Monzul is tall, speaks fluent
English, and has a degree in
architecture and
town planning from
Kharkiv National Academy of Urban Economy. She took charge of her first international match in September 2005,
Finland versus
Poland in the
2007 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifiers. She first refereed in a final tournament at
UEFA Women's Euro 2009, while at the 2011 World Cup she served as a fourth official. The
2013 UEFA Women's Euro's
Norway versus
Denmark semi-final marked her first performance in a major nations tournament's final stages. The following year she refereed the
2014 UEFA Women's Champions League final. In 2014, she was voted second in the
International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) World's Best Woman Referee poll behind
Bibiana Steinhaus. Monzul refereed the opening match of the
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, marking her debut in the competition as main referee, in which she awarded a controversial
injury time penalty kick to host nation
Canada who scored to beat
China 1–0. She also refereed
the final on 5 July 2015 between the
United States and
Japan. In 2015, she was named as the
IFFHS World's Best Woman Referee. On 3 April 2016, Monzul started working in the
Ukrainian Premier League, in a match between
Chornomorets Odesa and
Volyn Lutsk. In doing so, she became the first female referee in the elite men's Ukrainian football division. In June 2017, Monzul was appointed to be an official at the
UEFA Women's Euro 2017 in the
Netherlands. On 3 December 2018, it was announced that Monzul had been appointed to be a referee for the
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in
France. After the conclusion of the round of 16, FIFA announced that Monzul was selected as one of 11 referees who would be assigned to matches during the final 8 matches of the tournament. In November 2020, she officiated the
UEFA Nations League match between
San Marino and
Gibraltar as part of the first all-female refereeing team to take charge of a senior men's international. In December 2020, Monzul,
Maryna Striletska and
Oleksandra Ardasheva became the first all-women's officiating team in a men's
UEFA match when they took charge of a
UEFA Europa League match between
K.A.A. Gent and
FC Slovan Liberec. In February 2022 Monzul fled her home country of Ukraine after the
Russian invasion. On 31 July 2022, she refereed the
Women's Euro final at
Wembley Stadium. The match was won by
England, defeating
Germany 2-1 after extra time. On 9 January 2023, FIFA appointed her to the officiating pool for the
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. ==International competition record==