Ukraine Suspend Women's League After Russia's Invasion

Written by Oluwaseun Oyediji

A few hours after Russian troops attacked Ukraine, the Ukrainian association suspended the game in Ukraine.

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The originally planned start of the Women’s championship and relegation rounds was scheduled for March 19.

“Due to the imposition of martial law in Ukraine, the Ukrainian championship has been suspended,” the football association UAF said on Thursday.

Ateks Kiev was the only team in the Women’s League to go into the relegation round with 0 points.

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From the two-part second division, Dynamo Kiev and Shakhtar Donetsk are the two largest Ukrainian teams at the top of the table. Both would have targeted promotion to the Women’s League.

WFC Zhytlobud-2 finishes first place in the Women’s League.

Last year’s runner-up is three points ahead of record champions WFC Zhytlobud-1.

Meanwhile…

The question of where the German women’s national team stand before the European Championships can now be answered more easily after the test tournament in England: The team can keep up with the top teams – but cannot (yet) defeat them.

Exhausted and with a lot of knowledge, the German footballers boarded the charter flight home in Birmingham on Thursday.

Four and a half months before the start of the European Championship against Denmark, national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg still has a lot of work to do.

Despite the sobering 1-3 defeat to England at the end of the Arnold Clark Cup, the bottom of the table did not let the optimism for the tournament in July on the island be taken away.

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Oluwaseun Oyediji

I am a huge advocate of Women’s football after covering the Nigeria Women Football Leagues (NWFL) since 2019. An unbiased football writer with penchant for women’s in sports and historical analysis.

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