2023–24 Ukrainian Women's League Explained

Competition:Ukrainian Women's League
Season:2023–24
Relegated:WFC Mariupol
Veres Rivne
SC Dnipro-1
Dynamo Kyiv
Continentalcup1:UEFA Women's Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Vorskla Poltava
Prevseason:2022–23
Nextseason: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

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

Name changes

Vyshcha Liha teams notes

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

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.

TeamHome cityHome groundCapacity
data-sort-value="Dynamo" Dynamo Training Center (Koncha-Zaspa) 1,200
data-sort-value="Mariupol" Mariupol Temp (Kyiv) 2,400
data-sort-value="Dnipro-1" Dnipro-1 Dnipro Training Case N/A
data-sort-value="Shakhtar" Shakhtar Arsenal Arena (Shchaslyve) 1,000
data-sort-value="Metalist 1925" Kharkiv
data-sort-value="Kryvbas" Hirnyk 2,500
data-sort-value="Kolos" Kolos Kovalivka
Kalynivka
Kolos
Tsentralnyi Stadion
5,000
N/A
data-sort-value="Pantery" UmanTsentralny Stadion 7,552
data-sort-value="Podillia" EMS Podillia Tsentralnyi Stadion
Stadion Palatsu ditey i yunatstva
24,000
1,500
data-sort-value="Veres" Veres Kolos
Kolos
2,500
850
data-sort-value="Ladomyr" Olimp 2,000
data-sort-value="Vorskla" Vorskla 24,795

Vyshcha Liha managers

ClubHead coachReplaced coach
Veres Rivne
EMS-Podillia Vinnytsia
Mariupol
Kolos Kovalivka
Shakhtar Donetsk
Dnipro-1

Vyshcha Liha league table

Results by week

Statistics

Top scorers

RankPlayerClubGoals[3]
1 Roksolana KravchukVorskla Poltava11
2 Mariya VykalyukShakhtar Donetsk10
Viktoriya HirynLadomyr Volodymyr10 (1)
4 Nikol KozlovaVorskla Poltava9 (1)
5 Yana KalininaVorskla Poltava8
Iryna MaiborodinaKolos Kovalivka8
Polina YanchukKryvbas Kryvyi Rih8
Oksana BilokurPantery Uman8 (3)

Clean sheets

RankPlayerClubClean
sheets
1 Iryna SlavychZhytlobud-1 Kharkiv6540
2 Daryna BondarchukVorskla Poltava4343
Darya KelyushykKryvbas Kryvyi Rih4331
Marina DudnikKolos Kovalivka4287
52 players3<=270
5 Kateryna SamsonVorskla Poltava3270
Lyudmyla UstinovaShakhtar Donetsk3142
75 players2<=180
3 Yevhenia KarbanDynamo Kyiv2180
Varvara NovikovaLadomyr Volodymyr2180
Mengdi ZhuKryvbas Kryvyi Rih2180
Anastasia KlimovaShakhtar Donetsk2136
Viktoriya PetrovetsKryvbas Kryvyi Rih2120
Alla HerasymchukVorskla Poltava2108
139 players1<=90
5 Sofiya BarabashEMS-Podillia Vinnytsia190
Yelizaveta HolykFC Mariupol190
Oleksandra KulykDynamo Kyiv190
Olha RyabovilSC Dnipro-1190
Svitlana SnihurVeres Rivne168
Iryna SaninaKolos Kovalivka157
Marharyta LytsyukVeres Rivne122
Svitlana SakhnoKolos Kovalivka116
Svitlana MaliborskaSC Dnipro-111

Championship round

Championship round table

Results

Relegation round

Relegation round table

Results

Relegation play-offs

|-! colspan="5" style="background:cornsilk;"|First leg – June 1, Second leg – June 6|}

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Persha Liha

Play-offs

First place

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: 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 . All-Ukrainian Association of Women Football . 23 July 2023 . uk.
  2. https://womensfootball.com.ua/vyshcha-liga-22-23-proekt-novogo-sezonu-12-komand-22-tury-132-matchi/ ВИЩА ЛІГА 22/23. ПРОЕКТ НОВОГО СЕЗОНУ: 12 КОМАНД, 22 ТУРИ, 132 МАТЧІ
  3. Web site: ВИЩА ЛІГА 2023/2024. ТУРНІРНА ТАБЛИЦЯ + БОМБАРДИРИ ЛІГИ . womensfootball.com.ua . 21 June 2023 . 23 July 2023. uk.