FC Cherkashchyna () was a professional Ukrainian football club from the city of Cherkasy. The club's home ground was Central Stadium which was refurbished in 2003 and has a capacity of 10,321.
The club became the first that managed to reach semi-finals of the Ukrainian Cup in 2014, while playing in the Ukrainian Second League.
Established in 2010, the club was restructured in 2014. The club was dissolved in July 2018 and reformedCherkaskyi Dnipro changed its name and home of record (Черкаський Дніпро змінив назву і прописку) . UA-Football. 10 July 2018 as another new project based on its academy in Bilozirya.FC Cherkashchyna-Akademiya OTH Bilozirya is a new ambitious football project (ФК «Черкащина-Академія» ОТГ Білозір’я – новий амбітний футбольний проект) . Cherkaskyi Sport. 2 August 2018
Team names 2004–2009 (first club) 2004–2009: FC Khodak Cherkasy 2010–2018 (second club) 2010–2014: FC Slavutych Cherkasy 2014: FC Slavutych–Zorya Cherkasy 2014–2018: FC Cherkaskyi Dnipro 2018–2021 (third club) 2018–2019: FC Cherkashchyna-Akademiya Bilozirya 2019–2021: FC Cherkashchyna
History Khodak Cherkasy In 2004, there was registered club FC Khodak Cherkasy at a local food factory owned by Volodymyr Khodak.Volodymyr Khodak at FootballfactsKhodak Cherkasy is the 2008 Oblast Champion (Черкаський «Ходак» – чемпіон області-2008). FFU. 25 November 2008 The factory team existed at least since 1998, but was registered as Khodak in 2004. Previously in 1983–1991, Volodymyr Khodak worked in field of sports in Cherkasy Oblast and headed the regional branch of Soviet DOSAAF.Volodymyr Khodak . Cherkasy Oblast council. The new club played at regional competitions of Cherkasy Oblast. Beside own football team, the Khodak company also sponsored the city's professional basketball team Cherkaski Mavpy.Future champions (Майбутні чемпіони). Cherkaski Mavpy. 31 January 2008 In the late October 2009 Khodak lost to another amateur club Karpaty Yaremche at the Ukrainian Amateur Cup final consisted of two legs.Mykola Volkov. "Karpaty" took the Ukrainian Cup («Карпати» взяли Кубок України) . Reporter. 29 October 2009 After Ukrainian League Cup (2010) the club has disappeared.Second League. New faces and faces old (Вторая лига. Лица новые, лица старые) . Football.ua. 26 July 2011
Slavutych – Cherkaskyi Dnipro
In 2010, on initiative of the Cherkasy Oblast Governor Serhiy Tulub a new club was created under the name of Slavutych and supposedly without any relations to Dnipro. There is an idea that the new club was created based on former amateur club FC Khodak Cherkasy.FC Cherkashchyna-Akademiya soon will be forced to change its name (ФК Черкащина-Академия вскоре вынужден сменить название) . Sports Arena. 5 December 2018 In interview to regional sports newspaper "Cherkaskyi Sport" on 5 December 2019, the former player of Khodak acknowledged that the newly formed Slavutych was created based on Khodak.The "Uman region football from Ihor Sobolenko" spoke with Vitaliy Pidvysitskyi («Футбол Уманщини від Ігоря Соболенка» поспілкувався з Віталієм Підвисіцьким) . Cherkaskyi Sport. 5 December 2019 The club's vice-president became a leader of Party of Regions in Cherkasy Oblast Volodymyr Khodak.Contact: Volodymyr Khodak (Контакт: Володимир Ходак) . 28 March 2014
In 2010, the new club applied for the Second League, but their application was denied.The new football club from Cherkasy is not wanted to be allowed to the Second League (Новый футбольный клуб из Черкасс не хотят пускать во вторую лигу). Gazeta.ua (Football Federation of Ukraine). 5 July 2010 The deputy chairman of the Cherkasy Oblast said that the Football Federation has shown to much of their principle. The club started out in the 2011 Ukrainian Football Amateur League. The club submitted its license to the Professional Football League of Ukraine and was accepted into the Ukrainian Second League for the 2011–12 season. The June 20, 2011 decision of the Central Council of PFL team accepted the team's professional status. The new club received a new bus for transport as a gift and expansion for its sporting facilities. There were allocated funds on reconstruction of Tsentralnyi Stadion and Volodymyr Khodak confirmed that were expanded some of the stadium's facility, while others are expected to be completed in near future.Tetiana Nikitenko. Scoreboard and toilets for fans of "Slavutych" (Табло й туалет для фанів «Славутича») . Ukrayina Moloda. 27 July 2011.
