Darya Dmytrivna Kravets ( uk, Дар'я Дмитрівна Кравець, born 21 March 1994) is a Ukrainian professional

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who plays for

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club FC Como Women and the Ukraine women's national team. She previously played in France for

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, in Russia for Mordovochka Saransk,

FC Zorky Krasnogorsk FC Zorky Krasnogorsk (russian: ФК «Зоркий» Красногорск) is a Russian football team based in Krasnogorsk. It was founded in 1968 and played in the third-tier Soviet Second League from 1968 to 1969, from 1982 to 1989 and fr ...

and in Kazakhstan for BIIK Kazygurt.

Biography

Career in club

Darya started with another sport, road cycling, at the age of nine. While she continued to practice the discipline in competition, even winning a podium in a national championship, she finally chose football at the age of 14 and made her debut for

Lehenda Chernihiv Lehenda-ShVSM Chernihiv ( uk, "Легенда-ШВСМ" Чернігів) is a former Ukrainian professional women's football club from Chernihiv, Ukraine. In 2018, it merged with Yednist Plysky as Yednist-ShVSM Plysky. ShVSM abbreviation stands ...

. In 2014, she joined the women's team of the Russian club FC Mordovia Saransk. She played her first match in the Russian Premier League on April 13, 2014 against the club

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. The following year she joined

and finished at the third position of the Russia championship. In 2016 she joined the club BIIK Kazygurt in Kazakhstan. Darya participates in the Champions League with BIIK Kazygurt and in the 2018-2019 season faces and beats

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3-1 in the round of 16. Darya Kravets joined

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in the summer 2019 by signing at the Stade de

, for the club's return among the elite in D1 Féminine.

International career

She made her debut for the Ukraine national team WU-17 on October 21, 2010, in the winning (6-1) home game of the WU-17 European Championship first qualifying round against

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. She made her debut for the Ukraine women's national team on September 13, 2014, in the winning World Cup (8-0) home qualifying match against

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International goals

Honours

Ukrainian Women's Cup The Ukrainian Women’s Cup Competition ( uk, Кубок України серед жіночих команд) is a knockout cup competition for women's football clubs in Ukraine, run by the Football Federation of Ukraine. Format The format of ...

: 2012 *

Ukrainian Women's League The Ukrainian Women's Professional Football League, WFPL, is part of the Ukrainian football clubs competitions among females that consists of two divisions, the Top League (Vyshcha Liha) which has a professional status and the First League (Persha ...

: runner-up 2012 *

Russian Women's Football Championship The Russian Women's Football Championship (russian: Чемпионат России по футболу среди женщин), also known as the Top Division and the Women's Football League, is the highest professional women's football league i ...

: 3rd place 2015 *

Kazakhstani Championship The Pro Hokei Ligasy formerly known as ''Republic of Kazakhstan Open Ice Hockey Championship'' ''( kk, Шайбалық хоккей бойынша Қазақстан Республикасының ашық чемпионаты, russian: Откры ...

** 2016, 2017, 2018 * Kazakhstani Cup ** 2016, 2017, 2018

References

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* 1994 births Living people Footballers from Donetsk Ukrainian women's footballers Women's association football defenders FC Zorky Krasnogorsk (women) players BIIK Kazygurt players Stade de Reims Féminines players Division 1 Féminine players Ukraine women's international footballers Ukrainian expatriate women's footballers Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Expatriate women's footballers in Russia Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Expatriate women's footballers in Kazakhstan Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Israel Expatriate women's footballers in Israel Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate women's footballers in France Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate women's footballers in Italy S.S.D. F.C. Como Women players {{Ukraine-footy-defender-1990s-stub