| Competition: | Ukrainian Women's League |
| Season: | 2022–23 |
| Winners: | Vorskla Poltava |
| Relegated: | Ateks Kyiv |
| Continentalcup1: | UEFA Women's Champions League |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Vorskla Poltava, Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih |
| Prevseason: | 2021–22 |
| Nextseason: | 2023–24 |
The 2022–23 season of the Ukrainian Football Championship is the 32nd season of Ukraine's top women's football league. Consisting of two tiers it is scheduled to start on 10 September 2022.[1]
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.
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 will qualify for the European competitions.
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]
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-value="Dynamo" | Kyiv (Koncha-Zaspa) | 1,200 | |||
| data-sort-value="Mariupol" | Mariupol | Bannikov Training Complex (Kyiv) Livyi Bereh (Kyiv, 1 game) | 1,678 1,500 | ||
| data-sort-value="Dnipro-1" | Dnipro-1 | Dnipro Training Case Bannikov Training Complex (Kyiv, 1 game) | N/A 1,678 | ||
| data-sort-value="Ateks" | Ateks | Livyi Bereh | 1,500 | ||
| data-sort-value="Shakhtar" | Shakhtar | Arsenal Arena (Shchaslyve) Arsenal Training Center (Shchaslyve) | 1,000 N/A | ||
| data-sort-value="Kryvbas" | Kryvbas | Sparta Hirnyk Arsenal Arena (Shchaslyve, 4 games) | N/A 2,500 1,000 | ||
| data-sort-value="Kolos" | Kolos | Kolos Kolos Training Center (Sofiyivska Borshchahivka) Avanhard (Hrebinky, 1 game) | 5,000 N/A N/A | ||
| data-sort-value="Pantery" | Pantery | Uman | Tsentralny Stadion | 7,552 | |
| data-sort-value="Podillia" | EMS Podillia | Stadion Palatsu ditey i yunatstva | 1,500 | ||
| data-sort-value="Veres" | Veres | Kolos Veres Training Center (Rivne) Kolos (Mlyniv, 2 games) Avanhard (Rivne, 1 game) | 2,500 N/A 850 4,650 | ||
| data-sort-value="Ladomyr" | Ladomyr | Olimp | 2,000 | ||
| data-sort-value="Vorskla" | Vorskla Molodizhnyi Arsenal Arena (Shchaslyve, 3 games) Arsenal Training Center (Shchaslyve, 2 games) Avanhard (Uzhhorod, 1 game) Bannikov Training Complex (Kyiv, 1 game) | 24,795 N/A 1,000 N/A 12,000 1,678 |
| Club | Head coach | Replaced coach |
|---|---|---|
| Ladomyr Volodymyr | ||
| Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | ||
| Veres Rivne | ||
| EMS-Podillia Vinnytsia | ||
| Mariupol | ||
| Pantery Uman | ||
| Kolos Kovalivka | ||
| Shakhtar Donetsk | ||
| Dnipro-1 | ||
| 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[3] | Pre-season | |
| Veres Rivne | Mykola Sidorchuk | Joined Armed Forces | Olena Ruda | 8 September 2022[4] | |||
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals[5] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yana Kalinina | Vorskla Poltava | 39 |
| 2 | Polina Yanchuk | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 37 (4) |
| 3 | Viktoria Hiryn | Ladomyr Volodymyr | 36 (2) |
| 4 | Roksolana Kravchuk | Vorskla Poltava | 24 |
| 5 | Veronika Andrukhiv | Vorskla Poltava | 23 (1) |
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[6] and then played few friendlies with Swiss teams winning one of them 8–0[7] although on the official website of their opponents it was claimed as 0–7 loss.[8] 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.[9]
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.[10]