Oblast Volyn Oblast 2023 '24 Zakarpattia Oblast '23 '24 Zaporizhia Oblast '23 '24 Zhytomyr Oblast '23 '24
Club seasons
Premier League	Chornomorets Odesa Dnipro-1 Dynamo Kyiv Kolos Kovalivka Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih LNZ Cherkasy Metalist 1925 Kharkiv Mynai Obolon Kyiv Oleksandriya Polissya Rukh Lviv Shakhtar Donetsk Veres Rivne Vorskla Poltava Zorya Luhansk
Ukrainian First League	Ahrobiznes Volochysk Bukovyna Chernivtsi Chernihiv Dinaz Vyshhorod Epitsentr Dunaivtsi Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni Inhulets Petrove Karpaty Lviv Khust Kremin Kremenchuk Livyi Bereh Kyiv Mariupol Metalist Kharkiv Metalurh Zaporizhya Nyva Buzova Nyva Ternopil Podillia Khmelnytskyi Poltava Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk Viktoriya Sumy
Ukrainian Second League	Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka Druzhba Myrivka Karpaty-2 Kremin-2 Kudrivka Lokomotyv Kyiv Metalurh-2 Mykolaiv 1920 Nyva Vinnytsia Real Pharma Rukh-2 Skala 1911 Stryi Trostianets UCSA Tarasivka Zvyahel
Summer 2023 transfers Winter 2023–24 transfers

v t e 2023–24 in European women's football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Azerbaijan Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '23 '24 Faroe Islands '23 '24 Finland '23 '24 France Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland '23 '24 Italy Lithuania '23 '24 Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland '23 '24 Norway '23 '24 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '23 '24 Romania Russia '23 '24 Scotland Slovakia Spain Sweden '23 '24 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Domestic cups	Croatia England France Germany Greece Iceland '23 '24 Italy Gibraltar Moldova Norway '23 '24 Portugal Scotland Spain Sweden Ukraine '23 Wales
League cups	England Portugal Scotland
Supercups	France Spain
UEFA competitions	Women's Champions League qualifying rounds group stage knockout phase Final
International competitions	UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualification 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League League A League B League C Promotion/relegation Finals Final 2024 Women's Euro Under-19 qualification 2024 Women's Euro Under-17 qualification

Format[edit]

Vyshcha Liha teams[edit]

Team changes[edit]

Name changes[edit]

Vyshcha Liha teams notes[edit]

Vyshcha Liha stadiums[edit]

Vyshcha Liha managers[edit]

Vyshcha Liha league table[edit]

Results[edit]

Results by week[edit]

Statistics[edit]

Top scorers[edit]

Clean sheets[edit]

Championship round[edit]

Championship round table[edit]

Results[edit]

Relegation round[edit]

Relegation round table[edit]

Results[edit]

Relegation play-offs[edit]

Persha Liha[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group B[edit]

Play-offs[edit]

Semifinals[edit]

Third place[edit]

First place[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]