# 2022–23 Ukrainian Women's Top League

The 2022–23 season of the Ukrainian Football Championship was the 32nd season of Ukraine's top women's football league. Consisting of two tiers it started on 10 September 2022.
Due to the 2022 wide scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, several teams are not able to resume competitions including the reigning champions WFC Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv.

## Format

The format of competitions for the season changed again for both tiers, but not significantly. The league finally expanded to 12 teams as it planned earlier and adopted classical format with straight double round-robin tournament home and away for the top tier (Vyshcha Liha) with the last team is set to be relegated to the lower tier for the next season. The top two teams qualify for the European competitions.

## Vyshcha Liha teams
### Team changes

| Promoted | Relegated |
| Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk Dnipro-1 Veres Rivne | Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv (withdrew) Voskhod Stara Mayachka (withdrew) Karpaty Lviv (withdrew) |

### Name changes

* On 10 September 2022, WFC Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv has officially transformed into a women team of FC Vorskla Poltava.

### Vyshcha Liha teams notes

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".

## 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.
| Team | Home city | Home ground | Capacity |
| Dynamo | Kyiv (Koncha-Zaspa) | Dynamo Training Center | 1,200 |
| Mariupol | Mariupol | Bannikov Training Complex (Kyiv)Livyi Bereh (Kyiv, 1 game) | 1,6781,500 |
| Dnipro-1 | Dnipro | Dnipro Training CaseBannikov Training Complex (Kyiv, 1 game) | N/A1,678 |
| Ateks | Kyiv | Livyi Bereh | 1,500 |
| Shakhtar | Donetsk | Arsenal Arena (Shchaslyve)Arsenal Training Center (Shchaslyve) | 1,000N/A |
| Kryvbas | Kryvyi Rih | SpartaHirnykArsenal Arena (Shchaslyve, 4 games) | N/A2,5001,000 |
| Kolos | Kovalivka | KolosKolos Training Center (Sofiyivska Borshchahivka)Avanhard (Hrebinky, 1 game) | 5,000N/AN/A |
| Pantery | Uman | Tsentralny Stadion | 7,552 |
| EMS Podillia | Vinnytsia | Stadion Palatsu ditey i yunatstva | 1,500 |
| Veres | Kostopil | KolosVeres Training Center (Rivne)Kolos (Mlyniv, 2 games)Avanhard (Rivne, 1 game) | 2,500N/A8504,650 |
| Ladomyr | Volodymyr | Olimp | 2,000 |
| Vorskla | Poltava | VorsklaMolodizhnyiArsenal Arena (Shchaslyve, 3 games)Arsenal Training Center (Shchaslyve, 2 games)Avanhard (Uzhhorod, 1 game)Bannikov Training Complex (Kyiv, 1 game) | 24,795N/A1,000N/A12,0001,678 |

## Vyshcha Liha managers

| Club | Head coach |
| Ladomyr Volodymyr | Oleh Bortnik |
| Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | Volodymyr Yefimako |
| Vorskla Poltava | Natalia Zinchenko |
| Dynamo Kyiv | Volodymyr Pyatenko |
| 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 |
| Ateks Kyiv | Alla Hres |
| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment | Table |
| Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | Alina Stetsenko | | 1 August 2022 | Pre-season | Volodymyr Yefimako | 22 August 2022 | Pre-season |
| Veres Rivne | Mykola Sidorchuk | Joined Armed Forces | | Pre-season | Olena Ruda | 8 September 2022 | Pre-season |

