The club has been the first women football team out of Kharkiv in Ukrainian competitions since dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The club was admitted to the Ukrainian Women's League in 2000 as Kharkivianka Kharkiv.
[1] As a year ago it also won championship finishing ahead of Lehenda and defeated it in final game of the national cup.
At the end of 2004 a vice-president of Metalist Vitaliy Danilov, after a conflict, he left Metalist for Arsenal and based on its first squad formed a new club FC Kharkiv,[1] while its female squad kept Arsenal Kharkiv brand.
[1] In 2006 former players of Arsenal joined a new club that was formed WFC Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv.