Kharaatsai Wins 2026 Women's League, Will Play in AFC Champions League

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After almost two years without women's football in Mongolia following a boycott of the MFF and its president in 2025, the Mongolia's National Women's League kicked off the 2026 season on 26 April.

Seven teams competed this season, with clubs playing each other twice for a total of twelve matches in a double round-robin format. Final matches were played 29 June.

After all forty-two league matches were played, Kharaatsai sat at the top of the table with twenty nine points under head coach E. Shinebayar. First-time entrants Ulaangom City, coached by D. Ankhbayar, took the silver medal while B. Altantsetseg's Khad FC finished third. The championship was Kharaatsai's second title all-time and first since 2023. Reigning champions Khovd Western finished in fifth place.

Entering the final matchday, G. Otgonjargal of Zugiinuud FC lead the Golden Boot race despite her club finishing outside the top three. However, Khad's #28 O. Uyakhan exploded for nine goals against Western FC in the final match to leapfrog Otgonjargaal to become the league's top scorer with twenty-four goals.

Uyakhan, who hails from Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, came to Mongolia in December 2025 to study for a master's degree in physical education at the Mongolian University of Education. She has played for Khad since the beginning of this season and also featured for the club's futsal side.

League Table

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Individual Honours

Best Goalkeeper: Lkhagvaa Bujinlkhan (Ulaangom City)

Best Defender: S. Enerel (Kharaatsai)

Best Midfielder: Chinbaatar Solongo (Kharaatsai)

Best Forward: O. Uyakhan (Khad FC)

AFC Champions League

Just days after the league ended, Kharaatsai was included in the draw for the 2026-2027 AFC Women's Champions League. Ultimately, the club was drawn into Group D of the Preliminary Round along with the College of Asian Scholars, April 25, and S'Amuser, the champions of Thailand, PR Korea, and East Timor, respectively.

The group's matches will be played in Thailand between 17-23 August 2026.

Kharaatsai will make its international debut while becoming Mongolia's second-ever entrant into the competition following Khovd Western's historic debut last year. Kharaatsai will look to improve over Western's performances which included heavy defeats to the champions of Myanmar and the Philippines and ended with the women's national team's all-time top scorer Namuuma Narmandakh and several team officials receiving multi-year bans for attempted match-fixing.

Despite the humiliating and shameful campaign, Khovd Western did earn Mongolian women's first-ever continental victory with a 5 to 2 victory over Guam's Stryker's FC.