# 2018–19 Vyshcha Liha (women)

The 2018–19 season of the Ukrainian Championship Higher League was the 28th season of Ukraine's top women's football league. It took place from 3 August 2018 to 1 June 2019.

## Teams
### Team changes

| Promoted | Relegated |
| Voskhod Stara Maiachka WFC Lviv | Lehenda-ShVSM Chernihiv (merged) Ateks SDIuShOR-16 Kyiv |

### Name changes

* Iednist-ShVSM Plysky was known last season as Iednist Plysky (merged with Lehenda-ShVSM)

### Stadiums

| Team | Home city | Home ground | Capacity |
| Iatran | Uman Raion | Tsentralnyi Raionyi Stadion | 1,600 |
| Iednist | Plysky | Iednist Stadion | 1,500 |
| Ladomyr | Volodymyr-Volynskyi | Olimp Stadion | 2,000+ |
| Lviv | Novoiavorivsk | Stadion imeni Rusyna | |
| Pantery | Uman | Stadion Umanfermmash | |
| Zlahoda-Dnipro-1 | Dnipro | Molodizhnyi Stadion | |
| Rodyna | Berezne | Stadion Kolos | 3,000 |
| Voskhod | Beryslav | Stadion Mashynobudivnyk | |
| Zhytlobud-1 | Liubotyn | Stadion Olimpiyets | |
| Zhytlobud-2 | Kharkiv | Sonyachny Stadium | 4,924 |

## Vyshcha Liha

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv (C, Q) | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 110 | 1 | +109 | 54 | Qualification to Champions League |
| 2 | Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv | 18 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 115 | 6 | +109 | 48 | |
| 3 | Voskhod Stara Maiachka | 18 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 31 | 31 | 0 | 32 | |
| 4 | WFC Lviv | 18 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 39 | 38 | +1 | 29 | Withdrew after the season |
| 5 | Iednist Plysky | 18 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 39 | 35 | +4 | 29 | |
| 6 | Ladomyr Volodymyr-Volynskyi | 18 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 24 | 45 | −21 | 22 | |
| 7 | Iatran Berestivets | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 25 | −9 | 17 | |
| 8 | Rodyna Kostopil | 18 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 59 | −45 | 14 | |
| 9 | Pantery Uman | 18 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 83 | −69 | 10 | |
| 10 | Zlahoda-Dnipro-1 (O) | 18 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 18 | 97 | −79 | 7 | Qualification to relegation play-offs |
* ↑ Lviv was admitted to the league without fielding a team in previous season (replaced Iantarochka Novoiavorivsk'"`UNIQ--ref-0000000A-QINU`"''"`UNIQ--ref-0000000B-QINU`"').

### Results

| Home \ Away | IAT | IED | LAD | LVI | PAN | ZD1 | ROD | VSM | ZH1 | ZH2 |
| Iatran Berestivets | — | 0–1 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–5 |
| Iednist Plysky | 0–0 | — | 4–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 1–7 |
| Ladomyr Volodymyr-Volynskyi | 1–0 | 3–2 | — | 2–1 | 3–0 | 4–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–6 |
| WFC Lviv | 1–0 | 4–2 | 2–0 | — | 7–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 5–1 | 0–6 | 2–5 |
| Pantery Uman | 0–5 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 0–6 | — | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 0–12 | 0–7 |
| Zlahoda-Dnipro-1 | 0–4 | 0–8 | 4–1 | 2–3 | 3–6 | — | 0–6 | -:+ | 0–15 | -:+ |
| Rodyna Kostopil | 0–2 | 0–5 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 3–1 | 2–1 | — | 1–1 | 0–7 | 0–9 |
| Voskhod Stara Maiachka | 1–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 8–0 | 2–0 | — | 0–4 | 0–4 |
| Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv | 3–0 | 7–0 | 11–0 | 7–0 | 8–0 | 8–0 | 11–0 | 3–0 | — | 1–0 |
| Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv | 5–0 | 5–0 | 4–1 | 7–0 | 13–0 | 19–0 | 7–0 | 9–0 | 0–1 | — |

### Top scorers

    As of 1 June 2019
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Olha Ovdiychuk | Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv | 30 (3) |
| 2 | Yana Kalinina | Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv | 22 |
| 3 | Tetiana Poliukhovych | Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv | 20 (7) |
| 4 | Yana Malakhova | Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv | 19 |
| 5 | Veronika Andrukhiv | Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv | 18 |
| 6 | Daryna Apanashchenko | Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv | 17 (1) |
| 7 | Yulia Shevchuk | Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv | 13 |
| 8 | Hanna Mozolska | Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv | 11 |
| 9 | Alina Skydan | Iednist Plysky | 10 (2) |
| 9 | Yulia Stets | Voskhod Stara Maiachka | 10 (2) |

### Relegation play-offs

The drawing for relegation playoff took place on 13 June 2019.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| SC Vyshneve | w/o | Zlahoda-Dnipro-1 | | |
Zlahoda-Dnipro-1 won on walkover and has preserved its berth in the Ukrainian Women's League. SC Vyshneve withdrew from league competitions. Later SC Dnipro-1 informed the Ukrainian Association of Football that it will not field its female team next season.

## Persha Liha
### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| 1 | VO DYuSSH Vinnytsia | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 33 | 8 | +25 | 24 | Qualified to Persha Liha play-offs |
| 2 | Karpaty Lviv | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 40 | 17 | +23 | 21 | Qualified to Persha Liha play-offs |
| 3 | Stanislavchanka-DYuSSh-3 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 16 | +5 | 19 | |
| 4 | Iantarochka Novoyavorivsk | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 30 | −20 | 11 | |
| 5 | Bukovynska Nadia | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 21 | 36 | −15 | 9 | |
| 6 | Kolos-Mriya | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 27 | −18 | 4 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| 1 | Mariupolchanka | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 34 | 2 | +32 | 20 | Qualified to Persha Liha play-offs |
| 2 | SC Vyshneve | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 5 | +24 | 19 | Qualified to Persha Liha play-offs |
| 3 | Ateks-SDYuShOR-16 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 15 | +3 | 9 | |
| 4 | Polissia Zhytomyr | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 18 | −11 | 1 | Expelled |
| 5 | Luhanochka-Spartak | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 52 | −48 | 0 | |
* ↑ Polissia Zhytomyr was expelled from the league for failing to appear for games repeatedly.

### Play-offs
#### Semifinals

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| VO DYuSSh | 4 – 1 | Vyshneve |
| Karpaty | 1 – 4 | Mariupolchanka |
VO DYuSSh Vinnytsia and Mariupolchanka Mariupol gained promotion to the Ukrainian Women's League.

#### Third place

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Vyshneve | 3 – 1 | Karpaty |
SC Vyshneve qualified for promotion/relegation play-offs.

#### Final

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| VO DYuSSh | 0 – 4 | Mariupolchanka |
Mariupolchanka Mariupol was crown as the champions of the 2018–19 Persha Liha.