The 2024–25 season of the Ukrainian Football Championship is the 34th season of Ukraine's top women's football league. Consisting of two tiers it started on 6 August 2024 with the game in Kyiv between Podillia Vinnytsia and Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.
Format The format of competitions for the season was preserved from the last season. The Higher (Vyshcha) League kept the 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 one with 7 and the other with 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 the worst teams of the Higher League (1st tier).
Vyshcha Liha teams
Team changes Promoted Relegated Seasters OdesaObolon KyivPolissia Zhytomyr MariupolVeres RivneDynamo Kyiv Dnipro-1
Other changes SC Dnipro-1 folded right before the start of the season. FC Dynamo Kyiv dissolved its women's team once again and instead signed a cooperation agreement with WFC Ladomyr Volodymyr."Динамо" розформувало жіночу команду перед стартом сезону у Вищій лізі з футболу. suspilne.media. 5 July 2024
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 Dnipro-1 Dnipro Dnipro Training Base N/A Kolos Kovalivka Kolos 5,000 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Hirnyk 2,500 Ladomyr Volodymyr Olimp 2,000 Obolon Kyiv Obolon Arena 5,100 Pantery Uman Tsentralny Stadion 7,552 EMS Podillia Vinnytsia Tsentralnyi StadionStadion Palatsu ditey i yunatstva 24,0001,500 Polissia Zhytomyr Spartak Arena 1,242 Metalist 1925 Kharkiv Arsenal Arena (Shchaslyve) 1,000 Shakhtar Donetsk Seasters Odesa Chornomorets 34,164 Vorskla Poltava Vorskla 24,795
Vyshcha Liha managers ClubHead coachReplaced coach Ladomyr Volodymyr Oleh Bortnik Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Kostiantyn Frolov Vorskla Poltava Iya Andrushchak Volodymyr Yefimako Polissia Zhytomyr Mykola Podrannyi Obolon Kyiv Tetyana Verezubova Iryna Vasylyuk EMS-Podillia Vinnytsia Oleksandr Dudnik Seasters Odesa Yevhen Dodurych Pantery Uman Yuriy Derenyuk Kolos Kovalivka Lyudmyla Pokotylo Shakhtar Donetsk Roman Zayev Dnipro-1 Metalist 1925 Kharkiv Volodymyr Pyatenko
TeamOutgoing managerManner of departureDate of vacancyTableIncoming managerDate of appointmentTableVorskla Poltava Volodymyr Yefimako11 January 20251st Iya Andrushchak11 January 2025
Vyshcha Liha First Stage League table
Results
Results by week
Championship round Championship round table
Results
Relegation round Relegation round table
Results
Relegation play-offs The relegation–promotion play-off games were scheduled to take place between the 10th and 11th placed teams in the Relegation group of the Higher League (Vyshcha Liha), with the second and third placed teams of the First League (Persha Liha).
In the First League, the best of two teams from each of the two groups would enter a play-off mini-tournament where the first of each group plays against the second team of the other group. The winners of the two semifinal pairs play each other for the tier's title, which also grants a direct promotion to the Higher League; at the same time, the losing team as runner-up (second place) meets with the 11th-placed team of the Higher League in the promotion-relegation playoff. The two losing teams of the mentioned semifinal pairs also play each other for the tier's third place, and the winner of it enters the second playoff matchup with the 10th-placed team of the Higher League in the promotion-relegation playoff.
On 16 May 2025, the UAF Women's Football Committee announced that the playoffs between the First League teams and the Higher League teams will not take place since no teams from the First League (including Mynai, Pohoryna, Yunist, and Mariupol) passed the attestation for the Higher League, and, thus, cannot get promoted.Перехідні матчі 2025: інформація для команд Вищої та Першої ліг. womensfootball.com.ua. 16 May 2025
Statistics
Top scorers
Rank Player Club Goals1Yuliya StetsLadomyr → Polissya 172Yelyzaveta MolodyukMetalist 1925 Kharkiv 163Roksolana KravchukVorskla Poltava 144Viktoriya HirynLadomyr → Metalist 1925 11 (2)5Olha OsipyanVorskla Poltava 10Tetyana TrilPolissia Zhytomyr 10 (1)Yana KalininaVorskla Poltava 10 (2)8Veronika AndrukhivKolos Kovalivka 9Darya KolodiyKryvbas Kryvyi Rih 9Violeta TyanKolos Kovalivka 9 (2)
Clean sheets
RankPlayerClubCleansheets1 Kateryna SamsonVorskla Poltava152 Darya KelyushykKolos Kovalivka93 Daryna BondarchukMetalist 1925 Kharkiv7
See also 2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League 2024–25 Ukrainian Women's Cup
References
External links WFPL.ua Women's Football.ua womensfootball.com.ua