Darya Dmytrivna Kravets (, born 21 March 1994) is a Ukrainian professional

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who played 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,

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, and in Kazakhstan for

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Club career

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. In 2014, she joined the women's team of the Russian club

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. She played her first match in the Russian Premier League on April 13, 2014, against the club Ryazan-VDV. The following year she joined

and finished at the third position of the

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. In 2016 she joined the club

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. In 2022 she moved to

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. In 2023, she attempted to enter the Russian Federation when incriminating material was found on her phone.

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

Lehenda Chernihiv * Ukrainian Women's Cup: 2012 *

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: runner-up 2012 Mordovia Saransk *

: 3rd place 2015 BIIK Kazygurt * Kazakhstani Championship: 2016, 2017, 2018 * Kazakhstani Cup: 2016, 2017, 2018

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* 1994 births Living people Footballers from Donetsk Ukrainian women's footballers 21st-century Ukrainian sportswomen Women's association football defenders FC Zorky Krasnogorsk (women) players BIIK Kazygurt players Stade de Reims Féminines players Première Ligue players Ukraine women's international footballers Ukrainian expatriate women's footballers Ukrainian sportspeople in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian War 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 SSD FC Como Women players WFC Lehenda-ShVSM Chernihiv players {{Ukraine-footy-defender-1990s-stub