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FC Cherkashchyna () was a professional Ukrainian football club from the city of
Cherkasy Cherkasy (, ) is a city in central Ukraine. Cherkasy serves as the administrative centre of Cherkasy Oblast as well as Cherkasy Raion within the oblast. The city has a population of Cherkasy is the cultural, educational and industrial centre ...
. 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 The Ukrainian Cup ( ) is an association football national knockout cup competition run by the Ukrainian Association of Football. The competition is conducted almost exclusively among professional clubs. Since the 2003–04 season, the Cup winner qu ...
in 2014, while playing in the
Ukrainian Second League The Ukrainian Second League (, ''Druha Liha'') is a professional football league in Ukraine which is part of the Professional Football League of Ukraine, a collective member of the Ukrainian Association of Football. As the third tier it was establ ...
. Established in 2010, the club was restructured in 2014. The club was dissolved in July 2018 and reformed 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 Footballfacts
Khodak 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 Cherkasy Oblast (, ), also referred to as Cherkashchyna (, ) is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in central Ukraine located along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. The Capital city, administrative center of the oblast is the cit ...
and headed the regional branch of Soviet
DOSAAF DOSAAF (), full name ''Volunteer Society for the Assistance to the Army, Aviation, and Navy'' (), was a paramilitary sport organization in the Soviet Union that was concerned mainly with weapons, automobiles and aviation. The society was establ ...
. The new club played at regional competitions of
Cherkasy Oblast Cherkasy Oblast (, ), also referred to as Cherkashchyna (, ) is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in central Ukraine located along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. The Capital city, administrative center of the oblast is the cit ...
. Beside own football team, the Khodak company also sponsored the city's professional basketball team Cherkaski Mavpy. In the late October 2009 Khodak lost to another amateur club Karpaty Yaremche at the Ukrainian Amateur Cup final consisted of two legs. After Ukrainian League Cup (2010) the club has disappeared.


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. 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 club's vice-president became a leader of
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in
Cherkasy Oblast Cherkasy Oblast (, ), also referred to as Cherkashchyna (, ) is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in central Ukraine located along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. The Capital city, administrative center of the oblast is the cit ...
Volodymyr Khodak. In 2010, the new club applied for the Second League, but their application was denied. 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 The Ukrainian Second League (, ''Druha Liha'') is a professional football league in Ukraine which is part of the Professional Football League of Ukraine, a collective member of the Ukrainian Association of Football. As the third tier it was establ ...
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. 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 2013
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
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in
Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...
, Serhiy Tulub ran (at night on 20–21 March 2014) 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. 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 City Sports Club Dnipro Cherkasy () was a Ukrainian football team based in Cherkasy. Over its history the club has been dissolved and revived several times. The original club that existed 1955-1974 was dissolved following a financial scandal. Afte ...
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", 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. 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. In September 2019, the former president of Cherkashchyna Volodymyr Lashkul announced that he withdraws financing of the club. 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 The Ukrainian Second League (, ''Druha Liha'') is a professional football league in Ukraine which is part of the Professional Football League of Ukraine, a collective member of the Ukrainian Association of Football. As the third tier it was establ ...
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. 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. Few days later it was announced that the club plans to appoint a new head coach, presumably Denys Marynchuk.


Honours


Cherkaskyi Dnipro

*
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** Runners-up (1): 2015–16 * PFL U-19 ** Winners (1): 2016–17 ** Runners-up (1): 2017–18 *
Ukrainian Second League The Ukrainian Second League (, ''Druha Liha'') is a professional football league in Ukraine which is part of the Professional Football League of Ukraine, a collective member of the Ukrainian Association of Football. As the third tier it was establ ...
** Winners (1): 2014–15


Khodak Cherkasy

* Ukrainian Amateur Cup ** Runners-up (1):
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
* Cherkasy Oblast Football Championship ** Winners (3): 2005, 2006, 2008 ** Runners-up (1): 2004


Players


Last squad


League and cup history

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List of head coaches

* 2011–2012: Oleksandr Kyrylyuk * 2012–2013: Anatoliy Deineko (caretaker) * 2013:
Serhiy Puchkov Serhiy Valentynovych Puchkov (; born 17 April 1962) is a Ukrainian former football player and manager who played as a midfielder. Career Puchkov is a former head-coach of FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia, Metalurh Zaporizhzhia in the Ukrainian Premier ...
* 2013: Ihor Petrov * 2013–2014: Yuriy Bakalov * 2014: Ihor Stolovytskyi (caretaker)Coaches
at FC Cherkaskyi Dnipro website
* 2014–2016: Ihor Stolovytskyi * 2016: Oleksandr Kyrylyuk * 2016: Vitaliy Kobzar (caretaker) * 2016–2017:
Vadym Yevtushenko Vadym Anatolyovich Yevtushenko () (born 1 January 1958) is a Ukrainian professional association football, footballer who played as a midfielder or striker (association football), striker. Career During his career he played almost exclusively for ...
* 2017: Vitaliy Kobzar (caretaker) * 2017: Oleksandr Kyrylyuk * 2017–2018: Ihor Stolovytskyi * 2018–: Oleksandr Kyrylyuk


See also

* Dnipro Cherkasy * Zorya Bilozirya


References


External links

*
Official website

Відкритий лист до вболівальників від ФК «Черкащина»
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