## Vyshcha Liha league table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Vorskla Poltava (C) | 22 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 147 | 4 | +143 | 66 | Qualification for the Champions League qualifying second round |
| 2 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 22 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 120 | 10 | +110 | 57 | Qualification for the Champions League qualifying first round |
| 3 | Kolos Kovalivka | 22 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 54 | 12 | +42 | 49 | |
| 4 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 22 | 16 | 0 | 6 | 74 | 27 | +47 | 48 | |
| 5 | Ladomyr Volodymyr | 22 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 83 | 49 | +34 | 36 | |
| 6 | Dnipro-1 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 47 | 49 | −2 | 29 | |
| 7 | Dynamo Kyiv | 22 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 35 | 41 | −6 | 29 | |
| 8 | Veres Rivne | 22 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 33 | 71 | −38 | 20 | |
| 9 | Mariupol | 22 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 23 | 78 | −55 | 19 | |
| 10 | EMS Podillia Vinnytsia | 22 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 22 | 61 | −39 | 18 | |
| 11 | Pantery Uman | 22 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 20 | 75 | −55 | 17 | |
| 12 | Ateks Kyiv (R) | 22 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 8 | 189 | −181 | 1 | Relegation to the Persha Liha |

## Vyshcha Liha results

| Home \ Away | DNI | LAD | MAR | KOL | PAN | POD | SHA | DYN | VOR | ATX | KRY | VER |
| Dnipro-1 | | 2–1 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–5 | 14–2 | 0–7 | 2–1 |
| Ladomyr Volodymyr | 8–1 | | 7–1 | 1–3 | 3–2 | 6–1 | 2–3 | 2–0 | 1–5 | 17–1 | 0–4 | 8–0 |
| Mariupol | 0–8 | 0–3 | | 0–1 | 5–2 | 0–1 | 0–6 | 0–3 | 0–10 | 3–0 | 2–8 | 1–2 |
| Kolos Kovalivka | 2–0 | 4–0 | 5–1 | | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 14–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 |
| Pantery Uman | 0–2 | 0–6 | 0–1 | 0–1 | | 0–3 | 0–7 | 2–1 | 0–8 | 5–1 | 1–5 | 0–4 |
| EMS Podillia Vinnytsia | 1–2 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 0–2 | | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0–4 | 6–1 | 0–13 | 2–2 |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 1–2 | 6–1 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 8–1 | 2–0 | | 2–1 | 0–5 | 7–0 | 0–5 | 3–1 |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 0–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–5 | | 0–5 | 3–0 | 0–5 | 4–0 |
| Vorskla Poltava | 4–0 | 11–0 | 8–0 | 4–0 | 6–0 | 7–0 | 2–0 | 5–1 | | 14–0 | 3–0 | 9–0 |
| Ateks Kyiv | 0–6 | 0–8 | 0–0 | 0–5 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–11 | 1–9 | 0–23 | | 0–16 | 0–6 |
| Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 4–0 | 2–1 | 6–0 | 0–1 | 8–0 | 5–0 | 5–0 | 6–0 | 1–2 | 8–0 | | 7–0 |
| Veres Rivne | 1–1 | 1–5 | 0–3 | 0–5 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 0–5 | 2–1 | 0–5 | 10–1 | 0–4 | |

## Persha Liha

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Lider Kobeliaky (C) | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 5 | +16 | 19 |
| 2 | Yunist Chernihiv | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 5 | +14 | 19 |
| 3 | Iantarochka Novoiavorivsk | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 16 | −5 | 10 |
| 4 | Rukh Lviv | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 21 | −10 | 7 |
| 5 | Prykarpattia-DIuSSh-3 Iv.Frankivsk | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 23 | −15 | −1 |
* 1 2 Head-to-head points: Lider 4, Yunist 1
* ↑ Last season Rukh Lviv played as Chempion Ternopil.
* ↑ Prykarpattia had 3 points stripped for no show at the away match against Yunist Chernihiv on 28 May 2023, last round of the competition.

### Zhytlobud-1 U-21 Kharkiv

The last season participant Persha Stolytsia Kharkiv went abroad and relocated to Zürich. Based out of Zürich, the team first participated in an international exhibition tournament as Zhytlobud-1 U-21 Kharkiv and then played few friendlies with Swiss teams winning one of them 8–0 although on the official website of their opponents it was claimed as 0–7 loss. Eventually for the 2022–23 the Kharkiv's junior team joined the Swiss 4th division of women football as a junior team of SC Wipkingen, SC Wipkingen ZH 2.
For the next 2023–24 many players joined FC Kloten which plays in the Swiss second tier, while couple of others joined other second tier clubs.