FC Cherkashchyna ( uk, ФК Черкащина) was a professional
Ukrainian
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football club from the city of
Cherkasy
Cherkasy ( uk, Черка́си, ) is a city in central Ukraine. Cherkasy is the Capital city, capital of Cherkasy Oblast (Oblast, province), as well as the administrative center of Cherkasky Raion (Raion, district) within the oblast. The c ...
. 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
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.
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 ( 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 center ...
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 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 center ...
. Beside own football team, the Khodak company also sponsored the city's professional basketball team Cherkaski Mavpy
BC Cherkaski Mavpy ( uk, баскетбольний клуб "Черкаські Мавпи", which means "Cherkasy Apes") is a Ukrainian professional basketball club that plays its home games in Cherkasy.
In the 2007 NBA Draft, 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 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 Uk ...
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 center ...
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
Professional Football League of Ukraine ( uk, Професіональна футбольна ліга України, translit=Profesionalna futbolna liha Ukrayiny; also known as PFL) is a sport organization and collective member of the Footb ...
and was accepted into the Ukrainian Second League
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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
Ihor Hryhorovych Petrov (born 30 January 1964) is a Ukrainian professional football coach and a former player.
In 1983 Petrov took part in the Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in the team of Ukrainian SSR.
In 2012, he received the ...
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
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 ...
in 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 ...
, 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
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, 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 ( uk, Міський спортивний клуб Дніпро Черкаси) is a Ukrainian football team based in Cherkasy. Over its history the club has been dissolved and revived several times. The original ...
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
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 Ukrainian Second League
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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
* Ukrainian First League
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** Runners-up (1): 2015–16
* PFL U-19
** Winners (1): 2016–17
** Runners-up (1): 2017–18
* Ukrainian Second League
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** 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): 2009
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* 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
* 2013: Ihor Petrov
Ihor Hryhorovych Petrov (born 30 January 1964) is a Ukrainian professional football coach and a former player.
In 1983 Petrov took part in the Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in the team of Ukrainian SSR.
In 2012, he received the ...
* 2013–2014: Yuriy Bakalov
Yuriy Bakalov ( uk, Юрій Михайлович Бакалов; born 16 January 1966 in Kyiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union - in present-day Ukraine) is a former Soviet and Ukrainian professional football midfielder and manager.
C ...
* 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 ( 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: Vitaliy Kobzar (caretaker)
* 2017: Oleksandr Kyrylyuk
* 2017–2018: Ihor Stolovytskyi
* 2018–: Oleksandr Kyrylyuk
See also
* Dnipro Cherkasy
* Zorya Bilozirya
References
External links
*
Official website
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Football clubs in Cherkasy
Defunct football clubs in Ukraine
Association football clubs established in 2010
Association football clubs disestablished in 2021
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2021 disestablishments in Ukraine
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