FC Cherkashchyna ( uk, ФК Черкащина) was a professional Ukrainian football club from the city of

Cherkasy Cherkasy ( uk, Черка́си, ) is a city in central Ukraine. Cherkasy is the capital of Cherkasy Oblast (province), as well as the administrative center of Cherkasky Raion (district) within the oblast. The city has a population of Che ...

. 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 ( uk, Кубок України) 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� ...

in 2014, while playing in the

Ukrainian Second League Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * ...

. 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 Biloziria ( uk, Білозір'я) is a big village (''selo'') in central Ukraine. It is located in Cherkasy Raion (district) of Cherkasy Oblast (province) southwest from the city of Cherkasy. It hosts the administration of Biloziria rural hromad ...

** 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 ( uk, Володи́мир, Volodýmyr, , orv, Володимѣръ) is a Ukrainian given name of Old East Slavic origin. The related Ancient Slavic, such as Czech, Russian, Serbian, Croatian, etc. form of the name is Володимѣръ ...

.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 Cherkasy Oblast ( uk, Черка́ська о́бласть, Cherkaska oblast, ), also referred to as Cherkashchyna ( uk, Черка́щина, ) is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine located along the Dnieper River. The administrative ce ...

and headed the regional branch of Soviet

DOSAAF DOSAAF (russian: ДОСААФ), full name ''Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army, Aviation, and Navy'' (russian: Добровольное общество содействия армии, авиации и флоту), was a parami ...

. The new club played at regional competitions of

. 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 Serhiy Tulub ( ua, Сергій Борисович Тулуб; born 13 August 1953, Donetsk) is a Ukrainian politician and minister of energy (1999-2000, 2004-2005) and coal mining (1998–1999, 2006-2007). See also * FC Cherkaskyi Dnipro ...

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

Party of Regions The Party of Regions ( uk, Партія регіонів, Partiia rehioniv, ; russian: Партия регионов, Partiya regionov) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of U ...

. 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 2011 Ukrainian Football Amateur League season. Teams Returning * FC Sambir * Zbruch Volochysk * FC Dinaz Vyshhorod * Slavutych Cherkasy * Krystal Kherson * Avanhard Kramatorsk * Metalurh Malyn Debut List of teams that are debuting this ...

. The club submitted its license to the Professional Football League of Ukraine and was accepted into the

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 FC Zoria-Akademiia Biloziria ( uk, Черкащина-Академія Білозір'я) is an amateur Ukrainian football club from the city of Biloziria, Cherkasy Raion. It was a farm club of the FC Cherkashchyna and was known as formerly FC C ...

, 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 Euromaidan (; uk, Євромайдан, translit=Yevromaidan, lit=Euro Square, ), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of Political demonstration, demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protes ...

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

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 Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: * Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries * Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and ...

, in March 2014 the club leadership was changed with a banker Ihor Doroshenko (Bank Mykhailivsky) replacing former Ukrainian statesman

. The club known as ''FC Slavutych Cherkasy'' in July 2014 merged with neighbors

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", 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 FC Zoria-Akademiia Biloziria ( uk, Черкащина-Академія Білозір'я) is an amateur Ukrainian football club from the city of Biloziria, Cherkasy Raion. It was a farm club of the FC Cherkashchyna and was known as formerly FC Che ...

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 Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship ( uk, Чемпіонат України з футболу серед аматорів) is an annual association football competition in Ukraine among amateur teams. The competition is administered by the Uk ...

in 2019 with plans to join the

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

. 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 Denys ( uk, Денис) is both a form of the given name Denis and a patronymic surname. Amongst others, it is a transliteration of the common Ukrainian name ''Денис''. Closely related forms are ''Denijs'' and ''Dénys''. Notable people with ...

Honours

Cherkaskyi Dnipro

Ukrainian First League The Persha Liha ( uk, Перша ліга) or Ukrainian First League is a professional football league in Ukraine and the second tier of national football competitions pyramid. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup. It is th ...

** Runners-up (1): 2015–16 * PFL U-19 ** Winners (1): 2016–17 ** Runners-up (1): 2017–18 *

** Winners (1): 2014–15

Khodak Cherkasy

Ukrainian Amateur Cup The Ukrainian Amateur Cup ( uk, Кубок України з футболу серед аматорських команд) or AAFU Cup ( uk, Кубок ААФУ) is a national cup competition in Ukraine for amateur clubs. The nationwide competitio ...

** Runners-up (1):

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* Cherkasy Oblast Football Championship ** Winners (3): 2005, 2006, 2008 ** Runners-up (1): 2004

Players

Last squad

League and cup history

List of head coaches

* 2011–2012: Oleksandr Kyrylyuk * 2012–2013: Anatoliy Deineko (caretaker) * 2013:

Serhiy Puchkov Serhiy Valentynovych Puchkov ( uk, Сергій Валентинович Пучков; 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 Metalurh Zaporizh ...

* 2013: Ihor Petrov * 2013–2014: Yuriy Bakalov * 2014:

Ihor Stolovytskyi Ihor Stolovytskyi ( uk, Ігор Михайлович Столовицький; born 29 August 1969) is a former Soviet and Ukrainian footballer and Ukrainian football coach. Career He worked as a manager of FC Cherkaskyi Dnipro and previously pl ...

(caretaker)Coaches
at FC Cherkaskyi Dnipro website * 2014–2016:

* 2016: Oleksandr Kyrylyuk * 2016:

Vitaliy Kobzar Vitaliy Yuriyovych Kobzar ( uk, Віталій Юрійович Кобзар; born 9 May 1972) is a former Kyrgyzstani and Ukrainian footballer. He was a member of the Kyrgyzstan national football team The Kyrgyzstan national football team ...

(caretaker) * 2016–2017:

Vadym Yevtushenko Vadym Anatolyovich Yevtushenko ( uk, Вадим Анатолійович Євтушенко) (born 1 January 1958) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who played as a midfielder or striker. Career During his career he played almost exclusive ...

* 2017:

(caretaker) * 2017: Oleksandr Kyrylyuk * 2017–2018:

* 2018–: Oleksandr Kyrylyuk

References

External links

*
Official website
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