Soon after the establishment of the club (in 2011), the Dnipro ultras asked the club's leadership to return the city's club its original name of Dnipro instead of Slavutych and recognize the original club as a direct predecessor of Slavutych.Dilemma of the Cherkasy region football: Slavutych or Dnipro?. UA-Football. 20 March 2013Fans' truth of Slavutych Cherkasy. UA-Football. 14 November 2011Cherkaskyi Dnipro Ultras expressed their resentment for the actions of the club's leadership (Ультрас Черкасского Днепра выразили возмущение действиями руководства клуба) . UA-Football. 25 July 2017
In 2013, the club was coached by former Ukrainian international footballer and the first captain of national team Ihor Petrov who in 2015 decided to develop football in the Russian occupied eastern Ukraine. In November 2013 on initiative of Serhiy Tulub, there was created the club's supervisory board headed by Valeriy Cherniak, while Volodymyr Lashkul, an owner of FC Zorya Bilozirya, became the club's general director.Tulub has created in Cherkasy an supervisory board of FC Slavutych (Тулуб створив у Черкасах опікунську раду ФК "Славутич") . Pro-Vincia. 11 November 2013 Serhiy Tulub was elected as an honorary president of the club. After Euromaidan in Kyiv, Serhiy Tulub ran (at night on 20–21 March 2014Cherkasy five years ago: departure of Tulub by plane, resignation of Bilousov, dissolution of the city's council and shooting in Mankivtsi (Timeline) (Черкаси п’ять років тому: відліт Тулуба, відставка Білоусова, розпуск міськради і стрілянина в Маньківці (Хронометр)) . Dzvin. 22 February 2019) and FC Cherkashchyna was taken under supervision of Lashkul.Money do not smell or an interesting investor for the Cherkasy Airport (Гроші не пахнуть, або цікавий інвестор для Черкаського аеропорту) . Kropyva. 12 June 2015
With the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine, in March 2014 the club leadership was changed with a banker Ihor Doroshenko (Bank Mykhailivsky) replacing former Ukrainian statesman Serhiy Tulub.Slavutych got new president, sponsors, and right away 9 newcomers (У Славутича новый президент, спонсоры и сразу девять новичков) . Football.ua. 21 March 2014
The club known as FC Slavutych Cherkasy in July 2014 merged with neighbors FC Zorya Bilozirya and was initially renamed, Slavutych-Zorya Cherkasy. However the club decided to have input from their fans and the club was renamed to Cherkaskyi Dnipro. It placed the year of establishment of FC Dnipro Cherkasy 1955 on its club's shield.
On 30 October 2017, the club was reconstituted as United Football Club of the Cherkasy Region territorial communes "Cherkaskyi Dnipro – Bilozirya Academy",Cherkaskyi Dnipro changed its name and elected new honorary president (Черкасский Днепр изменил название и избрал нового почетного президента) . Sport Arena. 30 October 2017 but renaming process was cancelled in December 2017.
Cherkashchyna-Akademiya The club was dissolved in July 2018 and reorganized based on its academy in Bilozirya. FC Zorya-Akademia Bilozirya changed its name to FC Cherkashchyna-Akademiya-2 Bilozirya and continues to compete at regional level.The Cherkasy Oblast Football Federation website is informing that one more team ceases its participation in the Cherkasy Oblast championship, following after LNZ-Lebedyn and FC Cherkashchyna-Akademiya-2 (Сайт ФФЧО повідомляє, що ще одна команда припиняє виступи в чемпіонаті Черкаської області - слідом за "ЛНЗ-Лебедин" і ФК «Черкащина-Академія-2») . Football of the Uman region from Ihor Sobolenko. 18 August 2018
On 1 February 2019, the long-time head coach of Dnipro-Slavutych-Cherkashchyna Oleksandr Kyrylyuk expressed his expectations to get his club promoted to the First League approving the current format and composition of the Second League.Artem Tsyhanenko. Kyrylyuk: The task of Cherkashchyna-Akademiya is unchanged, to get promoted in tiers . Sport Arena. 1 February 2019
In September 2019, the former president of Cherkashchyna Volodymyr Lashkul announced that he withdraws financing of the club.Serhiy Levchenko. Do you know that Cherkasy is a "mistechkove" (backward) city?, a head investor of Cherkashchyna told why the team may disappear ("Вы знаете, что Черкассы - "містечкове місто"?", - главный инвестор "Черкащины" рассказал, почему может исчезнуть команда). Footboom. 24 September 2019 Right away there surfaced talks about FC Cherkashchyna will dissolve. Lashkul pointed out to lack of interest to the club from local authorities and new MFC Dnipro Cherkasy that joined the Ukrainian Football Amateur League in 2019 with plans to join the Ukrainian Second League in 2020.
Soon after the Lushkul's state the club's general director Yuriy Kolesnyk stated that whoever spreads information about withdrawal of Cherkashchyna, he is the team's enemy number one.Yaroslav Krokha. Who spreads information about withdrawal of Cherkashchyna, he is the team's enemy number one («Той, хто розповсюджує інформацію про зняття Черкащини, є першим ворогом команди») . Sport Arena. 25 September 2019
During winter break 2019–20, the senior team was abandoned by its owners and taken over by Football Federation of Cherkasy Oblast to avoid withdrawal of the club mid season.FC Cherkashchyna is transferred to the domain of local football federation, with the intention to save the team (ФК Черкащина передан во владение местной Федерации футбола – из-за желания сохранить команду) . UA-Football. 6 January 2020 The former owners reorganized based on their own club FC Zorya-Akademia Bilozirya.
At the end of February 2020, it was announced that the club has means to finish the season.Yaroslav Krokha. The long awaited news from the Cherkashchyna: the new honorary president announced big changes and ambitious task (Довгоочікувані вісті з Черкащини: новий почесний президент анонсує великі зміни та амбітні завдання) . Sport Arena. 27 February 2020 Few days later it was announced that the club plans to appoint a new head coach, presumably Denys Marynchuk.Marynchuk is going to become a new head coach of Cherkashchyna (Маринчук станет новым главным тренером Черкащины) . Sport Arena. 2 March 2020
Honours Cherkaskyi Dnipro Ukrainian First League Runners-up (1): 2015–16 PFL U-19 Winners (1): 2016–17 Runners-up (1): 2017–18 Ukrainian Second League Winners (1): 2014–15
Khodak Cherkasy Ukrainian Amateur Cup Runners-up (1): 2009 Cherkasy Oblast Football Championship Winners (3): 2005, 2006, 2008 Runners-up (1): 2004
Players
Last squad
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